with Gerald Priestland
6.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
(Broadcost at 6.50 am)
with Norman Tozer
7.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
with Tony Lewis , Today featuring the climax of Wimbledon - the Men's Singles Final. Also rowing: Henley Royal
Regatta: and Rugby Union CHRIS REA's news-letter from the BRITISH LIONS' HQ in South Africa. A Radio Sport and OB production
(Breakaway to Henley: 9.5)
8.59 Continental Travel Information
with Bernard Falk at Henley Royal Regatta, where he samples some of the pleasures and pastimes of High Society.
Sir John Junor on running your own yacht: how to pack an upper-class hamper: and how to obtain tickets for the unobtainables.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD long wave only
HELP! page 19
with George Luce
Producer WALTER WALLICH long wave only
with Matthew Coady
Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG long ware only
NEM, p 54; 0 Holy Ghost, thy people bless (BBC HB 156): Psalm 48: James 2. vv 14-26 (AV); Rejoice, 0 people (BBC HB 181)
with Margaret Howard long wave only from 11.20
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The art, science and business of sound recording. Presenter Peter Clayton
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH talks about the British Library of Wildlife Sounds.
Hi-Fi News by ADRIAN HOPE. When Sound was Cylindrical by JOE PENGELLY.
Record of the Week by TIM RICE.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON Editor LAURENCE STAPLEY
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren, Bel Mooney,
Michael Billington, John Wells
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)
The Rt Hon Michael Foot, MP, David Frost, Teddy Taylor, MP and Bonnie Angelo tackle the issues raised by the audience in Acocks Green, Birmingham.
Chairman David Jacobs
1.55 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
with Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON
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HELP: page 10
by Charles Dickens, dramatised in ten episodes by Betty Davies
Starring Angela Pleasence as Little Dorrit and Daniel Massey as Arthur Clennam
The door of the prison room was swung open and in the doorway stood the missing Blandois, the cause of many anxieties. 'You villain of ill-omen!' said Arthur, 'You have purposely cast a dreadful suspicion upon my mother's house. Why have you done it? What prompted you to the devilish invention?'
With Pauline Letts as Mrs Clennam, Patrick Troughton as Jeremiah Flintwinch, Avril Elgar as Affery Flintwinch, Philip Voss as Blandois, Jack May as Mr Casby, Douglas Livingstone as Mr Pancks, Michael Graham Cox as Mr Meagles, William Nighy as John Chivery and Simon Cadell as Charles Dickens
(Repeated Tues 3.15 pm)
(Title music: the second movement of Finzi's Cello Concerto)
(Selina Cadell is a National Theatre player)
(Next Sat: A Dance to the Music of Time)
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join R3: long wave only
Six programmes on spoken English
2: The Sounds We Make
David Crystal looks at the sounds we use when we speak English, how we make them, and what happens when we put them together.
(First broadcast on R3) long wave only
David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tale , Sheila Steafel and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO long wave only
5.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
followed by Continental Travel Information
who introduces unpredictable table talk.
Musical interlude by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
(Rptd: tomorrow 11.15 pm)
The final edition in the current series, in which Richard Baker presents music that listeners have judged the most popular from the programmes over the past 18 months. Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)
by David Parker
Jamie Flyn is a shop steward struggling to operate a bad working agreement against a foreman who is an ex-union man, and who helped draw it up. One man becomes the centre of a dispute in which Flyn is pressured from all sides - by his workmates, his union, his management and the wife.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Mon 3.15 pm)
A portrait of General Morris Abraham Cohen compiled and presented by Polly Binder
The story of a man born to Jewish immigrant parents in Whitechapel in 1899. who became body-guard to the father of the Chinese Revolution, Dr Sun-Yat-sen. and a General in the Chinese Army, with the voices of BERNARD BUCKMAN. REBECCA CASKET QUEENIE COHEN, VICTOR AND JEREMY COOPER , CHARLES AND ENID DRAGE , REUBEN ELVY , BILL FISHMAN , JOHN STOWELL KENYON. MORRIS AND SARAH RICH, and WILLIAM AND HILDA SEWELL Readings by Bernard Bresslaw as Cohen and Reuben Elvy as the reporter Producer
PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Thoughts for late evening led by RONALD FARROW
Robert Philip chooses one of his favourite operas: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT gramophone records
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude