Presented from the North by Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Peter Mayne
6.45* Prayer for the Day With DOM EDMUND JONES
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7-30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Dilly Barlow
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.58 Weather; travel
Fifty-five minutes of unpredictable and lively conversation.
Producer PETER ESTALL
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NEM, p 118; My Father, for another night (BBC HB 407); Psalm 118, vv 13-24; I Corinthians 14, vv 13-19, 27-28 (AV); Let all on earth (Be 46) long wave only
The Necklace by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by HARRY BELL Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER
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Brian Johnston visits Newmarket in Suffolk long wave only
Presented by Charles Causley
Readers PETER JEFFREY and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Fri 4.5 pm)
Anthology, The Music of What Happens. £3.95 paperback, £5.50 hardback from booksellers long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor JOHN GETGOOD
Ken Handley's got a problem. A BIG problem. Ken Handley's in advertising.
Martin Jarvis is Ken Handley, with Sheila Steafel as Sarah, Wendy Richard as June, Christopher Godwin as Sandy, Lockwood West as Freddie, David Gooderson as the director, Ahmed Khalil as Ravi
(Stereo) (Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor including during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today:
Believe it or Not: astrologer RUSSELL GRANT discusses the Piscean personality and looks at the future of the Woman's Editor of the Daily
Express, KATHARINE HADLEY. ' My Candle Burns at Both Ends.... ':
GAYLE HUNNICUTT talks about the life of EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY and reads some of her poems.
An Owl Came to Stay by CLAIRE ROME abridged in three parts by JANET HICKSON. Read by CAROLINE BLAKISTON (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Woman's Hour Book, £6.50 from booksellers long wave only
followed by travel
The Fatal Flaw by CHRIS ALLAN
In the first of six programmes.
Celia Thomson visits Durham city to survey the view from Prebends' Bridge with the writer Louis Allen.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Welsh Fargo
Written and read by Harry Secombe abridged in ten parts by ELIZABETH PROUD 1: In which we are introduced to Dai Fargo, his ramshackle bus and the pleasures of True Confessions in Panteg. Producer
ENYD WILLIAMS
BBC Wales
with Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.58 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
— Exiles by JAMES JOYCE HAROLDPINTER'S Mermaid Theatre production re-created for radio.
James Joyce , who was born in 1882, left Dublin with Nora Barnacle in 1904. They lived in Trieste until 1915. Exiles, which tells of an Irishman's return from Italy to face the emotional complexities from which he had retreated, was published in Paris in 1918, four years before
Ulysses. Joyce never saw it performed.
Directed by GUY VAESEN (First broadcast in 1972 on Radio 3)
City Centre
On 3 March Her Majesty The Queen opens the Barbican Centre, comprising one concert hall, two theatres, three cinemas, a library, art
Kallery, sculpture court. tree-filled conservatory, two restaurants and a pub. Michael Oliver reports on this massive new centre for the arts, first planned in the 50s and now standing on a former bombsite in the heart of the City of London. He talks to those who have to make it work, including the administrator,
Henry Wrong , and members of the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal
Shakespeare Company, who are to have their London homes there. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Peter Evans A review of discoveries and developments.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
A Confederacy of Dunces by JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE abridged in 15 parts by LINDA TAYLOR
Read by Kerry Shale (1) In 1969, totally depressed by the lack of publishers' interest in his novel, John Kennedy Toole killed himself. Eleven years later, through the efforts of his mother, the book was launched to receive universal acclaim as a work of comic genius.
It is the story of Ignatius J. Reilly, enormously fat, constantly flatulent, consistently contemptuous of all things modern, as he sloths his way through the evils of mid-20th-century New Orleans. ProducerROGER PINE
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