6.40 Prayer for the Day HILDA FLINT
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Michael Cooke 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 and Weather; Thought for the Day at 7.45* English Regions, see column 5
Read by JULIAN GLOVER (4)
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 46; 0 dearest Lord, by all adored (BBC HB 266); Psalm 32; Matthew 7, vv 13-29 (RSV); Just as I am, without one plea (BBC HB 292)
The Last Family Holiday by GRAHAM SEAL
Read by Richard Bebb
'He reached out a hand and touched her cheek. " Just keeping in touch," he said. " D'you sometimes get the feeling that life is always one step ahead of you, and by the time you arrive, it's moved on? " '
presents his personal choice of poetry and prose before an invited audience.
Reader JUNE BARRIE. Producer BRIAN PATTEN. BBC Bristol
In a series of five reminiscent talks the well-known barrister, author and broadcaster recalls some of the strange, amusing, and even frightening, things that have happened to him and the people he's known. 5: Humour
Presenter George Luce including MOLLY PRICE-OWEN with the BBC Shopping Basket, the weekend's best buys, all the news that affects consumers.
with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray Arthur Askey. Cyril Fletcher
In the Chair McDonald Hobley Special guest Roy Plomley
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(McDonald Hobley is in ' No Sex, Please - We're British at the Strand Theatre, London)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Brian Widlake
Story: High and Low by PEGGY JOHNS
Prtrella
A series of four detective plays specially written for radio by MICHAEL GILBERT with 1: The Elusive Baby
It's Mrs Morgan, sir. She put her pram out at nine o'clock this morning. Went into the house to do a few jobs. When she came out the baby was gone.'
Produced and directed by GRAHAM GAULD
JACK BE MANIO meets the famous and the not-so-famous. Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
4.0-4.5 News
Napoleon and Josephine
9: A Fairly Happy Marriage
Brian Widiake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Second of six programmes which recall some of the highlights of this popular programme since it began in October 1948. Presented by MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
James Cameron presents a personal account of Britain in the post-war years in ten programmes covering 1945-56.
2:1 say that this country cannot today give greater proof of its international faith than by preparing to ration its own bread. More we can't do. more we shouldn't be asked to do.'
(JOHN STRACHEY)
In 1946 Britain was short of food, homes, coal, machinery and money. Whalemeat failed to satisfy the palate and prefabs failed to house the homeless. There was little enough to cheer about although 14,000 sets tuned in to the reopening of tv, there was dancing at the palais, and the start of the Third Programme. The Attlee Government, with a huge majority. passed their nationalisation bills, while Ernest Bevin grew disillusioned with the intractable Russians. The Americans raised a third mushroom cloud of atomic destruction over Bikini, and the War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg judged and sentenced the Nazi prisoners. Producers HELEN FRY and GWYNETH HENDERSON
By the time a child reaches school age, even nursery school age, he may already be at an educational disadvantage. Many mothers don't play with their children. some rarely talk to them. A mother may be unaware of a small baby's need for all kinds of stimulation to help him learn about himself and the world around him or she may simply not have enough energy left from the battle against poor housing conditions and lack of money, to enjoy playing with her baby.
Linda Blandford looks at how the problem is being tackled by groups of home visitors and home/school liaison officers who go into homes armed with toys and plenty of energy to teach mothers how to play with their children.
Producer JENNY de YONG BBC Birmingham
Presenter Angela Hulh
John Tusa reporting including a report from the tuc Conference
And So - Victoria Book 1 Read by GARY WATSON (4)
The fourth and last programme of the series in which Kenneth Robinson threatens to talk and play the piano simultaneously for the very first time. He also reveals the use of sock suspenders in musical performances, and vodka in the bathroom cabinet.
preceded by Weather
