Stereo

with Peter Hobday and John Humphrys

Presenter Chris DunkJey Producer MOH[N] PATEL

Producer CAROLE LACEY

How Does Your Garden Grow? by DAISY WAUGH. Read by Jean Waggoner. Producer ANNE MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill

Shalom. my friend; Ye servants of God
(Paderborn) (NEH 476); Luke 10. w 1-12; Make me a channel of your peace; Send me out from here, Lord. Director of Music ALAN WILSON. Stereo

Michael Rosen talks to puNisher Julia MacRae , celebrating ten years of discovering such writers as Janni Howker,
Judi Alien , Anthony Browne and Bernard Ashley. Producer JYLL BURRIDGE
(Repeated ne.rt Sun 4.47pm Z.H9

FMonty Laurence Oiivier A service of thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey for the life and work of Lord Olivier - (1907-89). The scene is described by Tom Fleming Stereo.
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Presenter John Waite

with Derek Cooper
Producer SHEILA DtLLON

Presented by Nick Clarke

Neighbours. Stereo

from Birmingham.
Introduced by Sally Jones. Serial:
How Like an Angel (2)

See pone/ page 91

by Wilkie Collins
Adapted in six episodes by Ray Jenkins
Narrator Philip Sully

August 1847. Can Magdalen bring herself to marry her cousin Noel Vanstone whom she loathes, in order to try and regain her inheritance?

Jan Zilliacus, daughter of silent-film maker Larry Trimble, remembers working with her father.... and - almost - the reluctant lions.
(Stereo)
See panel, right

A Company of Wolves
Jan Zilliacus tells David Gillard about her 'hairy' experiences as the child of an animal-mad film director.

American silent-film director Larry Trimble was certainly not one to pay much attention to that old showbiz adage about never working with children and animals. Animals were his speciality and he was to prove one of the greatest animal trainers in the history of the early movies. And as for children, well, his little daughter Jan was an obvious choice as a long-shot stand-in when nervous actresses baulked at being set upon by a pack of ravenous wolves.

Today she is Jan Zilliacus, widow of the late Labour MP Konni Zilliacus. But back in the roaring 20s - and Trimble's charges often did roar - Jan was the little girl who helped create animal magic on the silver screen. She's lived in Britain for nearly 60 years but on Friday she recalls her native land and those early days among the wolves and the moguls in The Cashier and the Reluctant Lions.

Her father had always been a 'natural' with animals: 'He was a farm boy and my grandmother used to tell of the day when, as a baby, he'd crawled into the shed where the bull was kept and was found playing around his legs.' When Larry was a young man a film crew had come to his home town to shoot a scene in which the heroine was to be rescued from the sea by a dog. But the studio's canine star refused to get his paws wet and onlooker Trimble suggested that his collie would do the job - and she did. 'She later became Jean the Vitagraph Dog, a forerunner of Rin Tin Tin and Lassie.'

By the time Jan was a little girl her father had made a big name for himself as a film-maker in New York and her early years were, appropriately, spent 'on the hoof travelling from one location to the next. But she had inherited Larry's gift with animals and he often used her as a double for the stars.

The encounter with 60 wolves for a Jack London adventure remains the high spot of her brief film career. Wolves, Jan maintains, are really rather shy creatures and certainly the ones that had been trained to savagely overtake her in a dramatic chase across the snow just bounded around being friendly when they caught up with her. 'They knew me too well, you see. Then my father had an idea. He'd starve them for a day or so and then tie slices of horse meat all over me, underneath my coat!' The result was... well, let Jan herself finish the story on Friday.

Alas, the advent of talkies (with The Jazz Singer in 1927) put an end to Trimble's animal epics. Like so many others, Larry faded silently from the screen. 'He wasn't particularly struck on Mr Jolson,' Jan admits. But he was to find a humanitarian niche that would give him as much pleasure as fuming had ever done: for the rest of his days he helped train guide dogs for the blind.

The Cashier and the Reluctant Lions, Friday 4.05pm

Stereo fDetatts 7'/:urs 9.45pm)

with Robert Williams and Valeric Singleton

and Financial Report

Presented live from the Motor Fair at Earls Court, London, by Clive Jacobs. Producer JILL THOMAS

(Repeated next Mon 1.40pm)

with Margaret Howard
Producer MARK SAVAGE . Stereo

Including Baroness
Blackstone. Master of Birkbeck College,
University of London
Sir John Harvey Jones. Chancellor of Bradford University, and John Redwood , Mp,
Parliamentary Under
Secretary, Department of Trade and industry.
From Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Notts.
Chair Jonathan Dimbleby Producer ANNA CARRAGHER BBC Bristol

Presenter Marcel Berlins Producer GARETH BUTLER

by Alistair Cooke

Classic Sax
John Amis meets the people who play and compose for the instrument invented by Adolphe Sax 150 years ago. Members of the Fairer Sax, concert saxophonist John Harle and composer Richard Rodney Bennett are among those who are determined to prove that the saxophone should be considered equal to other orchestral instruments. Producer PHILIP JORDAN. Stereo repeated ne.M Men 4.30pm)

The Three Strangers (2)

with Richard Kershaw

with Bill WaIIls , David Tate and Sally Grace Written by BARRY ATKINS. PETER BAYNHAM.
MARK BRISENDEN. SIMON BULUVANT. MIKE COLEMAN . MICHAEL DINES . MAX HANDLEY.
ROBERT UNFORD. BILL MATTHEWS. GED PARSONS .OLEH STEPANIUK. PETER HICKEY and others. Producer BILL DARE . Stereo

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