Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
A note on religious affairs by Daniel Counlhan
6.55 Weather: travel: programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
7.55 Weather: travel: programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
Tony Lewis returns from the Edgbaston Test to introduce you to this sporting weekend, one of the highlights of which will be the US PGA
Championship in Tulsa.
At home. the major event is the BAAB Jubilee Games at Crystal Palace, one of the top international athletics meetings of the season. In addition, Sport on 4's reporting team will be watching for those unusual personalities, events and stories which make up this sporting world.
Producer DAVE GORDON
Introduced by Bernard Falk , with help from
SUSAN MARLING and IAN LYON taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Including continental travel; weather News at 9.0 Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD (Bernard Falk presents
Sin on Saturday on BBC1 tonight at 10.55 pm)
with Michael Watts
Producer COLIN LEWIS
Right Honourable Gentlemen
Hugo Young looks at the PrivyCouncil.
Producer ELLIE UPDALE
New Every Morning, page 9: Summer suns are glowing (bp 79); Psalm 65, vv 1-5 and 10-15: Acts 21, vv 27-36 (NEB): God's law is perfect (BBC HB 456)
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in. Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE
(Details: Mon 10.2 am)
A bizarre trip through the highways and byways of the English language in which Kenneth Williams Peter Jones. Sheila Hancock and Gyles Brandreth attempt not to break down, in which case Nicholas Parsons will have to get out and push. Route-planner IAN MESSITER Mechanic PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
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Motion: Professional
Boxing should be Banned
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Flight of the Swan bv JEAN MACVEAN
Victoria firmly believes that her marriage to
Robert is over. Her new-found independence Is disrupted one day when he visits her, begging her to come back. Their conversation Inevitably drifts towards the reasons for the failure of their marriage ... Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(Repeated: Tues 11.3 am)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Prepared for radio in 13 episodes by Brian Sibley
Starring Ian Holm as Frodo, Michael Hordern as Gandalf, Robert Stephens as Aragorn, and John Le Mesurier as Bilbo
with William Nighy as Sam, Richard O'Callaghan as Merry, John McAndrew as Pippin, Douglas Livingstone as Gimli, David Collings as Legolas, Michael Graham Cox as Boromir, Hugh Dickson as Elrond and Gerard Murphy as the Narrator
"This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must. While the eyes of the great are elsewhere." There was silence. At last with an effort Frodo spoke, "I will take the Ring though I do not know the way."
(Repeat)
(Gerard Murphy is a member of the RSC)
A magazine of interest to disabled listeners.
Presenter Marilyn Alan
Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
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Last of three programmes Halo Calvino and Elsa Morante
These two Italian writers have achieved notable success with their recent novels Michael Caesar talks about.their work and their very different approaches to novel-writing.
Readers PETER MCGOWAN and MIRANDA FORBES Series producer
MICK WEBB (Revised repeat)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave onlu
5.55 Weather; travel: programme news
with CHARLES COLVILE including Sports Round-up and continental travel
In the second of nine ' in depth ' Interviews with prominent people from different walks of life, Dr Anthony Clare of the Institute of Psychiatry invites the historian David Irving. controversial author of such books as The
Destruction of Dresden,
Hitler's War and Uprising, to reflect on the major influences that have shaped his private and professional attitudes. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
with Richard Baker Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.3 am)
by Alick Rowe
What really happened at the Fall of Troy? Was the Episode of the Wooden Horse as heroic as Homer would have it? Or was his Iliad a cover-up for what was in fact a military fiasco?
"A superb comedy." "The best entertainment I've heard in my life." "A great contribution to Classical education." (Listeners' letters)
BBC Bristol
Sally Peters was one of many doughnut girls.
She joined the American Red Cross in 1943 and soon afterwards found herself in a mobile bakery, making doughnuts for GIs in wartime
Britain. She crossed to
France within days of the D-Day landings and shared in the joy and sadness of the months of Liberation. Her letters home were preserved by her mother and now, selected and edited by ALAN A. RICHARDSON , they tell the moving story of one
American girls experience of the Second World War.
Producer
ALAN HAYDOCK
An evening meditation led by The Rev John Newbury
The Strathclyde revue by ALASDAIR GRAY ,
TOM LENNARD and LIZ LOCKHEAD with music by ESTHER ALLAN
What makes Scotland laugh? Try Sunday mornings. borrowing money, the SDP, Rangers andCelticand,ofcourse, Tickly Mince. It worked for John Cobb
Kevin McManagle and Siobham Redmond
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
Weather report: forecast followed by an Interlude
