with Laurie Macmillan
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Laurie Macmillan
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather papers and sport
(Sat's b'cast: shortened)
NEM, p 118; The star of morn has risen (BBC HB 410); Psalm 91, vv 1-13; Romans 3, vv 29-31 and 4, vv 1-3, 20-25 (NEB); Come ye people (BBC HB 270)
The Tree by JUDY ARLISS Read by Richard Todd Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
A series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before, this week, Louis Blom-Cooper , qc, jp and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London. This evening's proposition:
Community radio can best be provided by a new Local Broadcasting Authority. It is proposed by Phillip Whitehead , mp (Labour), a member of the Annan Committee on The Future of Broadcasting; and opposed by Sir Paul Bryan , mp (Conservative), Director of Greater Manchester Radio Ltd, and formerly Conservative Spokesman on broadcasting.
Each advocate will call his witnesses, cross-question his opponent's, and argue his case. The jury will vote at the beginming and end of the trial so that a swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached. Producer HUGH PURCELL
A quiz of words, music and mixed-up noises devised and presented by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN BRIDGES
Consumer Edition
Presenter Sue Cook , including the BBC Shopping Basket, Best Buys for the Weekend and answers to your related queries from DR RICHARD LAWSON.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Collectors and their Enthusiasms: JENNIFER MAY talks about commemorative pottery. Flitting in Style: MOLLY WEIR helped her family move to Windsor Castle. Some very special Houses: ANDY PRICE on a blue plaque tour. Fear to Tread (2)
Story: The Odd Brown Slipper by FLORENCE B. POOLE
A comedy for radio by Edna Nadler
with Rosemary Martin as Rita and Pat Heywood as Daphne
Rita and Daphne's peaceful existence is shattered when, for her 45th birthday, Rita's mother pays for her enrolment with a computer dating organisation in the hopes that, at last, Rita will find Mr Right. Rita is enthusiastic, Daphne more sceptical...
'Don't you see, this system eliminates all the time-consuming formalities of getting to know the casual acquaintance you might meet at a club, party. Think of the enormous scope it offers, the element of adventure. Think of the unknown!'
'Think of the shocks.'
Ever curious. Jack de Manto resumes his travels - this time to the West Country. Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
4.0-4.5 News
Kif. 9: Home Again
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 medium leave only Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Written by TESSA DIAMOND
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Fri 4.5 pm)
Four classic cases of Court Martial
4: The Officer in the Tower by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER with James Villiers as Lt Norman Baillie-Stewart Narrated by René Cutforth with the voices of MALCOLM GERARD , WILLIAM EEDLE MICHAEL HARBOUR , WALTER HALL and TIMOTHY BATESON
' Berlin 1932. The War-Office man, tall, dark, wearing horn-rimmedglasseswouldbe carrying a newspaper in his left hand. I walked to the rendezvous and within ten minutes a taxi drew up and a man with a paper in his left hand stepped out.' Produced. anddirectedbyjohnscotney Series devised and edited by DONALD THOMAS
The Limits of Licence
Presented by John Eidinow
The Government is setting up a major committee of inquiry to review current attitudes to obscenity, pornography, and censorship, and the legislation which affects them.
There are those who argue that artistic freedom is already being curtailed. Others see dangers in unbridled licence. Most are agreed that the law as it stands is discredited and abused.
How are standards established and by whom? Can the law cope with matters of taste and morality?
Producer MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
Coming Up for Air (11)
preceded by Weather
