6.40 Prayer for the Day, REV KEITH POUND
John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including latest news from Montreal on the build up to the 1976 Olympic Games, which open on Saturday; Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
(Sot's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 93; 0 for a closer walk with Go<J (BBC HB 333); Psalm 90, vv 1-6 and 12-17; Colossians 1, vv 3-14 (NEB); Christ, whose glory fills theskies(BBCHB 137)
The Bread Shop War by BRIAN ARMSTRONG
Read by Peter Wheeler Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
The third of six programmes.
Eric Simms traces the exciting story of how developing techniques made possible today's wonderful recordings of birds and mammals,
Presenter George Luce including MOLLY PRICE-OWEN with the BBC Shopping Basket;
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Focal 'Point: JUDITH HANN with a round-up of news from the world of science.
Shoes of Cardboard and Cloth: EILEEN CROSSMAN talks to JAN BROOKES about the three years of her childhood spent in a Japanese Internment Camo. The Gipsy in the Parlour (3)
Story: Willy Mouse'* Birthday by ALISON JEZARD
A play for radio by Alan Wells
with Ann Bell as Claire Turpin
A foolish escapade on the part of a passenger and Man overboard! goes the cry. But the alarm is called too soon and heralds not accidental drowning but ingenious fraud and double murder.
Preview: page 11
JACK DE MANTO meets the famous and the not-so-famous Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Jonah and Co. 9: How Berry Put Off his Manhood
The news magazine presented by Brian Widlake with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed. In the studio David Holden
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Friday 4.5 pm)
Write to: Any Answers', BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
A feature written for radio by LEO KNOWLES with Duncan Carse as narrator Why did this tragedy happen? Only one man could answer the question and Admiral Sir George Tryon had gone down with his ship. Today the sinking of the Victoria remains one of the great sea mysteries.
Produced and directed by HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
Legislating against Tension Presented by John Eidlnow
' Race discrimination and race prejudice are still widespread , consequently there is a risk of the ethnic communities becoming permanently alienated.'
(Report of Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration)
- The watch-words are: preparation for war is the most effectual means of preserving peace.'
(West Indian Standing Committee)
With the new race legislation going through its final phase in Parliament, race relations in Britain appear to be deteriorating. Why? How can they be improved? Can legislation overcome prejudice and fear? Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
Presenter Michael Oliver Acrobats of God
The dance world of Martha Graham
' One of the greatest choreographers the world has ever known ... a woman who has transformed a large part of the dance to her own image.
(CLTVE BARNES) with Martha Graham
ROBERT COHAN. Artistic Director of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and JAMES ROOSE-EVANS , Experimental Theatre Director.
Passages from The Notebooks of Martha Graham read by MARGARET ROBERTSON
(Robert Cohan talks about Martha Graham in Music Now tomorrow: 10.55 pm Radio 3; Bicentennial Summer uith Martha Graham : next Sunday on BBC2)
Douglas Stuart reporting
Dr Gully (2)
preceded by Weather
