6.40 Prayer for the Day TONY BLACK
John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, Including Thought for the Day at 7.45* English Reoions: see column 5
Read by JULIAN GLOVER (14)
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 102; Angel-voices, ever singing (BBC HB 256); Psalm 147. vv 12-20; Matthew 12. w 14-24 (rsv); My heart is filled with longing (BBC HB 525)
Over the River bv FRED JOHNSTON
Read by Alice-Sara Abernethy ' My name is Theresa. I was 22 last birthday. I am pregnant; the child is Desi's and he doesn't know about it yet.' Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
It's 100 years since Richard Jefferies wrote his classic study of the rural scene, Hodge and his Masters. In six programmes Hugh Barrett compares the characters of the 1870s with their successors of today. 2: Hodoe's Masters - the Farmers
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Presenter George Luce
Including MOLLY PRICE-OWEN with the BBC Shopping Basket, the weekend's best buys, all the news that affects consumers.
Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray
Cyril Fletcher , Alfred Marks
In the Chair McDonald Robley Special guest Ted Moult
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
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Special Problems, Special Solutions: ANNE MACNAMARA visits a group designing to overcome individual disability.
Wakey! Wakey!: ANNE SUTER la not a Morning Person.
Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments, places to go. The Right True End (9)
Story: Big Fat Puss Cat by SHEILA HAYLEY
Petrella, four detective plays written by MICHAEL GILBERT with Peter Gilmore as Det-Insp Patrick Petrella
3: The Banting Street Fire
'Last night the Premier Garage in Banting Street, Southwark, was totally destroyed by fire. There is no evidence yet as to how the fire started.'
Produced and directed by GRAHAM GAULD
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous and the not-so-famous. Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
4.0-4.5 News
Felix Holt by GEORGE ELIOT (4)
Brian Widlake
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Fourth of six programmes of some of the highlights of this popular series which began in October 1948. Presented by MICHAEL BOWEN. BBC Bristol
James Cameron 's personal account of post-war Britain in ten programmes covering 1945-56.
4: ' When Cripps became Chancellor of the Exchequer, he became a great figure; this strange, monastic-looking man, emaciated, said to live off watercress grown off the blotting paper on his desk. When I said we lived in a world of Fish and Cripps, I was very much attacked.'
(HAROLD MACMILLAN )
It's doubtful if there was even very much fish around in 1947. Actual living conditions were worse than during the war; parachute silk was all the rage for a bride's trousseau, and the swirling New Look was condemned as wasteful by the austerity-conscious politicians. By 1948 the world stage was full of tragedy: Gandhi was assassinated: Jan Masaryk was found dead: Czechoslovakia lost her freedom; and the new
Jewish State of Israel was born into bloodshed. But at home we had the excitement and glamour of the royal wedding, and Bevan's triumphant launching of the National Health Service. Producers HELEN FRY and GWYNETH HENDERSON
Presented by John Eidinow
In October 1974. the National Front was the fourth largest party in the General Election. with 90 candidates. It captured less than one per cent of the vote. Since then. the Front's electoral fortunes - at ward and constituency level - have improved, sometimes dramatically. At local elections this year in Leicester, for example. nearly one vote in five was for the National Front. What is the Front's appeal? Can It be sustained? How are the major parties responding to its challenge in the cities? Has the recent split in the party altered the image of the ' far right ' of British politics? Producer
MICHAEL GREEN. BBC Manchester
Presenter Tony Palmer
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
And So-Victoria Book 1 (14)
At the St John's Wood Synagogue in London, the Chief Rabbi. DR IMMANUEL JAKOBOVITS , discusses with a small group the collective response of the Jewish Community to the New Year celebrations.
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