6.40 Prayer for the Day VEWNON SPROXTON
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
1: Adam Faith
They call him Britain's James Dean. When he walks on stage an audience of teenage girls goes into ecstasy.
(EVENING NEWS, 1960)
Every generation produces its cult figures. For a time they capture huge followings and receive much adulation. In a new series of programmes, Tony Bilbow looks back on the careers of seven people who were popular heroes and tries to discover the secret of their success.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
Presented by SUSAN DENNY Producer STUART SIMON
NEM, p 25; Beneath the cross of Jesus (BBC HB 301); Psalm 119, vv 137-144 (BCP); John 19, vv 19-22 (AV); We sing the praise of him who died (BBC HB 95)
Six talks for Holy Week by REV RICHARD HOLLOWAY , Rector of Old St Paul's Scottish Episoopafl Church, Edinburgh.
3: Christ the Only Revolutionary. BBC Scotland
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author, starring: Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter
Charlotte Mitchell as his wife With MAlRGARET
ROBERTSON JAMES THOMASON and PETER CRAZE Chapter 5: The Dog
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD
Producer BOBBY JAYE
Sharing a Room
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
Presented by Patrick Fyffe and George Logan with PETER PRATT
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
Guest of the Week: Dorothy Middleton , one of Britain's leading geographers,
2.0-2.2 News
Any other business: a look at some of the more domestic points from parliament.
JONATHAN HEWAT - Around the World in a Minibus -4: an earthquake in Japan.
Before you begin: JILL BLAKE with advice on what to think about, before launching on a home decorating spree - 6: first impressions, outside and in. Tip-Top to Tip-Toe: shape up for spring with the help of ESTHER FAIRFAX and a kitchen chair.
The Tongue and the Fox by GEORGE EWART EVANS abridged by MADGE HART Read by ALARIC COTTER
Story: The Pretend House by OLIVE DOVE
A Cause of Stress in Certain Males by ANITA BRONSON with Nerys Hughes
Dorathy's boyfriend Clive has a problem - his problem is Dorathy. She is beautiful and he is attracted, but she is so zany, so illogical. His attempts to change her, however, are doomed to failure, for Dorathy does not even realise that he is trying.
Produced and directed by KAY PATRICK
Presented by Anthony Smith
At least 150 people and countless animals have died in Brazil as a result of a bee-keeping accident in 1957, when a handful of notoriously ferocious African queen bees escaped from a genetics research station near SSo Paulo< Their numbers are rapidly increasing, and a wave of potentially dangerous insects, moving northwards at a rate of about 200 miles a year, has already reached the Atlantic coast of Guyana. How much of a threat are they to the rest of the continent and North America, and how can their spread be halted?
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
William's Women
3: William and the Philanthropist
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 Derek Nimmo 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 Next 200 Years
Herman Kahn. the world's best-known futurologist, expects the global population to Increasefour-foldduringthe next two centuries and that it will then consume 14 times as much energy and be 20 times as rich as today. In contrast to ' the doomwatchers ' he is confident that mankind can cope with its daunting problems. John Tusa presents an international discussion in which Dr Kahn faces some of his leading critics.
Producer KEITH HINIDELL
Richard Murdoch celebrates his 70th birthday in the company of Arthur Askey, Ray Barratt, Sam Costa, Maurice Denham, Joyce Grenfell, Deryck Guyler, Maureen Riscoe and Jack Warner.
Somewhere between the cards and the cake, Peter Clayton recalls 'Stinker's' 50 years in show business with memories of Monday Night at Eight, The Band Wagon, Much-Binding-in-The-Marsh and The Men From The Ministry.
Written and introduced by PETER CLAYTON
Producer BOBBY JAYE
3: Skin Diseases
Tony Van den Bergh investigates the new treatments of disorders that are said to be the most demoralising of diseases.
Producer jock GALLHGHER BBC Birmingham
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Wedding Group (3)
preceded by Weather
