6.40 Prayer for the Day REV GUY GOODALL
Introduced by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 English Regions: see column S
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 9; Hast thou not known (BBC HB 491); Psalm 65; Luke 13, vv 22-35 (RSV); 0 God of earth and altar (BBC HB 394)
Room for Improvement by FRANK PROSSER
Read by John Darran Producer HARRI GWYNN BBC Wales
With MARGARET KORVING
The fourth of six programmes. From desk to deck - Kevin Finnucane found an answer to redundancy in moving from press and information service to passenger service at sea. Producer DENNIS LOWER
Presenter George Luce including MOLLY PRICE-OWEN , SUE COOK and DICK WATKINSON with the BBC Shopping Basket.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor The Ideal Home Exhibition: BARBARA MYERS at Olympia.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
For Your Book List: ELIZABETH THOMAS chooses some recent novels.
Focal Point: JUDITH HANN with a round-up of news from the world of science.
Images of Rose (12)
Story: The Great Toboggan Race, part 1, by MARY CALVERT
Learned Friends
4: Let's Play Politics by JAMES FAIRFAX
When Adrian Hull , a young barrister, decides to stand for Parliament, he is convinced that people are tired of half-truths and would rather face facts, however unpalatable.
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous and the not-so-famous. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Death on the Nile
4: Narrow Escape at Abu Simbel
Nicholas Woolley
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey
Narrator Denis Quilley
Writing in 1848 Charles Dickens declared his support for a National Theatre, but added, 'I wish I could cherish a stronger faith than I have in the probability of its establishment on a national footing within 50 years.'
He was being optimistic. More than 100 years later a National Theatre still did not exist. But, from next Monday, at long last, the ' National ' will be in business. This programme tells the story of the National Theatre idea and of the famous men and women who, since the time of David Garrick , have helped to make it a reality.
With TRADER FAULKNER, MADI HEDD, MARTIN JARVIS , DENIS MCCARTHY. ALLAN MCCLELLAND , DAVID MARCH, and PETER WILLIAMS , and the voices, from the BBC Sound Archives, of LAURENCE OLIVIER , BERNARD SHAW and SYBIL THORNDIKE
Written and produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
(Denis Quilley is a National Theatre player)
Great Expectations
Presented by Ian Mclntyre
Nowhere are the arguments about devolution being debated more fiercely than in Scotland. Some fear the Government's proposals could lead eventually to the break-up of the United Kingdom. Others say they do not go far enough. What lies behind the desire of many Scottish people to have a bigger say in running their own affairs? What are the issues at stake? And how far can devolution meet the growing demands of nationalism in Scotland today?
Producer TOM READ
Presenter Michael Oliver
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Stone Angel (14)
preceded by Weather
