6.40 Prayer for the Day ROBERT RIETTY
with Nigel Rees in London and 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
To Build a Little Home for Two - or Three, or Four, or More ... It's time for the birds' urgent business of finding a nook, cranny or crotch in which to build a nest ready for the breeding season. How is the site chosen? Does the cock or the hen build the nest? And why are there so many different designs?
Introduced by PETER FRANCE Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Fame in the Family
The child of a famous parent does not always share the glory and privileges which fame can bring to a family; there is some stigma too.
Brenda Kidman visits the homes of a famous footballer,politician, and television personality, and finds there are unexpected reactions from their relatives and friends. Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
Presented by SUSAN DENNY Producer STUART SIMON
NEM, p 122; From glory to glory advancing, we praise thee, 0 Lord (BBC HB 244); Psalm 40; John 17, vv 1-13 (av); For those we love within the veil (BBC HB 243)
The Master
Written and read by Robert Rietty
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author, starring: Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter
Charlotte Mitchell as his wife With JO MANNING WILSON Chapter 4: The Pick-Up
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD
Producer BOBBY JAYE
In Pursuit of the Barracuda
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
Presented by George Logan and Patrick Fyffe with DAPHNE OXENFORD and JOE BLACK
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
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Richard Pitman , champion jockey and BBC Racing Correspondent.
2.0-2.2 News
Before You Begin: JILL BLAKE with advice on wha,t to think about before launching on a home decorating spree - 5: kitchen and bathroom.
People of Prejudice - 2: DEBBIE SANDERS , Anti-Abortionist.
A Pick of Paperbacks: ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD and PETER ACKROYD ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY reads The Perfect Gentleman by JUNE ROSE (5)
Story: Something for Everyone by MARGARET GORS
by Stephen Wakelam
'Nijinsky is what this game's all about. Each year you hope to see another horse like him, another one to set your blood tingling. You hope for one that'll never get beaten. But they always do... just like people... I want to win a bit, yes... more than a bit... but there's more to this game than making money or losing it...'
BBC Manchester
A profile of W. C. Fields
Written and researched by MICHAEL POINTON
Les Dawson examines the personality and appeal of William Claude Duckenfield - alias W. C. Fields - and attempts to explain why, more than 30 years after his death, Fields is still revered as a comedian's comedian.
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester Preview: page 13
Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Read by NIGEL STOCK The Five Orange Pips
* A letter with a foreign stamp lay on the table in front of the Colonel's plate. " From India! " said he. " What can this be? " Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight of his face.'
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 Clement Freud , Peter Jones Alfred Marks 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 Preview: p 13
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Tony Shorthouse is a bus driver in the Midlands: he provides for his wife, Mary, and their five children out of his weekly wage of £60.
Sales manager Roger Dingley lives in the same town; he has a wife, Judy, and three children to keep on an annual salary of £8,000.
Reporters have followed their economic progress since the Chancellor's Mini-Budget In December and in this programme we hear how they have managed their family budget and listen to them discussing how yesterday's fullsca,le Budget will affect them over the next few months.
Producers JENNY DE YONG and JOCK GALLAGHER. BBC Birmingham
2: The GP
In this, the second of three programmes, Tony Van den Bergh examines the latest developments in medicine and the changes in administration, and assesses how they affect the general practitioner and his patients. Producer
JOCK GALLAGHER . BBC Birmingham
Presenter Paul Vaughan
9.59 Weather
10.10*
Rt Hon
Sir Geoffrey Howe mp, for the Opposition
10.20* Douglas Stuart reporting
Joseph and the Goths (11)
preceded by Weather
