Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7-0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25* 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 3
Dr Anthony Clare talks to
Michael Korda - best-selling author, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, the largest US publishing company, and nephew of Sir Alexander Korda. Researcher JENNY RIVAROLA Producer MICHAEL EMBER (R)
In the first of six programmes
Phil Smith explores the remoter reaches of the North Yorkshire Pennines to look at life from the viewpoint of people who live and work there. 1: Millstone Grit Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)
Five documentary reports by Bernard Jackson
2: Treasures and Treasury
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN (R)
News of the Engagement by ARNOLD BENNETT
Read by William Eedle
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
NEM, p 84; Christ is our corner-stone (BBC HB 258); Psalm 85, vv 1-7; Luke 19, w 37-45; City of God, how broad and far (BBC HB 173) Stereo
By 1962 the tramcar had all but disappeared from British streets. For many it had been a noisy cumbersome and old-fashioned mode of transport For the few it was not only the vehicle of the future, but a thing of love and beauty.
Martin Jenkins meets fellow enthusiasts, their wives, tram drivers and transport officials. With the sounds of tramcars here and abroad.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS (R) Stereo
Keith Allan surveys the view from the Longstone lighthouse on the Farne Islands - once home of Grace Darling - and hears about the job of a lighthouse keeper today from Malcolm Macpherson.
BBC Manchester
Presented by Pattie Coldwell
by JOSEPH CONRAD dramatised for radio in six episodes by KEITH DARVILL
Episode 2
Aboard the sinking SS Patna
Jim stands immobile, gazing at the rust-eaten sides of the ship that are only just holding back the ocean. He looks at the sleeping bodies. Eight hundred people, only seven boats. It seems there is nothing he can do.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
Presented by Gordon Clough
The Travelling Trimble Town Band (R)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: the novelist, Jane Gardam , whose book, Bilgewater is the new serial starting tomorrow.
Serial: Murder, MrMosley by JOHN GREENWOOD abridged in eight parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by STEPHEN THORNE (8) (Music: Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto)
No, Really, I've Given Up A comedy by SUE
RODWELL Peter is determined to give up smoking, and his wife Viv is convinced he is doing the right thing. But once he leaves the sanctuary of his home, he finds himself assailed by a bevy of beguiling tormentors.
Directed by MARGARET WINDHAM (R) Stereo
Greek Myths
A series of six programmes compiled and presented by Alexis Lykiard
5: A Vision of Beauty - Helen Readers BERNARD BROWN
GWEN CHERRELL and ROBIN SUMMERS Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
Edward Downes raises the curtain on some unexpected aspects of his work in opera. 3: Prompting . BBC Manchester (R)
Derek Parker talks to biographer Michael Holroyd about Lytton Strachey 's Eminent Victorians. Reader GARARD GREEN
Producer DENNIS SIMMONS (R)
Laugh with Leacock
3: An Arcadian Adventure with the Idle Rich
Presenters Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report
A musical panel game in which John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Programme devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Producer PETE ATKIN ' (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm) Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Wine for the Barbarians Malcolm Billings and Barry Cunliffe trace the route of the Roman wine trade from the villa estates of Tuscany to an Iron Age settlement on the Dorset coast. 2: Provence
Reader HUGH DICKSON Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol (Rev R)
Bob Couttie continues his explorations into the paranormal.
5: The Scientific Approach Producer ALEC REID BBCBristol
9: Electric Folk
The origins of electric folk go back to the mid-50s when singers were looking for fresh ways to accompany traditional songs. This area of the folk revival has taken the music both into the pop charts and the National Theatre. with Shirley Collins , Karl Dallas and Ashley Hutchings Written and presented by Jim Lloyd Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Calves kept in confined spaces lick themselves a lot more often than they need to for grooming. Pigs that are tethered in pens bite the bars repeatedly. This exaggerated behaviour causes many people concern, but are the animals really distressed? Colin Tudge examines how scientists are discovering what animals feel about the conditions they are subjected to on farms and in zoos.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN (R)
Michael Copley , Dag Ingram and their guests The Glenn Müller Recorder Quintet
Additional material JOHN LANGDON Additional production DANNY GREENSTONE
The Pig has Two Tales
The three requisites for a happy life, so an Aberystwyth landlady once said, are 'Day trippers, students and a pig for the bad times'. A short account of the part the pig has played in Welsh history with Gareth Lewis Christine Pritchard
Dyfan Roberts and Wyn Williams.
Written and directed by ANGELA WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Lady Addle Remembers edited by MARY DUNN abridged in eight parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by MARGOT BOYD (8) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol(R)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines
followed by an interlude