with BISHOP JOSEPH DEVINE Stereo
Presented by John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON ROSE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Fifty-five minutes of verbal corybantics. Sometimes.
Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH. Stereo
Clay Jones calls on the expertise of Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith to answer listeners' queries sent in by post.
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 ISJ Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
The Sappho Lectures by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty
There was something very special about these lectures.
Why the curtain, for instance?
And who is the hidden lecturer? Producer MITCH RAPER
from Chester led by KATE HUGHES
With THE KING'S SCHOOL CHOIR and THE BLACON HIGH SCHOOL
HANDBELL RINGERS
John 20, w 11-18 (NEB);
Magdalene, thy grief and gladness (A&MR 556); Make a joyful noise to the Lord
(Herbert Chappell ); God's spirit is in my heart, Stereo
Live coverage of HM King Juan Carlos 's speech at Westminster - the first time in parliamentary history that a visiting monarch has been invited to address the joint assembly of Members of both the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
Commentator John Hosken is joined by the BBC Madrid
Correspondent, Jeremy Harris , who assesses the political implications of the King's speech in this year of Spain's entry into the EEC.
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS
Also on VHFIFMfrom 12 noon
Johnny Morris recalls some of the places he has visited and the people he has met in a quarter of a century of jaunting.
This week: South America BBC Bristol
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner JOHNNY MORRIS reads The Loose Tooth by TONY JOHNSTON
2.0 Teenage Plays
3: Stand Up and Be Counted by TONY COULT Stereo
2.30 Patterns of Language 5: Changing Language Compiled by TONY PENMAN and at 2.45
6: Family Features Compiled by NEIL DRURY
Presented by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Mitsuko Uchida , the celebrated Japanese pianist
Serial: The Man of Property(13)
The Storytellers
The fifth of seven dramatised short stories The Trumpet by WALTER DE LA MARE adapted by ALAN ENGLAND
Philip, the rector's son, and his friend Dick have always been great rivals. They arrange to meet in the church, late one night, for a dare. It is a childhood prank which ends in disaster, and one which will haunt Philip for the rest of his life.
Directed by GREGOR GRAHAM BBC Scotland Stereo
Written and read by John Carroll BBC Bristol
(Revised broadcast of yesterday programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Susannah Simons and Jon Silverman with news and topics in and behind the headlines continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55pm
With HARRIET CASS
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Robert Cushman recalls his years as drama critic of The Observer Stereo
(Details tomorrow at 12.27pm)
Peter Smith reports on the usual and unusual, the successful and the not-so-successful, in all areas of business activity today. Producer MARGARET BUDY
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am)
A series of six programmes 5: Guarding the Beaches
When war came to the South Pacific in 1941, the British administrators, missionaries and traders were faced with sudden and acute dangers. They remember those days of tragedy, and farce, in the company of June Knox-Mawer. Producer JULIAN HALE Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at II.Oam)
Book, same title, £3.50, available from booksellers
A new production for
St George 's Day of a patriotic pageant by NOËL COWARD starring and with and The story of England, and two families, from New Year's Eve 1899 to the dawn of 1930. Musical director GEOFFREY BRAWN Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo Dinah Sheridan
(is in 'The Apple Cart' at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London)
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Presented by Christopher Cook Plus Starting Off
3: The Screenwriter
Producer RICHARD DUNN
(Extended re-broadcast tomorrow at4.35pm)
Mr Wakefield's Crusade (3)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Gujarati Language Magazine Presented by SHASHI SINGH (R)
