6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN MATTHEW
Brian Redhead in Manchester Sylvia Home in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
On the Level
2: Special Parents For Special Children
Adoption has always been a formal process, leaving too many potentially adoptive parents disappointed - whether single or married, young or middle-aged; and leaving parentless too many children who are handicapped, past babyhood, members of a family group who need to stay together, or who simply don't really understand what a parent is. Andy Price looks into ways in which these special parents and children can learn to enjoy and benefit from a family life together.
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
Presented by PIERS BURTON-PAGE Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 106; Loving Shepherd of thy sheep (BBC HB 146); Psalm 121; John 7, vv 37-52 (AV); Father all-seeing, friend of all creation (BBC HB 385)
The Special Delivery bye. BOSLEY Read by Deryck Guyler
Marriage Aforethought by GERALD SAVORY
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
William Rushton , comic and satirist
2.0-2.2 News
Stranger in the Shire: (2)
ANDY PRICE discovering Hereford and Worcester as a holiday county.
Reading Your Letters
At the Time to Mourn, It Helps to Remember: JOAN HUGHES reflects on a recent bereavement.
Story: The Night Fighters by SHIRLEY GEE
This Football Lark by JULIA JONES MUM: We should've stamped on it from the word go, your dad should never have bought you football boots for your birthday. I said to him ... I said ... ' Dad, no girl of seven needs football boots.' Biggest mistake we ever made, those football boots, and it's past time you had that baby up, Linda. Babies need feeding regular.
Produced and directed by MICHAEL ROLFE. BBC Birmingham
David Attenborough traces the life and career of the anthropologist, Louis Leakey.
Louis Leakey who died in 1972 probably spent more time on his knees than any monk. But he wasn't praying. He was scrabbling in the dust for fossils, for the skulls of apes, the teeth of elephants, the jaws of pigs, the remains of tortoise shells - and, above all, for human bones that would push back our knowledge of man's origin thousands, even millions of years.'
Programme adviser SONIA COLE Producer PETER DE ROSA
Everest the Hard Way (8)
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
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 Janet Brown. Peter Jones Dr Magnus Pyke 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: Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Erik de Mauny
on behalf of the Conservative Party
Gigolo and Gigolette
A short story by w. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, adapted for radio by VAL GIELGUD , with Carleton Hobbs as the Storyteller
The biggest attraction at the Casino is Paco's latest discovery, Madam Stella. She dives from the top of a 60-foot ladder into a tank of water only five feet deep on the surface of which petrol is set ablaze.
Produced and directed by DAVID H. GODFREY (B'cast in 1969)
John Ebdon , released for once from the BBC's Sound Archives, takes a wider view of the world.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Presenter Paul Vaughan
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
A report on this week's General Synod of the Church of England by Gerald Priestland
Cranford (8)
preceded by Weather
