Muste from Act I of the ballet, arranged from
Sullivan's operettas by Sir Charles Mackerras , who conducts the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA gramophone records
Presenters John Timpson and David Byrne
6.30, 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with David Hitchins.
by Fanny Trollope abridged in five episodes by Carole Rosen
Read by Anna Massey
(Repeat. Anna Massey is in Major Barbara at 7.20 pm)
who brings his world to the Start the Week studio. Producer JENNY DANKS
Foreign Parts by JOHN MILLER
Read by Sean Barrett Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 34; New every morning is the love <BBC HB 408); Psalm 16; 1
Kings 6, vv 1-14 (RSV) 0 dearest Lord. thy sacred head (BBC HB 358)
with Charles Tomlinson Readers ISABEL DEAN and ANDREW SACHS Compiled by MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
John Howard is Joined by gardening expert
ALAN TITCIIMARSH for this Bank Holiday edition of the daily consumer magazine programme.
Johnny Morris recalls people, places and happenings in a quarter of a century of taunting. This week: The Rhine Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tues 10.30 pm)
with Michael Charlton
with Sue MacGregor
The Neighbours Thought I Was Strangling the Cat: DI SEANEY tells KAREN DECO how she learned to perform Punch and Judy.
Summertime Show: a report from the Ta:te Garden
Pavilion on the current Woman's Hour/Radio Times painting exhibition.
A Fortunate
Grandchild (3) Editor
SANDRA CHALMERS
Marjorie Westbury stars in the play of her choice to mark her
Golden Jubilee In Radio Waters of the Moon by K. C. HUNTER adapted for radio by MOLLIE HARDWICK with Mary Wimbush Patricia Hayes
Rosalind Shanks and Martin Jarvis
The Christmas festivities of 1951 are over, and those who live in a small, remote hotel on the edge of Dartmoor settle back into their unchanging and tedious routine, until three unexpected visitors arrive ...
Pianist
MARY NASH
Directed by GRAHAM GAUL
(Martin- Jarvis Is a National Theatre player)
Patricia Carroll introduces and plays music from her Victorian collection of pieces composed by famous pianists of the day. This week:
William Vincent Wallace Producer ANDREW MUSSET
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole , Aged 13f (1 January-21 April) by SUE TOWNSEND with Nicholas Barnes First of seven parts Adrian's teenage biography became a bestseller when published last autumn. But first he had shared his innermost thoughts and concerns with a Radio 4 audience. This is another chance to hear them. Producer
JOHN TYDEMAN
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
With PETER DONALDSON
Christopher Martin-Jenkins Alan Melville
Rosemary Anne Sisson and Julia Langdon Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Major Barbara by BERNARD SHAW with Anna Massey John Phillips
Gwen Watford and Jeremy Clyde
This play, written in 1905, Is a moral confrontation between two generations: the old who made the best of opportunities in an Immoral world...;-and the young who want to atone for this by the misguided Idealism of individual sacrifice. It Is an exposition of Shaw's doctrine that one ' must either share the world's guilt or go to another planet '.
Characters In order of speaking:
Directed by RONALD MASON
See the Music -
Hear the Dancing!
The eye of man hath not heard.
The ear of man hath not seen. (SHAKESPEARE,
A Midsummer Night's
Dream)
A profile of George Balanchine and The New York City Ballet One of the world's great dance companies, co-founded. together with the School of American Ballet, by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine. Introduced by Lincoln Kirstein with ALEXANDRA DANILOVA DANIEL DUELL ,
JOSEPH DUELL , SUZANNE FARRELL , ROBERT FIZDALC. ARTHUR
GOLD. ROBERT IRVINGANNA KISSELGOFF, PETER MARTINS , KAY MAZZO ,
NANCY REYNOLDS , JEROME ROBBINS , HUBERT SAAL , JOHN TARAS and GEORGE BALANCHINE who died on 30 April.
Narrator Michael Oliver Producer john POWELL (The New York City Ballet is appearing at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Monkeys always ate bananas and lions dined on meat alone - until scientists at the London Zoo realised that the animals developed bone disease as a consequence of the monotonous food. Now they thrive on a varied diet which contains the same nutrients as they eat In the wild.
Colin Tudge discovers how the researchers at the Zoological Gardens apply their knowledge of the physiology and behaviour of animals in the natural states.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
On the Eve (6)
In 1973 the small island and fishing port of Heimaey ofl the southern coast of Iceland was torn asunder by a volcano. Larry Harris , who reported the eruption for BBC news, recalls how the Islanders fought to turn the tide of molten lava, and how the hot rock provides a central heating system.
Producer GWYN RICHARDS
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