With THE RT REV GORDON BATES Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0.8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
One of my enduringly disagreeable memories of teaching literature is having to begin the first year seminar with a consideration of Wyatt and always, with degenerating optimism, offering the following poem as a reason for liking him....
The playwright Simon Gray presents, before an audience at the Holburne of Menstne Museum of Art, Bath, a selection of his favourite poetry and prose.
Readers ALAN BATES and ROSEMARY MARTIN Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo
A year in the life of an English village
In the second of 12 monthly talks Wilfred De'Ath reports on April in Corby Glen,
Lincolnshire. BBC Manchester
BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.0pm L W)
Christmas Roses by EDNA O'BRIEN
Read by Mary Wimbush Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 9; Praise my soul, the King of heaven (BBC HB 15);
Psalm 89; Colossians 1, vv 13-20; Praise, 0 praise our God and king (BBC HB 441). Stereo
Recognising the need for firm leadership, I quickly proposed and seconded myself as captain, mainly on the grounds that I had the right sort of cap. Before an order could cross my lips,
Arabella, our radical lawyer, had mutinied.
Barry Pilton 's chronicle of the natural hazards and human follies that can afflict barge life up a Burgundy canal. Read by David Roper
Producer SAM COLLYNS (R)
Derek Cooper tackles the farmer, the manufacturer, the politician, the scientist, the caterer and the customer in his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
An everyday story of towering genius written by SUE LIMB
A further six episodes of the soap opera, set in and around the Lake District at the turn of the 18th century.
21 July 1799: Dorothy is worried about William's impending marriage. Iris bangs bolsters. Samuel Tailor Cholericke falls from grace.
And Thomas de Quinine arrives....
Music by STEPHEN OLIVER Performed by CANTABILE
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo
(Broadcaston Saturday at 11.0pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake with news and topics
1.55 Listening Corner Let's Play it Again Presented by JANE HARDY and ROY CASTLE. Stereo
2.5 Let's Join In Molly Mullett by PATRICIA COOMBS (R) (e)
2.25 Popalong with ROY CASTLE 4: Swivels (e)
2.40 In the Picture With MURIEL GRAY 4: Mosaics (RV) by ARTHUR SCHOLEY. Stereo (e)
Introduced from Birmingham by Marjorie Lofthouse
As chemical-free farming gains popularity, Penny Searly visits the National Centre for Organic Gardening to find out how applicable these principles are to your own back gardens. Producer LUCY LUNT BBC Pebble Mill
Story: More Malgudi Days by R.K. NARAYAN
Three stories abridged by JANET HICKSON
Read by Sam Dastor
1 Trail of the Green Blazer The Green Blazer stood out prominently under the blue sky. It seemed to cry out an invitation which Raju, a professional pickpocket, could not ignore.
(Music: Mayer's Sri Krishna)
A biblical adventure story by LLOYD c DOUGLAS , adapted in six episodes by DAVID BUCK
6: The Way to Rome in which Marcellus Gallio marries his childhood sweetheart and challenges the authority of Emperor Caligula.
Narrator EDWARD DE SOUZA
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo
(Starting
'Ann Veronica ' by H. G. Wells )
Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer. Producer IRENE MALLIS
(Re-broadcast Spring Bank Holiday) Written by ROB GITTINS Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes.
Producer BRIDGET CARTER Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Edwina Currie , mp,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security
Phil Smith, mp
Robert Worcester , Chairman of Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) Peter Snape.MP
From North Wheatley, Nottinghamshire
Chairman John Timpson ProducerCAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)
Giyn Worsnip casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
Alistair Cooke's weekly talk on American life, history and politics.
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Fields of Praise
Next week 50,000 young people from all parts of Wales will descend on Merthyr Tydfil, as it plays host to that peculiarly Welsh institution, the annual Urdd Eisteddfod.
For a population of only 2.8 million, Wales produces a disproportionate number of well-known musicians and artists; Nigel Jenkins , poet and Welshman, looks at the Urdd, its Eisteddfod and history, and talks to competitors past and present.
Producer SIAN LLOYD. BBC Wales
(Re-broadcaston Spring Bank Holiday)
A Cure for Serpents * by the DUKE OF PIRAJNO abridged in ten parts by JANE MAYS
Read by Julian Glover (10) Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by Richard Kershaw
A satirical review of the past week's news and events with Bill Wallis, David Tate
Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by PAUL B. DAVIES, STUART SILVER. RICHARD QUICK, STEVE PUNT, MIKE COLEMAN, ALISON RENSHAW, PETER HICKEY, PETER SINCLAIR. KEVIN MANDRY, GED PARSONS. MAX HANDLEY, BILL MATTHEWS and others
Producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25 pm L W)
followed by an interlude
Secondary Science
12.30 Ions and Ionisation (RV) Presented by KIM CLIFFORD (R) (e) and at 12.50 Lenses and Optical Instruments (rv) Presented by EDWARD KELSEY (R) (e)
