Presented from the North by KEN FORD BBC Manchester
6.40 Prayer for the Day JEAN RICHARDSON
John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today including at 7.17* and 8.17* latest news of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, and the rest of the sports news: 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
reflects on life in and out of the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
The studio guests join Kenneth Robinson , Bel Mooney and Sheridan Morley for 55 minutes of interviews, discussion and mild irreverence.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
Wliy do shrimps, prawns and crabs turn pink in colour when cooked, and lobsters bright red: What happens to produce this unlikely change in colour? One of the tasty morsels on ofler to today's Wildlife team. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM. p 106; Be thou my guardian and my guide (BBC HB 135: Psalm 121: Colossians 2, vv 615 (NEB): The King of Love my Shepherd is BBC HB 475)
11-Plus by IRENE BURTON
Read by Michael Shannon
' At home. I lifted the sneck and pushed open the kitchen door. My father was in the tin bath in front of the fire and my mother was scrubbing his back " Well? He turned, black suds running down his chest " What did tha get then? Brass? Then he laughed scornfully. " A book! A bloody book! " . . . '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
Presenter Sue Cook
The World of Work: with jobs hard to find MARGARET KORVING studies the market.
Your Money: what should you be doing with it now? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Philip Larkin. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
'Awaited with the Eagerness one Would Wait for a Love Letter ': Bernard Jackson has been finding out about Guildford's Talking Newspaper for the Blind.
I 'aven't Got a Teller Frock
ROSE GAMBLE recalls how a 'proper' dancing class led to a star performance in petticoats and bloomers.
Private Collection: CHRIS GITTINS on Walter Gabriel's collection of Ambridgalia
The Gipsy in the Parlour (5) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Charlie the Cat's Birthday by A. W. ORCHARD
Listen with Mother Stories, £2 00. from bookshops
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ab'ridged for radio by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Nigel Stock
1: A Scandal in Bohemia
'It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise, but admirably balanced mind. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler , of dubious and questionable memory.' Producer TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
(Tomorrow: A Case of Identity)
Robert Williams
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray
Cyril Fletcher , Alfred Marks
In the Chair McDonald Hobley Special guest June Whitfield
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(McDonald Hobley is in ' No Sex. Please - We're British ' at the Strand Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
by CHARLES DICKENS adapted in four parts and read by Emlyn Williams 3: Closing in Closer
In which we meet Mr and Mrs Chadband. Mr Guppy and the Badgers and hear news of Esther Hawdon.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
by Stewart Conn
with music composed and arranged by Adrian Secchi
Arthur Thistlewood, executed at Newgate in 1820 for murder and high treason, was one of those historical rarities: an English Revolutionary. 'We will have to take to arms.... we must occupy the Tower and barricade the bridges. Blow open the prison doors and see these lofty Bastilles reduced to ashes. We must take what is Ours...'
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
Dr Gully (4
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