6.40 Prayer for the Day REV PHILIP TURNFR

Michael Cooke in Manchester and John Timpson 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 3

Read by JOHN GRAHAM (8)

A magazine edition of this programme about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by PETER FRANCS Producer DILYS BREESE

Venice-A Children's Paradise? Each country has its own way of bringing up children. Today's programme takes a look at the way parents in Venice manage with the special problems of their beautiful environment. It is a city of endless steps and bridges; where children never get run over by a bus but -never see a green field.
Mary Redcliffe sees how parents cope in a city where ' the streets are full of water Producer MARY REDCLIFFE

BBC home correspondents and reporters.
Introduced by LAURIE MACMILLAN Producer GRAHAM MYTTON

NEM, p 93; Jesus, where'er thy people meet (BBC HB 263); Psalm 34, vv 1-10; 1 John 3, v 18 to 4, v 6 (RSV); 0 worship the king (BBC HB 471)

The Portrait by ALBANI POTTER Read by Sylvia Syms
She was glad to get the commission for the portrait, but what was the real identity of the man she had to paint and what could explain the strange images that intruded on the canvas? Producer DAVID SHUTE

London v West of England (Round 3) London:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John B. Mays who, given some academically inclined silkworms, discover that black might be added to white, red or to dark blue trimmings.
West of England:
Jack Longland (Chairman) with Lord Foot
Professor Richard Gregory who put the poetic expositor of the philosophy of Henry St John , the original temptress of Inspector Clouzot, and the most successful Canadian pilot of the First World War in that order.
Producer TREVOR HILL

A Victim of the System

Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do It

Chairman Robert Robinson Semi-final II
RICHARD SNAILHAM (Berkshire), lecturer
THOMAS CHIVERS (Wiltshire), clerk
GERALD GREGORY (Hampshire), civil servant richard THOMPSON (Somerset), retired banker
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 Widlake

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Superintendent Vonla McBride. newly appointed Director of the WRNS.
2.0-2.2 News
Perhaps You Need.... a Female Financial Adviser: a look at one of the less well-known professions.
Reading your letters.
1 If I Were ... I Would, ...: JACKY GILLOTT as Minister for Matrimonial Affairs.
In Your Garden: advice from FRANCES PERRY and ARTHUR BILLITT with JILL BURRIDGE in the Chair.
ANNA MASSEY reads The Painted Veil by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (7)

Story: There Goes the Pig by HERBERT MCKAY

Anything But Love by MICHAEL JUDGE with Pauline Delany Donal McCann and Kevin McHugh
' Sometimes he'd stand for hours at the back of the hall, watching all the motts go by, and he'd be afraid to ask one of them to dance. Sometimes I used to have to go and ask a girl to dance with him. Would you like to have the pleasure of this dance ... with my friend? They used to think I was some sort of a nut.'
Produced and directed by MJCHAEL HEFFERNAN

Remembered in Britain only for his peppy, pop-eyed performances in films like Roman
Scandals, Eddie Cantor lived and worked at the heart of American showbiz in its greatest days - the time of Ziegfeld, Will Rogers , Jimmy Durante and other legends.
Cantor and his friends are affectionately recalled by Frank Dixon
Producer HERBERT SMITH

The Toff on Ice
3: Man with a Yellow Beard

Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news

New stories about the characi ters created by A. j. CRONIN with This week:
Miller's Tale by PAT DUNLOP
Broadcast by arrangement With GRAHAM STEWART
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR

(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)

In the studio David Holden

Sixth in a 12-part drama series Joss Ackland. Michael Bryant and Christopher Cazenove in The Treasure in the Forest by h. G. WELLS , adapted for radio by MICHAEL ROBSON
Three men from different backgrounds come together for one purpose - gold. Motivated by greed and a growing hatred of each other the experience turns these desperate men into mad dogs. And you know what happens to mad dogs?
Devised and directed by DEREK HODDINOTT
BBC World Service production

.' In my head I have some big plans besides Siegfried - three dramas, with a three-act prelude. If all the German theatres tumble down I will erect a new one on the banks of the Rhine, call people together and produce the whole in the course of a week.
Richard Wagner , writing in 1851. Twenty-five years later the operas were finished, the new theatre had been erected, not on the banks of the Rhine but in an obscure Bavarian town called Bayreuth, and the first complete cycle of The Ring of the Nibelungs had been produced.
The Bayreuth Festival has become a great musical event which this year celebrates its centenary. To mark the occasion this programme tells the story of Wagner's struggle to make his dream come true. Narrator Denys Hawthorne
Written by MICHAEL KENNEDY
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON

What famous people said and what Larry Adler , Lvnn Barber Richard Boston and Alan Coren think they ought to have said instead.
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees

Presenter Chris Powling
9.59 Weather

Douglas Stuart reporting

Mark Twain and Royalty and Me by BERNARD SABATH , abridged for radio in three parts. Read by Faith Brook
For 30 years an Irish-American woman called Kate Leary was personal maid to the wife of the famous American novelist and humorist Mark Twain She gives an amusing account of her life working for the Twain family.
1: How It All Beoan
Producer CHERRY COOKSON

Part 3: Dr Roy Strong. Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , talks to CLIVE JACOBS about the river as a source of artistic inspiration.

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