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S.25 Shipping forecast long wave only: Today
Presenter John Timpson With LIBBY PURVES6.45. Prayer for the Day With CANON PETER COLEMAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
Contributors
Presenter:
John
Timpson
Unknown:
Libby
Purves
Unknown:
Canon Peter
Coleman
Read By:
Laurie
MacMillan
: Double Bill
Read by Alec McCowen3: A Serious Thing Called Comedy
Contributors
Read By:
Alec
McCowen
: News
: Mid-Week with Sylvia Syms
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people. Including The Week so Far by Russell DaviesProducer IAN GARDBOUSE
Contributors
Unknown:
Russell
Davies
Producer:
Ian
Gardbouse
: News
: Daily Service
NEM, p 13; The day of Resurrection (BBC HB 112); Psalm 103, vv 1-13; St John 20, vv 19-29 (AV); The strife is o'er, the battle done (BBC HB 114)Contributors
Unknown:
St
John
: Story Time
The Children of Dynmouth (2): News
: News
: You and Yours
PresentersMolly Price-Owen and George Luce
Contributors
Unknown:
Molly
Price-Owen
Unknown:
George
Luce
: Just a Minute
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in whichKenneth Williams Peter Jones
Clement Freud and Lorraine Chase endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Contributors
Unknown:
Nicholas
Parsons
Unknown:
Lorraine
Chase
Unknown:
Ian
Messiter
Producer:
David
Hatch
: The Archers
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only: News
: Woman's Hour
Introduced by SueMacGregor Guest of the Week:
Robert Hardy , the actor Reading Your Letters.
Flashlight Fantasy: RON ALLDRIDGE joins a studio session of fashion photography.
Tricks of the Trade - 3
TONY WILKINS on stripping furniture and sanding floors.
Hands to Dance and Skylark
7: Joney and the Whale
Contributors
Unknown:
MacGregor
Guest
Unknown:
Robert
Hardy
Unknown:
Ron
Alldridge
Unknown:
Tony
Wilkins
: News
: Afternoon Theatre
Jonathan's Dig by HADRIAN ROGERSNow that Jonathan has retired, he is determined to interest himself in all sorts of things. In his eclectic state of mind, vegetable gardening leads quite naturally to archaeology. Unfortunately a full-scale dig in a suburban back garden can cause quite considerable problems, particularly with the neighbours.
Directed by ROGER PINE. BBC Birmingham
Contributors
Directed By:
Roger
Pine.
Jonathan:
Geoffrey
Matthews
Mildred:
Elizabeth
Morgan
Trickett:
John
Baddeley
BriggS:
Haydn
Jones
Walters:
Terry
Molloy
Policeman:
Ralph
Lawton
: Choral Evensong
from St Paul's Cathedral, London Responses (William Byrd)Psalms: 47, 48, 49 (Huntley Goss, Walmisley)
First Lesson: Isaiah 6, vv 1-8
Canticles (Stanford in B flat) Second Lesson: St John 20, vv 11-21
Anthem: In exitu Israel (Samuel Wesley )
Master of the choir BARRY ROSE Organist
CHRISTOPHER DEAFSLEY
Contributors
Unknown:
Samuel
Wesley
Organist:
Christopher
Deafsley
: Short Story
It's Called Life by MEG SEATON Read by Ysanne Churchman' You'll miss London. You always were a town sparrow.'
Emily bent low over the tea chest as she arranged a few ornaments and pictures. London could shrink into the palm of her hand, she could squeeze it and throw it away and never care.
All she would miss was Ken, his clumsy hands, his silly amiable face, his laugh.
Contributors
Unknown:
Meg
Seaton
Read By:
Ysanne
Churchman
: PM
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: The Six O'Clock News
including Financial Report: My Music
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis NordenIn the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Edward J.
Mason
Unknown:
Tony
Shryane
Unknown:
John
Amis
Unknown:
Frank
Muir
Unknown:
Ian
Wallace
Unknown:
Denis
Norden
Producer:
Bobby
Jaye
: News
: The Archers
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm) Written by JAMES ROBSON Cast for the week:BBC Birmingham
Contributors
Written By:
James
Robson
Dan Archer:
Edgar
Harrison
Peggy Archer:
June
Spencer
Jennifer:
Angela
Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles
Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin
Skipp
Philip:
Norman
Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia
Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy
Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob
Arnold
JohnTregorran:
Roger
Hume
MrsPerkins:
Pauline
Seville
Jethro Larkin:
George
Hart
Richard Adamson:
Richard
Carrington
Dorothy:
Heather
Barrett
Mike Tucker:
Terry
Molloy
Betty:
Pamela
Craig
Col Danby:
Norman
Shelley
Jim Coverdale:
Leon
Tanner
Enoch Broddy:
John
Baddelet
Bri:
Kenneth
Shanley
: Fat Man on a Bicycle
Being the ponderous pedallings of Tom Vernon from Muswell Hill to the Mediterranean and what befell him in the land of the French.Part the second (of 6): Family Entertainment
How our Hero Fared at the French Table, Overcoming a Chicken but Quailing before a Cow; His Discovery of a Lady with no Clothes on in his Bedroom: His Penetration of a Kitchen; and how, in Foreign Parts, he Came Upon Great Yarmouth.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
Contributors
Unknown:
Tom
Vernon
Producer:
Joy
Hatwood
: Icarus
by IRIS ORIGO and HALLAM TENNYSONThe story of Ruth Draper and an anti-Fascist gesture
It is an improbable chain which could connect Ruth Draper , the American solo actress and creator of characters, with Mussolini. The link was Lauro de Bosis, a young Italian poet and royalist anti-Fascist and Ruth Draper 's lover, who in 1931 undertook a courageous act of defiance against Mussolini by flying over Rome to drop leaflets.
Hallam Tennyson narrates the events which led him to make this gesture, and its consequences. Other parts played by PEGGY PAIGE , EVE KARPF LOLLY COCKERELL ROGER HAMMOND
ADRIAN EGAN and JOHN CHURCH
Directed by RICHARD KEEN
Contributors
Unknown:
Hallam
Tennyson
Unknown:
Ruth
Draper
Unknown:
Ruth
Draper
Unknown:
Ruth
Draper
Unknown:
Hallam
Tennyson
Played By:
Peggy
Paige
Unknown:
Karpf Lolly
Cockerell
Unknown:
Roger
Hammond
Unknown:
Adrian
Egan
Unknown:
John
Church
Directed By:
Richard
Keen
Ruth Draper:
Eleanor
Bron
Lauro de Bosis:
Robert
Rietty
: File on 4
investigates and analyses current events and issues at home and abroad, with reports from STEVE BRADSHAW , DAVID HENSHAW and ERIC ROBSON. PresenterPeter Oppenheimer
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5am)
Contributors
Unknown:
Steve
Bradshaw
Unknown:
David
Henshaw
Unknown:
Eric
Robson.
Unknown:
Peter
Oppenheimer
Producer:
Max
Easterman
Editor:
Colin
Adams
: Kaleidoscope
Presented by Chris PowlingProducer ROB WHITE
Contributors
Presented By:
Chris
Powling
Producer:
Rob
White
: Weather
: The World Tonight: News
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the worldContributors
Unknown:
Douglas
Stuart
: The Life and Times of the Orchestra
Jeremy Siepmann follows the changing fortunes of the orchestra and the society whose tastes it has always mirrored.9: Davids and Goliaths, or Where do we go from here?
In the last programme of the series 20th-century puritans take aim at the gargantuan excesses of Romanticism and dare to suggest that ' less is more '. Combatants include Strauss, Mahler, Webern and Stravinsky. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records
Contributors
Producer:
Arthur
Johnson
: A Book at Bedtime
That Uncertain Feeling (13): long wave only: The Financial World Tonight
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A sequence of music for late-night listening long wave only: News
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