Presenters Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*. Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
by RON GOULART
Read by Kerry Shale producer JANET WHITAKER
Lively entertaining conversation and a birthday celebrity interviewed by Libby Purves
Producer PETER ESTALL
visits Cheshire where members of the Bramhall Alpine Garden Society put questions to Bill Sowerbults Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczackl
Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
by Jill Norris
Read by Elizabeth Proud
nem, p 106: Here beauty dwells, and holiness
<BBC HB 261); Psalm 34: Matthew 15, vv 21-31; 0 what their joy and their glory must be (BBC HB 252)
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT
John Howard with the latest news, advice and Information for consumers. If you have queries. comments or suggestions ring [number removed]after 11.0 am.
by TED ALLBEURY
The fifth of ten parts adapted by the author from his latest novel
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Presenter Nick Ross
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Anthony Perkins , the star of Psycho and Psycho II The Step-Family : as the number of divorces
Increases so does the number of remarriages among divorcees. JILL BURRIDGE discovers the emotional and physical upheavals which both adults and children face. The Plague Dogs by RICHARD ADAMS abridged in 16 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Martin Jarvls (1) ' It's a bad world for animals.' as Rowf and Snitter,twodogsInan animal research laboratory, have good reason to know. But one day there comes the chance of escape ... (Music: Gleeson's The Plague Dogs)
Oh, Henry! by TOM ELLIOTT
Cath and David have been accepted as foster parents and are looking orward to the usual procedure of Interviews with their first foster child. Suddenly there Is a crisis and Henry is expected the very next day.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
The English Abroad The last of seven programmes presented by Kevin Crossley-Holland Home Thoughts
Readers LIANE AUKIN and PETER WICKHAM Producer ALEC REID
The Cottage Garden Year: Summer (2)
Pudd'nhead Wilson (3)
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams VHF only 5.50-5.55
with EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
(Details. Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1 40pm)
(Delails: Thurs 9.0 am)
No age ever celebrated Its sensations with more verve and Impish
Irreverence than the Victorians.
Roy Hudd takes a look at more curiosities, cults, crises and eccentrics, tragedies and theatrical sensations that outraged and entertained our grandfathers and great-grandfathers and inspired the popular songwriters of the day; and together with Charles West sings some of the songs that, in turn, became brief sensations in themselves. with ELIZABETH PROUD WILLIAM ROBERTS and the CHARLES YOUNG MUSICIANS Written by GERALD FROW Producer JOHN PYAS
In a series of six weekly talks Michael Elkins, who has lived in Israel since 1948 and was BBC Correspondent there for 17 years, plots his own course through the history of modern Israel.
At the age of 70, after a life of public service, Golda Meir was called out of retirement to become Israel's fourth Prime Minister - and for five years led the nation through political crisis and the near catastrophe of the Yom Kippur War.
The text of this programme is in The Listener published on 14 August
Twins have a place in literature and legend. There are myths surrounding the birth of twins in this country and In primitive societies. Jocelyn Ryder-Smith
Investigates the fact and the fiction and talks to doctors, parents and twins themselves about this special relationship. Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham
Includes reviews of two books about the life and death of the Rastafarian singer and songwriter, BOB MARLEY , the undisputed king of reggae music; and previews Worstward Ho. a new work by Samuel Beckett performed by NORMAN RODWAY on Radio 3 tomorrow at 9.35 pm.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer PHILIP JORDAN
John Morgan reporting
( Broadcast Tues 6.30 pm)
The Pledge (3) lung wave only
long wave only
Presenter Marian Foster The voices are those of people whose pastime is to sing in a choir and the harmony is found in music new and old, sacred and secular. popular and serious.
The READING PHOENIX CHOIR, conductor NORMAN MORRIS , With CLIVE WATERMAN at the piano, progress from ' 0 no John, no ' via some spirituals and a seaside visit to the ' Rhythm of life '.
Producer IAN CARSON BBC Bristol (Repeal) long wave only
including weather long wave only
