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6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenter John Timpson With HUGH SYKES
6.45* Praser for the Day THE REV LESLIE STOKES 7.t. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Laurie Macmillan
by JACK LONDON abridged in seven parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Peter Marinker (1) ' From the forest came the call (or one note of it, for the call was many noted), distinct and definite as never before - a long-drawn howl, like, yet unlike, any noise made by a husky dog. And he knew it, in the old familiar way, as a sound heard before.'
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
from Newcastle upon Tyne The live talk programme helps to celebrate a 900th anniversary.
Producer PETER ESTALL
NEM. p 97; Father of mercies, in thy word (BBC HB 189); Psalm SO; Mark 6, vv 2-13 (rsv); 0 thou who makest souls (BBC HB 225)
Leslie Crowtber lines up a lighthearted Bank Holiday entertainment of quotes, quips and quavers from programmes you might have missed or would certainly like to hear again.
With THE GOONS, THE GRUM-BLEWEEDS, BARROW POETS, ARTHUR ASKEY , ARTHUR LOWE and some of his Walmington on-Sea Home Guard, and many others. Continuity by GERALD FROW Producer JOHN DYAS
Presented by Alan Gibson Since the Second World War the name John Arlott has been synonymous with cricket broadcasting. Now, as the England-Australia series reaches its Centenary, Arlott bows out. Dramatic highlights - and lighter moments - of the Ashes series and the Arlott era are recalled by Test players and by commentators.
Producer DON MOSEY BBC Manchester
(Rotd: Sat 10.15 pm) (A Century of Tests: Wed BBC1 9.25; Centenary Test Match from Thurs R3 and BBCtv)
(Details: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Story: Sid Snail 's Maiden Flight by ROSEMARY voss
Lord Arthur Savile 's Crime A comedy for radio by CONSTANCE cox based on the story by OSCAR WILDE
Richard Briers as the luckless Lord Arthur Savile , a young aristocrat not overburdened with brains who feels dutybound to commit a murder when a fashionable palmist foretells this fate for him.
Music arranged and played by TERENCE ALLBRIGHT
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
The White Cat by HUGH WALPOLE
Read by Gerald Cross Producer MITCH RAPER
Presenters Gordon Clough
and Joan Bakewell
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
and the Defence of Guthrie Featherstone
(Details: Wed 10.30 pm)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presenter David Simmons What is happening in science?
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
A tribute in words and music to Earl Mountbatten of Burma - assassinated on August Bank Holiday last year.
Written and narrated by Lawrie Bloomfield
Including recordings of Lord Louis' voice from sound archives, at his home at Broadlands and from the BBC.
The music is performed by the BAND OF the ROYAL MARINES (Naval Home Command) under the direction of CAPTAIN GRAHAM HOSKINS , RM.
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Solent)
by HELENA OSBORNE
Frances has lived with her daughter Kate for years in a state of uneasy truce. Then comes the chance of a move. Her loving daughter Betty suddenly has room for her in her house, but Frances has reservations.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
What's All This Fosse About?
Bob Fosse , choreographer, performer and film director, has just poured all his talent into a new award-winning film All that Jazz. He talks to Michael Billington about his views on showbusiness and his life in the theatre and cinema.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Goshawk by T. h. WHITE abridged in ten episodes by JOY OSBORNE
Read by Norman Rodway (l) The story of a concentrated duel between T. H. White and the hawk he is training. It is the record of an intense clash of wills in which the pride and endurance of the bird are pitted against the willpower of the falconer. Producer ANTON GILL
(Norman Rodway is an associate member of the RSC)
(Or, as Charlie Brown once remarked to Arthur Worsley : ' How is it, son, that when I shout, you spit in my face? ')
Ray Alan tells the story of ventriloquism, with the help Of ARTHUR ASKEY , PETER BROUGH , TERRY HALL. SANDY POWELL ,
SAVEEN TATTERSALL , TOMMY TRINDER ,
HARRY WORTH - and, Of course, LORD CHARLES.
Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester long wave only from 11.30
Weather report; forecast lung wave only followed by an interlude
