Radio diary

Press, 11 September 1989, Page 19

Radio diary

By

JAMES HOMES

American writer Henry Miller tried to visit London a year after his autobiographical “Tropic of Cancer," judged too obscene to be published in either England or the United States, was published in Paris, but British immigration turned him back. “Via DieppeNewhaven,” Miller’s recollection of the episode, is The Monday Play, Concert Programme at 9 this evening. Lou Hirsch is Miller in this 8.8. C. production.

Remember to listen to Dad’s Army. National Radio 7.30 tomorrow evening. Walmington-on-Sea’s little platoon of part-time soldiers is being licked into shape by their local bank manager in Britain’s darkest hour.

Readings of short stories from Owen Marshall’s recent collection The Lynx Hunter can be heard on the Concert Programme at 10 each evening this week. Dulcie Smart reads “The Castle of Conceits” this evening. The other stories are “Babes and Brothers in Arms,” "In Foreign Service,” “The Frozen Con-

tinents,” and “Melodrama at Closing Time.” Convinced he had two heads, a man tried to blow one off with a gun. He survived to tell doctors what he had tried to do. This bizarre happening shows how some people see their body shape. Geoff Watts talks to doctors and researchers in The Body of Fears, National Radio 8.05 Wednesday evening, a 8.8. C. medical science feature about the mistakes we make about our health and even the shape of our bodies.