Rhapsody in Blue
ANDRE PREVIN (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA gramophone record
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and David Byrne
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With The Rev John Congdon
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
With Peter Donaldson
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Eugene Fraser
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives
Producer KATE FENTON
8.57 Weather; travel
Who Invites you to meet some of the names who are hitting the headlines this week.
Kenneth Robinson adds his own brand of humour.
Producer JENNY DANKS
The White Blackbird by BRYAN MACMAHON
Read by Denys Ilaw (horne Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 5; Ye holy angels bright (BBC HB 286);
Psalm 47; Matthew 2, vv 1-12 (rsv); The God of Abraham praise (BBC HB 283)
followed by travel
Brian Johnston visits Stonehaven in the Grampian region of Scotland. Fishing port and holiday town, it's the birthplace of inventor Robert Thomson.
BBC Bristol
Presenter P. J. Kavanagh Readers HUGH DICKSON and DIANA BISHOP
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Pattie Coldwell with all the latest news, advice and information for consumers.
For your comments. questions and suggestions ring [number removed].
by William Ingram
First in a new series of six programmes
Vincent Price presents Michael Jayston, Sandra Clark and Daphne Heard in...
David and Anne Fordyce, married for five years, escape the rat race of London by buying a deserted cottage in Devon. But their idyllic life together is shattered by the intrusion of previous tenant from another century.
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 PM)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor will Include during the week some Talking Point discussions. Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today.
From Dawn Chorus to
Psyche the Dog: voice of them all, naturalist and entertainer
PERCY EDWARDS looks back on long career In radio. A Step Back in Time: ANDREA ADAMS goes carriage drlving.
Stories by JEROMEK. JEROME 3: Tea Kettles and On the Weather
Editor WYN KNOWLES
by Allan Scott and Chris Bryant based on the novel by Jeremy Potter
with Jack May and Michael Kitchen.
The Princes in the Tower were murdered by their wicked uncle Richard III, or so the Tudors would have us believe but there are no contemporary accounts of their death. 50 years later a lay brother of one of the monasteries Henry VIII sought to destroy sets out to discover whether either or both of the princes survived the Tower. The King's men and the Yorkist rebels both have an interest in the quest and Brother Thomas is venturing Into dangerous territory.
The Hypnotherapist: Diana Pardoe
Producer JULIAN HITCHCOCK BBC Birmingham
The Breaker (4)
with Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
With HARRIET CASS
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
What's happening in the waterworld?From
Gosport's busy marina.
Clive Jacobs investigates. He finds out why yachtsman and financier Peter de Savary thinks Britain will win the Americas Cup and which are the best boats to buy. Angling enthusiast
Bernard Cribbins previews the coarse fishing season and at Liverpool's docks a wandering theatre group re-creates Britain's seafaring history.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
Not About Heroes The Friendship of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen by STEPHEN MACDONALD with Stephen MacDonald as Siegfried Sassoon and James Teller as Wilfred Owen
This war Is not about heroes ... It's really about boys of 19 being shot in the throat and dying before they've had timetolive-andto learn why. The people who throw away those lives for their own glory - or profit - or both. I think it's about the annihilation, the wanton destruction of everything we love.'
The highest compliment one can pay is that, bu focusing on the men,itmakes you want to re-read the poetry
(THE GUARDIAN)
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC
Scotland
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Old School Ties
The world of the public school as reflected In novels. stories and film. Small boys in Eton collars. stately buildings amidst immemorial elms, straw boaters, Bunter yeilino " Yaroo " ... footfalls in the October dusk and the smell of cricket pitches and linseed oil.
(GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER )
Jeffrey Richards joins the Fifth Form at St Dominic's, visits
Greyfriars for a blow-out with the Fat Owl of the Remove, takes part in rags and japes with Stalky & Co at Westward Ho. and helps the rebels of College House from If. Lindsay Anderson ,
Timothy D'Arch Smith. Howard Baker ,
John Chandos. Dennis Butts ,
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy and Benny Green discuss the English school story from the 1850s to the present day.
Readers PAUL DARROW and SIMON SHEPHERD
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
with Simon Winchester
Presenter Colin Tudge Producer JULIAN BROWN
The Turn-around by VLADIMIR VOLKOFF translated by ALAN SHERIDAN abridged In 15 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by Cyril Shaps (1) Gaullist Paris: a junior intelligence officer narrowly escapes redundancy by inventing a fictitious assignment to ' turn' the leading
KGB major in France ... Producer ADRIAN MOURBY
ALFRED BRENDEL (piano) plays three Moments
Musicaux by Schubert gramophone record
Extracts from the day's major speeches.
Presenter John Hosken long wave only
Weather report; forecast long wave only followed by an Interlude
