Radio Diary ...

Press, 7 May 1987, Page 15

Radio Diary ...

The National network offers a fair sprinkling of humorous programmes in the next few days. The tong-running “My Mesic” combines musical knowledge, Ingenuity and banter. This quit game: features lan Wallace andDenis Norden against John Amis and Frank Muir. (Saturdays, 11.05 a.m.) "The Grumbleweeds,”' in which "Albert, Carl, ; Graham, Maurice and ■ Robin welcome you to a < hotchpotch of fun and frolic featuring the Family Grumbleweed of “Cracken * on - the - tip,” plays at 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Vintage comedy features on “Saturday Scrapbook” at 7.30 p.m. with Cecily Courtnelge in the well-known sketch, “Double Damask,” which produced the tonguetwister, “two dozen double damask dinner napkins.” “The Bickersons” and their hilarious marital arguments can be heard at 9 p.m. “Yes Minister,” from the well-known and wellloved television series, starring Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne, Is playing on Sundays at 9 p.m. This week’s episode Is called “The Quality of Life.” “The Wind in the Willows,” a 10-part 8.8. C. presentation, will fill a gap in the afternoon during the school holidays, starting on Monday at 1.30 p.m. Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad of Toad Hall, was originally published in 1908 and has been amusing the young and no-so-young ever since. Tomorrow afternoon the Minister of Police, Ann Hercus, will discuss law and order In the

ftadfo wttß Mite MUMteiL / ’shoukf ma tatroocttoa of new technology in the printing iadotry have lend to rhsanur bonks? It the cost of hardback book production is m average only one fifth of the shop price, where is money being spent? These and other related questions are asked la “Are Books Expensive?” a 8.8. C. panel discussion. Clive Bradley, the chief executive of the Publishers’ Association la Britain, and James Curry, who owns a publishing house, consider the issues. Ros Armitage chain the discussion. (Concert, today, 7.45 p.m.) ; “Jan Scene” this week spans the decades from the 50s to the 80s with ■ albums recorded la New : York, California and Sydney. (National, tomorrow 9.05 p.m.) The programme opens with Jakl Byard and the Apollo Stampers. There follows an AustralianAmerican collaboration: the Australian brothers, Bob and Len Barnard teaming up in New York with the American pianist, Ralph Sutton, and bass player, Milt Hinton. i The Australian singer, Lorraine Silk, and her trio follow, and the show is rounded off with excerpts from a recent reissue of an album originally recorded in 1955 featuring the American trombonist, Frank Rosolino. ■ “Composers of ' the Week” are the New Zealanders, David Farquhar and Larry Pruden. Their music is Introduced by Jack Spelts on the Concert Programme on Sunday at 10.05 a.m., repeated at 7.30 p.m., then, Monday to Friday at 9.05 a.m. —John Hickey