Presented from East Anglia by DAVID RICHARDSON BBC Birmingham
with Edward Cole
Headlines and weather, a look at the papers, news for sports fans, Prayer for the Day (Mon THE REV VERNON SPROXTON, Tues-Thurs THE REV ALEC CILMORE , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES ), a little music and something on the lighter side.
6.52 VHP
Regional news and weather
English Regions: sec column 9
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London look at Britain and the world this morning.;
with Edward Cole
Headlines, weather, sport and papers, a spot of music and Thought for the Day.
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 RUDYARD KIPLING (6)
The team of regulars includes Bernard Falk, Fritz Spiegl and Mavis Nicholson.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
(Fritz Spiegl presents The Abominable Showman: R3 Wed 3.50 pm)
Bats in your belfry, or snakes in the sand pit - today you can hear about them both. There'll be birdsong too, from the earliest singer in the dawn chorus to the infuriating call of the brainfever bird. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
MM, p 79: Praise, 0 praise (BBC HB 441); Psalm 104, w 25-36; Acts 28, vv 1-15 (NEB); 0 food of men (BBC HB 209)
Lucky George by TESSA ross Read by Sheila Mitchell
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Written by keith darvill
Based on" Women at War 1914-1918 by ARTHUR MARWICK
With the recorded contributions of some of the women who took part in the First World War.
(Full details see Thurs 7.45 pm)
Earning and Saving Edition Presenter Bill Breckon including the World of Work With MARGARET KORVING
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Jessica Mitford. Show more
Second Round
Chairman Robert Robinson
24: Wales and Northern Ireland JOHN BROWN (Dyfed), retired barrister; ANDREW RUDDLE tGwent), bank worker; the REV DR MICHAEL BEWAR (CO Down); DAVID MCKEE (Belfast), physicist
Including Beat the Brains Programme devised by - .JOHN P. WYNN, who also, with IAN GILLIES, sets the questions. Producer JOHN bridges
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Rebcri Williams
Introduced by Sue MaeGregor Talk Till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Sailing in High Heels: Christabel King joins a group of teenagers on a trip to Holland.; 'Go ye and teach all nations': ANNE MACNAMARA and PAULINE WEBB attended a recent conference of the World Council of Churches.
Long Road to Freedom, written and read by Ginette Spanier (1) abridged in ten parts by JOCK GALLAGHER
From a cumfortable Jewish home in London, Ginette Spanier married a handsome French doctor and went to live in Paris. That was Spring 1939. Within months came the war and then the German Occupation. From then. they led a miserable, hunted existence as they fled from the Nazis. This is the story of those four years and their grim experiences. (Music: Cafe au Lait by Johnny Hawksworth)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Crotchety Tooth by MARGARET HOPKINS
Blight by JILL HYEM
The Warden
6: The Warden's Decision
Presented by Robert Williams
Dannie Abse goes to the Archive Auction.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VIIF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler, with Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, John Graham and Nicolette McKenzie. (Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
These Modern Ways by Eugene Chirikov in an English version by Basil Ashmore with Thora Hird, Anthony Newlands, Maureen O'Brien and Keith Drinkel.
This is the first performance in English of any play by Chirikov, who was regarded in Russia as Chekhov's successor and was held in high critical regard by Gorky and Stanislavsky. Chirikov's work is largely unknown, but this particular play is one of a quintet entitled Comedies of Provincial Life and which deals with family relationships in a small Russian town at the turn of the last century.
Dave Arthur looks at six British folk heroes whose legends live on. 6: Nelson
(Repeated: Thursday 11.45 am)
Presenter Chris Polling
Douglas Stuart reporting
People in the public mind.
(Revised repeat: Tues 11.35 am)
Written and read by James Cameron abridged in five parts by PATRICK MCENROE (1)
"Of the flat in Battersea I recall nothing whatever. I later heard that the adjoining apartment was the home of a talented youth whose name was Noel Coward. There was a Impend in the family to the effect that the gifted youth had at one time upset my pram, including myself, down the landing Stairs; I never followed up this tenuous acquaintanceship. Producer HELEN FRY
The first of four programmes. The Scottish grouse moors, once the preserve of the aristocracy, are now dominated by business tycoons from Europe and America. They are a major part of one of Britain's biggest money-spinners - the tourist industry.
The accessories are expensive, and tonight Malcolm Billings samples the £8,000 gun and learns how to use it.
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