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S.40 Prayer for the Day C. A. JOYCE
Introduced by Desmond Lynam
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. English Regions: see column 5
by EILEEN CAPEL
Read by Leonard Sachs
1: In Which Mrs Cherry Figures Largely
Professor Weissgui pronounces his name Vice Ski but the insensitive British plump for Wiseguy because they don't know any better. The Professor, married to an English woman, has just retired from a sheltered working life. Life at home, he discovers, is far from being sheltered ... First of three instalments Producer JOHN CARDY
He doesn't seem popular with other children - I don't know Why. THORNTON PEARN looks at the problems of the lonely child.
ASTLEY JONES visits an unusual clinic for deaf children. And other items
Presenter Dilys Morgan
Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country
Introduced by PAULINE BUSHNELL Producer TOM READ
nem, p 38; Christ, above all glory seated (BBC HB 121); Psalm 24; Acts 25, vv 13-22 (Rsv); Look, ye saints, and see how glorious (BBC Hi 127)
Come Live with Me by GEORGE TAYLOR
Read by Stephen Thorne
Gordon raised himself on his elbow to glance at his cousin Peter, who was sharing his bed for that last night in his grandmother's house. The house that had been his home since his mother died, more than six years ago ... Now he would have to go to his father ... A house in which he was alone with his father and without a woman - there was a frightening thought Producer TANIA GARNER
Birdman by JENNIFER PHILLIPS
Dennis Penny , beset by an over-fastidious wife and a smug grown-up son, is determined to achieve his dream of unmechanised flight.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
Presenter Nigel Murphy
I'll Leave it under the Mat!: Is that the best place to leave the key if you can't be in? And what is the legal position if you leave it next door? ANNE BROWN investigates.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Marcel Marceau
2.0-2.2 News
Mead and Merriment: DALE LE VACK went to an Elizabethan banquet.
For Your Booklist: VALERIE JENKINS chooses some recent novels.
The Schools' Council: it affects what your children learn at school and the exams they take. But who runs it and what good is it? Norfolk Child by JANE WHITE (3)
Story: Christopher's friend by JEAN SUTCLIFFE. Part 2
Jon Rollason in The Fencing Man by PETER RUSSELL
A girl died late one night on the grass verge by the motorway. A hit and run accident ... or was it something more?
Pianist MARY NASH
Producer BETTY DAVIES
The Great Ealing Film Era recollected by Sir Michael Balcon. Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES
The Nightcomers
3: Waiting for a Plane
William Hardcastle
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
[Starring] Rodney Bewes and James Bolam as Bob Ferris and Terry Collier
with Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers, Sheila Fearn as Audrey
and Michael Segal, John Samson, Corinna Marlowe
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Ray Gowdridge
by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
Adapted by Chris Miller from the book "The Mating Season"
(Kenneth Fortescue is in "No Sex, Please - We're British" at the Strand Theatre, London)
What happens to a king when he is forced to go into exile? How does a man behave who was born heir apparent to one of the greatest empires the world has ever known? What does the future hold for a tsar-in-waiting?
His Majesty King Simeon of Bulgaria, His Imperial Highness Archduke Otto von Habsburg of Austria and Hungary and His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia talk to DEREK PARKER about the concept of monarchy - as seen from the viewpoints of three men who, but for the chances of fate. might today be ruling all Russia and a large part of Europe.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
The last of eight programmes in which John Ebdon introduces a potpourri of recordings taken from the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer NATALIE WHEEN
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer ROSEMARY hart
John Tusa reporting
The Power-House (3)
The views of young people on seven contemporary questions. Chaired by Jill Burridge with Dr Edward de Bono
3: A Manifesto for a New Political Party
' White's the best, vou can colour it what you like later.'
proceded by Weather
