with Laurie Macmillan
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
with Laurie Macmillan
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
5: Sylvia Peters and McDonald Hobley
As television announcers we wereutterlyapproachable. People would start a conversation and then it would dawn on them - they'd never met you but they knew you terribly well. (MCDONALD HOBLEY) Every generation produces its cult figures. 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 102: Father, we praise thee, now the night is over (BBC HB 405); Psalm 147, vv 1-12; Romans 3, vv 9b-12, 19-28 (NEB); Give to our God immortal praise (BBC HB 6)
The Wednesday Special
A series of stories by well-known authors
You Should Have Seen the Mess by MURIEL SPARK
Read by Wendy Richard
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Competitors
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
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:
William Rees-Mogg , Editor of The Times.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Making a Garden - 4: further advice from FRANCES PERRY and ARTHUR BILUTT.
Any Other Business: a look at some of the more domestic points from parliament.GIL-
Fear To Tread by michabl gil-BERT, abridged in 14 instalments by ANN REES-JONES and read by Stephen Murray (1)
Wilfred Wetherall , headmaster; of South Borough Secondary School in south-east London in the early 1950s, was an unlikely person to take on a violent gang of criminals involved in black market activities. But as he himself put it later, ' I've always been against bullying.' (Music: Cooke's 'Jabez and the Devil')
Story: Spider's Web by DENISE SHELDON
The Street Where We Lived by MIKE DONOVAN
They're pulling down the houses where Jimbo and Dolly lived ailil their lives - want to put them into high rise flats but sometimes necessity creates interesting possibilities!
Electric accordion BRIAN DEXTER Drums DOUGIE WRIGHT
Produced and directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Jessie Evans is in ' Irene ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
At the age of 50, Leonard Wiles and his wife Hazel, adopted Terry, a nine-year-old who had been born blind in one eye and without limbs as a result of thalidomide. But looking after a severely handicapped person demands more than technical skills, and Leonard Wiles talks to Margaret Howard not only about the practical ways in which he has coped with Terry's needs, but also about the effect this adoption has had upon his own life. Producer THENA HESHEL
Kif. 8: Caught!
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Tor details see Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tusa links men of action 8or a free exchange of experience and opinion on topics of flobal concern,HINDELL roducer keith hindell
DAVID BARLOW , PETER CHRISTIE , MILES KINGTON and ALAN MARYON-DAVIS entertain a studio audience with their own particular brand of musical humour, in this their very first full-length radio show. Producer IAN FENNER
The story of a Royal Family Script by FRANCES DONALDSON Narrator Richard Pasco
Music by Malcolm Williamson 4: Elizabeth 11
' We always wanted a child to make our happiness complete ... M-ay I say I hope you won't spoil he.r wihen she gets a bit older.'
When a baby girl was born on 21 April 1926 to the then Duke and Duchess of York, no one could have foreseen that she would one day become The Queen. This Silver Jubilee portrait tells her story and includes contributions from Lord Ramsey of Canterbury. Godfrey Talbot and Sir Harold Wilson , as well as recordinigs of great Royal occasions. With MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES , BRUCE BEEBY , SHIRLEY DIXON
ELIZABETH PROUD and JANE WENHAM and Stephen Murray as George VI (The last of four programmes) Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Shortened repeat: Fri 11.5 am)
Presenter Jacky Gillott
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Coming Up for Air (10)
preceded by Weather
