with John Hedges
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
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
by MAURICE O'SULLIVAN (3)
Immigrant Medicine
The immigrant communities In Britain don't always find it easy to adapt to the medical care provided by the National Health Service. Nancy Wise reports on the problems as seen from both sides.
Special research ROBERT EAGLE Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR
Presented by Peter Jefferson Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY
nem, p 46; 0 thou in all thy might so far (BBC HB 312); Psalm 119, pt 4; I Corinthians 15, vv 30-44a (RSV); 0 for a heart to praise (BBC HB 334)
Today's author is SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Noel Johnson reads A Friend in Need
' The longer I know people the more they puzzle me: my oldest friends are just those of whom I can say that I don't know the first thing about them.'
Long live the first snowdrop scorning danger and cold!
Long Live
The Rebel World, that contains both thought and the hammer (GALANSKOV)
Janis Sapiets examines the present situation of Christians in Russia and their role in the human rights movements Research SUZAN DAVIES
Producer DAVID WINTER
Gabriel Woolf reads
3: Letters of James Agate
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition, Presenter Nancy Wise
Beetles and Buckman with Sheridan Morley
1: The Courgettes Connection
A tale. of violence in the marrow patch, in which Ralph Soppy discovers the difference between raffia and Mafia.
AL ITALIA: So - you don't know too much, heh?
RALPH: Of course not I went to public school. Written by CHRIS BEETLES and ROB BUCKMAN Producer
BOB OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Story: One Little Two Little by DIANA ROSS
by Wally K. Daly
'Go on - admit It. You've been doing the thieving, haven't you? I bet you knocked off the money for the course and kidded your mam you got it honestly. Go on, you can tell me. I won't tell anyone.'
BBC Manchester
Jack Brymer dips into his fund of stories about music and musicians and illustrates them with gramophone records.
Twilight for the Gods (8)
Presented by Brian Widlake
At My Leisure
Derek Parker considers some of the personal pleasures discovered away from the microphone.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
starring and with and 6: For Auld Lang Syne Written by PETER SPENCE Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Introduced by Tony Van den Bergh
Most of us at sometime in our. lives face difficulty, frustration and depression. A small minority, perfectly healthy themselves, know that misfortune and harassment will not go away. These are the people who nurse, tend or support those suffering from physical or mental handicaps.
This programme tells five stories of people who just won't give up, even though they know that things won't really get better. Producer
DAVID SHUTE. BBC Birmingham
who was United States Secretary of State, 1961-69, throughout the Presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, in conversation with Michael Charlton
' I have long been in favour of closer political and defence relationships within Europe, but I also have long since quit talking about it because I realise that the more the Americans said about it the less likely it was to happen in Europe.'
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
(First broadcast on Radio 3)
Antarctica - Frozen Assets
Presented by Anthony Smith
Two-thirds of the world's fresh water is kept ' on ice ' in Antarctica - the frozen continent also has vast reserves of coal; it may have oil and gas, as well as minerals such as gold, cobalt, copper and chromium. The seas around the Antarctic are brimming with valuable shellfish. Who owns these riches? What is the possibility that a world hungry for food, minerals and energy, might be able to exploit the planet's last wilderness? Producer DAVID PATERSON
Kaleidoscope at the Edinburgh Festival looks at a new play by Adrian Mitchell, White Suit Blues, and at this year's Film Festival which concentrates on the British documentary. Presented by Michael Oliver.
Douglas Stuart reporting including a review of the. day's events at the 139th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Benny Goodman
A musical portrait of the jazz and classical clarinettist, presented by Edward Greenfield. gramophone records
A High Wind in Jamaica 13: Parting at Sea
2: Deep Sea Fishing
John Laffin describes a daring flight from East Germany with political refugees.
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
