with Laurie Macmillan
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Michael Cooke in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
with Laurie Macmillan
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Michael Cooke in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
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What will everyday life be like in, say, ten years' time? 1: The Cashless Society
' If you go into a store in a few years' time, you may well, at the check-out point, put your bank card into a terminal and the total money you have spent at the store will be debited instantly to your account and credited to the store account.'
How fast are we moving towards a row of buttons instead of a cashier, and to carrying more credit cards than pound notes? Reporter and presenter George Luce
Producer WALTER WALLICH
Presented by PETER JEFFERSON Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 79; Let us, with a glad-some mind (BBC HB 461); Psalm 148; Romans 14, v 19 to 15, v 7 (NEB); As pants the hart (BBC HB 451)
TheWednesdaySpecial
The Boy Who Went to Work by TOM HOPKINSON
Read by Joss Ackland
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Summer Days by BRUCE BEEBY
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: the novelist Bernice Rubens
2.0-2.2 News
Children - the Same the World Over! : JULIA RUSSELL has been collecting games in Java.
Paperback Review: a pick of the paperbacks with JUNE KNOX-MAWER and EDWARD
BLISHEN.
Stories of The Nightwatchman 2: Bill's Paper Chase
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Stories: The Top of the Hill by HERBERT MCKAY and Robin Red-breast Meets the King by ANNE ENGLISH
Too Short a Summer by JAMES DOUGLAS , with Pauline Delany , Donal McCann Derek Young and Trudy Kelly
Conor Cooney wants to escape from the small-town life of Baltra, with its stifling snobbery, to the bright dream of independence and artistry. He's going to be an architect. But will he succeed or, like his father, make a fatal but necessary mistake?
Produced and directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
BBC Northern Ireland
Naturalists always give the same advice to someone who wants to study birds and animals - ' keep . still and watch '. Lindsay and Stephanie Tyler did just this when they and their children were captured by Ethiopian guerrillas and held for several months, encamped at the foot of an acacia tree Here they came to terms with a scorpion as big as a small lobster, ' adopted l a friendly family of ground squirrels, and watched the colourful visitors to their bird bath- in the lid of a saucepan! Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Gulliver's Travels (3)
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
Alan Coren. Graeme Garden George Melly and Hilary Pritchard are quizzed on sayings, famous,funnyandfatuous
' The trouble with Freud was he never played second house Friday night at the Glasgow Empire.' 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 Erik de Mauny
with Roger Cook and Nick Ross Two Up, Two Down
Themunicipalbulldozerstill ploughs its way through the dilapidated city terraces of Victorian Britain. All too often its path has destroyed homes, families and entire communities. Time for Action travels to the London Borough of Southwark to ask the people of one such threatened communi.ty for their answer to the most difficult and urgent question facing city planners today - redevelop or rehabilitate? Production assistance by SALLY DIPLOCK. Producer RITCHIE COGAN (Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
A feature written by ROBIN LANGLEY
Mendelssohn visited this country ten times, first meeting Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1842 and again in 1847, but particularly in 1844 when he arranged specially for them seven Songs without Words as piano duets. Together with other unknown material relating to Mendelssohn's time in England, the programme traces the development of his relationship with the Royal Family which ended only with his death. Other parts played by BILL BRADLEY and MICHAEL BERKELEY Duo-Pianists
ISABEL BEYER andHARVEY DAGUL
Producer ANTHONY FRIESE-GREENE
Presenter Paul Vaughan
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Buried Alive (8)
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