6.40 Prayer for the Day REV MALCOLM SCOTT
Michael Cooke in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
by ALAN BOWER
Read by MICHAEL HARBOUR 3: It Takes an Expert
What will everyday life be like in, say, ten years' time? 1: A Grain of Sand
The Silicon Chip is causing a revolution in the electronics industry. The tiny chip can run a sewing machine or a weaving loom and, ultimately, could drive a motor car or chemical plant. What is the secret of the electronic grain of sand and where might it take us?
Reporter and presenter George Luce
Producer MARLENE PEASE
Presented by LAURIE MACMILLAN Producer STEPHEN KANOCZ
NEM, p 75; Three Kings from Persian lands afar (Oxford Book of Carols 193); Psalm 119, vv 9-16 (BCP); 2 Timothy 1, vv 1-14 (NEB); In the bleak midwinter (BBC HB 51)
Once Upon a Wish by SEAN LINDEY
Read by Gerald Cross
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise
... to Dynamic Living
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Then put a cross in the box not provided and you will receive Lesson 10 Govern Britain the Burkiss Way with democratic instruction from Jo Kendall , Nigel Rees
Chris Emmett and Fred Harris a proportionally representative script by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK and a ministerial production by 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:
Penelope Keith , better known as Margo in the BBC series The Good Life and currently appearing in ' Donkey's Years ' at the Globe Theatre, London.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Living Without - 3: Fat
I Was Where God Wanted Me to Be: 20 years ago MARY O'HARA was on the brink of an international singing career. Then she went into an enclosed community. Now after 12 years she is starting her singing all over again. Street Confusion (7)
Story: The Holly Tree and the Chestnut Tree by T. M. MALLIN
Free Fall by ivor wilson
' My bosses have millions tied up in Waterfords, and if the firm's going bankrupt - as it will if there's no reorganisation - they'll write the share-holders' report in my blood, but if I win - the door's wide open. I have to win this one.'
Produced and directed by ALFRED BRADLEY. BBC Manchester
Bomping on and the role of sossers; the rivalry between Blue and White, and stuffers and strippers - these are some of the colourful expressions which distinguish the people of London's Dockland, who, in this portrait, talk about their community and traditions.
' Wrong or right, they're my mates - that's the way it is in Dockland.'
Producer JOY HATWOOD
I Capture the Castle
7: An Eventful Birthday
Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons in which Clement Freud
Peter Jones , Derek Nimmo and Kenneth Williams endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that. Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
Kenneth Williams 's Review p 70
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
A comedy thriller in four parts by ALAN MELVILLE with Robert Lang and Edward Hardwicke
In a recess from parliamentary business, a Conservative mp and a Socialist mp find themselves on holiday at the same north country golfing resort. They also discover something missing on the links ...
1: Un-Natural Hazard
Other parts: ANNE ROSENFELD and MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES Produced and directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
Kenneth Brecher is a social anthropologist who spent two years living as a member of an isolated Indian tribe in the Xingu region of Central Brazil. In five programmes he imagines how his friend Kwamuti, who has never left the Amazon before, would question with amazement the British way of life.
With Renu Setna as Kwamuti
'For scientific leadership give me Scott: for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen. But when you are in a hopeless situation, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.'
Duncan Carse, who, 20 years ago rediscovered Sir Ernest Shackleton's first crossing of South Georgia, where the great explorer died on 5 January 1922, presents a personal portrait of the man whose outstanding qualities of leadership, courage and compassion earned him the nickname - 'The Boss'.
With Norman Rodway as Sir Ernest Shackleton and Martin Jarvis as the Historian
(Norman Rodway is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co.)
Presenter Edwin Mullins
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Constipation of O'Brien (3)
2: Harry Price - The Ghost
Hunter Wynford Vaughan-Thomas recalls one of the great pioneers in the pursuit of poltergeists.
(Tomorrow - 3: The Marquis and the Squire)
preceded by Weather
