Presented by Sue MacGregor and Tudor Lomas
6.30. 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

by DEREK WILSON
In July 1575 Robert Dudley ,
Earl of Leicester, entertained Queen Elizabeth I and her court for 18 days. This was
Dudley's final attempt to woo the Queen. The greatest poets were commissioned to write verses and pageants and the finest musicians got no rest.
No one was in any doubt as to the political undercurrent ot the event, but in the meantime all enjoyed it.
Songs arranged and accompanied by JOHN BULL Technical presentation by ANTHONY CHERRY
Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM
(Revised repeat) Stereo

Million Pound Legs Written and read by Brian Glanville

NEM, p 1; It came upon a midnight clear (BBC HB 52);
Psalm 11; Luke 2, w 36-40; 0 Christ, Redeemer of our race (BBC HB54) Sterto

British Nudism in the 1930s 'These were the League-of-Health-and-Beauty years: we hiked and biked and youth-hostelled and nudism came rolling in over Britain on a wave of muscle-toner, Sloan's liniment, suntan oil and calamine lotion.' Armed with a pair of binoculars and a copy of the Vagrancy Act (1824),
Harry Thompson explores the world of eurythmics, eugenics, gymnosophy and heliotherapy ...
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Saturday 3.30 pm)

Malcolm Coe presents the story of the resin trees of Africa, which for centuries have provided the peoples of the East with perfumes, pomades and incense.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

Presenter Pattie Coldwell

Richard Anthony Baker turns to A for Adephagy, Anthropopnagi and Apologists and assesses their Risibility Factor with Woody Allen, John Bird, Harry Champion, Victoria Wood and others.
(Repeated: Saturday 3.0 pm) (Stereo)

Presenter Gordon Clough

Andrew McAndrew and the Tape Recorder

Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse Never Mind the Snow!
PENNY SEARLEY investigates the growing popularity of dry ski slopes.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham Flush (5)

An 18-part serialisation
Book Four: Bhowani Junction dramatised in five parts by BARRY CAMPBELL with 1: Patrick Taylor
In 1946 India is anxious for self-rule - but if, and when, it comes what will happen to the Anglo-Indians?
With CHARU BALA CHOKSHI,
AU REFAIE, MAMTA KASH,
JIGGY BHORE and GUY HOLDEN
Music composed by MALCOLM CLARKE of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING Stereo

This week sees a new time for the programme and a new occupation for presenter
Clive Jacobs. He swaps places with Captain Colin Cooke-Priest of HMS Boxer, the Royal
Navy's latest frigate. As Clive takes the helm of the bridge, the Captain takes over the hot seat in the Going Places studio. Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Just So Stories
5: The Butterfly that Stamped

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

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

A new classical pipe organ was installed last year in Wetheral Parish Church, which stands on the banks of the River Eden, near Carlisle, in Cumbria. It was built by Richard Bower , a young organ restorer and builder from
Neatishead in Norfolk. This two-manual instrument, his largest so far, took 18 months' work.
Nigel Holmes watched and listened as the organ came to life. The inaugural recital was given by the distinguished young Cumbrian David Hill, Master of the Music at Westminster Cathedral. Producer NIGEL HOLMES
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Cumbria)

(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)

with Margaret Howard Producer JULIAN HALE
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am) Stereo

Love's Labour's Lost
A personal view by Kenneth Branagh , who plays the King of Navarre in the current rsc production at Stratford. Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
(Kenneth Branagh is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Paddy Ashdown , Liberal mp for Yeovil
Rosalind Gilmore, Marketing Director of National Giro
Dr Sheila Cassidy , Medical
Director of St Luke's Hospice, Plymouth and Paul Foot , journalist tackle the issues raised by the audience in Minehead
Chairman John Timpson Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol

Alistair Cooke's weekly talk on American life, history and politics.

by Alistair Cooke

25 Years of Madness What - me worry? (ALFRED E. NEUMAN )
Towards the end of 1959, one of America's most successful humour magazines, Mad, launched a British edition. Its editorial position was clear: if it exists, we can take the mickey out of it. In the last 25 years, they have lampooned everything - but principally the America we know through the cinema and television.
Christopher Frayling looks at the style and substance of the monthly magazine, with the help of the publisher William Gaines , the Editor
Albert B. Feldstein and 'the usual gang of idiots', writers and artists who have contributed to a magazine which has survived with no advertising revenue for 25 years.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

Empire of the Sun (5)

Presenter Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines

with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by IAN BROWN , RICHARD QUICK,
PAUL B. DAVIES , MARTIN BOOTH, PETE SINCLAIR , STUART SILVER, DAVID COHEN , JEREMY HART , PETER mcKEY and others. Producer PAUL SPENCER
(Repeated: Saturday 5.25 pm) Stereo

followed by an interlude