Presented direct from the Royal Show, Stonclelgh in Warwickshire by Tony Crofts
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Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6 45* Prayer for the Day THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
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7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
With DILLY BARLOW
again tries to set the record straight with the help of the BBC Sound
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(Repeated: Fri 11.45 PM)
8.57 Weather; travel
and a lively assortment of guests
Producer PETER ESTALL
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American Pie by VIRGINIA S. NEWLIN Read by Shirley Dixon Producer MITCh RAPER
followed by travel
with Bob Symes
Delicious anarchy reigns when Bob Symes - bon viveur. raconteur and railway buff - invades the kitchen as an enthusiastic amateur chef. In the first of six programmes. he raids the ridge and transforms Sunday's leftovers into Monday's lunch.
Producer KATE FENTON
News. views and advice for consumers
Presenter Jennt Mills Editor JOHN GETGOOD
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. WODLHOUSE adapted in six episodes by RICHARD USBORNE starring and 1: The Menace of Totleigfi Towers
Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake with voices and topics In and behind the headlines
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with Sue MacGregor
Including during the week someTalkingPoint discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today
The Joys o/ Yiddish: SUE MARGOLIS learns about the renewal of interest in a language with overtones of the ghetto.
ROY DOTRICE - a Guernseyman himself., and about to portray old Guernseyman Ebenezer Le Page in the new serial - talks about the island and its highly-Individual language.
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. EDWARDS
Part One. abridged in ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by Roy Dotrlce (1) G. B. Edwards died in 1870. This, his only novel, about an old
Guernseyman whose life span stretches from before the Boer War to the 1960s. was published posthumously to great acclaim In 1981.
(Music: Planel's Trumpet Concerto)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Woman's Hour Book, £6.50 from booksellers
by Jack Gerson
with Brigit Forsyth as Edith Fennell, David Hayman as Alan McKinlay, Gudrun Ure as Margaret Fennel and Tom Watson as Alec Lomond
'I couldn't tell you what I'd done. You see. people like me don't do things like this. Not here. Not in this neighbourhood. Can you be sure even now, I did it? '
BBC Scotland
(Postponed from 26 April)
Douglas Stuart looks back at four statesmen he watched in his years as a BBC Foreign
Correspondent.
2: Adenauer - Germany's post-war giant
His Other Self by W. W. JACOBS abridged and read by Manning Wilson
Producer JOHN CARDY
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton on VHF until 5.55
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including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised repeat of 9.5 am)
A comedy by Edward Bond, adapted by the author
with Michael Aldridge, John Rowe, Gillian Martell and Nigel Hawthorne
First produced at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in June 1968, and subsequently at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in February 1969.
In Japan about the 17th, 18th, or 19th centuries, the poet Basho witnesses the triumph and becomes involved In the downfall of Shogo, the dictator who builds up the city in his own image, before being destroyed by barbarians who fight with cannons and Christianity.
(First broadcast on R3)
Includes reviews of John Vanburgh 's comedy The Provolc'd Wile in the garden of the Treasurer's House at York Minster; and Andri Previn 's new recording of Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortileges. Presenter Michael Oliver Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEMARY HART
Peter Paterson reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
This year is the centenary of Charles Darwin 's death. To mark the occasion, biologists from all over the world met last week in Cambridge to discuss current ideas about the evolution of humankind. Peter Evans reports on the highlights of the conference.
Producer deborah COHEN
Mother and Son
Written and read by Jeremy Seabrook (1) This autobiographical work deals with a familiar but not often discussed relationship; one in which love can overwhelm rather than set free.
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