6.40 Prayer for the Day PEGGY MAKINS
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.4 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
2: Revolution in the Greenhouse Cultivating the contents of the salad bowl in water-filled gullies is rapidly becoming commercially viable. Hydroponics, as the science is called, has many advantages over growing tomatoes and cucumbers in the traditional way.
New techniques will affect marketing. How will the housewife react to buying a lettuce complete with roots?
Reporter and presenter George Luce
Producer MARLENE PEASE
BBC home correspondents and reporters analyse significant developments.
Presented by PIERS BURTON PAGE - Producer STEPHEN KANOCZ
NEM, p 93; Lo, God is here! let us adore (BBC HB 264); Psalm 34, vv 1-10; John 1, vv 14-28 (AV); God liveth still (BBC HB 513)
The Importance of Being Wed Written and read by Brian Hayes
2: Hurried Exodus
Rights and Responsibilities Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
... to Dynamic Living
Tighten your ectoplasm, fill your pen with invisible ink and fill in your name here and you will have imparted to you Lesson 11: Journey Into the Unknown the Burkiss Way, with transcendental instruction from
Jo Kendall , Nigel Rees
Chris Emmett and Fred Harris an ethereal script by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK and other-worldly production by SIMON BRETT (Rptd: Fri 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by June Knox -Mawer Guest of the Week: Margaret Drabble , writer
2.0 2.2 News
It's a Knock-Down - 1: DAVID BATTIE with some tips about auctions - first, for the seller.
LYNN TEN KATE at an Indian Harvest Festival.
Cookery Club: Ideas for home entertaining without being too extravagant from JOSCELINE DIMBLEBY and DELIA SMITH , Sweet Confusion (12)
Story: The Foghorn to the Rescue by RUTH SIMONIS
The Road from Dunkirk by LESTER POWELL
Nigel Anthony as James Fleet John Rye as Bo Stainton and Eve Karpf as Adriana Mark ' Then there came Dunkirk. The whole world - our world, anyway - falling to bits. Yet here I am in this beautiful room with you. Well, however future historians may view 1940, it's really been a year of wonders for No 7260676 Private James Llewellyn Fleet.'
Produced and directed by HARRY CATLIN
by H. COLIN DAVIS and ANTONY MIALL
The story of ' Laurence Hope ', poetess and adventuress, and the Four Indian Love Lyrics. The Love Lyrics became the most successful of all Edwardian parlour songs and, even today, retain something of the warmth and richness of those legendary days before the twilight of the British Raj. Narrator H. Colin Davis
Readers EVA HADDON and ANTONY MIALL. Singer DAVID VAN ASCH Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Rendezvous with Rama 3: The Plain of Rama
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
A comedy thriller in four parts by ALAN MELVILLE with Edward IIardwicke
Robert Lang , Fabia Drake and John Humphry
Sir Bertram Oliphant 's political memoirs contain diplomatic dynamite. Many people would like to get their hands on the manuscript, mysteriously left with our heroes. Someone did get their hands on Sir Bertram - he's found buried head first in a bunker!
2: Lunch with her Ladyship
Produced and directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (Rptd: Thurs 3.5)
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. 2: Hunting and Gathering with Renu Setna as Kwamuti Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Sir Cecil Parrott , formerly British Ambassador in Czechoslovakia, started his professional career as private tutor to Crown Prince Peter of Yugoslavia, who later became king.
In this programme based on his recent book The Tightrope he tells the story of an Englishman's involvement with the turbulent politics of the pre-war and wartime Balkans.
Sir Cecil Parrott narrates the programme. Other voices are those Of JUDY BENNETT ,
JOAN MATHESON , IRENE SUTCLIFFE , MARY WIMBUSH , JO MANNING WILSON , GEOFFREY COLLINS , MICHAEL GOLDIE , WALTER HALL , LESLIE HERITAGE ,NEVILLE JASON , JOHN RYE ,JEFFREY SEGAL and MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES Producer MARTIN ESSLIN
Presenter Tony Palmer
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Captain's Doll (5)
preceded by Weather
