Presented from the North by KEN FORD
BBC Manchester
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day BISHOP GEORGE AFPLETON
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.36, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by JAMES STEPHENS
Read by NIALL TOIBIN (6)
and Mavis Nicholson, Dr Rob Buckman, Kenneth Robinson, Victoria Wood and their guests who entertain you for the next unpredictable 55 minutes.
Kenneth Robinson's Pre-view: page 33
nem, p 21; 0 for a thousand tongues (BBC HB 278); Psalm 1; Matthew 26, vv 30-45 (AV); The head that once (BBC HB 132)
Thin lee by NORMAN LEVINE
Read by Jon Glover
The first of three stories by the Canadian writer, Norman Levine , repeated by special request.
Producer MITCH RAPER
The music industry is a multi-million-pound business which, for a lucky few, is just about the only way left to legally acquire instant wealth. But there are other successful musicians who never see their fortunes. They claim they are victims of the system dominated by managers, lawyers and record companies.
Roger Cook investigates the financial side of the record business and asks just what happens to the money people pay to listen to their favourite performers.
Story: Little Monster and the Space Ship by ANGELA PICKERING
including Margaret Korving's World of Work with ideas on careers and training and a selection of current job vacancies. Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
A nationwide general knowledge contest.
Chairman Robert Robinson
Michael Kerr, actuary (Edinburgh); David Goddard, librarian (London); Arthur Gerard, retired civil servant (Kent); Peter Herman, school-master (Birmingham)
Devised by John P. Wynn
Questions set by Ian Gillies and Joan Clark
Producer RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news (long wave only)
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Public Face-Private Philosophy: Kenneth Williams.
Echo Slaying Mushrooms: Bob Prizeman finds out why Promenaders at the Royal Albert Hall, London, no longer hear every note twice.
High Flyer: Bernard Jackson talks to Gillian Aldam, the only woman in this country running her own helicopter business.
"Sabrina" by Madelaine Pollard, abridged in 15 parts by Ann Rees Jones
Read by June Tobin (10)Â
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Joe by MICHAEL TOFT
Lucia's Progress (6)
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
The antidote to panel games.
Tim Brooke-Taylor Denise Coffey
Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer go off the end of the pier with a gentle shove from Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton
Accompanied by COLIN SELL
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: 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
A play for radio by Graham Swannell
with Joanna David as Ann, Gwen Watford as Mary, Rosalie Crutchley as Margaret and Nigel Hawthorne as Ronald
Ann's marriage has broken down completely. She turns to her spinster aunt for help. Her parents have firm ideas about the institution called marriage, although they have not always practised what they now preach. Ultimately Ann has to make up her own mind about her personal dilemma.
(Repeated, Sun 2.30 pm)
(Joanna David is in 'The Family Reunion' at the Vaudeville Theatre; Gwen Watford in 'Bodies' at the Ambassadors Theatre, London)
Mari James was born and bred in Llangeitho, Cardiganshire. She runs the village post office and is involved in almost every aspect of life in this rural community.
Today she reflects on her own attitudes to the past and the present.
Producer TELERI BIVAN BBC Wales
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Michael Oliver
9.59 Weather
Alexander MacLeod reporting
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNI
The Painter of Signs by R. K. NARAYAN abridged in ten parts by DAVID GODFREY
Read by Sam Dastor (1)
Raman is a young bachelor painter of signboards. His work leads him through a succession of contacts with people both important and absurd, to a meeting with Daisy and the beginning of a bitter-sweet love affair.
Set against the background of India today, this richly human story creates two memorable lovers and shows, too, the c)ash of old and young in provincial India. Producer GERRY JONES long wave only
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Tonight, music of innocence and experience. The composers:
Mozart, Schubert and Mahler
The performers:
ELIZABETH GALE (soprano) with MARTIN ISEPP (piano) KATHLEEN FERRIER with the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by BRUNO WALTER gramophone record ANN SCHEIN (piano)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
