Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45 Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
This week's Birthday Guest Peter Alliss talks to Harry Carpenter.
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo
visits Nottinghamshire, where members of the Keyworth and District Gardening Association put their questions to
Geoffrey Smith , Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Les Cottington BBC Manchester
Mrs Wentworth by USA TAYLOR Read by Shirley Dixon
Avril Wentworth has a busy day ahead of her - a new flat to inspect and a boyfriend to meet for lunch. Or so, at least, she plans....
NEM, p 118; 0 thou from whom all goodness flows (EH 85);
Psalm 1; Mark 2, vv 1-12; Son of the Lord Most High (Bp 76) Stereo
Fritz Spiegl 's final ramble through the minefield of musicians'jargon and shop-talk. Dominoes, Fiascos and Farewells Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Presented by John Howard
by E. PHILUPS OPPENHEIM 4: The Messenger
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
by the Labour Party
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: The Train by DAVID MCPHAIL
2.5 Something to Think About The Merry King
2.15 Quest: Worm's-eye View Story by JOHN SNELLING
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Hidden Shapes by GWEN DUNN
2.45 Nature: Frogs and Tadpoles by MICHAEL SCOTT
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Terry Waite , the Archbishop of Canterbury's Secretary for Anglican Communion Affairs. The Summer of the Barshinskeys (7)
The Storytellers
A series of short stories
2: How an Umbrella Changed Everything by SHIRLEY COOKLIN based on an idea by GUY DE MAUPASSANT
A Paris suburb in about 1938: the home of Charles and Clothilde Oreille. This childless couple live a life of extreme frugality, not through lack of funds, but because Clothilde is obsessionally mean. When
Charles needs something as simple as a new umbrella, their whole life goes berserk.
Accordionist GORDON LANGFORD Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo
Six programmes of poetry in English translation
Presented by Charles Tomlinson 2: Horace's Fair Lady
Readers NORMAN RODWAY and HUGH DICKSON
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Old Glory (8)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Without hesitation, the least repetitious and most undeviating programme on radio. With Kenneth Williams , Clement Freud , Derek Nimmo and Sheila Hancock
Chairman Nicholas Parsons Devised by LAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
Stereo
The last of the series in which case histories from listeners form the basis for investigation into allegations. Presented by Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
We scored a goal and, when they were coming back to the middle of the field, this Patriotic Front soldier threw a Russian grenade on to the soccer pitch ... In the second of two documentaries introduced and compiled by Derek Robinson , members of the forces monitoring the cease-fire in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) tell the story of the tense months leading up to elections, when both small incidents and serious breaches threatened a return to war.
Producer CATHY WEARING
The Second Spanish Armada This time it will be merchant ships and lorries loading up for the day when Spain joins the European Community: foreign investment has been pouring into Spanish farms and industries, ready to invade when the tariff barriers come down. Mary Goldring has toured the new Spain and pinpoints where we are most vulnerable to attack by the new armada. Producer DAVID POWELL
David Moreau recollects his largely unsuccessful attempts to come to grips with life.
5: Baldness Be My Friend
The 'Kalevala'
The cold told a tale to me
The rain dictated poems.
Another tale the winds brought
The seas below drove.
The birds added words
The treetops speeches.
(from Keith Bosley 's new translation of the KALEVALA)
First published 150 years ago, the Kalevala is the national epic of Finland. On the eve of both Kalevala Day and Finland's National Day of Independence, Natalie Wheen considers this collection of folk tales and poetry as a source of inspiration in Finnish culture -most notably, perhaps, in the music of Sibelius and the paintings of Akseli Gallen-Kallela .
Producer JOHN POWELL. Stereo
Frost in April by MALACHI WHITAKER
The first of two short stories set in her native Yorkshire. Read by Stephanie Turner Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester
Presented by Charles Wheeler
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Get By in Greek
3: Booking a Hotel Room
followed by an interlude
12.30 Technology: Study Skills 5: Design and Do-It- Yourself and at 12.45 What Next?
1.0 New Developments in Technology Education
3: The New City and Guilds Information Technology Scheme
