Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
with Fr John McCullagh. Stereo
with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Three programmes in which
Professor Theo Barker delves among the BBC Sound Archives.
2: Yearning for Yesterday A century ago most people in Britain were already living in towns.
But it's the rural memories that loomed most rosily. Producer Daniel Snowman
9.00am News
with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
0The Whitsun Bank Holiday
Monday edition of Start the Week is coming from Brighton. The recording is at 2.00pm on Tuesday 21 May at the Pavilion Theatre and tickets are available from: Brighton Festival Box Office, The Dome, Pavilion Gardens, Brighton.
The Noise from the Zoo by Janice Elliott.
Read by Kenneth Shanley. Producer Janet Whitaker
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers Ronald
Pickup and Elizabeth Bell and guest Philip Gross.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Debbie Thrower. Editor Ken Vass
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman
Robert Robinson.
First Round - Midlands. Andrew Fakes
(accounts clerk); Charles Pugh
(schedules officer); Judith Wynn (senior systems analyst); and Tim Parry
(personnel manager).
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
Jenni Murray meets one of Britain's brightest hopes in international swimming - Zara Long. Serial: The Franchise
Affair by Josephine Tey. The fifth of 13 episodes read by Edward Petherbridge. Abridged by Pat McLoughlin Editor Sally Feldman
By 1872, the 'Little
Father' of the Russian people finds himself as hated by his own family as he is by his subjects.
Written by Royce Ryton.
Director Matthew Walters Stereo
Paul Vaughan discusses Roger Norrington 's new record of Mozart symphonies, reports on the violinists who play
Fiddles on Fire; and actor Antony Sher publishes his second novel
The Indoor Boy.
Producer Adrian Washbourne Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
0 WRITE to: PM Letters, BBC, London Wl A 1AA
and Financial Report
Stereo
0 CASSETTE: Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, from retailers
7.00pm News
What is Mrs P's will going to reveal?
with Derek Cooper.
Sea Marks
Set in 1949, Gardner McKay 's play follows the relationship between an Irish fisherman who wants to go nowhere and a Liverpool publisher's assistant who wants to make her mark.
Music: Andrea Gomez
Musicians: Tim New and Marian Boyd. Adapted and directed by Sue Wilson. Stereo
Roy Dean considers the work of some lesser-known American lyric writers.
Today: Edward Heyman - Body and Soul
Producer David Perry
(Postponed from 23 February)
Stereo
Presented by Roger White. Stereo
Presented by Richard Kershaw.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
Swamp Angel
Set in western Canada, Ethel Wilson 's classic novel describes Maggie Vardoe 's escape from emotional imprisonment. The sixth of ten parts read by Shelley Thompson. Abridged by Ed Thomason Producer Pete Atkin
A six-part comedy written by Alex Shearer. 5: Cool Heads
The diplomats' wives' factfinding shopping trip is grounded by hijackers. Meanwhile, the men decide on a rescue plan.
Producer Neil Cargill Stereo
