C.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day TONY ASHTON
Introduced by Barry Norman and Malcolm Billings
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; at
6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.17: Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45 7.50. English Regions: see column 5
with the help of Alfred Marks and the voices of BOB NEWHART , PETER COOK. JONATHAN MILLER. JOHN GIELGUD , TONY HANCOCK and KENNETH WILLIAMS
Producers SIMON BRETT and JOHN LLOYD
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.
Introduced by PAULINE BUSHNELL Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 122: There Is a land of pure delight (BBC HB 254); Psalm 34, vv 11-22; Romans 3, vv 29-31 and 4, vv 1-3, 20-25 (Jerusalem Bible); Jerusalem the golden (BBC HB 248)
On the Road by DOUGLAS RAILTON
Read by Clive Merrison
The dog stared after the car, then it ran hard the way the car had gone ... Hennig hurried on down the hill, angered at the bleak little act of rejection.
(Clive Merrison is in Saturday, Sunday, Monday' at the Queen's Theatre, London)
medium only The Green Machine by FRANCES WILLIS
I never had a friend until I met Elsie. She's the green machine I operate in the factory. When I talk to her she makes such a soothing noise< A lullaby almost. It's very human, this machine.
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY (Leeds)
Presenter (ieorge Luce
Protection for the Pedestrian: moves are afoot to focus more attention on the needs of pedestrians in our busy towns and highways. ANDY PRICE takes a look at the steps being taken.
A nationwide general knowledge contest.
Chairman Robert Robinson
5: Midlands and East Anulia (i) TREVOR LEWIS , marketing manager
MARK BROADHEAD. insurance clerk MRS SHEILA BARNES , teacher
PETER TURTON , sales representative including ' Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , Who, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions.
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
John Forbes. London Assay Master.
2.0-2.2 News
Womoney: MAVIS MOULLlN looks at the sixth of the financial ages of women.
A Mysterious Gift: ELIZABETH WEBB examines the practical evidence of two cases of healing by GORDON TURNER. Mrs Beer 's House
Read by PENELOPE LEE (8)
Stories: Auntie Bel's Garden Path by Jill ROWE and Mr Pea -body's Squeak by MARGARET JOY
by Alec Baron
When a small shopkeeper agrees to help the police by taking part in an identification parade, two of the witnesses pick him out as a murderer.
(Leeds)
Fred Lexster must have one of the most unusual jobs in the country - he's a swanherd. Like his ancestors before him. it is his duty to care for the flock of up to 1.500 swans who come to nest each year on Chcsil Beach in Dorset. Today he shows DILYS BREESE round the swannery and tells her about the family life of the swans.
Heavy Weather by P. G. WODEHOUSE
Read by RICHARD CARRINGTON (3)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
In the chair Terry Wogan On the panel
Anona Winn. Briaa Johnston William Rushton and Bettine le Beau
Voice GRETTA GOURIET Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmorsh presenting world news and views
Danny Kaye
David Daniel Kaminsky was born in Brooklyn. New York, one year before the outbreak of the First World War. A poor immigrant boy whose parents barely spoke English. he grew up to become a living embodiment of the great American rags-to-riches dream, famous throughout the world as Danny Kaye , comedian, singer and dancer, star of the theatre, radio and television.
BARRY NORMAN introduces the musical magic of a man who has been called America's first international all-round entertainer. who. because of his work for UNICEF in the past 20 years, is now known in scores of countries as the Children's Ambassador.
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
Whirlpool by LAWRENCE MCDERMOTT with Smooth at first, he says. like it is now.'
' Yes, then beginning to spin round, and howl like a banshee.'
'And then the hole in the middle
' Getting deeper and deeper. The sides like a black wall of spinning water.'
'He comes up out of the middle!'
Producer HARRY CATLIN (Leeds) (Repeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)
Some songs and a poem or two LAWRENCE BROWN at the piano
Producer BILL WORSLEY (1959) I
We ne'er shull look upon his like again (Ode upon Dedicating a Building and Erecting a statue to Shakespeare by David Garrick , 1769)
A special edition in celebration of Shakespeare's Birthday Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Mill on the Floss (3)
preceded by Weather
