6.40 Prayer for the Day REV LESLIE STOKES
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
4: Tommy Handley
Tommy was the first radio war hero - and ITMA was Britain's open secret weapon. As a morale booster, the show must have ranked second only to Churchill's wartime speeches., Every generation produces its cult figure. For a time they capture huge followings and receive much adulation. 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 71; Stand up, and bless the Lord (BBC HB 268); Canticle 7; I Peter 4, vv 12-19 (Rsv); Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27)
The Wednesday Special
The Princess by ANTON CHEKNOT abridged and read by Gabriel WooM
' The Princess was slightly put out. Though she knew her own mistakes, they were all of so intimate a nature that only she could think and speak of them. " What mistakes have you in mind? " she could not resist asking.' Producer Barbara crowtwer
London v North (Round 1) London:
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John B. Mays - who took for an attribute shared by a bedhead, a doctor and an inhabitant of the Low Countries which is not associated with their normal functions. The North.
(Winners of the 1976 Contest) Jack Longland (Chairman) with Dr Patrick Nuttgens Louis Allen who discover the American one was rapid and noisy, the Russian one nominally bitter, and the French one a gastronomic experience. Question researcher DAVID MACKAY Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
A Fresh Start by JOHN CASSELI
Rights and Pesponsibilities Editian. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
Presented by Patrick Fyffe and George Logan , with MICHAEL BATES and DONALD HEWLETT Written by MIKE CRAIG
LAWRIE XINSLEY , RON MCDONNELL Producer JAMES CASEY
BBC Manchester
11.55
Weather; programme news
VHF (exccpt London and SE) Regional news and weather
. Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Lord Selwyn Lloyd
1.8-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters
Fame in the Family: BARBARA KELLY and KIM BRADEN discuss how a famous mother and daughter live together
Women and the Law: TESS GILL with recent developments.
Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (11)
Story: Suzy and the Blue Cloves by JEANE D. WILLIAMS
Lovely Morning This Evening! A comedy for radio by ALAN MELVILLE with Fabia Drake , Sylvia Coleridge and Lockwood West Have you ever tried turning the 24-hour clock around and living through the night as if it were the day? Have you ever thought of eating breakfast at supper-time and supper at breakfast-time? An elderly man dominated by his two sisters tries precisely that and it seems to work rather well!
Miss Ethel................FABIA DRAKE Miss EmMy SYLVIA COLERIDGE Margaret.............JANE KNOWLES Mr Pettigrew. ..JAMES THOMASON Andrew. ...........LOCKWOOD WEST Mrs Dawson .....JOAN MATHESON Dr Chapman.........PETER HOWELL Caractacus Ottoway
TIMOTHY BATE SON
Angela ............. ELIZABETH PROUD Peregrine ........ GEOFFRFY COLLINS Produced and directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
NOËL COWARD said of Gertie Millar, the great star of musical comedy in the early 1900s: ' I adored her and in my memory she is clearly the most graceful and charming artiste I have ever seen.'
His view of the Bradford girl who married the second Earl of Dudley is shared by 4ONES JACKSON, DOROTHY DICKSON 'EVELYN LAYE , PHYLLIS MONKMAN and CATHLEEN NESBITT
But Bernard Jackson was in for many surprises when he went in search of Gertie Millar. Producer PETER DE ROSA
Kit. 3: A Le-ave
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 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)
In the studio Peter Hobday
by the Labour Party
with Roger Cook and Tom Vernon Which way lies the future for the burgeoning city of Ply-mouth: East, into Devon, or as many Cornishmen fear, across the Tamar Bridge and into Cornwall? Production assistance SALLY DIPLOCK
Producer RITCHIE COGAN
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
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.
The story of a Royal Family Script by FRANCES DONALDSON
Music by Malcolm Williamson Narrator Richard Pasco
3: George VI
' I could see that nothing I said would alter his decision. His mind was made up. I went to see Queen Mary and when I told her what had happened, I broke down and sobbed.'
George VI came reluctantly to the throne which his brother had vacated so dramatically by his decision to abdicate. But his reign was to prove one of the most inspiring in the history of the British Crown. With Stephen Murray as George VI, and BETTY BASKCOMB GARARD GREEN, MALCOLM HAYES MADI HEDD , GODFREY KENTON
DAVID MARCH and JANE WENHAM and Sebastian Shaw as George V (The third of four programmes) Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Shortened repeat Fri 11.5 am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
Coming Up for Air (5)
preceded by Weather
