Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,803 playable programmes from the BBC

Presented by John Humphrys and Jenni Murray
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25* Sport with CUFF MORGAN
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective with ROSEMARY HARTILL , the BBC'S
Religious Affairs Correspondent
8.25 The Weeklies With DAVID WALKER
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Jenni Murray
Read By:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
Rosemary Hartill
Unknown:
David Walker
Editor:
Jenny Abramsky

Presented by Cliff Morgan
Fireman Terry Marsh is on red alert: he's preparing for his IBF World Light Welterweight title fight on Wednesday against America's Joe Manley in Basildon, Essex, his home town. Plus a look forward to the rest of the weekend's sporting action. Producer EMILY MCMAHON

Contributors

Presented By:
Cliff Morgan
Unknown:
Terry Marsh
Unknown:
Joe Manley
Producer:
Emily McMahon

Bernard Falk reports on holidays and travel with Susan Marling and Nigel Coombs.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
For details of items in the programme please send sae to:
[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs.
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson

unravelled, dangled or tied up by Ned Sherrin and the likes of Craig Charles , Carol Thatcher , Stephen Fry and Robert Elms. Plus the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward.
Additional material by WOLFGANG PLOCKER
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Unknown:
Carol Thatcher
Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Robert Elms.
Unknown:
Wolfgang Plocker
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Unknown:
Cathie Mahoney

A series of 13 programmes 7:The 50s
After Ealing, British cinema underwent a confused and hesitant period. But there was a range of honourable achievements.
Dilys Powell remembers such films as Olivier's Richard III ,
Greene's The Heart of the Matter and the celebrated animated Animal Farm with Dirk Bogarde , Michael Caine and Malcolm McDowell.
Researcher KAREN WALKER
Producer DAVID PEET. BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Richard Iii
Unknown:
Dirk Bogarde
Unknown:
Michael Caine
Unknown:
Malcolm McDowell.
Unknown:
Karen Walker
Producer:
David Peet.

Prisoners by PAUL M. LEVITT
'Is the real Mrs Fry the Quaker lady dressed in grey who likes the simple things in life, or the lady who goes to parties given by the rich and famous? Is she the lady who tells the women here in Newgate she wants her children home with her or the lady some say has packed her children off?'
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul M. Levitt
Unknown:
Mrs Fry
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
as Elizabeth Fry:
Maureen O'Brien
Joseph:
Clive Francis
Katherine:
Avril Clark
Rachel:
Frances Jeater
as Governor Newman:
Jeffry Wickham

Cuckoo by EMLYN WILLIAMS
In 1935, in a slightly shabby bungalow on the banks of the Thames, the Welsh emigre family's life revolves around Cuckoo. Everyone indulges her 8-year-old mind; but the problem is that it's engulfed in the body of a middle-aged woman.
Adapted and directed by ENYD WILLIAMS
Stereo (Re-broadcast Mondayat 3. Opm)
0 HEAR THIS! page 25

Contributors

Unknown:
Emlyn Williams
Cuckoo:
Judy Cornwell
Madam:
Margaret Courtenay
Lydia:
Petra Markham
Uncle Powell:
Lewis Jones
Jerome:
Robert Daws
Benjy:
Frank Coda
Mrs Dix:
Joan Matheson

On the Land
As a tribute to Ted Moult , who died last year, colleague Marjorie Lofthouse has collected together a series of interviews he had recorded with veteran agricultural workers, which reflects his unique contribution to broadcasting. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Moult
Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse

by Ted Walker and Colin Rose
Six anarchic tales from those demob days when we was going to build the new Jerusalem - you know, before the world turned lax and sour.

Contributors

Writer:
Ted Walker
Writer:
Colin Rose
Producer:
Martin Fisher
Big Jim:
Norman Rossington
Harold Perkins:
Roland Curram
The Storyteller:
Bernard Cribbins
Old Ned:
Harold Goodwin
Turps:
Sylvester McCoy
Nimrod:
David John
Chick:
David Beckett
Harry:
Steven Harrold
Miss James:
Carol Hawkins
Plonker:
Stephen Garlick
Typist:
Karen Ascoe

presents Bed and Breakfast that Time Forgot
Descend to the bowels of the BBC whence Cliffhanger relates this week's legend of terror and time travel. A choice of boiled, scrambled or fried eggs, toast and marmalade, and tea or coffee with your mystery story. Written and performed by Robin Driscoll
Peter McCarthy , Tony Haase and Rebecca Stevens Producer NICK SYMONS BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Driscoll
Unknown:
Peter McCarthy
Unknown:
Tony Haase
Unknown:
Rebecca Stevens
Producer:
Nick Symons

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More