Prayer for the Day BILL DRUMMOND
Brian Redhead in Manchester and John Timpson in London with reports from the Liberal Party Assembly in Llandudno from Michael Cooke
At 7.0 and 8.6 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 S
Read by JULIAN GLOVER (8)
Fire!
Today's Radio Nature Trail belongs very specially to 1976. First the long hot summer, now the fires sweeping across the countryside and destroying in minutes the special habitats which plants and animals need to survive. This programme visits one of the most severely damaged areas, the heathland of Dorset.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
The Forgotten Celebrities
' The heartbreak battle to make Mai Lee smile'
* 6,000 willing to adopt Vietnam orphans'
' Row grows over babylift'
These were just some of the headlines in the papers last spring when the airlift of orphans from Vietnam began. Many came to Britain and started a new life here.
Pat Rowe finds out just how they and the people who took care of them are getting on. Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
Introduced by Laurie macmillaw Producer ANNE slouan
nem, p 71; All praise to thee, for thou, 0 King divine (BBC BB 119); Psalm 97; Matthew 9, w 27-38 (rsv); Before the almighty Father's throne (BBC hb 452)
A Stranger to These Parts by MINA MACPHERSON
Read by Michael Elder
He was a man of solid common-sense. He fenced the land stoutly, bought a tractor and proceeded to show the crofters how to farm properly. The only trouble was they didn't seem to appreciate his efforts. Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland
Forty-Love by PETER mckelvey
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do IT
with John Baddeley , John Graham and Miriam Margolyes
Written by David McKellar and David Renwick
Producer Simon Brett
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Professor Quentin Bell, critic and biographer.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Artists at Work (2): Bernard Jackson with some painters at Chelsea School of Art.
In Your Garden: advice from Frances Perry and Arthur Billitt with Jill Burridge in the Chair.
Sport for All - Helen Palmer (3): Indoor sports.
Jack Carr reads The Right True End by Stan Barstow (3)
Story: Dorothy Goes to Nursery School by zofi BAILEY
A Darkened Room by ROBERT NICOLSON with ian: The fact that you are blind makes it necessary for me to say things that I would not have to if you could see , .. I would not, for example, have had to say you are beautiful: you would have seen that I thought so. LAURA: What are you like? Who is talking to me like this? Produced and directed by STEWART CONN . BBC Scotland
* A natural greed and fondness for cooking means cook books have accumulated round me - and there's plenty of history and philosophy in them too.'
Peggy Makins takes a fascinating and entertaining journey through the world of the extravagant Countess of Dudley, the omniscient Mrs Beeton , the snobbish Henri Charpentier , the austere wartime Ministry of Food to our own days of monosodium glutamate with everything - pausing occasionally for a sip of vintage 1 plonk '.-
Readers: IRENE SUTCLIFFE
NICOLETTg MCKENZIE
JEFFREY SEGAL and HAYDN JONES Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
Napoleon and Josephine 13: Divorce
Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
New stories about the characters created by A. j. CRONIN with This week: The Trouper by PAT DUNLOP
Broadcast by arrangement With GRAHAM STEWART
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed^ In the studio David Sells
Tenth in a 12-part drama series Neville Jason and Maureen O'Brien in The Executioner by HONORE DE BALZAC
Adapted for radio by JOAN O'CONNOR
In war men commit terrible crimes. So it was during the Napoleonic wars that a young Captain had to carry out the orders of his General - orders that debased all civilised conduct. And they called themselves gentlemen!
Devised and directed by DEREK HODDINOTT
BBC World Service production
An accountant suddenly thinks he's Napoleon... a suburban housewife gets the idea she's being bugged by the CIA... just two victims of a mental disorder that's not as rare as you think. There are more than half a million schizophrenics in Britain - that's one out of every 100 people.
In the first of three programmes, Tony van den Bergh examines the different forms and causes of schizophrenia; talks to victims and their families about its effect; and looks at the work being done to find a cure.
Producer Jock Gallagher
BBC Birmingham
The quiz game about what famous people said and what Larry Adler. Lynn Barber
Richard Boston. Alan Coren think they ought to have said instead. Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer JOHN LLOYD
A nightly review
Presenter Tony Palmer
John Tusa reporting including a report from the Liberal Party Assembly
And So - Victoria Book 1 Read by GARY WATSON (8)
The third of four talks in which Robin Ray compares falling in love to the four seasons.
Autumn - often described as the season of mellow fruitfulness. Is it the same for the partners in a love affair of long standing?
preceded by Weather
