6.4O Prayer for the Day JOSIE SMITH
with Nigel Rees in London and Michael Cooke 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
For the Sake of the Children
Parents considering divorce often do think it best to ' stick it out ' until the children are older. But what are the scars on a child's life as a result of divided loyalties, constant arguing, and permanent conflict? Or - what are the alternative influences of a broken home?
Moyra Bremner visits both the homes of parents who are ' sticking it out' and of parents who are finally divorced. Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
Presented by PIERS BURTON -PAGS Producer BERNARD TATE
NEM, p 97; Lord, thy word abideth (BBC HB 190); Psalm 50; John 15, w 1-16 (AV); Come, labour on! (BBC HB 388)
Sebastian and the Solar System by HADRIAN ROGERS
Read by Gordon Gardner
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author, starring: Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter
Charlotte Mitchell as his wife With MICHAEL DEACON
Chapter 3: The Picture
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD
Producer BOBBY JAYE
I'm Sorry. Mrs Baxter
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
Presented by George Logan and Patrick Fyffe with JOE GLADWIN and DUGGIE BROWN Written by MIKE CRAIG , LAWRIE KINSLEY and RON MCDONNELL
Producer JAMES CASEY BBC Manchester
(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 Guest of the Week: Cathleen Nesbitt , one of Britain's best loved actresses
2.0-2.2 News
No More Rings of Bright Water?: DAVID HAWKSWORTH investigates the plight of the otter.
Before You Begin: JILL BLAKE with advice on what to think about before launching on a home decorating spree. 4: the bedrooms
A Quiet Life by BERYL BAINBRIDGE abridged in eight parts by m MASON
Read by CORDON GARDNER Final instalment
(Music: Arnold's Little Suite No 2)
Story: David by JOHN FARRINGTON
Cyril Shaps and Denise Bryer in Hungarian Wheat by JOHN KIRKMORRIS with Nigel Anthony
' ... You are the first to hear the uncut version of the " Saga of Meir Press ".I was born in January 1906 in Cracow - a part of Poland that was Russian in those days. My father, Herschel, was a Lithuanian who had married a Rhineland German lady from Odessa. Am I confusing you? No? Good .. ' In the Present:
Produced and directed by DAN COTTERELL
' Random is a golden eagle and she has been my constant companion by day, and not infrequently by night, for close on 16 years.'
JEANINE MCMULLEN talks to Gerald Summers about this extraordinary bird which brought him and his wife Imogen together. Producer PETER DE ROSA
The Diary of Anne Frank (3)
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 , Clement Freud 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)
The Treaty of Rome, the cornerstone of the Common Market, was signed 20 years ago this week. How far does today's European reality correspond to the original dream? And what do the next two decades hold for Europe and its citizens? Peter Hobday reports. Producers CAROLINE
MILLINGTON and ANDREW JOYNES
' The sea can be very beautiful, but it can be very frightening as well.'
' It's a different world out there. Sometimes you wonder which is the real one - that, or the one on shore.'
Tony Parker introduces the reflections of some lighthouse keepers and their families, drawn from his book of the same name
With HARRY WEBSTER , FRASER KERR , ANTHONY SMEE, RACHEL BELL , COLIN SIMPSON , CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD and BRIAN HAINES. Producer PATRICIA BRENT
(Harry Webster is a National Theatre player)
1: The Greatest Epidemic'
In the first of three programmes, Tony Van den Bergh examines the latest developments in the treatment and more importantly, the prevention of what has been dubbed 'thegreatestepidemicknown to man': coronary heart disease. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
A series of talks during Lent in which four individuals examine how their Christian faith has helped them at a time of crisis.
4: Love is Very Long
Dr Sheila Cassidy speaks on what she learnt of God from her imprisonment and torture in Chile last year,
Presenter Jacky Gillott
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Joseph and the Goths by CATHERINE HEATH
Read by Madi Hedd (6)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
