Presented by John Timpson and Michael Stewart with Peter Hobday from the Republican Party Convention in Dallas
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 4
Frank Delaney takes you through the morning with ... Marcel Marceau and the first silent talk show.
... a few words of wisdom from Laurie Taylor and Vic Lewis Smith on how to conduct yourself in Modern Manners.
... introducing the new and the unusual from On the Fringes.
... David Davies invites your calls on a matter of public concern in Thursday
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The News on the hour from
BRIAN PERKINS
10.30 Morning Story
Another Harry Kemp story read by PETER ADAMSON
21: Travelling Light by JO GILL
10.45 An Act of Worship
... Susan Marling joins the governer, prison officers and inmates of Dartmoor Prison in Marling's Spike.
... another suspenseful episode from the improbable adventures of asil Bond.
... a local perspective on the news as commentators link-up in Network UK. Produced by the Rollercoaster unit
Richard Gordon 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 as surprising! Devised and presented 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: Bette Davis , the battling box-office queen who when asked about her favourite kind of role would say: 'Give me a nice normal woman who just shoots her husband.'
Producer WENDY CLAY
Presenter Gordon Clough
Lola Young reads Tomo the Water Dragon by MARCELLO MINALE and MARCELLO MINALE JUNIOR
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Living With Unemployment (2): 'Surely there's more to life than signing on ... ' NICK and HEATHER round off PAUL BARNES 'S picture of life on the dole. The Tranquility Stone by JOHN WAIN abridged in two parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by John Pullen (1)
Dear Aunt by JULIA JONES with Margaret D'Arcy as May and Meg Davies as Eve Eve is a young journalist working in London. When her mother dies she writes to her
Aunt May who she hasn't seen for years and who lives in Belfast. May is a spinster and a member of an ecumenical prayer group. Their first meeting is a disaster but Eve cannot resist visiting her aunt again.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol Stereo
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve, but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference
Library sort out the answers.
Questions, on a postcard please, to Enquire Within
BBC Broadcasting House London W\A IAA Producer LUCY LUNT
Teresa McGonagle invites Patricia Beer and Edward Blister to pick some paperbacks. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Smith (4)
Presenters Robert Williams and Richard Bath continued on VHF 5.50-5.55
with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
Stereo
Written by HELEN LEADBEATER (Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
David Bean revives the memory of an enterprising
18th-century Danish sailor, who for seven glorious weeks proclaimed himself 'Protector of Iceland and Commander in Chief by Sea and Land'.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
A personal choice of prose and poetry presented by Ian McKellen
This programme has much to do with the theatre, with words by Shakespeare, Sondheim, Jonson, Blake, Coward, Stoppard and Michael Macliammoir.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
(First broadcast on Radio 3) Stereo
Six episodes in the history of diplomacy written and introduced by Derek Wilson
5: The Diplomat as Fool
The causes of the Second World War are many, one of which was surely the arrogance and stupidity of one man, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's foreign minister. How did such a man rise to power, and why did
Hitler listen to him. with such disastrous consequences? with Anthony Hall as Ribbentrop, Bill Wallis as Sir Winston Churchill and the voices of TIMOTHY BATESON and MARK ROLSTON
Producer BRIAN MILLER
BBC Bristol
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address:
BBC Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW Tel: [number removed]
(Mon-Fri 10.0 am -5.0 pm)
The first of seven programmes More often than not it is the spectacular virtues, shamelessly displayed, which can pose more of a threat to civilised everyday life than good, old-fashioned sin.
Terence Blacker advises the sinner on how to recognise those virtues and deal with them.
1: Honesty with MONICA GREY. BRETT USHER and MADI HEDD
Producer HELEN FRY
with Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN BOUNDY
The Haunted Major (7)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod in London and Richard Kershaw at the Republican Party Convention in Dallas
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0
Prefaces to Shakespeare Six programmes in which actors and actresses talk about Shakespeare's plays
1: Derek Jacobi on 'Hamlet' Producer ALAN wilding