6.40 Prayer for the Day REV ROGER GRAINGER
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester At 7.4 and i.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
3: Donald Peers
The bill at the Palladium this week is truly remarkable in that it is headed, not by an American but by a British performer, Mr Donald Peers.
(THE TIMES, August 1950)
Every generation produces its cult figures. For a time they capture huge followings and receive much adulation. In a new series of seven 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 HARRIET CASS Producer BERNARD TATE
NEM, p 50; Breathe on me, breath of God (BBC HB 148); Psalm 86; I Peter 2, vv 4-12 (RSV); Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost (BBC HB 153)
The Wednesday Special
A series of stories by well-known authors
2: Cyril Fletcher reads from WILLIAM SANSOM 'S story Old Man Alone abridged by JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFF
' There's the skylight, you can get out through,' came a woman's voice. ' The chimney's right next door.'
The old man's eye could see their feet, the landlady's bedroom slippers alive with swansdown in the draught, and a workman's big boots. His heart sang! At last, at long last -luck! And on a Saturday afternoon! Producer
JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFV
House-Buying Week
3: Who's on Your Side?
Presented by Nancy Wise
Presented by George Logan and Patrick Fyffe with MICHAEL BATES and DONALD HEWLETT
Written by MIKE CRAIG
LAWRIE KINSLEY , 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: Patrick Lichneld , one of Britain's best-known fashion photographers.
2.9-2.2 News
BA at 81: RAE TAFFLER talks tO ANN ROBSON about getting her Open University degree.
Gliding Away: a terrified BERNARD JACKSON takes to the thermals.
Mashed Eggs: TED JONES disapproves of boiled eggs, American-style.
Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (7)
Story: Frisby by RITA POGSON
Old Mali and the Boy by D. R. SHERMAN dramatised for radio by JOHN ASHE with Saeed Jaffrey and Crispian Thorne
' We might die in the end of hunger, we might die of thirst, but I do not think it will take that long ... The smell of the blood will bring them at night, the jackal and the panther.'
Produced and directed by DAVID SPENSER
When Tim Severin first proposed sailing across the Atlantic in a leather boat - a replica of a medieval Currach - to retrace the legendary journey of St Brendan, the sixth-century Irish sailor-saint, he met with scepticism. But last summer The Brendan reached Iceland safely and next month he sets out to complete the voyage to America. Magnus Magnusson talks to the people who have contributed to turning Severin's idea into reality, including Bill and John Croggan who tanned the ox hides for the boat; Sean McGrail, Chief Archaeologist of the National Maritime Museum; and Tetur Sigurdsson, Head of the Icelandic Coastguard. Producer Anne Sloman
The Frightening Talent (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 Peter Jones, Derek Nimmo, Dr Magnus Pyke and Kenneth Williams endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that.
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Erik de Mauny
The Future of Broadcasting
Lady Plowden, Chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, and Sir Michael Swann , Chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation, discuss with Lord Annan the report of his Committee on the future of broadcasting in the United Kingdom
Chairman Michael Charlton
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
John Ebdon has recently spent a further holiday in Greece and found once again that his preconceived ideas were a little wide of the mark.
(For details see Friday 11.5 am)
Presenter Chris Powling
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Wedding Group by ELITZARTT abridged in 13 parts by JANET HICKLON
Read by JUNE BARRIE (Final instalment)
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
preceded by Weather
