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The autobiography of the famous Russian ballerina, TAMARA KARSAVINA , abridged for radio in eight parts by DEREK PARKER Read by SVETLANA BERIOSOVA 6: Enter Diaghilev
Producer IAN COTTERELL
and prepare to be highly amused, mildly shocked, but always stimulated, as he. Mavis Nicholson , Dr Rob Buckman , Kenneth Robinson , Victoria Wood and their guests entertain you for the next unpredictable 55 minutes.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
NEM, p 89; How giorious Sions courts appear (BBC HB 493); Psalm 67; Matthew M, vv 15-33 (AV); Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371)
You don't have to be in a traffic jam to enjoy this show. If you're listening at home, why not invite the neighbours in, sit behind one another, make sure the baby's crying and pretend.
Richard Sttlgoe introduces Hinge and Bracket
Professor Stanley Unwin Roy Walker Cosmotheka and Dominique Scott Written by RICHARD STILGOE
Musical director KEN FRITH Producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester
Chairman Robert Robinson 27: Semi-Final (3) Midlands and North of England
JENNY GRAVES , landscape architect (Herefordshire); PETER HERMAN , SChOOl-master (Birmingham); JANET BARKER (Liverpool); DAVID CALDWELL , writer (Cumbria)
Including Beat the Brains Devised by JOHN P. WYNN Questions set by IAN GILLIES and JOAN CLARK Producer RICHARD edis
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30pm)
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with Julian O'Halloraa Editor DEREK LEWIS
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with Marilyn Mulvey and the BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by ANDREW ORTON
' Victor Borge , the man who refreshes the parts of the sense of humour other entertainers cannot reach.'
An edited recording of his performance at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester Producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester
(Victor Borge appears by arrangement with Tito Burns Ltd)
Mr Perrin and Mr Traill by HUGH WALPOLE , adapted for radio by VAL GIELGUD with Marius Goring Hugh Burden Jeremy Clyde Joan Matheson and Sandra Clark
Mr Perrin has been a master at Moffatt's school for some 20 years, where life has been somewhat humdrum. With the arrival of young Mr Traill , however, this is greatly changed and, for Perrin. it becomes considerably less happy.
Narrator MARIUS GORING
Directed by DAVID H. GODFREY
(First broadcast Dec 1978)
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Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer take arms against a sea of William Rushton and Tim Brooke Taylor Chaired by Humphrey Lyttolton
Accompanied by COLIN SELL Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Rptd: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in. Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
St Hugo of Central Park A play with music by JEFFREY KINDLEY Music composed by CRAIG CARNELIA arranged by DONALD FRASER with Peter Straker Peter Whitman Helen Horton and Don Fellows
Hugo is not an ordinary all-American boy. He goes to live with the pigeons in Central Park. Sometimes he cures the sick - sometimes he does not. Most people think he is a saint; others try to exploit him. Does St Hugo become a holy martyr? with members of the OLD VIC CHORUS
Pianist ALAN BENCE
Organist JACKIE CLIFTON Musical director ROBIN DAVIS
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (Don Fellows is in ' Chic-ago ' at the Cambridge Theatre, London)
A series in which June Knox-Mawer asks travellers and travel-writers ' about the place, the book and the music, to which given the chance, they return most often. Today's guest: Lord Hunt - leader of the successful 1953 Everest expedition. Producer PETER ESTALL
Michael Oliver reports from the Edinburgh International Festival on the Film Festival - which includes Woody Allen 's latest success, Manhattan - and some of the numerous offerings on the 'Fringe'.
Producer CHRIS SWANN
See feature: page 17
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Michael Charlten invites some of the major figures in the news this week to discuss their role in current events.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Some Do Not by FORD MADOX FORD abridged in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by HUGH BURDEN (6)
Producer MAURICE LEITC
is an unreliable, noneommittal, unsentimental and inconsistent light, such as is shed by this inconclusive and distracting assemblage of verse. songs, stories and archival oddments on . Flying
Presented by Judi Bench -with additional readings by Joss Ackland Music from
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Vocal refrains . DAVE SKITANI AND THE RHYTHM BOYS
Written and compiled by. PETE ATKIN and . RUSSELL DAVIES. Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
(Judi Dcnch is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
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