With DONALD HILTON
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
with another selection of conversational curiosities.
This week's Birthday Guest: jazz supremo, Ronnie Scott. Producer PIPPA BURSTON. Stereo
visits Suffolk, where members of the Risby Garden Club put their questions to
Geoffrey Smith , Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buezacki
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
by W SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Read by Elizabeth Proud
Stereo
The last of the series in which Derek Robinson challenges some beliefs we take for granted. This week:
High Noon for John Brown Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Presented by John Howard
by G.K. Chesterton
Seven stories dramatised by John Scotney
An eye for an eye and a tooth to satisfy Israel Gow. Father Brown surveys the remnants of a battered corpse and talks of money.
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Desmond and the Fancy-dress Party by ALTHEA
2.5 Something to Think About The Caretaker's Story by COLIN DAVIS
2.15 Quest: Bible Traveller 1: Moses
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Cry Wolf by GARETH OWEN
2.45 Nature Bones by JEAN KENWARD Producer PETER WARD
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: the Prime
Minister, The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher , mp
The Soft Talkers (7)
Responses by ELIZABETH MORGAN
'Haven't brought you flowers lately, have I? In the first few weeks this room was like Kew Gardens. I had some romantic notion you would wake up to colour, beauty and scent.'
That's what Mike says to his wife, Ann, as she lies in a hospital bed, apparently deep in coma and as good as dead. He doesn't know that in fact she can hear what he says, and what he says can destroy her.
Directed by GERRY JONES Stereo
Seven programmes in which
Norman MacCaig presents his personal choice of poetry. 3: Death
Readers DIANA OLSSON and LAN AGNEW
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Stereo
Austria's Singing Ambassadors In the last of three programmes about choral life, Ian Bradley visits Vienna to explore the everyday life and musical style of the Vienna
Boys' Choir, formed nearly 500 years ago and now world-famous for its tours and records. Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester
Master of the Moor (8)
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
A second chance to hear Steve Brown , Helen Lederer ,
Clive Mantle and Nick Wilton make the sort of mistakes that could only happen on a live comedy show.
Music by STEVE BROWN
Written by ARNOLD BROWN. PAUL B. DAVIES , JOHN DOCHERTY. JAMES HENDRIE. MORAY HUNTER.
HELEN MURRY. VICKI PILE. ROGER PLANER. NICK WILTON and JAMIE RIX Producer JAMIE RIX
(Clive Mantk is in 'Of Mice and Men' at the Mermaid Theatre, London) Stereo
(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)
Rabbi Danny Smith and his family light the candles in preparation for Shabbat.
Join them as they celebrate, with family prayer, song and conversation, this special evening -traditionally, a 'taste of heaven'.
Producer ELAINE BEDELL BBC Birmingham
Hugh Sykes examines the lives of some 20th-century people who rebelled against society's conventions, and considers the price they had to pay for their acts of rebellion.
2: Singer Janis Joplin Her life epitomises the rebellion of her generation in the 1960s. She died in 1970 at the age of 27 from a drug overdose. The programme includes interviews with members of her bands and her friends, as well as recordings of Janis herself.
Research MIKE WOOLF
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
3: Simpsons of Piccadilly The Simpsons have been catering for the outfitting needs of the smart man-about-town for nearly 100 years. Today, the family line is continued by Georgina Simpson , who has widened the company's scope to include the top end of the woman's market.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
The roots of genetic disorders Presented by Colin Tudge (Details: Thursday 11.0 am)
A four-part series in which the veteran broadcaster reflects on a process that's still going on after 80 years.
3: Reading Books
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Presented by Paul Allen Producer CARROLL MOORE
Empire of the Sun (13)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
A vous la France!
12: Tout sur vous (1) Two people describe a weekend spent at the seaside, SARA TOMEI looks into the almost-free bicycle scheme in La Rochelle, and YVES AUBERT and PHYLLIS ROOME explain how to tell people what you've been doing. With JULIETTE MOLE
Students' book, £5.25; three LP records, £4.75 each, or two cassettes. £3.74 each
followed by an interlude
Secondary English (14-16):
12.30 Being a Teenager 1: RU18? by DAVID WILLIAMS at 12.40 2: All in the Dark by KAY MCMANUS at 12.50 3: Green Fingers by WILLIAM GILBERT and at 1.0 4: Trespassers by MIKE VAUGHAN EDWARDS
