with Brian Redhead 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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

Part 9

Richard Baker invites you to join him from now until noon, including conversation from a variety of entertaining guests
... a timely word or two from Vic Lewis-Smith and Laurie Taylor , about how to polish up your Modern Manners and thereby avoid social opprobrium, acute embarrassment and being called a wally
... people On the Fringes living their lives in ways you might find surprising
... your calls to studio guests on a topic of current concern in the Thursday Exchange on [number removed]Regular items:
The News on the hour from
BRIAN PERKINS
10.30 Morning Story
Another Harry Kemp story read by Peter Adamson
20: Bambi and the Trick
Photograph by H. R. LANGLEY
10.45 An Act of Worship
... Susan Marling poking her nose once again into the activity behind the scenes at an event that is going on perhaps near you, in Marling's Spike ... one more thrilling episode from the inconsequential life of Basil Bond
... a local perspective on events large and small in Network UK. Produced by the Rollercoaster unit

Ian Wallace cheerfully digs up the half-dozen pieces of music he never wants to hear again - and explains why. The music is surprisingly good. His reasons are just surprising! Presented and devised by Derek Robinson
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN (First broadcast on Radio 2) Stereo

Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars.
This week: Orson Welles, man of many film parts, most famously The Third Man and Citizen Kane.
Producer WENDY CLAY

Presenter Gordon Clough

Doomuch and Doolittle (4)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor A Walk in the Past: JENNY CUFFE visits a Tudor garden and discovers its scents, colours and symbolism.
The Dancing Bear by PETER DICKINSON abridged in 11 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by MARTIN JARVIS (7)

An Easy Game to Play by RAY CONNOLLY with Michael Angelis
Helena Breck , Tony Haygarth Ken Jones
Des, a Liverpool football supporter, finds his whole life suddenly changes following a chance encounter after a match.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS Stereo

Let Neil Landor together with his specialist experts 'and the help of the BBC Reference
Library sort out your queries. Producer LUCY LUNT

Teresa McGonagle invites Penelope Lively and Anthony Thwaite to pick some paperbacks. Producer
PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol

The Lantern Bearers (9)

Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHF 5.50-5.55

with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

Stereo

Written by JOANNA TOYE Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Written and introduced by IVAN BENBROOK
You see a huge brass conductor ... you are afraid to approach this terrible engine, and may you well, for every spark that passes would kill 20 men at one blow ...
This 'terrible engine' was the work of Andrew Crosse (1784-1855), a pioneer electrician and squire of Fyne Court, Somerset. It may have been from his lectures that Mary Shelley conceived her idea for the creation of Frankenstein's monster....
Readers ALAN MOORE ,
RICHARD CURNOW , CAROL HOWARD Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

A personal choice of prose and poetry presented by Ian McKellen
Today's programme includes contributions by Edwin Morgan , Shakespeare, Ellen Terry , Edward Thomas , Dannie Abse and Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
(First broadcast on Radio 3) Stereo

Six episodes in the history of diplomacy written and introduced by Derek Wilson 4:The Diplomat as Art Dealer
We are familiar with the age of diplomatic plunder of antiquities, culminating in the capture of priceless treasures such as the Venus de Milo in the Louvre and the Elgin Marbles. But one man, an obscure US consul at Cyprus in the latter part of the 19th century, can be said to have outdone everyone else. with David Sinclair as General Cesnola Tom Watson as Lord Elgin and the voices of DEBORAH
CRANSTON, WILLIAM EEDLE ,
ANTHONY HALL and MARK ROLSTON Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners. Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC Broadcasting House, London [Postcode removed] Phone [number removed](10.0 am-5.0 pm)

'Banana fines, judicial parrots and a goat nibbling the Union Jack....'
The second of two (almost) true accounts of the exploits of Overton, an English circuit judge in the British South Pacific Territories.
Based on his own experiences and written by RONNIE KNOX MAWER
Read by Ian Carmichael Producer KATE FENTON

Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition which includes interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer ROSEMARY HART

The Haunted Major (2)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0

Plato to Nato The last of seven programmes presented by BRIAN REDHEAD The Moderns Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE