with The Rev John Davies
Presenters
Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo
(Details as Sunday 2.00pm)
The Cello Lesson by JANE BEESON , read by Patricia Gallimore
Producer NIGEL BRYANT BBC Pebble Mill
NEM, p 106; Immortal, invisible (BBC HB 10); John 7, v 53 1-18, v 11;
Psalm 31, w 1-8; Be thou my guardian (BBC HB 135) Stereo
Robert Booth offers three wishes to Pam Ayres. Producer VIV BLACK
with Chris Hawksworth
A serial in six parts by Peter Tinniswood
With Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Liz Goulding as Rosie, Christian Rodska as William and Bill Wallis as Winston
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
See Peter Tinniswood, left
Writer Peter Tinniswood explains his delight at the return of an old friend.
Winston is back - my old friend the village poacher, with his fat, brown boozer's belly and his 'bits of fluff on the side'.
Winston Hayballs first appeared in my radio play The Village Fete. We were lucky enough to win the Giles Cooper award and the Sony Best Script award in 1987 for that production, and I was thrilled to be asked to write more about the adventures of Winston and the Empsons.
As ever, the setting is the village of Winterleaf Gunner, somewhere in the West Country of England. Winston has now been booted out of his house by his wife, 'the ugly old party with the incipient ankles', and has taken refuge in the Empsons' home at the old Dower House.
Quite naturally there is instant chaos.
Winston, the weaver of spells, the country philosopher, cajoles, entrances and infuriates the Empsons as, swiftly and decisively, he turns their lives upside down.
I adore writing about this family. They'll be appearing again in my latest novel, Hayballs, along with Winston and others. But above all it gives me the chance of working once more with the magnificent cast of The Village Fete: Bill Wallis as Winston, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Maurice Denham as father, Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska. Like producer Shaun MacLoughlin, they are absolutely brilliant.
If you don't like Winston, it won't be their fault.
As Winston would say: 'We hopes you like it, look. But if you doesn't, then who you got to blame, look, is that emaciated, bearded blokie with the big ears, Peter Tinniswood. That you has, my dears, without a doubt.'
Winston, Wednesday 12.25pm
'Hayballs' will be published by Century Hutchinson on 1 June. Peter Tinniswood's 'Tales from a Long Room', read by Robin Bailey, are available on a BBC Radio Collection double cassette, £5 99 from book and record shops.
Presenter James Naughtie
The Magpie's Nest by MICHAEL ROSEN. Stereo (R)
Jenni Murray meets David Gee , Director
Designate of Friends of the Earth.
Serial: I, Gloria Gold (10)
Seepanelpage 66
A play by BETH EDGE
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester. Stereo
Second of five poetry anthologies with Hannah Gordon and David Suchet. Producer JULIA PARKER BBC Pebble Mill
(Details as Tuesday 7.20pm)
The Leaves of Life
Christopher Cook traces folk song historian
Fred Hamer 's footsteps. Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE Stereo
with Frances Coverdale and Hugh Sykes
and Financial Report
(Details as Monday 12.25pm)
Stereo
(Details as Saturday 11.00pm)
The Programme with Listener Power
With Felicity Goodey and Eric Robson.
True Stories: Talking Heads
Everall Walsh has recently become a father. Alison Giles is about to start a part-time university course. Producer DAVY SIMS
Iris Murdoch 's novel The
Black Prince is adapted for the stage, and La Traviata is produced by Nuria Espert for the Scottish National Opera.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer CAROLINE YOUNG Stereo (Revised repeat Thursday 4.35pm)
Castle Rackrent
8: A Hundred Golden Guineas to a Sixpence
with Alexander MacLeod
LW only 12.0012.10
