i.40 Prayer for the Day FR JOHN HARRIOTT , SJ
Brian Bedhead 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 5
What will everyday life be like in, say, ten years' time? 3: New Walls for Old
The house you live in - how often have you thought that the wonders of modern technology seem to have passed yon by? We ask what the scientists can teach the builders by the end of the next decade, Reporter and presenter George Luce
Producer MARLENE PEASE
Presented by PETER JEFFERSON Producer GRAHAM MYTTON
NEM, p 75; Lord Christ, who on thy heart didst bear (BBC HB 380); Psalm 119, w 1-8; Matthew 19, vv 16-30 (RSV); 0 brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother! (BBC HB 376)
The Perfect Uncle by JIM MCMANUS and TERRY WILSON
Read by Jim McManus
' Maurice was what could be called a textbook uncle. He took it seriously, he'd read a lot of books about child/adult relationships and prided himself on understanding a great many things about children that many a parent never even knew.'
Conceived, written and performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor Barry Cryer. John Junkin and The Denis King Trio
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester
The Richard Gunn Show
Rights and Responsibilities Edition
Presented by Nancy Wise with yaur letters
in Things Could be Worse
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Brian Wtdlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Gina Frallni. dress-designer
2.0-2.2 News
Wheeling and Dealing - we're visiting the Motor Show.
Winter Flowering: advice from FRANCES PERRY about bulbs to plant indoors.
' A Humming Noise All Over It ... ': ROSE GAMBLE remembers going to the gas works to fetch a barrow load of coke. A Touch of Mistletoe (8)
Story: The Meter Man by DONALD MATTAM
Twenty-One Days by RACHEL WYATT
' I could probably get a job in Leeds. Be close to my parents. I've walked down Vonge Street in Toronto sometimes lately and said to myself, " Helen Hopkins , what are you doing here? " '
Produced and directed by LIANE AUKIN
' Pam ' is Pamela Ayres , the young secretary who was catapulted into the world of show-businessafter an improbable poetry-reading on a rv talent show.
' Her Poems ' are wry verses making perceptive comment about contemporary life. Her first published collection became an immediate best-seller and has been in the top ten formost of this year. This afternoon, PAM talks about herself and reads some of her poems in her own distinctive style.
Producer
JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham-
Black as He's Painted 3: Catastrophe
Read by DAVID MAHLOWE
Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
by Dick Sharples
New stories about the characters created by A.J. Cronin
This week: Mother's Boy
Broadcast by arrangement with Graham Stewart
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
with your comments and questions to a leading public figure. In the Chair Robin Day
Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
The lines are open from 6.0 pm until the end of the programme.
When Alexander Dolgun, a young American working at the US Embassy in Moscow, left his office for lunch one day in 1948, he was kidnapped by the KGB. His ordeal, which to him seemed endless, became 'a classic testament to the immensities of courage and imagination that the ordinary human being, under siege, can muster in defence of his humanness.'
Adapted from the book "Alexander Dolgun's Story"
Presenter Paul Vangban
9.59 Weather
Douglas Staart reporting
And So - Victoria Book 2 Read by GARY WATSON (8)
preceded by Weather
