6.40 Prayer for the Day SISTER MARTINA
John Timpson in London and Michael Cooke in Manchester
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 and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column S
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 50; Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heavens (BBC HB 482); Psalm 89; Jeremiah 1, vv 4-10 and 17-19 (Jerusalem Bible): Give to our God immortal praise (BBC HB 6)
The Maypole by OLIVE POLLARD
Read by Juliet Cooke
' Its a traditional ... er thing for the first of May. Sort of like Easter Eggs and Bonfire Night. We got two hoops from the grocer. Off butter tubs they were. It came in barrels then. Not through the paper. One crossed inside the other made the bower. Then we nailed it to a broom handle and twisted decorations saved from Christmas round the shape.' Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
The last 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 MaeGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Any Other Business: a look at some of the more domestic points from Parliament. Reading your letters.
Fame in the Family: as it affects ESTHER RANTZEN and her mother, KATHERINE RANTZEN. JIM MCMANUS reads
I Know a Rotten Place (4)
Story: Mr Corkingdale and the Dentist-Bird by WILLIAM RANKIN
Bryan Pringle and Anthony Jackson in Lament for the Highland Laddie by GRAHAM BLACKETT
There's ' trouble at t'mill again, I'm afraid. But shop steward Sid and works supervisor Len arrive at a very cunning solution.... thanks to that ' Highland Laddie '.
Produced and directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
JACK de MANIO meets the famous, the not-so-famous and sometimes even the downright obscure.
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
4.0-4.5 News
The Sole Survivor by ROY VICKERS
Read by \ROD BEACHAM
4: The Foot in the Dart
Brian Widlake
5.50 viedium wave only 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
by Donald Thomas
Six classic cases in the story of British criminal investigation as we know it today.
with Robert Trotter
'We at the Procurator-Fiscal's office received the report of Lieutenant Hambrough's death. There was nothing to be questioned in it. There was no evidence of foul play, still less any motive for it. But one day, towards the end of August...'
BBC Scotland
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
Little more than a decade ago, with the recommendations of the Robbins Report being rapidly implemented, the future for higher education looked bright: more universities, a great expansion in places, new and more varied courses.
Now, to many observers, the universities seem to be in the doldrums: disenchanted students, disgruntled staffs, widespread dissatisfaction with an outmoded curriculum and degree structure, and a growing disposition to question the role and values of the traditional system as it continues to operate in a changing world.
What should be the response of the universities? More ' manpower planning ', with the needs of industry in mind? Less concern with vocational training and more insistence on scholarship for its own sake? Fewer places for schoolleavers and a warmer welcome for the mature student?
Harry Ree. formerly Professor of Education at the University of York. discusses the prospects with some of those closely concerned.
Producer STANLEY VNLLIAMSON BBC Manchester
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
Taken at the Flood (4)
preceded by Weather
