‘The Sunny Side of the Street’

Press, 13 January 1982, Page 15

‘The Sunny Side of the Street’

(National. 8.45 tonight)

' Michael Abbensetts’ realistic comedy for radio. “The Sunny Side of the Street" concerns a young West Indian solicitor, Quentin Williams, who has lived in London nearly all his life and seems more English than the English. A broken love affair forces him to move house and he discovers he has taken a room in a “black house" where all his neighbours are West Indian or African. Quentin has to discover himself that “no man is an island.” He becomes involved with various members of the household and their problems. Through them he is helped to come to terms with his own identity. Michael Abbensetts was born in Guyana but was educated in Quebec. In 1963 he settled in England and worked for a few years in the armoury department of the Tower of London. That experience prompted him to write a TV play called “Museum Attendant" which won him the George Devine Aw’ard and the position of resident dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre. Astronomy The British astronomer, Sir Bernard Lovell, is professor of radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank Experimental Station. Sir Bernard ' looks “Down through the Ages” in the first of two 8.8. C. talks on astronomy on the Concert

Programme at 9.30 p.m. He opens with the work done by the early Greeks and later by Copernicus, Kepler. Galileo and Newton. Then he talks about the astonishing picture of the universe left to us by Albert Einstein. Symphony The Viennese classical symphony between 1765 and 1820 is the subject of five morning programmes on

Listening

Concert this week at 9.40 a.m. and featured today are Schubert and Mozart symphonies. The Menuhin Orchestra with Yehudi Menuhin conducting plays Schubert’s 1815 Symphony No. 3 in D and Istvan Kertesz conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Mozart’s K. 183 Symphony No. 25 in G minor (1774).