Radio Diary

Press, 1 September 1986, Page 19

Radio Diary

“Jiist Resting” is the title Leo McKern (alias Horace Rumpole, of television fame) gave to his “informal” autobiography, eight readings from which Will be broadcast on National Radio on week nights at 10.30, starting this evening. McKern was born in Sydney in 1920. He trained as an electrical engineer and spent two and a half years in the army before travelling to England in 1946 to follow the girl he eventually married. He followed her also into an acting career and performed at the Old Vic. He also spent two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company before his film and TV career blosssomed.

The readings, for the 8.8. C., are by McKern himself.

On “Change of Pace” (National, 9.05 this evening) Ray Harris introduces three of Blossom Dearie’s most recent albums, illustrating her unique piano and vocal stylings. Blossom Dearie was 60 this year. In a career which extends from the mid-forties she has performed mainly around New York, but has at-

LEO MCKERN tracted an international following. Listeners who missed earlier broadcasts of Shaw’s “Man of Destiny” have another chance to rectify the situation when it is replayed on the Concert Programme at 9.40 this evening.

“Arthur C. Clarke’s World of Science Fiction” continues on National Radio at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow with Clarke introducing the first episode of a threepart dramatisation of one of his own stories, “A Fall of Moondust.” Set in the 21st century, the story tells of the attempt to rescue 22 people on board — a “tourist cruiser” which has sunk into the Sea of Thirst after a moonquake. —John Hickey.