6.40 Prayer for the Day FR JOHN HARRIOTT
Patricia Hodgson in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Talking Point
Can the effects on a child's life as a result of parental deprivation, reduced family income, and criminal reputation outweigh the penalty of a prison sentence passed on the mother or father? Is it justice that the family should be made to suffer while the parent sits in jail? David Hawksworth explores the evidence, and looks at the activities of concerned groups.
Presented by PIERS BURTON-PAGE Producer STEPHEN KANOCZ
nbm, p 67; Praise the Lord! ye heavens, adore him (BBC HB 16); Psalm 93; John 6 vv 14-27 (AV); How glorious Sion's courts appear (BBC hb 493)
The Letter by GARTH WEYMONT
Read by Richard Grant
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
... to Dynamic Living
The Correspondence Course you can cut. Just fill in your name here..............(if you can spell) and you will learn how to miss Lesson 15: Skive from School the Burkiss Way. with hints on truancy from Jo Kendall , Nigel Rees
Chris Emmett and Fred Harris Forged sick notes by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK and a variety of excuses from producer SIMON BRETT (who's got to stay in afterwards). (Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guests of the Week: Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber , creators of 'Jesus Christ, Superstar ' and ' Evita '
2.0-2.2 News
Back to the Beginning: EVELYN ROSE re-examines basic cooking techniques - 3: roasting. Reading Your Letters.
Making a Garden - 1: FRANCES PERRY talks tO ARTHUR BILLIT and RALPH GOULD about preparing the ground after the winter and what's new in the seed world.
Night Without Stars (8)
Story: Granny Apple's Mending Day by PAULINE HILL
Poor Sale by R. E. T. LAMB
Three men are trapped down a South American mine. ben: I have to speak. I can't squat there like you; have to speak. I'm not shouting, my ears and my eyes, my mouth, my mouth feels crammed with silence, crammed with dark, it's like being buried alive in sand.
Produced and directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
With the help of the BBC's wildlife recordings, Eric Simms recalls an exciting trip to the Game Parks of East Africa.
' Across the door of our little bungalow above the Nile was an adult hippo. Two tons of him. And he wouldn't budge. I knew I had to be careful because hippos can kill lions and bite people in half." Producer PETER DE ROSA
Everest the Hard Way (3)
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
I VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman: Nicholas Parsons and in which Clement Freud Graeme Garden , Peter Jones 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)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tusa links leading figures in politics, business, and the sciences and pools the experience of men of action confronted with problems of global concern. Producer KEITH HINDELL
presents his personal choice of poetry and prose, and talks about the reasons for his selections.
Angela Thorne and John Bennett join him in the readings before an invited audience in Broadcasting House, London.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (Revised repeat)
Four classic episodes 3: Fortress Malta
Written by KEITH DARVILL Narrator Tom Fleming
' The island is 17 miles by nine miles wide - smaller than the Isle of Wight. It produces less than 30 per cent of its own food. It offers us a defensive liability of intolerable proportions. A Malta garrison would be quickly isolated and overrun.'
That was the prevailing British Army view in 1940. It was very nearly the right one.
With the voices of PETER ALL-
MOND, MICHAEL GOLDIE , MICHAEL HARDY , DANIEL HILL , KATE KENDALL , BRUCE LIDINGTON , JOAN MATHESON , PAUL MEIER , PAUL MEN-ZIES, ESMOND RIDEOUT , WILLIAM ROBERTS , RONALD RUSSELL , JEFF-REY SEGAL , GEOFFREY SERLE and DAVID SHARP.
Produced and directed by BRIAN MILLER. BBC Bristol
(Revised repeat: Fri 11.5 am)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Jacky Gillott
Douglas Stuart reporting
Cranford by MRS GASKELL
Read by JILL BALCON (3)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
