With THE RT REV DAVID KONSTANT Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead with Peter Hobday
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00.8.00 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
8.50* Letters
Write to: Today Letters BBC, London W1A 1AA
In the first of six programmes Anthony Burgess , one of the greatest and most prolific living novelists, talks to
Dr Anthony Clare about the major influences which have shaped his often stormy private and artistic life. Researcher RONNI davis Producer MICHAEL EMBER
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
by LEO ROSTEN abridged in six parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Kerry Shale (1) New York in the 1930s: in the beginners' grade of the American Night Preparatory School for Adults, where a colourful bunch of immigrants wrestle with the rudiments of English, Hyman Kaplan is
Mr Parkhill's keenest and most baffling student.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBCBristol
This week the team visits
Cumbria, where members of the Amside Women's Institute put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Six Men with Fire by SIMON CLARK
Read by Paul Copley Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM, p 46; Bright the vision (BBC HB 269); Psalm 103;
Luke 10, vv 25-37; Fill thou my life (BBC HB 271) Stereo
Mollie Harris makes her seasonal inquiry into what's happening in the British countryside. There's a trip to the Scottish isle of Iona, which has the most westerly rookery in Britain, and a look at the Woodland Trust's attempt to preserve and replace the diminishing population of trees. Also Lynn ten Kate goes cycling, walking and riding in an effort to take part in a survey of the country's footpaths and bridleways.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
The last in the present series in which Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions. Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Presented by John Buckley
An unlikely adventure in five episodes by ERIC PRINGLE 3:
The two ladies from Shropshire have now joined the pursuit for our heroic villains.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
Presented by Nick Worrall
3: Fun at the Fair (R)
How do you deal with a despondent dog, a panicky parrot or a traumatised tarantula? The programme that delves into the details of everyday/life discovers how people cater for their pets when they go on holiday.
Serial: The Oaken Heart by MARGERY ALUNGHAM abridged in seven episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Joan Hickson (7) (Music: Hoist's A Somerset Rhapsody)
Presenter Dilly Barlow
by Paul Thain
When Derek agrees that his son can keep his new toy gun he thinks little of the consequences. But his wife, Susan, is adamant - she won't have guns in the house.
So the battle lines are drawn and a major confrontation is inevitable. Directed by Peter Windows
The last of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks to George Mackay Brown about his life and poetry. Reader JAMES BRYCE
Producer ALEC REID. BBCBristol
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Helen Boaden Producer STEPHEN SACKUR Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
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Culture, Anarchy, Sweetness and Light
Dove Cottage, home of William Wordsworth , is celebrating the life of another poet with roots in the Lake District -
Matthew Arnold. A major exhibition of his life and work as a poet opens at Dove Cottage this month. Paul Allen visits the house to find out more.
Producer KATE WHITEHEAD
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
5.00, 5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5. 50-5. 55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
What was sinister about CREEP, and what do the letters TARDIS actually stand for? This week's guests ponder acronyms and plunder quotes in the last of the present series. With Beryl Bainbridge, Sir David Hunt, Mavis Nicholson and John Julius Norwich
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees.
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer LISSA EVANS.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
1: A Jarful of Science
(Details on Friday at 1 32am)
(Details tomorrow at 9. 05am)
A radio portrait, in conversation, recollection and anecdote
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Christopher Bigsby presents tonight's arts magazine, which includes the week's new films and the group of young
American artists called KOS. Producer JULIAN MAY
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow 4. 35pm)
The Bible in Spain (8)
with Alexander MacLeod
FM joins at 12.10
