6.40 Prayer for the Day REV BARNEY MILLIGAN
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 I
Elephants trumpeting in Kenya, dingoes howling in the Australian bush, the incredible chorus of frogs and toads in Tanzania - these are some of the animals you can hear - and hear about - in today's programme,, Introduced by PETER FRANCE Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Museums
More and more museums are trying to attract children inside by putting on special projects and getting them to relate the past to the present. HelenPalmerfindsoutabout this quiet revolution.
Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
Introduced by LAURIE MACMILLAN Producer GRAHAM MYTTON
NEM, p 17; To us in Bethlem city (BBC BB 315); Canticle 3; Ephesians 2, w 11-22 (AV); Jesu, priceless treasure (BBC HB 518)
Sitting on the Wind, written and read by Alan Towers
He'd never had a head for heights ... then the news editor asked him to do a parachute jump ... Producer DAVID shute BBC Birmingham
Very Like a Whale
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do I?
Chairman Robert Robinson Second Round 23: Scotland
ROBERT MCLEAN (Edinburgh), chartered electrical engineer; DR JOHN WHEELER (Stirlingshire), schoolmaster; ANDREW TURNER (Glasgow), retired accountant; KENNETH MATTHEWS (Caithness), retired administrator
Including Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who, With IAN GILLIES , sets the questions. Producer TONY LUKE
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Brian Widiake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Nanette Newman , writer and actress
2.0-2.2 News
All Talk ... ?: NORMAN TOZER questions the effectiveness of some consumer organisations and advice. This month - big business and their consumer relations departments. Reading your letters.
Children's Hour - American style.
TheGipsyintheParlour(12)
TheGipsyin the Palour (12)
Story: Mr Williams the Window Cleaner by E. J. FARRINGTON
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
... and in two days' time a group of legless ex-servicemen will be proving their adaptability by ascending Snowdon. Brenda Kidman has been listening to 'double-amps' describe how they are overcoming their physical and psychological wounds, to lead the sort of lives which are too much for many of us. Producer HUGH PURCELL
The Autobiography of Mark Twain. 3: Dear Hearts and Gentle People
Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
This week:
Isobel Barnett , Penelope Keith Richard Briers , James Burke In the Chair Cliff Michelmore Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Penelope Keith is in ' Donkey's Years ' at the Globe Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Peter Hobday
Third in a 12-part drama series Phyllis Calvert in Mess by FRANCIS king , adapted for radio by DAVID FISHER
Myra was easy-going. Her life was a mess. She lived in a mess. But her son Roger, unlike the rest of the family, aspired to greater things - such as murder?
Devised and directed by DEREK HODDINOTT
BBC World Service production
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise introduce some more favourite entertainers of a few years ago. including
SID FIELD, FLANAGAN AND ALLEN, GEORGE FORMBY, RONALD FRANKAU, WILL FYFFE, TOMMY HANDLEY, WILL HAY, MAX MILLER, GILLIE POTTER, SUZETTE TARRI, WHEELER AND WILSON, ROBB WILTON and reminisce with DAVID WILLMOTT
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Revised repeat)
(It's Childsplay: Friday 7.25 pm BBC1)
Preview: page 19
The quiz game about what famous people said and what Larry Adler, Alan Coren, Humphrey Lyttelton and Diana Quick think they ought to have said instead. Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
(Diana Quick is a National Theatre player)
Presenter Peter France
S.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Dr Gully (11)
preceded by Weather
