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
To Live in Silence
That is the prognosis for most deaf people; but is society doing enough to help the young deaf achieve rewarding jobs and fulfilled lives?
Nancy Wise has been looking at the provisions now available and the future prospects for the young deaf. Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR
Presenter Peter Jefferson Producer TOM READ
nem, p 21; When morning gilds the skies <BBC HB 285); Psalm 1; Acts 22, vv 17-29 (NEB); 0 happy band (BBC HB 335)
Today's author is ELIZABETH BOWEN
Joan Hart reads Pink May
' .. I I was surprised when I caught sight of the may trees - all their branches were standing perfectly still. That seemed queer.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
A book you loved in childhood - how well do you remember it now? Lord Clark, in conversation with Jean Davis , recalls one of his own favourites.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Hammond Innes , novelist.
2.0-2.2 News
Rising Nicely or Falling Flat?: HELEN PALMER explains how to find out if it's your oven not your baking at fault.
Letter from Maiduguri, Nigeria: after three years living in Nigeria, JILL THEIS has changed her outlook on life.
Golden Oldies: JANET COHEN looks at record-breaking discs. Far from the Madding Crowd (7)
Story: Young Hedgehog Takes Mole on Adventures by VERA RUSUBROOKE
I'm a Dreamer Montreal by STEWART PARKER , With
' It's the stuff of life really. isn't it? That's what we're all about in the music business. Happiness - and sweet success. Emotion - and deep devotion. Some may say that our love is borrowed - but tomorrow sad sorrow will fly away. Take my hand - understand - how grand it can be. And don't go -our love will grow so slow-but oh ...'
Music played by CLUBSOUND and the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by HAVELOCK NELSON
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN BBC Northern Ireland
Jack Brymer dips into his fund nf stories about music and musicians and illustrates them with gramophone records.
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great 3: The Wedding
Presented by Brian Widlake
AtMyLeisure
The Rt Hon Reginald Maudlins , mp, considers some of the personal pleasures discovered amidst the bustle of public life. Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
Peter Cook , Irene Handl , Richard Ingrams and Kenneth Williams are quizzed on sayings famous, funny and fatuous. The only thing I really mind about going to prison is the thought of Lord Longford coming to visit me
(RICHARD INGRAMS)
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees. Producer JOHN LLOYD (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
with Roger Cook and Nick Ross Time to Think Again
Over the past year Time for Action reporters have visited ten areas where local issues have split the community and revealed a gulf of misunderstanding between the people themselves and those who have ultimate power.
In this last programme in the series, The Rt Hon Jo Grimond. mp, elder statesman and constant critic of government insensitivity, draws out the common lessons and argues for a radical rethink of our attitudes to democracy, people and planning. Production assistance SALLY DIPIOCK Producer RITCHIE COGAN (Rptd: Friday 11.5 aw)
A talk by Elaine Morgan
'... nowadays if anyone is rash enough to declare that the idea of sex doesn't attract them, it is automatically assumed that they must have seen something nasty in the woodshed and therefore constitute a suitable case for treatment . . .
' Because they wear a blue uniform they take advantage of it, they abuse it.... Right now I won't trust no police, no way.' (WEST INDIAN YOUTH)
' They think that the police officers just go around and when they see a group of black people they think " Ah, here's some trouble and let us step in " - this really isn't the case.' (POLICE LIAISON OFFICER) Alex Pascall explores the current tension between the black community and the police. Producer JOY HATWOOD
Presenter Paul Vaughan
John Tusa reporting
Jascha Heifetz
The art and personality of the violinist who has set himself apart, even in a generation of virtuosi, explored by Edward Greenfield gramophone records
Marmie (3)
preceded by Weather
