Presented by Peter Hobday in London and Brian Redhead at the Trades Union Congress in Brighton
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 3
This week's Birthday Guest is The Rt Hon Cecil Parkinson ,
MP
Producer PIPPA BURSTON Stereo
John Bull and All That by MICHAEL A. PEARSON
Read by Timothy Kightley He was a rugger-mad
Welshman.... and he taught
Spanish.... to English children. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
NEM, P 102; All hail the power of Jesus' name (BBC HB 117); Psalm 112; Acts 8, vv 9-17; Prayer is the soul's sincere desire (BBC HB 347) Stereo
A six-part series in which former preacher, Harry Soan , traces his complex relationship with God.
2: Scrutinising the Sacred Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Presenter Pattie Coldwell
If you have any comments on today's programme, phone [number removed]after 11.0 am
by TED WILLIS (2)
Presenter Sir Robin Day
SAM KELLY reads Hippo Leaves Home by ROGER HARGREAVES
with Jill Burridge Guest of the Week:
Ann R. Longley , the new Head Mistress of Roedean. The Fall of the Sparrow by NIGEL BALCHIN abridged in 15 parts by DELIA PATON
Read by John Westbrook (1) When Henry Payne first met Jason Pellew , they were both small boys. But the pattern of Jason's life was already set. (Music: Persichetti's Divertimento for Brass)
Someone I Used to Know by DAVID MARSHALL with Nigel Stock as Ralph Robert Glenister as Chris and Jennie Stoller as Laura Travelling alone in South
America, Chris meets Ralph, a middle-aged ex-patriate who lives on a remote hacienda. Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Six All
Compiled and presented by H. Colin Davis
3: All Sorts and Conditions of Men
Readers MANNING WILSON , ROSALIND SHANKS and GEOFFREY COLLINS Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
Mabel Greenwood died in Kidwelly in 1919, but she was not to rest in peace - rumours were rife in the small West
Wales town that her death had not been due to natural causes. Nine months after her burial, the body was exhumed.... and found to contain arsenic. Her philandering husband, Harold, was accused but subsequently cleared of her murder - so just how did Mabel die? Roger Worsley investigates. Producer DAVE SIMMONDS BBC Wales
Act of Mercy (3)
Presenters Robert Williams and Carole West continued on VHFjFM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
An Echo of Remembered Laughter
Born in Birmingham on 12 May 1924, the ten years from
1952 saw Tony Hancock rise to become one of the greatest comic talents this country has ever produced. Richard Briers presents an affectionate tribute to his memory - the story of a man who refused to believe that he was one of the greatest of all time.
With contributions from DENNIS
MAIN WILSON. DENIS NORDEN.
GEORGE FAIRWEATHER.
ALAN SIMPSON. HUGH LLOYD.
JOHN FREEMAN. SID JAMES and BILL KERR. With extracts from Hancock's Half Hour. Written and produced by JOHN PICKLES and BILL MORRIS (First Broadcast on BBC Radio WM)
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)
In the second of two programmes, Martin Jarvis reads extracts from the war letters of Oliver Spalding to his wife Violet, and the couple think back today to that time of trial and courage for ordinary people.
The Western
Desert Oliver is posted to Egypt as a corporal in the Intelligence Corps. His letters reflect continuing anxiety about the family at home, his fear about never seeing them again, and his descriptions of the Eighth Army's desert victory. Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thursday 12 noon)
A series of ten programmes on special war correspondents 8: Gallagher with Narrator Leonard Fenton
O. D. Gallagher was born near Johannesburg and after his mother died he set out for England to join the Daily
Express as a junior reporter. His first campaign was to cover the war in Abyssinia, but when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936 Gallagher's dispatches soon became world-famous.
Other parts played by ARNOLD DIAMOND. WILLIAM EEDLE. MARK STRAKER and MAGGIE MCCARTHY Directed by MAURICE LEITCH
The first of a new series in which Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic each week, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT Stereo
A lighthearted look at the life and music of Noel Coward.
Presented by Sheridan Morley 1: The First Noel
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN (First broadcast on World Service)
Presented by Natalie Wheen
Wide Sargasso Sea (3)
Presented by Richard Kershaw in London and Peter Paterson at the Trades Union Congress in Brighton
11.0 Headlines on VHFIFM until 11.0
Enjoying Opera Six programmes presented by MONTY HALTRECHT
3: The Singer Not the Song The strains on the opera singer are enormous. The voice itself can be difficult to live with, 'a jealous wife', says Placido Domingo , and others talk of the artistic, physical and emotional demands of the profession. But the rewards can be just as great.
