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
Counsel of Perfection
If you were told that the chances of having a severely handicapped child were high, would you continue with the pregnancy or seek termination? That is one of the new questions raised by the apparent benefits of genetic counselling. Bill Breckon reports on the latest developments in this science. Producers
SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOB
Presented by Peter Jeffersoa Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 42; Lord Christ, who on thy heart didst bear (BBC HB 380); Psalm 98; Acts 24, vv 17-26 (NEB); Jesus, good above all other (BBC HB 72)
Today's author is NOEL COWARD
Angela Down reads
Stop Me If You've Heard It
' No more than a split second could have passed before he began, but in that split second the years of her life with him rolled out before her.' Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
A series of plays based on the novels of GEORGES SIMENON with and 9: Liberty Bar
Adapted for radio by AUBREY WOODS from the translation by GEOFFREY SAINSBURY
At the time when William Brown was found dead on his front doorstep there were four women particularly interested in him and his affairs. Could one of them have killed him?
Other parts: ROD BEACHAM Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Michael Gough is a National Theatre player)
A book you loved in childhood - how well do you remember it now?
Lucinda Prior-Palmer , in conversation with Jean Davis , recalls one of her own favourites. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Bill Breckon
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in A Motley Crew
With NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY , JOHN GRAHAM and HILARY PRITCHARD
Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
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:
Sir Alexander Glen , KBE, dsc, Chairman of the British Tourist Authority.
2.0-2.2 News
' Mum, can you help me with my moths homework? 1: TRISH WILLIAMS takes a look at modern mathematics.
Paperback Review: a pick of the paperbacks with NANCY MITCHELL and MARTIN JARVIS.
Going, Going, Gone: BRENDA KIDMAN tracks down a vanishing tradesman - KEN SLACK, bootmaker and cobbler.
Far from the Madding Crowd (12)
Story: Eva and the Birds by LEILA BERG
Easy When You Try by BETTY PAUL
A haven, that's what Arnold needs; a place where his wife can't get at him, where his time's his own, where he's free to write the best-seller of the decade. And there's only one way to get to that haven - through a life of crime.
Directed by JOHN CARDY BBC Bristol
Jack Brymer dips into his fund
- of stories about music and musicians and illustrates them with gramophone records,
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great 8: Secret Meetings
Presented by Brian Widlake
At My Leisure
Margaret Drabble considers some of the personal pleasures discovered amidst the bustle of a public life.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
S.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
starring
Ian Lavender and Elizabeth Counsell as Lenny and Sally Penfold in a new comedy series about a young married couple with Margery Withers as Mrs Grodzinski and Norman Bird as Rigour Morton
1: The Earshot Party
Written by PETER SPENCE Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart. (CONFUCIUS) John Tusa links men of action for a free exchange of experience and opinion on topics vof global concern.
Producer CAROLINE MILLINGTON
A Silver Jubilee Concert of Victorian Songs given by The Parlour Quartet Sylvia Eaves (soprano)
Maureen Keetch (soprano) Robert Carpenter Turner (baritone)
Kenneth Barclay (piano)
A Transcription Unit recording
Zap, You're Dead!
Presented by Peter Evans
A robot missile skimming a few feet over the ground, following a computerised route map to within 100 feet of its target, and carrying a warhead capable of killing people but not destroying property, Is today's versatile descendant of the ' doodlebug '. Cruise missiles, hunter-killer satellites, lasers and the much publicised high energy particle beam, are the latest weapons systems being considered by the world's armed forces.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
Presenter Edwin Mullins
Douglas Stuart reporting
David Munrow
The art and personality of the versatile virtuoso of early music, explored by Edward Greenfield. gramophone records
Marnie (8)
preceded by Weather
