Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With ROGER PARRY
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILLE
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
takes the air for 55 minutes of lively and unpredictable conversation with people from all walks of life.
Producer victor LEWIS SMITH Stereo
A Story of Don Juan by V S. PR1TCHETT
Read by Martin Jarvis
Don Juan 's host, a grieving widower, hoped to get his own back on behalf of all the wronged husbands of Seville. But could the Great Seducer be so easily thwarted?
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
nem, p 58; Be thou my guardian and my guide (BBC HB 135); My spirit longs for thee (Dowland); Mark 14, vv 1-9; 0 Jesus Christ, from thee began (EH 69) Stereo
'that which we call a Rose by any other name would smell as sweet'-because the Christian name is derived from the flower name, as are Poppy, Pansy, Marigold and Heather. But what of Prinia and Daphila?
Presented by Denis (of the wine god) Owen
Producer ANNE (of grace) BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
John Howard reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.
by coun SHAW 3: Ambush
Stereo
Presented by John Harrison
by the Conservative Party
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Waldo's Magic Garden by BARRY REEVES
2.5 Something to Think About Come Alive!
2.15 Quest The Unicom by EDWARD KELSEY
2.35 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Spider Woman
2.45 Nature Nature Quiz by PETER WARD
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Joan Rivers , the outrageous American comedienne. The Private World of Georgette Heyer (6)
by ALLEN SADDLER with Ian Thompson as Ian and Howard Goomey as Jack Ian is a newcomer to employment in local government, but with Jack's help he soon learns the ropes. As Jack says: 'If you can promote a scheme that looks as though it will save money, there's no end to the amount of money that can be spent to test it out.'
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Howard Goomey is a member of the National Theatre Company) Stereo
The last of six programmes of poetry in English translation Presented by Charles Tomlinson The Modems
Readers NORMAN RODWAY and HUGH DICKSON
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Stereo
Jennings in Particular (7)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Without hesitation, the least repetitious and most undeviating programme on radio.
With Kenneth Williams ,
Peter Jones , Derek Nimmo and William Franklyn
Chairman Nicholas Parsons Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
Stereo
A series of four programme. Happy Hands
The story of a gallant group of 24 women from South Wales who against the odds and with no subsidy have made themselves into a profitable and happy workers' co-operative in the rag trade. Producer JOY HATWOOD
.FEATURE: page 9
The third of six programmes in which Derek Parker asks a well-known personality to choose and discuss a book, written this century, which they consider to be of personal and general significance. This week he talks to biographer Michael Holroyd about Lytton Strachey 's Eminent Victorians. Reader GARARD GREEN
Producer DENNIS SIMMONS
by ALISON PLOWDEN
Following the defeat of Napoleon, the French army left Paris on 6 July 1815 and the capital was invested by the Anglo-Prussian forces the same day. For five months, until the treaties between the Allied
Powers and France were signed, occupying troops filled the city. The French intermingled with them, unconcerned except for wondering how such small men could have beaten the French Imperial Guard at Waterloo! With GLADYS SPENCER.
NARISSA KNIGHTS.
CATHERINE WILLMER. PETER ACRE. HENRY DA VIES,
JOHN FORBES ROBERTSON.
DAVID GOUDGE. WILLIAM HOPE.
JOHN PULLEN and ROBIN SUMMERS Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo
The Wage Virus
The old wage virus is breaking out in Britain again. Pay rises are running well ahead of other countries. Is this going to undo the ground we made up during the recession?
Mary Goldring looks at who's getting the big rises and why. Producer DAVID LEVY
The increase in the number of home civil servants posted overseas and the diffusion of responsibility for foreign policy across Whitehall are steadily eroding the image of diplomacy as an elite and separate profession.
In the last of three talks,
Simon Jenkins looks at the cause for greater integration of the home and overseas civil services, which he argues could strengthen rather than weaken the Foreign Office as an institution of government.
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN POWELL
The Rich Mrs Robinson (8)
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
When Language Breaks Down
In the second of four programmes David Crystal looks at what happens when language fails to develop normally in children.
followed by an interlude
Software Review (Primary) * HELPLINES: page 77
