A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Prieslland
6.55 Weather; programme news
Producer
LESLIE COTTINGTOH BBC Birmingham
7.55 Weather; programme news
with Tony Lewis
Golf: the Dixcel Tissues European Open from Hoylake.
Cricket: the NatWest Final from Lord's.
Athletics: the World Cup from Rome. Plus European Cup swimming; football; racing; tennis and the off-beat stories of the week. A Radio Sport and OB production
Bernard Falk , with help from IAN LYON and SUSAN MARLING , takes a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Including Continental
Travel Information at 8.59 and News at 9.0
Producer IRENE MALLIS Editor GEOFF DOBSON
Melanie Phillips looks at the weekly magazines. Producer MIKE GILLIAM
The Fixers
With the party conference season about to begin. Anthony King talks to three of the party officials whose job is to try to ensure that they run smoothly.
Producer ELLIE UPDALE
New Every Morning, p 21 Songs of praise
; Canticle 9; Matthew 25, vv 31-40 (rsv); Christ U the world's light
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE
a second chance to delight in these selected entertainments for a summer weekend.
Featuring David Barlow , Peter Christie ,
Miles Kington , Alan Maryom Davis and, this week, Johnny Parker. Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE
A game without winners Graeme Garden Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton Tim Brooke-Taylor all lose out to Chairman
Humphrey Lyttelton Pianist COLIN SELL
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Rptd: Monday 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news.
Christmas Humphreys, qc
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Double-Page Spread by CAROLE BOYER with Becky is an 11-year-old schoolgirl going to a girls' boarding school, who is desperately fighting the system as she tries to discover the sources of her own creativity.
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tues 11.5 am)
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producer SIMON ELMES
(Rptd: Thurs 11.50 am)
The last of eight programmes
Seasons in Hell
Anthony Curtis looks at some of the many fine historical novels, for example by J. G. Farrell and Paul Scott. He also looks at the contemporary world of fiction with two established young writers, Ian McEwan and Martin Amis. Extracts read by ELIZABETH PROUD and GAVIN CAMPBELL. Producer FRANCES DONNELLY long wave only
Alan Bloom
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A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners, with news and views on all matters of concern to them and their families.
Presenter Marilyn Alan Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only
' In the original production of Macbeth, they wore their sporrans on their behinds. Does this mean that to produce Macbeth as originally intended, I have to do the same?'
Elijah Moshinsky , whose controversial production of Verdi's Macbeth opened in March, talks to Rodney Milnes about his previous productions which include Peter Grimes , The Rake's
Progress and Lohengrin, as well as his involvement with the Shakespeare plays on BBCtv. Producer JOHN BOUNDY. A Kaleidoscope production long wave only
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5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
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followed by Continental Travel Information
The sixth of nine repeats Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)
Adapted for radio by Chris Boucher from the novel by Harry Harrison
Another play in the occasional series tracing the writing of science fiction from the turn of the century to the present day.
Climactic Studios in Hollywood is about to go bankrupt and is in need of a big-budget epic to restore its fortunes. In desperation, L.M. Greenspan agrees to use a time machine to transport the company's director and stars back to the period of the Viking crossing to America in the year 1005. Real Vikings can be paid in whisky and the entire film made, edited and delivered within a week - our time. At least - that is the idea ...
with Lee Montague as Barney Hendrikson (a film director)
Richard Pearson as Professor Hewett (an inventor)
John Bay as L.M. Greenspan (the head of Climactic Studios)
David March as Dr Jens Lyn (a philologist)
Michael Kilgarriff as Ottar (a Viking)
Karen Archer as Slithey Tove (a film star)
Alexander John as Ruf Hawk (another film star)
Barry Dennen as Charley Chang (a scriptwriter)
William Roberts as Tex (a stuntman)
Crawford Logan as Dallas (another stuntman)
Don Fellows as Amory (a technical advisor)
Sean Barrett as Gino (a cameraman)
Andrew Secombe as Doody (a musician)
Patience Tomlinson as Betty (a secretary)
and John Livesey as Saa (an accountant)
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)
9.58 Weather
(Details: Wed 4.0 pm)
An evening meditation led by Hugh Faupel BBC Manchester
The last of six programmes
Change - What and Howf with James Ashbey Caroline Baum
Alexandra Jones and John Munford In the Chair
Barbara Myers
Producer JULIAN HALE
visits Prestbury in Cheshire
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; inshore forecast
