with John Hedges
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
with John Hedges
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
6: Purl or Plain?
Whatever fibres go into textiles - natural or man-made - new methods of spinning, weaving, knitting or even rolling them out like dough will extend and vary the uses to which they can be put. Are spray-on suits a piece of science-fiction or something we may see in years to come? George Luce finds out.
Producer WALTER WALLICB
Presented by HARRIET CASS Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 118; Ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 372); Psalm 118, vv 13-24; John 21, vv 15-22 (RSV); 0 God, thy soldiers' faithful Lord (BBC HB 232)
Today's author is ALBERTO MORAVIA
Gabriel Woolf reads Mario
'I was so irritated with her that I said: " Is it you vho's been putting it about that Filomena does things at home that she shouldn't do, while I'm in the shop? " She fixed two angry eyes upon me. "It was Filomena you wanted .... and now you've got her." ' Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
A Game of Sin
Rights and Responsibilities Edition*
Written and adapted by Eddie Braben.
With Nicola Pagett and special singing guest Elaine Delmar.
Music from Peter Knight and his Orchestra.
(First broadcast on Radio 2)
12.55 Weather and programme news (VHF: Regional news and weather)
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: The Lord Robens of Woldingham.
2.0-2.2 News
Writing on the Wall - Dancing in the Street: ROSE GAMBLE remembers some unemployed survivors of the First World War. Taxing Ages - 3: mavis MOULLIN with advice for the young married couple.
Come Hell or High Water (2)
Story: Mrs MacTinkle and the Crofter's Wife by WILLIAM RANKIN
Death by Water by CHARLES THOMAS jimmy: We're exploring Bowater Pond, and I'm the leader.
HILDA: Explorers discover things.
JIMMY: All right, we'll discover things.
SARAH: And they risk their lives. jimmy: So we'll risk our lives too!
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
My Wish
I would not that these scenes so fair
Should be by me alone enjoyed. But that such pleasures those may share
Whose hours arc in the Town employed.
Lines written by a former squire of Erddig in North Wales, home of the Yorke family for 250 years. In 1973, Philip Yorke , the last direct descendant, gave the house, its contents and land to the National Trust, a gift estimated at over 13 million. Today, the house opens to the public following an Intensive rescue operation by the Trust to restore the property to its former glory, and at the same time to preserve its unique atmosphere as a family home. Philip Yorke and others look back on a vanished way of life. Research by HOWARD
KNOX-MAWER Written and presented by JUNE KNOX-MAWEM Producer
ANNE HOWELLS
Sleeping Murder 8: J. J.Afflick
Presented by Brian Widiake
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
If Moses had been a committee the Israelites would still be in Egypt. (J. B. HUGHES) Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees. Producer JOHN LLOYD i Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm}
Stories went around that about 9 o'clock the streets were empty because everybody was listenfng to the Greek programmes on the BBC and Deutsche Welle. Because of censorship, all the Greek newspapers had their information given to them by the Colonels - they couldn't print anything else.
(PAVLOS ZANNAS,
Amnesty International)
John Tusa links men of action for a free exchange of experience and opinion on topics of global concern.
Producer KEITH HINDELL
How much is known about consciousness? What happens to the mind under hypnosis? What power, if any, is at work when a dowser senses water, or a young man has 'out of the body' experiences, or a concert pianist claims to be in touch with the mind of Beethoven?
Leslie Smith talks about personal experiences of different states of mind with John Lill, David Roberts, Athene Williams, Robert Leftwich and Peter Fairley and discusses some of the implications of these experiences with Professor Giles Brindley (neurophysiologist), Dr Peter Fenwick (psychiatrist), Professor John Cohen (psychologist), and Carl Sargent (postgraduate researcher into the paranormal at the University of Cambridge). Other contributors: Adrian Parker, George Roberts and a medical hypnotist.
A conversation about some changes in English law during the past 30 years and other matters between Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls and Lord Justice Scarman,
Chairman of the Law Commission. 1965-73
We cannot interfere too much, otherwise in a way there would be an over-investigation by the judiciary into the administration. (LORD DENNING) Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
Presenter Tony Palmer
Douglas Stuart reporting
Life at the Top (8)
preceded by Weather
