6.40 Prayer for the Day
COMMANDER PETER KIMM , RN
John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead at the Conservative Party Conference 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 5
What will everyday life be like in, say, ten years' time? Sir Alan Cottrell, lately Chief Scientific Advisor to the Government, has been talking to George Luce.
'If you turn to the Sunday newspapers or even to the BBC, you'll find the arts, politics and all that side of the nation's activities discussed at great length. You'll not find much sympathetic discussion of industrial activities... These things will determine the economic life of the country in the next 20 or 30 years. The next four programmes look at some of these topics-
Tie a knot between your telephone and your television receiver and a whole world of information opens up - and it may mean you can run an office from a row of push buttons in the back bedroom.
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Presented by LAURIE MACMILLAN Producer GRAHAM MYTTON
NEM, p 17: Jesus, good above all other iBBC HB 72); Psalm 111: Matthew 14. v 34 to 15. v 9 (rsv); Enthrone thy God within thy heart (BBC HB 320)
The Play's the Thing by MRS GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN Read by Libby Morris
' As the pews emptied, the stout lady passed Emmy Lou on, addressing someone beyond. " Hold to this one," she said, and I'll take the other two, or they'll get tramped in the crowd." '
Conceived, written and performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor Barrv Cryer , John Junkin and The Denis King Trio Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS
It's a Very Common Complaint
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do I?
in Things Could be Worse, with John Baddeley , John Graham and Miriam Margolyes
4: The Best Policy, 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
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week: Norman Collins , originator of Woman's Hour and now Deputy Chairman. ATV.
Reading your letters.
Side by Side: MÁIRE MESSENGER on a togetherness scheme for mothers and babies at High Wycombe General Hospital.
By Special Request (4): a listener's choice from 30 years of Woman's Hour.
Charity Child by IRENE M. SMITH Read by Diana Olsson
Stories: Dot's Bicycle by RUTH AINSWORTH and Penny's Paper People by JILL ROWE
The Day After the Fair by FRANK HARVEY , based on On the Western Circuit by THOMAS HARDY
An illiterate servant girl meets a young man at the local fair. They spend the day after the fair in a grassy hollow, out of the wind. Later, when he writes to her, she asks her mistress for help.
Adapted from the stage play and directed by JOHN PITMAN
BBC World Service production
1 Although in a wav I still love my husband there's part of me that hates him ... '
PAT was eventually beaten up so severely by her husband that she was admitted to hospital, near to death. Her husband was then imprisoned and when she left hospital she was alone with four children to look after, and desperate.
Pat tells LESLIE SMITH what it feels like to be a battered wife. As a psychiatrist said to her, ' Living with a psychopath for ten years in itself is success....' Producer RALPH ROLLS
Winnie-the-Pooh
A 50th Birthday Celebration
3: Eeyore has a Birthday and Pooh gets into a Tight Place
We hear of the contrariness of Balloons, the usefulness of Pots, and what comes of not having a big enough front door.
(Tomorrow: An Expotition to the North Pole and Pooh and Piglet nearly catch a Woozle)
Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated. Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
First of a ' participation ' series with ROGER COOK and NICK ROSS 1: Peterhead-A Community in Turmoil
From Scottish fishing port to potentially the largest petrochemical complex in Europe in less than a decade. Roger Cook hands the microphone to those on the side of progress. Nick Ross hears of those who feel their way of life is swamped by commercial interests.
Compiled by ROGER COOK , NICK Ross and SALLY DIPLOCK. Producer RITCHIE COGAN. (Rptd: 14 Oct)
'I know that through all my troubles I could never say that I'm not a lucky person, because materially and emotionally, I am very blessed. There's a lot to deal with, but to be so cherished makes one feel that this is a land full of milk and honey.'
Three years ago, when she was 28, Jacqueline du Pre, the world-famous cellist, was told she had multiple sclerosis. Today she is in a wheelchair, her arms are weak, her fingers numb. In this programme she describes her career and her fight to come to terms with the disease that brought it to an end. With the voices of her husband, Daniel Barenboim; her teacher, William Pleeth; her consultant neurologist; and her old friend, the late Sir John Barbirolli
(A recital by Jacqueline du Pre: Radio 3 at 10.20 pm)
author of the Hyman Kaplan stories, talks to Benny Green. He reveals that some of his truth is stranger than his fiction, Eric Porter reads an extract from The Education of Hyman Kaplan.
Producer HELEN FRY
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting and John Tusa at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton
High Stakes by DICK FRANCIS <8)
followed by an interlude
preceded by Weather
