with John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by SUSAN RAE
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
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The Singer (Not the Song) here's your chance to ask how it feels to capture the crowds at Covent Garden or Carnegie Hall or to sing for hours under hot lights with a heavy costume and a headache; whether opera singers are born or made or if Lieder recitals are as easy as they look.
Linda Ester Gray and Benjamin Luxon are willing to reveal (almost) all. Sue MacGregor is. in the Chair.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents from the countries they work in.
Giro Diary by ANDREW MULHOLLAND Read by Brian Hewlett
'Diary, I think I'm in love, but what's she going to see in an unemployed stick-insect like me? Do I drive a Capri? No. Do I earn £10,000 a year? I'm afraid not. Nor do I have a suntan, Gucci shoes, and 40-inch shoulders.'
Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 67; All hail the power of Jesus' name
(BBC HB 117); Psalm 119, pt 1; John 16, v 31 to 17, v 5; The church of God a kingdom is (BBC HB 183) long wave only
She Belongs To Me by ROB GITTINGS
long wave only
'Why is it easy to swat a wasp and difficult to swat any?'
Tony Soper ,
David Streeter and Stephen Sutton answer some of your wildlife questions. Presented by Derek Jones
Producer MEUNDA BARKER BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5pm) long wave only
with Paul Heiney
devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell
Presenter Sir Robin Day
with Sue MacGregor After the Show:
JAYNE ROSCOE visits a home for retired thespians and hears some stories of the stage.
Earthly Possessions (2) long wave only
Returning the Favour by GRANT EUSTACE with and When a highly experienced fellow pilot is killed in an inexplicable crash in Norfolk in the summer of 1936, Peter Godfrey is determined to get to the bottom of it all. He is drawn into a series of exciting adventures surrounding one of the most exciting inventions in aviation history!
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
Journey of a Lifetime
Lynn ten Kate's diary of an overland drive to Sri Lanka with her husband and 11-year-old daughter. 1: Turkish Delights
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Introduced by James Cameron
Read by SHIREEN SHAH
Gitanjali had a perception of the world that went beyond her tender age.
She knew she was dying of cancer. But her courage never wavered, her faith never faltered. Her love never changed. 'Nothing is without meaning', she wrote, 'not even death'.
And she died just after her 16th birthday.
Producer PETER KING
The Leopard (2)
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
with PETER DONALDSON
Financial Report
(Repeated: Wed 1.40pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the gp's surgery.
Producer JUUAN BROWN
Four programmes on world problems ahead. 3: Frontline Europe The continuing deployment this year of Cruise and Pershing II missiles highlights the present disturbed relationship between the West and the Soviet bloc. It will also heighten anxieties among the people of Europe, nowhere more so than in divided
Germany where many people feel that the strategic interests of the big powers run counter to their own national interests.
Alexander MacLeod goes to the front line and talks to a village community that has been shaken out of its rural peace by the arrival of Pershing.
Producer HARRY SCHNEIDER (Repeated: Wed 4.10pm)
Themes and variations of the lives of the British in South-East Asia, in the days of the Empire: in the words of some of those who were there.
3. One Man's War
Sjovald Cunyngham-Brown escaped from the fall of Singapore and after bizarre adventures and grim sufferings preserved his life and sense of humour to welcome Lady Mountbatten into his PoW camp with a courtesy undaunted by the lack of even a loincloth. Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS
BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP Compiled by CHARLES ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm. Handbook of aids and Publications, [address removed].
For free quarterly bulletin: [address removed] Send four large SAEs for a year's supply.
Today Professor Alan Gemmell visits the gardens of Holehird, which are a magnificent tribute to the voluntary efforts of the Lakeland
Horticultural Society.
Plants, trees and shrubs from all over the world find the climatic conditions of the Lake District very much to their liking. Producer
MURDOCH M. MCPHERSON
Holehird is one mile beyond Windermere on the A 592, the Windermere to Ullswater road, and overlooks the mansion house that today is a Cheshire Foundation nursing home. These LHS gardens are open from
9.0 am until sunset.
Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, including interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Nineteen Eighty-Four (12)
reporting the news and the background to the news from around the world.
10.30 Headlines
11.0 Headlines and Financial World Tonight long wave only from 11.0
