CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano) plays Chopin: record
with Peter Hobday and Michael Stewart
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Clive Roslin
The first of five stories by A.A. Milne
In which Winnie-the Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
Read by Alan Bennett
On a morning when most people have more time to read their morning papers, the team that produces probably the best-known newspaper in the world is working as usual. The Times team tell
Jimmy Hill about their work - and their choice of music.
Researcher KAREN DECO Producer MIKE CHANEY
The Baigel Man by HILL SLAVID
Read by Cyril Shaps Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 102; King of glory (BBC
HB 325); Psalm 32; Exodus 4, vv 10-17; Lighten the darkness (BBC HB 520)
with Alan Brownjohn Readers ISABEL DEAN and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
with Paul Heiney Editor KEN VASS
Fritz Spiegl conducts
John Dunn through his personal score of humorous situations. Producer ANGELA HIND
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
with Sue MacGregor
Men and Fidelity: in these days of increasing equality and openness,
GORDON COOPER has been talking to men about their attitude to fidelity and marriage. Vanished with the Rose 4: Mademoiselle Aubert Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
In Praise of Love by TERENCE RATTIGAN with Anthony Quayle Muriel Pavlow and Robert Beatty
Lydia knows she is dying, but her thoughts are for her self-centred husband and their son. If only she can bring them together ...
Directed by PETER KING
(Anthony Quayle is featured in 'Kaleidoscope' at 9.45 pm)
A weekly look at the English language and at some of the things that are happening to it in the 80s. Presented by David Crystal
Producer ALAN WILDING
The Squire's Story by MRS GASKELL abridged in two parts and read by Valerie Windsor (1) Producer KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
with Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
with BRYAN MARTIN
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Peter Evans reports from the 150th Annual Meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, held this week in New York.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
'Oh it's been absolute hell and I don't understand how I could be so stupid' were the words of one competitor in the Observer Singlehanded
Transatlantic Race, but nevertheless this week 99 entrants from 17 countries converge on Plymouth for the start of the race. Cliff Michelmore is in Devon to talk to the competitors, while Martin Muncaster reports from Weymouth on Britain's Olympic Sailing
Squad for 1984. Meanwhile Harriet Cass discovers other events taking place around the country.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
Orlando by VIRGINIA WOOLF dramatised for radio by PETER BUCKMAN with and Orlando was born in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and lived into that of George V. He entered life as a boy and she left it as a woman. Who was this strange creature? One of the most colourful creations of Virginia
Woolfs great imagination.
Music by JAMES WALKER >layed by JAMES WALKER and SIMON WALKER
Directed by PENNY GOLD (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
(Jennie Stoller is in 'Cries from the Mammal House' at the Royal Court Theatre, London; Heather Tobias is a National Theatre player; David McAlister is in 'Peg' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)
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Anthony Quayle
All my life I've been devoted to the sea, but the pull of the theatre was stronger than the pull of the sea.
Michael Billington talks to Anthony Quayle about his new touring company with the nautical title 'Compass' and his long and distinguished career in the theatre and films. Producer ROLAND KEATING
Falls the Shadow (6)
with Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON
with
Arthur Ransome was 46 when he published
Swallows and Amazons. He'd lived the Bohemian life of a struggling writer and became embroiled in the Russian Revolution, but his abiding passion was the Lake District and in his effortless prose he opened up for children the world he himself loved best. Ion Trewin presents a portrait of Arthur Ransome who was born 100 years ago.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
BBC Bristol long wave only from 11.30