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An extraordinary 55 minutes with extraordinary people. Tim Brooke-Taylor interviews this week's birthday guest.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON

The Man Who Got Fat by WILLIAM SAROYAN
Read by Errol McKinnon

NEM, p 46; Fairest Lord
Jesus (BBC HB 138); Psalm 15; Genesis 41, w 14-16,
25-36; Beneath the cross of Jesus (BBC HB 301) long wave only

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A series of six talks in which Harry Soan looks back at his youth 'through the wrong end of a telescope'. 2:Only Child
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham long wave only

Retirement and After Experts answer your telephone calls and letters Presenter Patti Coldwell

by ARTHUR JEFFERSON (5)

Presenter Sir Robin Day

with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: the owner and manager of Queens Park Rangers, author and screenwriter Terry Venables
Mrs Pooter 's Diary (3) long wave only

by Colin Haydn Evans
1/5 A new series of five plays
with Anna Massey.
As soon as Ann saw the house she knew it had to be hers. Its past turns out to be part of her future. So all she has to do is sit in the upstairs room that had been kept locked for so long and wait.

Travellers and Settlers The last in a series of seven programmes presented by the poet, Fleur Adcock
7:Travellers at Night
Readers CHRISTOPHER SCOTT and LIANE AUKIN
Producer ALEC REID

Recollections of the Gas Buggy
The poet and pianist Roy Fisher looks at life from the viewpoint of a lapsed non-driver.

Atlantic City Proof (8)

with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons

with PETER DONALDSON including
Financial Report

Did you know that Ronnie Barker has a collection of saucy postcards?
No secret is safe with Chairman
Gyles Brandreth
Panellists Russell Grant , Maureen Lipman and Pete Murray
Guests Lindsey de Paul , Fred Trueman and Barry Cryer
Producer PAUL SPENCER

Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)

by JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE
The second of three programmes
A portrait in words and music of the great English composer who died 50 years ago, on 23 February 1934 with Julian Glover as Edward Elgar
Narrator John Rowe
The Enigma Variations, first performed in June
1899, made Elgar's name. What was his own response? 'A country life', he wrote from his new home in the Malvern
Hills, 'I find absolutely essential. It is delightfully quiet, and yet in contrast with it there is a constant stream of letters innumerable from all over the world.' During these tranquil years his creative spirit was as fulfilled as it was ever to be, and by the end of the decade Elgar had become not only Sir Edward but the first
English composer to write a symphony that could survive comparison with the greatest of its predecessors. with WILLIAM EEDLE.
NIGEL GRAHAM ,
EDWARD KELSEY , JOHN UVESEY and PATIENCE TOMLINSON
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

(Details: Thurs 11.0 am)

In the seventh of 12 talks, Anthony Smith continues the story of his motorcycle journey from Cairo to Cape Town last year retracing with his son Adam the path he first rode nearly three decades ago.

Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition
Producer CARROLL MOORE

The Lost Domain (3)

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