6.40 Prayer for the Day
with John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
from 9.25
The Little World in the Water This month's Radio Nature Trail visits a pond in Epping Forest.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Tied Up with Red Tape
Administrators have proliferated faster than patients in Britain's Health Service. This has made the life of the busy medical man even busier and far more complicated. Gordon Ciough reports.
Medical adviser DAVID DELVIN Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR
Introduced by JOHN HEDGES Producer TERRY LLOYD
NEM, p 110; Jesu, lover of my soul (BBC HB 145): Psalm 16; Wisdom of Solomon 11, v 21 to 12, v 10a (RSV); Beloved, let us love (BBC HB 373)
The Doll-Maker by ROSENHRY TIMPERLEY
Read by Ysanne Churchman
The Swan who was a Duck
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do I?
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
2.0-2.2 News
Voyage of the Thalatta: BERNARD JACKSON joins children on a sailing spree.
Crisis in the 30s; VICKI FEAVER finds herself no longer a full-time mum.
Children with Epilepsy: MARl PRICHARD investigates their problems.
Family Units by RUTH FINCH (3)
Story: The Wobble in the Wheel byANNE WELLINGTON
Dad's Choice by DUDLEY WARMAN with Hilda Fenemore
Manning Wilson. Peter Pacey
TERRY: In decision-making there are steps and stages ...
Produced and directed by MICHAEL ROLFE
BBC Birmingham
Mrs Gaskell was a well-known novelist almost as soon as she was a novelist at all. Her busy life is reflected in her lively and voluminous correspondence.
MARGARET LESSER has selected extracts from the letters to present a vivid picture of this remarkable woman.
Reader BARBARA MULLANEY
Presenter Geoffrey Wheeler Producers GILLIAN HUSH and HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
Zulelka Dobson or An Oxford Love Story 3: Tea at the Races
Nicholas Woolley
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
This week:
Dorothy Tutin , Joan Bakewell Richard Briers. Desmond Morris In the Chair Cliff Michelmore Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
In many parts of the world rabies has been one of man's most feared diseases. Rabies has been spreading westwards from central Europe at the rate of 25 miles or so a year, and has recently accelerated. reaching the north coast of France. The natural progress of the disease to this country s checked by the English Channel, but an illegal landing of an infected animal could result in the rapid pread of rabies throughout 'he British Isles.
/hat are the difficulties in the ontrol of rabies? Can human ictims be treated?
Narrated by Paul Vaughan 7ritten by DAVID OWEN
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
fifty years ago this month a General Strike briefly brought the life of the nation almost to a halt. Why did it happen? What was its purpose? How successful was it?
Narrator David Mahlowe
Script by NORMAN LONGMATE
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester Preview: page 13
(mezzo-soprano)
GERALD MOORE (piano)
Songs by Mendelssohn, Gounod Howells and Quilter: record
Presenter Paul Vaughan
John Tusa reporting
The Battle of the Villa Fiorila Read by DAVID DAVIS (3)
preceded by Weather
