with Brian Redhead and Jon Silverman
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*,8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 10
A three-part series of quite probable stories written and read by Leonard Barras 1: Love in a Windy Place
'The trouble with women he claimed was that they kept nicking dust off you, or straightening your pullover, or wanting to push your ears forwards and sideways.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sunday 6.45 pm)
Beppe
Written and read by Brian Glanville
NEM. p 42; Eternal God, whose power upholds (BBC HB 23);
Psalm 99; Acts 4, vv 1-12; My spirit longs for thee (BBC HB 331)
Stereo
by DIANA MORGAN
Diana Morgan ,
Geoffrey Wright and Ronnie Hill with the help of many other once-struggling, now famous colleagues, look back to London in the 30s and pay a grateful tribute to a remarkable little theatre and an equally remarkable man. The theatre was The Gate and the man was the late Norman Marshall.
Those taking part in order of speaking:
ENID COLLETT , HERMIONE GINGOLD ,
VINCENT PRICE , GOOGIE WITHERS , CAROLE LYNNE (LADY DELFONT), MARGARET RAWLINGS , SIR RONALD MILLAR , DAVID JOHNSTON and J. C. TREWIN The singers
DIANA MARTIN, BRONWYN BAUD and GEOFFREY COLLINS The actresses
ELLEN MCINTOSH and MAGGIE MCCARTHY
Pianist and Musical Director
GEOFFREY WRIGHT
Producer DAVID JOHNSTON
Stereo
What burrows underneath the rows of sunbathers on the beach?
Apart from clams, potato urchins and lugworms, beachcombers Tony Soper and Paul Cragg do, in search of life under the sand.
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol
Presenter John Howard
Stereo
Presenter Gordon Clough
Doomuch and Doolittle (5) by JOYCE DUNBAR Read by PETER TUDDENHAM
Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
No No Noele
Former Crossroads star NOELE GORDON is lured out of rehearsals for No No Nanette in Plymouth. And on the Isles of Scilly, SUE HICKS goes gig-racing with the ladies' team. BBC Bristol
The Dancing Bear (8)
by HOWARD SPRING freely adapted for radio in eight episodes by KEN WHITMORE with and 2: Thrown to the Wolves
Directed by TREVOR HILL
(BBC Manchester)
Baroness McFarlane, Professor of Nursing at
Manchester University, talks about her first job.
BBC Manchester
Over the next three weeks
Mike Harding will be walking around various parts of Britain on different kinds of walks, and each week he'll be joined by a different guest. This week it's Christopher Somerville, author of Walking Old
Railways, and they follow a disused railway line from
Sudbury to Long Melford in Suffolk that has been converted into a footpath.
Producer JUDE HOWELLS
The Lantern Bearers (10) by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF abridged in ten parts by MONICA GREY
Read by DAVID DAVIS
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF 5.50-5.55
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs with help from
ALANAH MARTIN. TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS . Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer LUCY LUNT
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am) Stereo
James Fenton
War reporter, political and literary journalist - and prizewinning poet.
For a poet, not to have cut his wrist
Is worse than having not been kissed.
Producer WILLIAM BAYNES
The Rt Hon Norman St John-Stevas , mp presents his personal choice of prose and poetry with Sir Michael Hordern and Jill Balcon
'The two great British contributions to world civilisation have been
Parliamentary Government and English literature.... '
Producer ALEC REID
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.10 pm) Stereo
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Republicans head for Texas
14 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
How will the new ethnic mix of Dallas react to the influx of Republicans when the convention comes to town? Show more
by Alistair Cooke
Paul Allen reports from the 1984 International Festival where major theatrical productions include Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson in Twice Round the Park;
Delphine Seyng and George Wilson in a play about Sarah Bernhardt ; and an all-star cast in Lindsay Anderson 's production of Synge's Playboy of the Western World. The programme also visits the exhibition of Treasures from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington; and at the Film Festival reviews the premieres of Bill Forsyth 's Comfort and Joy and Neil Jordan 's Company of Wolves. Producer RICHARD DUNN
The Haunted Major (3)
Presenter Janet Cohen
11.0 Headlines an VHF until 11.0
11.0 Staying in Business In these six programmes PETER hobday finds out about the surprises, crises and decisions that can crop up in the early years of a new enterprise.
3: Managing Your Resources
11.30 Euromagazine Three programmes of interviews and news from Spain, giving you a chance to listen to native speakers of Spanish. Edicion espanola (2) MIGUEL PENARANDA e ISABEL SOTO hablan con el alcalde de Madrid, don ENRIQUE TIERNO GALVAN.
A four-part investigation of the Shifton Scandal Part 3
Why did a government minister support the plan to build London's third airport 20 miles north east of Birmingham? David Lander now attempts to answer that question by examining in detail the sex scandal which rocked the Government and caused a sensation in 1982.
Production assistants: STEPHEN
FRY, MORAY WATSON, JAN RAVENS, JACK KLAFF , BRENDA BLETHYN and TONY ROBINSON
Dramatic reconstructions by MARK ARDEN , STEVE FROST , PETER WEAR, PHIL NICE, FELICITY MONTAGU , HILDA SCHRODER, BRETT USHER and COLIN STARKEY
Research by TONY SARCHET Editor PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Stephen Fry is in '40 Years On' at the Queen's Theatre, London and Brenda Blethyn is in 'Benefactors' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)