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Introduced by Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV LESLIE STOKES
7.0, 3.0 Today's News ReadbyHarrietcass
7.38. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by IVAN TURGENEV
Read by Lewis Fiander 1: Forest and Steppe
(translated by RICHARD FREE -BORN)
' Hunting with a gun and a dog is a delight in itself, but let us suppose that you are not a born hunter though you still love nature; in that case, you can hardly fail to envy the lot of your brother hunters.'
when he and the regulars, Mavis Nicholson , Bernard Falk and Kenneth Robinson , will be among those helping to find antidotes to that Monday morning feeling as they talk to some of the personalities who will be making the news in the forthcoming week - and sometimes make the news themselves - in Radio 4's liveliest and most unpredictable talk show.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
A talk by TERRY WOGAN
' Is it usual for owls to nest down rabbit holes?'
The team answers your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer MOIRA MANN BBC Bristol
NEM. page 75; Rise up, 0 men of God! (BBC HB 364); Psalm 146; Isaiah 61, vv 1-4, 8. 9 (NEB); God of grace and God of glory (BBC HB 391)
A Gentleman of Letters by LANDPORT CHANCE
Read by Gerald Cross and Jon Glover
Producer MITCH RAPER
11.50 Announcements
including today The World of Work With MARGARET KORVING Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Highfield School, Gateshead v. Brinkburn Comprehensive School, Hartlepool
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and John Anthony
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presented by Brian Widlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced by Sue MacGregor A View from the Continent: a regular reflection of events and reactions in the rest of Europe.
2.0-2.2 News
You've Got the Cutest Little Baby Face!: BERNARD JACKSON with child models (and parents).
Another Month Older: MAUREEN STEVENS is calling all cabbages. Harpsichords from Scratch: JANE AND ANDREW GARLICK ShOW RENE WYNDHAM how they build and decorate them.
Every Man a King (1) by ANNE worboys, abridged in 11 parts and read by Eva Haddon When her father and step-mother, Antonia. are killed in a car crash, Suzanne Cole determines to go to Spain and investigate the mystery of her stepmother's past. Over 20 years ago Antonia had been married briefly to a Spanish aristocrat and there had been a child. What has happened to him? (Music: Goossens' Divertissement)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
from 2.0
Story: Tioer Tim Finds a New Bed by ANNE ENGLISH
That Boy by IVOR WILSON
Before an attack on the Western Front a sergeant meets a private he taught as a boy. As they wait for dawn they remember how they met in an orphanage. It seems a lifetime ago ..
Directed by TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester
The Little Nugget by p. G. WODEHOUSE , abridged in ten parts by HARRY CAMPBELL Read by Martin Jarvis (1)
The peace of an English prep school is shattered by rival American gangsters bent on kidnapping an obnoxious small boy. But right prevails in the end; and so does love. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Presented by Gordon Clough and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55 Weather; programme news
New stories about the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
A Tea-Shop in Mentone by DONALD BULL
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Andrew Cruickshanfc it National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Sorrows of Love (Tristi Amort) by GIUSEPPE GIACOSA newly translated from. the Italian by HENRY REED
This is the first broadcast of this play, and, as far as can be ascertained, is its first professional British performance. Written in 1888 by one of Italy's pre-eminent 19th-century dramatists (chiefly known in this country as the librettist of Tosca, Madam Butterfly, and La Boheme), it provided a leading role for the famous actress. Eleonora Duse. with Eileen Atkins as Emma Scarli
Charles Kay as Giulio Scarli Geoffrey Collins as Fabrizio Arcierl
David March as Ranetti Gerald Cross as Count Ettore Hilda Kriseman as Marta and Natasha Imison as Gemma The play is set on a day in 1888 and takes place in a room in the Scarli house in a small provincial town in Italy. Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
(Eileen Atkins is a member of the Prospect Theatre Company)
by Anthony Smith
Presenter Michael Oliver
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
by JOHN LE CARRE adapted for radio In five parts by RENÉ BASILICO starring
Part 4
Despite the Department's apparent complacency. Smiley perseveres with his investigation into the Fennan case. The key to this affair is elusive, but with the knowledge ef an agent at large - an agent with a ' death-list ' - that key must be found. And quickly.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON BBC World Service production
The House with the Green Shutters (11)
Weather report and forecast followed by an Interlude
