Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent
Rosemary Hartill
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Birmingham
Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.
8.10 Today's Papers
Breakfast in Manchester,
Midnight feast in Los Angeles Tony Lewis and Gerald Williams set the table for a five-star sporting banquet
XXIII Olympic Games start with today's opening ceremony in the LA Coliseum. GERALD is there to capture the excitement. Meanwhile TONY is once again watching England's cricketers as they face the powerful West Indians in the Fourth Cornhill Test at Old Trafford.
And the racing world not only looks forward to this afternoon's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, but also to a week of 'Glorious Goodwood'. Producers DAVE GORDON and EMILY MCMAHON
Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from PATRICK STODDART , FRANK BARRETT and SUSAN MARLING taking a practical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene,
What's On with ERIC tobitt.
Producer JENNY MALUNSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Desmond Wilcox reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Robert Carvel , Political Editor of the London Standard reviews the past week with backbench mps and peers.
Producer JIM GRAY
Stereo
Producer ZAREER MASANI
Jeanine McMullen continues her journey through the remoter parts of the British countryside in search of those who earn their living from traditional rural work.
She meets the characters who tell the tales, the breeders who nurture stock and the craftspeople who sell their wares all in the name of a small country living.... Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Monday 10.0 am)
with Kenneth Williams Derek Nimmo ,
Gyles Brandreth and Martin Jarvis In the Chair Nicholas Parsons Devised by LAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm) Stereo
Lord Marsh,
John Mortimer , Qc, Clare Francis and Ken Livingstone
by Berlie Doherty
with Moir Leslie as Cecilia
Requiem follows the progress of Cecilia through convent school in the 1950s. Like the patron saint after whom she is named she loves music but is it a sin to give way to such a love, or is denial better for the soul? With all the intensity of a teenager growing into adulthood Cecilia tries to solve the contradictions she feels surround her.
Members of the choir of LORETO GRAMMAR SCHOOL conducted by MARY PETHICA
Organist LUCINA SWAIN
Recorded at Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham, Cheshire.
Directed by KAY PATRICK
BBC Manchester
(Stereo/Binaural)
(The full binaural effect can only be received by listening with stereo headphones)
David Jason takes the pulpit and solemnly pronounces on the more off-beat aspects of religion. His mission is hampered by Sheila Steafel , Malcolm Terris , Jon Glover Producer jimmy MULVILLE Stereo
Six lurches round England by Ray Gosling - not quite in the wake of J. B. Priestley 's English Journey.
5: Forever Ambridge???
In this journey, RAY GOSUNG discovered a village in the middle of England as real and enduring as Ambridge.... Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
In the 1920s, little Winifred Mason never met another younger girl, Edna Edmunds , who was also playing in the Forest of Dean - where coal was mined beneath the oak trees. Now they meet as Winifred Foley , best-selling author of A Child in the Forest, and Edna Healey , writer and wife of The Rt Hon Denis Healey , MP.
Together they retrace the secret paths through foxgloves and fern which led to such unexpected destinies. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Six lighthearted talks in which David Moreau recollects his largely unsuccessful attempts to come to grips with life.
5: Baldness Be My Friend
Stereo
with LAURIE MACMILLAN including Sports Round-up
Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
with Richard Baker
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT. Stereo
Forgive Me Father by DAVID HOPKINS
Kids out for some fun at the disco. But suddenly there's a spot of bother and a youngster lies dead.
Directed by PETER KING. Stereo (Repeated: Monday 3.0 pm)
The writer Malcolm Lowry acknowledged two tyrannies - the pen and the bottle. His life was full of misfortune, some self-inflicted, yet he managed to produce one outstanding novel, Under the Volcano.
Gordon Bowker considers the man, his life and his masterpiece with Arthur Calder-Marshall ,
Anthony Burgess ,
Malcolm Bradbury and friends of Lowry. with Hywel Bennett as Malcolm Lowry and Norman Rodway reading from Under the Volcano
Producer MICHEL PETHERAM
(Repeated: Wednesday 11.0 am)
Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise (EH 273); Jesu, the very thought of thee
(Church Anthem Book); Mark 12, vv 28-34; The day is past and over (EH 276) Stereo
Five readings by CYRIL HAYWOOD -JONES adapted by MICHAEL DAVIES. Read byGarard Green 5: A Game of Bluff
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
The last in a series of three entertainments starring Sheila Steafel with monologues and songs from her one-woman shows. Music from THE
PAUL MAGUIRE TRIO
Written by SHEILA STEAFEL , PAUL B. DAVIES , JOHN COLLEE ,
BARRY BROWN , KEITH WATERHOUSE , BARRY CRYER , JEREMY BROWNE and OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN U.
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo