Listings
: Today
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With JEREMY BOWEN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
Contributors
Presented By:
John
Timpson
Presented By:
Brian
Redhead
Unknown:
Jeremy
Bowen
Read By:
Bryan
Martin
Unknown:
Charles
Colvile
: News
: Gardeners' Question Time
visits the county of Durham, where members of the Derwentside Federation of Allotment Associations put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki ,Fred Downham and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Contributors
Unknown:
Dr Stefan
Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred
Downham
Unknown:
Geoffrey
Smith.
Producer:
Diana
Stenson
: Morning Story
The Yellow Meads of Asphodel by HE. BATESRead by Fleur Chandler
The affection between John and his sister Virginia is deep and long-standing. Nothing can spoil its tranquillity.... or so, at least, it seems....
Producer MITCH RAPER
Contributors
Read By:
Fleur
Chandler
Producer:
Mitch
Raper
: Daily Service
NEM, pl3; 0 praise ye the Lord(BBC HB 279); Psalm 15; Mark 1, w 29-39; Praise to the holiest (BBC HB 88). Stereo
: For Schools
11.0 Singing Together Presented by FERGUS O'KELLY (7) Stereo (E)11.20 Junior Drama Workshop An Adventure in Ancient Egypt 3: The Boy King Written by Fiz COLEMAN . Stereo (E)
11.40 Reading Corner 7: The Tooth-ball by PHILIPPA PEARCE Storyteller MICHAEL Williams Stereo (E)
11.50 Poetry Corner 7: Mums and Dads by GEORGE TARRY (E)
Contributors
Presented By:
Fergus
O'Kelly
Written By:
Fiz
Coleman
Unknown:
Philippa
Pearce
Unknown:
Michael
Williams
Unknown:
George
Tarry
: Calamity Jane
Marian Foster looks behind the Hollywood image of the legendary frontierswoman to the tragic heroine and the daughter she gave away.For 25 years, Calamity wrote numerous letters to her, but never sent any of them.
Beth Porter as Calamity JaneProducer RONALD ASTLE
BBC Pebble Mill. (R) revised
Contributors
Unknown:
Marian
Foster
Unknown:
Beth
Porter
Unknown:
Ronald
Astle
: The State Opening of Parliament
Coverage direct from the Palace of Westminster of the traditional ceremony in whichHer Majesty The Queen,
Lords and Commons assemble for the formal announcement of the Government's intentions for the next session of Parliament. John Hosken describes the arrival of the Royal Procession in the Chamber of the House of Lords, and the summoning of the House of Commons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. The political implications of Her Majesty's speech will be assessed by the BBC's Chief Political
Correspondent, Brian Curtois.
0 INFO: page 91
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Hosken
Unknown:
Black
Rod.
Unknown:
Brian
Curtois.
: A Party Political Broadcast
by the Social Democratic Party: For Schools
1.55 Listening Corner Story: Learning to Rain (R)2.5 Looking at Nature Woodland Floor Where do all the leaves go? TIMMY MALLET finds out with the aid of his pooter. Stereo (E)
2.20 Let's Make a Story!
7: The Jewels of the Sea King Storyteller ANNE ROSENFELD Written by RON JAMES. Stereo (E)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry): Invisible Fire by KATHY HENDERSON (R) (E)
2.40 Using Unemployment Presented by CHRIS SERLE 7: Getting Qualified (R) (E) For tutors' notes send sae to: Using Unemployment. [address removed]
Contributors
Unknown:
Anne
Rosenfeld
Written By:
Ron
James.
Unknown:
Kathy
Henderson
Presented By:
Chris
Serle
: Woman's Hour
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guests of the Week-Peter Fluck and Roger Law , iconoclastic masters of the Spitting Image puppets.
Serial: The Soul of Kindness (3)
Contributors
Unknown:
Peter
Fluck
Unknown:
Roger
Law
: The Afternoon Play
Saying Goodbye to Sylvia by GILLIAN SLINNSylvia and Henry have been happily married for 35 years but now face their biggest crisis. Sylvia has always been the dominant partner and when she is admitted to a hospice Henry cannot cope with the prospect of life without her.
Directed by MARY CLYNE BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
Contributors
Unknown:
Gillian
Slinn
Directed By:
Mary
Clyne
Sylvia:
Barbara
Jefford
Henry:
William
Gaunt
Katie:
Fleur
Chandler
Dr Adams:
Gillian
Goodman
Mr Bailey:
Edwin
Richfield
Sister:
Judith
Pearson
Nurse:
Maggie
Tarver
: Time for Verse
ChildrenSeven programmes compiled and presented by Roy Fuller 6: Death
Readers JILL BALCON and HUGH DICKSON
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol. Stereo
Contributors
Presented By:
Roy
Fuller
Readers:
Jill
Balcon
Readers:
Hugh
Dickson
Producer:
Margaret
Bradley
: News
: Kaleidoscope Extra
Fostering FictionWhen literary editor
Charles Monteith first saw
William Golding 's manuscript of Lord of The Flies it was a good deal longer and less focused. He pruned it and reshaped it together with the author and the book launched Golding's career. Kate Figes talks to
Monteith and to Liz Calder , one of the new generation of editors, as well as to authors themselves, about that vital link between them and their work and how it is changing in the modem publishing world.
Contributors
Unknown:
Charles
Monteith
Unknown:
William
Golding
Talks:
Kate
Figes
Unknown:
Liz
Calder
: PM
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55 pmContributors
Presented By:
Robert
Williams
Presented By:
Susannah
Simons
: The Six O'Clock News
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial ReportContributors
Unknown:
Pauline
Bushnell
: Round Britain Quiz
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen preside over a further series of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the lobes.Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge crime- writer
Jessica Mann and Bill Russell from Reading University Researcher KAREN OSTLE
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Gordon
Clough
Unknown:
Louis
Allen
Unknown:
Irene
Thomas
Unknown:
Eric
Korn
Unknown:
Jessica
Mann
Unknown:
Bill
Russell
Unknown:
Karen
Ostle
Producer:
Alastair
Wilson
: News
: The Archers
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm): In Business
Peter Smith goes into the world of business to report on the latest initiatives and problems. Producer GUDRUN DALIBOR(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am L W)
Contributors
Unknown:
Peter
Smith
Producer:
Gudrun
Dalibor
: The Reith Lectures 1986
Six talks aboutLaw, Justice and Democracy by Lord McCluskey
Scottish High Court Judge,
Solicitor-General for Scotland 1974-9
2: The Clanking of Medieval Chains
'Law is a tool used by men to sculpt justice out of the raw material of life ... [but] how do judges, with precisely the same starting materials in terms of fact and legal tradition, end up crusading for diametrically opposite conclusions?'
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on Radio 3) (Lecture 3. 'Hard Cases and Bad Law', next Wednesday on Radio 4)
The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in THE LISTENER
Contributors
Unknown:
Reith
Lectures
: Analysis
Mary Goldring raises trade union and employment issues with John Edmonds , General Secretary of the General,Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union; and Eric Hammond ,
General Secretary of the Electrical, Electronic,
Telecommunications and Plumbing Union
Producer FRASER STEEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11. am L W)
Contributors
Unknown:
Mary
Goldring
Unknown:
John
Edmonds
Unknown:
Eric
Hammond
: One Man and His Newt
David Bean reports on his encounters with animals and those who cherish them.2: Nothing but a Hound Dog Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Contributors
Unknown:
David
Bean
: Kaleidoscope
Christopher Cook presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Christopher
Cook
Producer:
John
Boundy
: A Book at Bedtime
A House for Mr Biswas by v. S. NAIPAUL abridged in 15 parts by MICHAEL VOYSEYRead by Garard Green (1)
For Mohun Biswas , success means the wonder and audacity of having a house and portion of the earth all his own. But the odds seem all against him and as he moves from job to job, as he acquires a wife and four children, as he struggles to escape from the household of his in-laws, Mr Biswas 's ambition becomes ever more remote.... Producer MAURICE LEITCH (R)
Contributors
Unknown:
Mr
Biswas
Unknown:
V. S.
Naipaul
Unknown:
Michael
Voysey
Read By:
Garard
Green
Unknown:
Mohun
Biswas
Unknown:
Mr
Biswas
Producer:
Maurice
Leitch
: The Financial World Tonight
Radio 4's international business report; market trends: * am News
followed by an interlude: Schools Night-time Broadcasting
Help Yourself to Study Skills Presented and produced by GRAHAM TAYAR (R) (E)12.301: 1: Getting Started (a) Time and Space (b) Tasks and Targets
12.50 2: Resources and Reading
Contributors
Produced By:
Graham
Tayar
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