6.40 Prayer for the Day SISTER MARTINA
Michael Cooke in Manchester and John Tlmpson in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News, Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Talking Point
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by Derek Jones
BBC Bristol
Questions to: Talking Point, The Living World, [address removed]
Thousands and thousands of children truant from school each day. No one is sure of the exact number because despite registration children can still ' opt-out ' of school after roll-call.
Kathryn Davies has been to truancy centres and schools In order to find why young people don't find school that appealing any more.
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country.
Introduced by Laurie MacMillan
NEM, p 46; Christ be with me, Christ within me (BBC HB 136); Psalm 85: Ephesians 6, vv 1-13 (av); Hail to the Lord's Anointed (BBC HB 457)
by Jack Philip-Nichols
Read by Michael Elder
'I put the phone on the living-room table and laid the revolver beside it - I knew I hadn't got the job, but why had he asked me to phone that number - and why at that time? The red hand came round to eight seconds to eight and I started to dial...'
BBC Scotland
by Lawrence Dobie
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do I?
Chairman Robert Robinson
Second Round 24: Wales and Northern Ireland
Harry Butlin (Clwyd), retired technologist; James Pirie (Gwynedd), secretary; Paul Burrows (Co Armagh), school-master; Andrew Hemphill (Co Londonderry), schoolteacher
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set by John P. Wynn and Ian Gillies
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news; VHF Regional news and weather.
Brian Wldlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Christopher Zealley, Chairman of the Consumers' Association,
2.0-2.2 News
Finos and Festivals and White Towns in the Sun: Teresa McGonagle reports on a visit to the Sherry region of Spain.
Perhaps You Need... an Actuary: a look at one of the less well-known professions.
Through the Eyes of a Child: going on holiday.
I Know a Rotten Place (3)
Story: Mr Mortimer 's Little Old Car by Elizabeth MacDonald
Blood Lines by JOHN KIRKMORRIS with William Eedle as Arthur and Joy Harrison as Sara Arthur : I came here today with a proposal. Joe can tell you about it. Go on, say your piece, Joe.
JOE: We haven't made a brilliant start, have we? Right. The short way of saying it is to tell you that your father-in-law wishes to make Christopher his eventual heir.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
'Over the past 25 years I've seen 79 different kinds of birds flying over or actually in my garden in Dollis Hill in North-West London.'
Eric Simms plays some of his recordings.
Producer PETER DE ROSA
The Sole Survivor
3: Then There Were Four
Brian Widtake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
by Donald Bull
New stories about the characters created by A.J. Cronin
Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart
Producer Edward Taylor
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Holden
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
On 7 January 1973 the starved emaciated body of seven-year-old Maria Colwell was delivered in an old pram to a Brighton hospital The subsequent inquiry stated:
The overall impression created by Maria's sad history is that i while individuals made mistakes, it was " the system ". : using the words in the widest e sense, which failed her. Because that system is the product of society. It is upon society as a whole that the ultimate blame must rest: indeed, the highly emotional and angry reaction of the public in this case may indicate society's troubled conscience.'
Narrated by Edgar Lustgarten Written and produced by ALAN BURGESS
The quiz game about what famous people said and what Peter Cook. John Wells Richard Boston and Jo Kendall think they ought to have said instead.
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer JOHN LLOYD
Presenter Robert Cushman
Douglas Stuart reporting
Taken at the Flood (3)
preceded by Weather
