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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILLE
George's Marvellous Medicine Part 3
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo
visits Warwickshire where members of the Kenilworth Horticultural
Society put their questions to Geoffrey Smith , Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Les Cottington BBC Manchester
The Bridegroom of Qasim by RONNIE KNOX-MAWER
Read by Douglas Blackwell
1895: Mr Pugh Jones had taken a job in the Middle East. When he glimpsed the delectable Fatima bathing, he saw a way to save money. The bargaining commenced....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM, p 13; Ye choirs of new
Jerusalem (BBC HB 116); Christ the Lord is risen again
(Anthems For Choirs 4); John 20, w 19-23;
I know that my Redeemer lives (bp 33). Stereo
Jean Snedegar reports on America's hungry millions.
... like Manchester treble bar, Edinburgh pug or Paignton snout? Animals are often named after the place where they were first discovered, although the Bath white butterfly is a very rare visitor and the Arran brown only lives in Scandinavia!
Presented by Denis Owen Producer ANNE blair GOULD BBC Bristol
3: Yoghurt
Presented by Derek Cooper
by COLIN SHAW
5; A Place of Safety
Presented by John Sergeant
by the Conservative Party
3: Wednesday
The second of three programmes (Details on Tuesday at 2.0pm) (Part 3 tomorrow at 2. 0pm) Stereo
3: Visiting Foreign Gentlemen
by Alan Bennett
with Patricia Routledge as Margaret Schofield
Margaret Schofield, middle-aged spinster, may be unwell, but she reminisces cheerfully about her world of office work and canteen gossip. As she says, 'We did laugh'...
(Patricia Routledge is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(Stereo)
A personal selection of poems compiled and presented by Dannie Abse
Readers DAVID BRIERLEY and BRIAN CARROLL
Producer ALEC REID
The Young Campaigners
A fly-on-the-drawing-board account of life at the London advertising agency, 'Wight, Collins, Rutherford, Scott'. Researcher JULIE SIMMONS Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester
A Gun for Sale (8)
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
with Clive Roslin including Financial Report
The last of the present series of the least repetitious and most undeviating programme on radio. With Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud and Peter Jones
Chairman Nicholas Parsons Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
Harold Morton
'The main reason why Harold, a man of modest means, has got on so well in Devon (and he comes from Oldham) is that he did it early and has two passions-sport and gardens.
There are none better to oil the wheels of British social life.' Producer JOY HATWOOD
The fifth 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 the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Sir Roy Strong , about C.V. Wedgwood's
The King's Peace.
Reader GARARD GREEN
Producer DENNIS SIMMONS
Peter Hobday with news, views and stories from the business world. This week: The rise of the envelope in the 'paperless' office; and insurance cover for business.
Producer ROSALIND BEW
Here I am between earth and sky -so help me God. I would sooner lose my life than go home as I am. Bread I want and bread I will have!
A reflection of rural life in Victorian England in three parts by Neil Philip With music by GEORGE AND ISOBEL DEACON
1: The Lads that can Keep Along the Plough
The life of the English farmworker in the 19th century was far from easy. It was ruled by poverty and hard work.
Nevertheless it was a life lived in community with others, a life lived close to the land, a life lived in tradition.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol. Stereo
Let conversation cease, let laughter flee. This is the place where death delights, to help the living.
This translation of a Latin inscription, to be found on the wall of the medical examiner's office in New York, sums up for many pathologists the reasons for doing what to many would be unpleasant and macabre.
In the first of three programmes to look at modem forensic medicine, one of Britain's leading forensic pathologists, Professor Bernard Knight , discusses his approach to a case of sudden, unexpected or suspicious death, both at the location where the body is discovered and during the start of the laboratory examination. Presented by Richard Rees Producers PAUL EVANS and RICHARD REES Stereo
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer RICHARD DUNN
The Magic Toyshop (8)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0pm
When Language Breaks Down A series on language disorders. In the last of four programmes, DAVID CRYSTAL looks at what stammering is, what causes it, and what can be done for people who find the condition a handicap. With LENA rustin and PEGGY DALTON Producer ALAN WILDING
A portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir , one of the great French Impressionist painters of late 19th-century Paris and its surrounding landscape, with its cafes, gardens, dance-halls, and riverside parties.
Dr John House , co-organiser of the Hayward Gallery
Exhibition, tells the story of Renoir's life and reflects on why this creator of a sunny smiling world was so unhappy with his own time.
With CAROLE BOYD , DAVID BRADSHAW
ARNOLD DIAMOND. DAVID GRAHAM
NIGEL GRAHAM. WILLIAM HOPE
NARISSA KNIGHTS . CRAWFORD LOGAN
MARK STRAKER and MELINDA WALKER Producer JUDITH BUMPUS (Amajorexhibitionofpaintingsby Renoir continues at the Hayward Gallery, London, until 21 April)
followed by an interlude
