with Susan Denny
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
with Susan Denny
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
7: The Beatles
Their sense of self-confidence, of representing the possibilities open to every individual in a society, their willingness to produce a total equality was what gave me a sense of enormous optimism and that sense of change; one felt one was at the centre of the Universe.' (RICHARD LESTER film director of A Hard Day's Night and Help!)
Tony Bilbow looks back on the careers of 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 46: Rejoice, 0 land (BBC HB 433); Psialm 119, part 4; Romans 11, vv 13-18 and 25-32 (NEB); To thee our God we fly (BBC hb 434)
The Wednesday Special Footballers Don't Cry by BRIAN GLANVILLE
Read by Sean Barrett
' I'd always admired him. " Get in, Dad! Go on, Dad! " A centre-half, great big fellow, coming in bang with his thick legs, ploughing through the mud with his sliding tackles, taking the man, the ball, the lot.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Return Visit by DAVID ROBERTS
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: composer Elizabeth Maconchy
2.0-2.2 News
Goodbye - and All That? Taking One's Leave: GORDON SNELL on the gentle art of saying goodbye.
Reading your letters,
Metamorphosis: JOYCE DUNBAR-BRUNTON on the birth of her first baby. Fear to Tread by MICHAEL GILBERT
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY (11)
Story: Keeping Baby Amused by KATHLEEN RAMSAY !
Just a Few Home Truths by NANCY BLACKETT with Annette Crosbie and Michael Shannon
For Ruth and Neville there are no happy memories of childhood. When a family crisis calls sister and brother home, they come reluctantly - to discover just a few home truths.
Pianist MARY NASH. Produced and directed by JOHN CARDY
Dick Francis , champion steeplechase jockey and best-selling crime writer, talks to JEANINE MCMULLEN abOUt his life and career.
' A horse sat on top of me and badly injured my back. I fractured my skull, broke my arm and also my collar bone six times each side. I broke ribs, of course, but one doesn't count those. And my nose I broke five times. But I was lucky. I never had any serious injury.'
Producer PETER DE ROSA
The Dead Secret
8: Inside the Myrtle Room
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
The highly acclaimed quotations game in which
Richard Boston. Benny Green
Lord Mancroft and Polly Toyn bee are quizzed on sayings, famous, funny and fatuous
' A psychologist is a man who goes to the Folies Bergere and looks at the audience,' Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees. Producer JOHN LLOYD (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm).
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Kathryn Davies
British and German scientists, an artist, a forester, a musician and a gardener; bird recordings from Europe, America and Asia; a theme from a Bruckner symphony: all these help to reflect questions and experience stimulated by watching and listening to a wild bird who, for ten years, held territorial rights in two acres of Middle-sex. Written and presented by TERRY GOMPERTZ. Producer DENYS GUEROULT
by H. COLIN DAVIS and ANTONY MIALL
The story of ' Laurence Hope ', poetess and adventuress, and the Four Indian Love Lyrics.
The Love Lyrics became the most successful of all Edwardian parlour songs and, even today, retain something of the warmth and richness of those legendary days before the twilight of the British Raj. Narrator H. Colin Davis
Readers EVA HADDON and ANTONY MIALL. Singer DAVID VAN ASCH Producer GRAHAM GAULD
In 1976 we witnessed a severe drought in parts of Britain. For the first time in history, water was diverted from the domestic consumer to industry, in an effort to avoid the threat of a three-day working week, which would have been disastrous to the nation's economy. Fortunately, the rains came in time to save the situation - but certain questions now should be asked.
How efficient is Britain's water industry and in future can supply equal demand? Are we paying a realistic price for the product and what lessons have been learned from last year's experience? George Luce reports Producer MARLENE PEASE
Presenter Jacky Gillott
John Tusa reporting
Buried Alive (3)
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