direct from the Royal
Smithfield Show, London Presented by Joe Hull
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by clive roslin
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Kate Moon
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives. Producer DAVID HEYCOCK
(Repeated: Thursday 9.30 pm)
A lively matching of wit and wisdom.
Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting Address: Money Box, Room 4058, Broadcasting House, London [Postcode removed]
Advent Calendar: Adam's Fall New Every Morning, page 46; Come, thou long-expected
Jesus (BBC HB 30); Adam lay y-bounden (Carols for Choirs 2); Genesis 3, w 1-15; What Adam's disobedience cost (BP 97) Stereo
Presented by Charles Tomlinson Readers jill BALCON and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Pattie Coldwell presents and lends a sympathetic ear to your phone comments and queries on [number removed]. Editor KEN VASS
A Tale of Two City Gents by Wally K. Daly.
Also featuring this week Madeline Smith, Stephen Greif , Elizabeth Proud and Frances Jeater
Theme music by Jim Parker
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
(Stereo)
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner
Adelaide's Naughty Granny 1: Auntie Vinegar's Birthday by HILARY SHARPE
Read by Molly Weir
Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.0 Education Now Phone-in [number removed]: The 16 + Exam - What is It?
Libby Purves talks to Peter Dines of the Secondary Education Council.
HELPLINES: page 93
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems: Julius Caesar: 1
Adapted by FLEUR ALCOCK
With EDWARD DE SOUZA, DENYS HAWTHORNE, DAVID BRIERLEY and NIGEL ANTHONY
Producer STUART EVANS
Introduced by Liz Mardall Who Rules in Schools -
Teachers, Parents, Pupils or Politicians? How can you as a parent influence decisions that affect your child's education? How can teachers co-operate with hostile or unsupportive parents? SARA PARKER talks to PROFESSOR TED WRAGG and to some parents about problems of discipline, the curriculum and communication.
A Room with a View (9) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
The Yang Chi Jade by FREEMAN WILLS CROFT
Stereo
The BBCtv production of Pericles will be shown on Saturday evening on BBC2. Amanda Redman , who plays Marina the long-lost daughter of Pericles, gives a personal view of the play. 'Whatever is missing from the poetry, the story is still intact - and it's a racy yarn, full of vigour and intense emotion!'
Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS
Laugh with Lardner
Five short stories by the American humorist
RING LARDNER
1: Zone of Quiet
Read by Libby Morris If you come to after an operation to find Nurse Lyons plumping up your pillows, you'd be well advised to hop straight out of bed and discharge yourself -fast. Producer JOHN CARDY
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans Producer DEBORAH COHEN
How much does an actor's performance in any play depend on the director, the rest of the cast, the theatre, the audience? Ian McKellen , who opens this week as Coriolanus at the National
Theatre, has been described as the 'finest classical actor of his generation', but he also has a reputation for his outspoken views on the state of his profession and for his passionate belief in the need to involve actors in the running of theatres.
Ian McKellen , newly appointed an Associate
Director of the National, talks to Sonia Beesley
Producer CLARE SELERIE-GREY
One Man Killed by RACHEL WYATT
Vera is proud of her Harry; Harry is a hero. In a flash-flood in their Yorkshire village he gallantly saved the life of a local widow. Vera's friends don't think it was quite as straightforward as that and are determined she should face 'the truth'.
Directed by PENNY GOLD
Stereo
Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN BOUNDY Editor ROSEMARY HART
Mr Facey Romford's Hounds by R. S. SURTEES abridged in 15 parts by ARCHIE CAMPBELL Read by JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS 6: Beldon Hall
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF/FM until 11.0
Living Through Change With MARGARET KORVING This week: SISTER FRANCES, of the Loreto Order.
followed by an interlude
