Radiodiary

Press, 11 December 1989, Page 10

Radiodiary

By

JAMES HOMES

Faced with the terminal illness of her husband, a wife retraces their lives in a series of unusual love letters in Arnold Wesker’s “Love Letters on Blue Paper” — The Monday Play, Concert Programme 9 this evening. Peter Vaughan plays Victor Marsden, a dying giant of the trade union move-

ment, and Elizabeth Spriggs is his wife Sonia in this 8.8. C. production. Tom Regan and Nicholas Rupke discuss the ethical, political and cultural dimensions of animal vivisection in Soundings, from the National Humanities Centre in North Carolina, on Plains FM this evening. Listen at 7.

Professor David Crystal presents You Said It, National Radio 7.30 tomorrow evening, the second of two talks on spoken English. If you missed last week’s talk, make sure you catch this one. Workabout, National Radio 8.05 tomorrow evening, has presenter Nick Rosenberg talking

with Bill Kelty, the 41-year-old secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. They discuss the A.C.T.U. compact with the Australian Federal Government and award restructuring. This is the last of a series about working life in Australia. National Radio’s Wednesday regular play

spot this week has two pieces by Jenny Bornholdt. First is His Big Day, three dramatic monologues linked by a single event, with Kate Harcourt, Robyn Malcolm and Michael Haigh, at 9.05; then a prose poem Sophie Travels Backwards on the Train, read by Denise O’Connell, at 9.23. Both are RNZ productions.