Producers DYLAN WINTER and SUE BROOME
with Steve Goddard BBC Wales. Stereo
Presenters Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
finds evidence of the silly season even in the sound archives. Producer JULIAN HALE
The Vice-President of the British Astronomical
Society and her guests put the universe to rights over breakfast in Greenwich. Researchers AMANDA MARES and LUCY BARTLEY
Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE BBC Manchester. Stereo
Nicholas Craig continues his self-examination with occasional reference to Nigel Planer ,
Christopher Douglas , Christopher Ryan and Chrissy Roberts. Written by NIGEL PLANER and CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS Producer BILL DARE Stereo (R)
Nigel Andrews talks to Vincent Price, the American film actor. Producer JOHN BOUNDY Stereo (R)
The Facts of Life by ROBERT NYE
Read by Jonathan Tafler Producer ALISON HINDELL
from Dornoch Cathedral, Sutherland, led by The Rev Johnston McKay BBC Scotland
(Details as Sunday 5. 00pm L W)
with Simon Rae.
Readers JOHN MATSHlKIZA and DIANA BISHOP ...
Guest Fred D'Aguiar. Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC Bristol. Stereo
Presenter John Waite
Chair Robert Robinson
Semi-final 3 - North, West, Scotland and Wales Contestants: Walter Dobson.
Catherine Turner , Glen Binnie and Nicholas Brock.
Including Beat the Brains. Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
Presenter James Naughtie
Willie Rushton reads King Jolly at the Seaside by SARAH MORCOM Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo (R)
Presenter Helen Boaden Serial: Walking AcrossEgypt (3) by CLYDE EDGERTON , abridged in 11 episodes by MONICA GREY Read by Margaret Robertson
Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY (This week: episodes 3-7)
by JONATHAN MYERSON
Stereo (Details as Sat 1.45pm)
Voices from the Renaissance...
John Amis talks to choirs who research and perform music from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Stereo
Presenters Hugh Sykes and Valerie Singleton
Stereo (Details as Sat 12.25pm)
Written by GILLIAN RICHMOND
BBC Pebble Mill
A five-part series in which John Humphrys talks to people who have climbed to the top of the ladder in their chosen career.
2: Peter Buxton, Governor of Winson Green Prison
(Details Saturday 4.30pm LW)
by Colin Douglas
It is interview day for the post of senior registrar at an Edinburgh hospital. Five nervous candidates steel themselves for the most gruelling afternoon of their careers.
BBC Scotland. Stereo
The elephant follows the whale into writer
Heathcote Williams 's affections; a Cheshire cowshed becomes an opera house; and a speaking boil bursts on to the big screen.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer NOAH RICHLER
Stereo
Fantasy and Fugue by ROY FULLER abridged by LIBBY SPURRIER Read by Terence Wilton (4) Producer MICHAEL FOX BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presenter Robin Lustig Editor JUSTIN PHILLIPS
