6.40 Prayer for the Day. REV TIMOTHY RAPHAEL
with Brian Bedhead in Manchester and John TUnpson 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 wtU everyday life be like, say, in ten years' time?
4: March of the Mechanical Men Why do the job yourself if you can teach a machine to do it instead? The first steps of the industrial robot onto the shop-floor: what it looks like, what kind of chores it will handle - and will it need a union card? Reporter and presenter George Luce
Producer MARLENE PEASE
(Starting
Presented by SHEILA TRACY Producer GRAHAM MYTTON
nem,p97:Lord,thyword abideth (BBC HB 190); Psalm 33, vv 1-12; Matthew 21, w 23-32 (RSV); Glorious things of thee are spoken <BBC HB 176)
Killed with Kindness by FRANCES GOMM
Read by Grizelda Hervey
4 They say we oldies don't understand the younger generation. All right; it is a long time since we were young, but we have been there. We do know - and sometimes remember ... Up to a couple of years ago, I'd always gone on holiday with my daughter and son-in-law ... '
Conceived, written and performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor Barry Cryer , John Junkin and THE DENIS KING TRIO
Producer 808 OLIVER ROGERS
BBC Manchester
medium leave only
Two Men from Derby
Rights and Responsibilities Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise
in Things Could be Worse 7: And So to Bed
(For full details see Fri 6.15
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF(except London and SE) Regional news and weather
Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the week: Harold Hobson , writer and drama critic
2.0-2.2 News
Autumn in the Country: PHIL BRABBLE and RAY GOODWIN With some seasonal sights and sounds.
Reading your letters.
' Yelling at the Toffs ...': ROSE GAMBLE remembers visiting Hyde Park so that Dad could repair her boots.
Handmade for Christmas (3): have fun and save money-something for nothing gifts, Faorolet and Friends by RICHARD COMPTON-HALL
Read by Martin Muncaster 1: Miss Basket 1975
(Music: Les Deux Pigeons - Ballet by Messager)
Story: There Was Once a Boy by DIANA Ross
The Priest and the President by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER with Alton Kumalo. Willie Jonah and Carleton Hobbs
A revolution in a newly independent African state turns the President into a fugitive - and places Father Moyo in an agonising dilemma.
Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
4.5 How to be Decadent
Written and presented by George Mikes
'It is a shame and in bad taste to be an alien and it is no use pretending otherwise. There is no way out of it. A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner can't improve. Once a foreigner always a foreigner.' It is 30 years since the publication of George Mikes' famous book How To Be An Alien. To mark the anniversary he takes a lighthearted look at how he felt then and how he might feel were he to arrive as an alien in this country today.
Black as He's Painted 8: Keeping Oboo
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
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.
Written by Sarah Boston
'Alarmists may view these indications of female independence as more menacing to established institutions than the education of the lower orders.'
(THE LEEDS MERCURY 1832)
Tonight's programme celebrates the campaign for equal pay and opportunities for women from the end of the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Speakers: LAETITIA FAIRFIELD, JESSIE STEPHEN , MURIEL JAMIESON , SARAH CHATER , AUBREY WISE, MP, SALLY GROVES
Narrator Geoffrey Wheeler
with the voices of GEOFFREY BANKS, ROSALIND KNIGHT OLIVE PENDLETON , MARAH STOHL BRIAN TRUEMAN , PETER WHEELER
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
BBC Manchester
Presented by Jacky Giliott
Douglas Stuart reporting
And So - Victoria by VAUGHAN WILKINS
Book 2: The Reckoning
Read by GARY WATSON (13)
preceded by Weather
