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
by HERMAN MELVILLE
Read by David March in three parts (1)
' In answer to my advertisement, a motionless young man one morning stood upon my office threshold. I can see that figure now, pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn! It was Bartleby - of all that race of scriveners, the strangest I ever saw or heard of.' Producer MAURICE LEITCH (Part 2: tomorrow)
3: See Hear!
Fibre Optics - hair-thin glass tubes - will transmit light and sound signals over almost any distance more clearly and efficiently than ever before. In communications they'll replace scarce raw materials, and open the way for new techniques in medicine and industry. Reporter and presenter George Luce Producer WALTER WALLICH
Presented by HARRIET CASS Producer BERNARD TATE
NEM, p 122; There is a land (BBC HB 254); Canticle 10; Revelation 19, vv 4-16 (RSV); For the might (BBC HB 242)
Loss of Pride by H. E. BATES Read by Peter Tuddenham Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
The Trouble with Mrs Henshaw
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
Presented by Patrick Fyffe and George Logan
with Daphne Heard and David Mahlowe
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather and programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guests of the week: Robin and Marika Hanbury-Tenison , who later this summer will set off for an expedition to the Mulu rain forest.
2.0-2.2 News
Ladies in Retirement: JANET COHEN talks to PAT SMYTHE.
A Bed is a Bed: but there's a lot more to buying one than you might think. MOLLY PRICE-OWEN pulls back the covers.
A Detail on the Burma Front by WINIFRED BEAUMONT abridged in nine parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Peggy Gosschalk (1)
On a Sunday evening in 1943, Winifred Beaumont heard a fateful broadcast - an appeal for experienced nurses to join Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service. On impulse, although she had a comfortable job in Whitehall, Winifred Beaumont volunteered. In army parlance she became a ' detail ' - a nursing sister who could be sent wherever she was most needed. (Music: Gold's Boston Pops March)
A Detail on the Burma Front,
13.50, from bookshops
Story: The Mouse with Magic Powers by OLIVE DOVB
Lies by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI with Jennifer Piercey as Tina ros: For all she knew, you might both be dying for children and ... TINA: ... just can't have them? ros: Yes.
TINA: One of them can't, that gets sympathy, doesn't it? I mean then at least we're normal, at least we want them.
Produced and directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
' If you are the Queen why aren't you wearing your crown?'
' I only wear it on Sundays.'
Frank Windsor presents a collection of anecdotes from some of the ordinary folk who have met the Queen during the past 25 years.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham
Castle Dor
3: Dr Carfax Prescribes
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Kenneth Williams
Alan Coren , Richard Ingrams and Norma Shepherd are quizzed on sayings famous, funny and fatuous * I hate quotations '
(RALPH WALDO EMERSON )
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
By R. D. Wingfield.
'Isn't it just my rotten lousy luck. If you know you've only got a short time to live, at least you should be able to live it up in the time that's left to you.'
Produced and directed by Harry Catlin
Smoke for seven minutes and you'll die seven minutes earlier. Break the habit now and you may add two years to your life: But can the country afford to support you in your two extra years?
Anthony Smith reflects on what the consequences would be if we all stopped smoking.
by MICHAEL FOSS
A programme to mark the 500th anniversary of the first printed edition of the Travels of Marco Polo.
Peter Vaughan as Marco Polo Tommy Eytle as Kublai Khan
' Emperors and Kings, Princes, Dukes and gentlemen, all who wish to know the wonders of mankind, let me tell you that from the time God made Adam with his own hands until this very day, there has never been Christian, Pagan, Tartar or Indian or any man of any nation, who has seen and known so much of the world as Messer Marco Polo , the wise and noble citizen of Venice.'
Rustichello of Pisa...sAM DASTOR and the voices of ROD BEACHAM GAVIN CAMPBELL , SAEED JAFFREY
NADIM SAWALHA , JAMES THOMASON. Produced and directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
A Bullet in the Ballet (3)
In the first of two talks written by DAVID MIDDLETON , Jack de Maniocastsabemusedeye over some of the stranger of man's religious beliefs - and the men and women who founded them.
preceded by Weather
