Music for children
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone record
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45' Prayer for the Day CANON BARNEY MILLIGAN
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with peter DONALDSON
A short story by OSCAR WILDE
Read by Dinsdale Landen Producer MAURICE LEITCH
8.59 Continental Travel Information
A fully combustible discussion with the personalities in the news this week.
Old cycles rescripted by Kenneth Robinson Producer PETER ESTALL
NEM. p 67: Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly dove
(BBC HB 150): Psalm 93; Romans 1. vv 1-12 (RSV); Judge eternal, throned in splendour (BBC liB 393) long wave only
Sonny Boy by P. G. WODEHOUSE
Read by Jonathan Cecil ' I agree that Algernon Aubrey Little is not a child whom I would care to meet down a dark alley, but Bingo assures me that its heart is in the right place. The child recently pulled him out of a very nasty spot.' Producer MITCH RAPER
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners. Presented by Charles Causley
Readers JOHN CARSON and JUNE BARRIE
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVID harding
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author with Lolly CockereH Jane Knowles Brian Haines Michael Spice
Book Four, Chapter Two: The Villa
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer bobby JAYE
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
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Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Birthday at the Ballet: TONY BARNFlELD meets some of the people at Covent Garden celebrating The Royal Ballet's Golden Jubilee. Talking Point.
Young Consumers: do we give children the grounding to ask the right questions? MARY DOWNING reports.
Working with Clay:
AUDREY BLACKMAN talks tO SHIRLEY DU BOULAY about her rolled pottery figures. Short story: The Concert by joy ST CLAIR
Read by Sian Thomas Editor WYN KNOWLES
In Praise of Love
The sixth in a series of plays by TERENCE RATTIGAN with Anthony Quayle Muriel Pavlow and Robert Beatty
Lydia knows she is dying, but her thoughts are for her self-centred husband and their son. If only she can bring them together....
Directed by PETER KING
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Sir Filzroy Maclean c follows the route of a favourite walk through j the woodlands and rare rhododendrons of his Argyllshire estate.
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
The Beloved Vagabond (3)
Presenters Joan Bakewell and Gordon Clough
on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
followed by Continental Travel Information
A panel gamc whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Clement Freud Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden endeavour to prevent each other from talking. Devised by IAN messitkr Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Tucs 1.40 pm)
(Rerised repeat of 9.5 am)
by Hallam Tennyson
with Celia Johnson and Annette Crosbie
A Thanksgiving Service for the life and times of a great theatre and film director is to be held in Westminster Abbey. His widow suddenly announces that for personal reasons she will not be attending. Is there anything that can persuade her to change her mind?
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Royal Progress
The Vic-Wells Ballet staged its first full programme on 5 May
1931 with 19 dancers, led by Ninette de Valois.
Twenty-five years later it had become The Royal Ballet and grown to two companies. Now, 50 years on, Stephen Phillips charts its progress with the voices of Lilian Baylis , Sir Frederick Ashton , Dame Margol Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev , and discusses its present and future with Dame Ninette de Valois, soloist
Monica Mason , choreographer
Michael Corder and critic Noel Goodwin , who also discusses the new full-length ballet Isadora by Kenneth MacMillan Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEMARY HART (Sir Frederick Ashton chooses his Desert Island Discs: Friday 9.5 am)
Peter Paterson reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Peter Evans A review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
by Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Richard Lourie, abridged in 12 parts by Matthew Walters
Read by Andrew Sachs
In May 1941 Ivan Chonkin, a bow-legged private in the Red Army, is sent to the obscure village of Krasnoye to guard an aeroplane. Forgotten by his regiment, he resumes the life of a peasant with Nyura, the postmistress, and Borka the pig. But routine gives way to farce when the secret police begin to investigate the antics of this solitary soldier.
Since its origins over 200 years ago. modern circus has travelled millions of miles, played before millions of people the world over. and vet its essentials have changed very little. But the huge travelling show appears to be in decline. Through the voices of circus people Henry Kelly tells the story of circus and asks will it survive? Producer SIMON ELMES (Repeal) long wave only from 11.30
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