with Susan Denny
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions:seecolumn9
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,: weatherj papers and sport
4: Genetic Engineering
Can bacteria be made to do man's bidding if alterations are made to their very nature? Benign man-made bugs could help fight sickness and pollution, grow more abundant crops and convert waste products into vital chemicals.
George Luce examines the hopes - and the hazards. Producer WALTER WALLICH
Presented by HARRIET CASS Producer BERNARD TATE
NEM, p 17; The race that long in darkness (BBC HB 496); Canticle 3; 2 Peter 1, vv 1-11 (rsv); Jerusalem, my happy home (BBC HB 247)
Happiness by GUY DE MAUPASSANT Read by David Davis
4 Can one love for years without end? Yes, claimed some. No, declared others.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
2: London v North of England London:
Gordon Clough (Chairman) Irene Thomas John B. Mays who connect Arachis Hypogaea with 39 and plains. The North:
Jack Longland (Chairman)
Dr Patrick Nuttgens , Louis Allen who manage to keep out cold and damp by identifying a political cartoonist, an officer who appeared to be afraid of his men, and an Antipodean marsupial. Question researcher DAVID MACKAY. Producer
TREVOR HILL. BBC Manchester
When the Ticking Stops
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
Written and adapted by Eddie Braben with Gajle Hunnicutt Richard Caldicot and April Walker
Music from Syd Lawrence and his Orchestra
With ROY MARSDEN , SUE ADAMS and THE SERENADERS
Producer JOHN BROWELL
(First broadcast on Radio 2)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Cyril Fletcher
2.0-2.2 News
Taxing Ages - 1: MAVIS MOULLIN on children's money.
Reading Your Letters,
Action in Distress: DAVID HAWKS-WORTH talks to JEREMY RAPSON and LIZ SMEATON about their work with British-sponsored children in the Third World, A Detail on the Burma Front by WINIFRED BEAUMONT
Read by PEGGY GOSSCHALK (6)
Story: The Little Red Motor Car by HILARY HASHAGEN
Dowry with Two White Doves by NICK MCCARTY , With
Cyril Shaps , Rosalind Adams and Gareth Armstrong
' You tell me, those men tell me ... this isn't Cyprus. They don't give a damn. " We lost this bit of land - , T my father's trees, my mother's dowry . . . I sent a pound f t . ten pounds .. -" but they don't get hurt. Not inside. Not enough to get together. To demand justice ...
Directed by ROGER PINK BBC Birmingham
John Laffin introduces a selection of intimate and personal Victorian letters from his own collection. Taking part:
MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES
SHIRLEY DIXON , NEVILLE JASON and ANNE ROSENFELD
Producer MARLENE PEASE
Castle Dor
8: Plot and Counterplot
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Terry Wogan , Ian McKellen
Arthur Marshall and Anna Ford are quizzed on sayings famous, funny and fatuous. George III
Ought never to have occurredi One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder.
(EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY)
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees. Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Erik de Mauny
There is growing pressure on the government to change Britain's laws relating to cannabis or ' pot ' - either to legalise it completely or to reduce the penalties for possession and smoking.
Those who argue for change believe the drug has been proved relatively harmless and that the law is therefore illogical. Opponents feel the research is not yet conclusive and that in any case we should err on the side of extreme caution before seeking to add any drug to the list of those in daily use. George Scott hears the arguments on both sides and then invites your questions to medical and legal experts; on Birmingham (021) [number removed]Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 7.0 pm
. . . for there in front of us, as far into the distance as you could see, was what looked like a gigantic cloak being dragged very slowly across the landscape.
A cloak flecked with red and gold, blue and silver, with here and there a flash of light as the rising sun hit on steel and lances, banners and flags, mounted knights, horses, wagons, and men marching ...
Esmond Knight tells the tale of the archer called Jack who came from the West Country to follow his King, Henry V, to do battle in France. In October .1415, after a march through France which had decimated the English, 6.000 archers faced the 30.000-strong French army on a site dictated by the French - a place called Agincourt.
Producer helen fry
Presenter Jacky Gillott
Douglas Stuart reporting
A Bullet in the Ballet (8)
preceded by Weather
