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Presenters Brian Redhead and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer lor the Day With JOHN MATTHEWS
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.57 Weather; travel
The birthday guest reveals all to Libby Purves , and Henry Kelly draws together a diverse mix of well known and unknown people to entertain you.
Producer JENNY DANKS
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NEM, p 58; Holy, holy, holy (BBC HB 169);
Canticle 1. vv 1-15; Acts 6, vv 1-15 (RSV): How lovely are thy dwellings (BBC HB 458) long wave only
The Baseball Boots by RODNEY JONES
Read by Jeff Kawle
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Presenter Bill Breckon
Adapted in six parts by John Howlett from his novel of the same name
At the Emelio Segre Nuclear Power Station in Tuscany the sound sensor alarms have now been triggered 19 times in five days. At home, press and television probing begin to make Gordon Aylen's task politically difficult and personally disturbing.
BBC Birmingham
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
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with Sue MacGregor including
Guest of the Week: Anita Harris, award-winning entertainer.
'Sixty and Ten Poor Scholars': were the first pupils of Winchester College in 1382. JENNY CUFFE celebrates the school's 600th anniversary.
Remembering Louise by ANNA GILBERT abridged in 11 parts by MADGE HART Read by CORINNA MARLOWE (11)
(Music: Lennox Berkeley's Symphony No 1)
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The Overnight Man by PETER TERSON adapted by the author from his stage play The Night John.
In a silent carpeted, hygienic and soulless motel, a one-time manager reminisces about his rise and fan in the hotel trade.
The Overnight Man is played by Peter Baldwin , who created the role in the stage production. Directed by MARGARET ETALL
(Postponed from 26 May)
A series of six - programmes presented by the poet Kit Wright
1: Dance While You Can Readers
HUGH DICKSON PETER HOLMES
Producer ALEC REID
as enjoyed by Elizabeth Jane Howard
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SIIRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Executive producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm)
The last in the present series of weekly
.investigations into the problems of Listeners. Presenter Roger Cook
In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit, the second half of a series in 26 parts. Narrator David Attenborough 14: The First Voice
Frogs, it is said, divide their world into three classes - if it's small enough you eat it; if it too big you run away from it; and if it's intermediate you mate with it.
Dr Bob Capranica from Cornell University, New York, describes the way frogs rely on sound in order that they mate with the right object.
Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Talking About Music
First of ten programmes marking the 30th anniversary of one of radio's longest-running series. ANTONY HOPKINS explores a musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and Illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
Last week at a luncheon in the Hilton Hotel,
London, the Variety Club of Great Britain paid tribute to showbusiness celebrity and broadcaster Monty Modlyn for his outstanding support of the Club's charity work for children, ranging over a total of 40 years. Monty began his broadcasting career on 6 April 1942. Libby Purves , who represents today's generation of young broadcasters, and Monty reflect on the changes in broadcasting since the early 40s and recall some of the broadcasting highlights that have brought him acclaim and success.
Producer MARLENE PEASE
Celebrates the Stravinsky Centenary with reviews of Kenneth MaciMillan 's new version of Orpheus for the Royal Ballet; Stravinsky and the Dance, a series of seven programmes on BBC2 introduced by John Drummond ; and ' Igor and Vcra Stravinsky 1921-71 ', a collection of photographs selected by Vera Stravinsky and Rita McCaffrey. Presenter
Michael Oliver
Producer JOHN BOUNDY (Stravinsky and the Dance begins tomorrow un BBC2 at 7.15 pm)
John Morgan reporting
Domestic Manners of the Americans
3: More about Pigs and Republican Equality long wave only
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