6.40 Prayer for the Day
Rev John Congdon
with John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Todav with 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather: and Thought for the Day at 7.45
English Regions: see column 5
medium wave only from 9.25
medium ware only Money Well Spent
Medical research Is getting more complex, yet cures for many common complaints have still to be found. Is our research effort being concentrated in the right areas? Are we spending enough? Presenter Bill Breckon
Medical adviser DAVID DELVIN Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.
Introduced by John Hedges
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NEM. p 75; Enthrone thy God within thy heart i BBC HB 320); Psalm 112; Wisdom of Solomon 7. vv 15-28 (rsv): Soldiers of the cross, arise! (BBC HB 367)
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The Garland of Friendship by ROSEMARY MANNING
Read by Barbara Mitchell
Adolpbe and Eve and Cowardly Corporal Yellow A satirical comedy by DAVID MARSHALL with Clive Swift as Adolpha and Sandra Clark as Eve EVE: You're over 40.
ADOLPHE: Not any more. I'm one of the New Young. My agent said.
EVE: Let me look at you. Hm. Think I preferred you with. your hair short.
Produced and directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do I?
A general knowledge contest Chairman Robert Robinson 11: North of Enalund
CHRISTOPHER BIRKBY (Sheffield), solicitor
JOHN CARRINGTON ( Derbyshire), investment manager
MRS CHRISTINE HODGSON (Lancashire), teacher
HARRY MILLER (Manchester), retired businessman including Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who, With IAN GILLIES , sets the questions. Producer TONY LUKE
12.55 tnedium wave only
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Klrl te Kanawa, international opera star
2.0-2.2 News
Choosing and Using - 3: EVELYN ROSE on whisks and beaters.
Entertainment Round-up: GORi DON cow reporting.
For Your Booklist: JUNE KNOX-MAWER chooses recent novels.
Helen with the High Hand (12)
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Story: Bruno's Yellow Kite by ANTHEA DOVK
The Train adapted by BRUCE BEEBY from the novel by GEORGES SIMENON with Peter Sallis. Madi Hedd
' That's when the idea came to me of leaving my son another picture of myself - not just a shopkeeper father, a timid husband with no ambition.... I wonder if it wouldn't do him some good to learn that for a few weeks there had been a different man inside me - one capable of real passion.'
Other parts: MICHAEL HARBOUR
RONALD HERDMAN , EDWARD KELSEY WILLIAM EEDLE ,MICHAEL KILGARRIFT ROBIN BROWNE , BETTY BASKCOMB SUSAN EDMONSTONE
OLWEN GRIFFITHS
Piano accordion played by GERALD CROSSMAN
Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
A two-part story of a great music-hall double act. Before the First World War Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen began separate theatrical careers. They met as soldiers in France and again briefly on two occasions after the war
Presented by Chesney Allen
Knock Down by DICK FRANCIS
Read by JACK VVATSON (8)
Nicholas Woolley
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A team of celebrities play the popular panel game. This week:
David Nixon , Valerie Singleton Nemone Lethbridge Francis Matthews
In the Chair Cliff Michelmore Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
A new daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed.
In the studio David Sens
on behalf of The Conservative Party
Ring Robin Day to put your questions in person to his guest of the evening. With an eye on topical interest we are leaving the invitation as near as possible to the date.
Producer WALTER WALLlCH
Call [number removed]from 6.0 pm
As a Briton, you need to be approaching 40 years old to remember clearly what H feels like to win a war. This programme recalls how. after a little confusion in high places, it was finally revealed, in May 1945, that the war between Britain and Germany was over; and how people in different walks of life spent VE Day. Readers: JOHN BALDWIN
SONIA ELLIMAN , RONALD HARVI CYNTHIA MICHAELIS
MARLENE SlDAWAY
PAUL WEBSTER , ANTHONY WlNGATE Narrator David Mahlowe
Written by NORMAN LONGMATE Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester
(Revised repeat: Fri 11.5 am)
Presenter Peter France
John Tusa reporting
Fanny by Gaslight
13: Mandersloke Revenges Read by ANGELA DOWN
preceded by Weather
