with Eugene Fraser
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Birmingham for the opening of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Conference and Nigel Rees in London
with Eugene Fraser
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Birmingham
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
Read by P. G. STEPHENS (4)
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 50; 0 Lord, thou art my God (BBC HB 470); Psalm 139; I Corinthians 15, vv 44b-58 (Rsv); Lord of beauty (BBC HB 327)
The Skelper by BRIAN FRIEL Read by Bill Hunter
The incident that has been referred to ever since as ' The Sunday the skelper was arrested in his pelt ' had its beginning one Saturday evening in mid-August.
Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
Consumer Edition
Presenter Sue Cook with the BBC Shopping Basket and answers to your related queries from RICHARD LAWSON.
With WILLIAM BLEZARD (piano)
A programme in which Miss Grenfell remembers some of her best-loved monologues and songs. Words by JOYCE GRENFELL Music by RICHARD ADINSELL
Producer BOBBY JAYE
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widiake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Learn to Sing, to Learn to Read - 2: DR AUDREY WISBEY diScusses with FRANCIS CAMMAERTS , Principal of Rolle College of Education, the implications of her research on auditory memory.
2.0-2.2 News
Uncanned Laughter: ANDY PRICE hears about the serious business of writing funny scripts.
Letter from Nepal: FRENA BLOOM-FIELD tells the strange story of the Kumari or Living Goddess of Kathmandu.
Collectors and their Enthusiasms: ELIZABETH FURNESS talks about prints, old and new. Milk and Honey (3)
Story: Nicola's Flying Bicycle by ROSEMARY MCANDREW
We Can't Live on Cabbages by JOSEPHINE PAYNE
It's not so much what the butler saw, it's what he said that started the whole deadly affair.
Directed by GERRY JONES
From poets to pop stars; Jack de Manio meets them all. Producer MICHELL RAPER
(Jack de Manio presents The Motor Bandits; Friday 4.5 pm)
4.1 4.5 News
Twilight for the Gods (9)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Take a Sparkling Pair
Peter Pratt with a collection and recollection of Gilbert and Sullivan. Producer RONALD COOK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
Written by BRUNO MILNA
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS Editor DENNIS LOWER
(Repeated: Friday 10.5 am)
Richard Boston discovers some of the curious, fascinating and somewhat extraordinary sounds-recorded on tape and disc. Producer BRIAN COOK
(Repeated: Friday 11.30 pm)
A programme based on the diaries and books of Miss C. F. Gordon Cumming , who travelled round the world at a time when most Victorian women were confined to the drawing room.
Marjorie Westbury as Miss Gordon Cumming
Narrator Christopher Venning ' How to proceed with the mysteries of a morning toilette was really a serious consideration with all these Indian bearers flitting about.... Before I was half dressed, in came another relay and stood salaaming in solemn silence, waiting for orders, which, of course, I was unable to give, so could only stare at them admiringly.'
Compiled and produced by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Presented by Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting including a review of the day's events at the 139th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Presented by Dr Martin Bax 4: The Competent Infant
The first six months of life for the infant human are characterised by an astonishing rate of learning of skills.
The infant uses these skills to manipulate the relationship it develops with the adults around him.
A High Wind in Jamaica 14: Homecoming
3: The Engajadors
In the last of three talks, author and journalist John Laffin describes a terrible journey with the Portuguese, escaping from their country's poverty.
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
