with Eugene Fraser
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Blackpool at the Tuc Conference and Nigel Rees in London
with Eugene Fraser
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Blackpool
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
by MAURICE O'SULLIVAN (8)
The Love Affair of the Century 1: 1895-1914 Birth of the Beloved Monster
W. F. BRADLEY , GEORGE LAN-CHESTER, LORD MONTAGU OF BEAU-LIEU and ST JOHN C. NIXON remember the motoring pioneers and their struggle to keep the horseless carriage on the road. Written and narrated by Brian Robins
Producer JOHN HASLAM
Presented by Peter Jefferson Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY
NEM, p 71: Thy kingdom come, (BBC HB 27); Canticle 7; Mark 2, vv 13-22 (Rsv); Lift up your heads (BBC HB 178)
Today's author is JOHN WAIN Cyril Shaps reads
The Valentine Generation abridged by JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFF
Gabriel Woolf reads
4: Letters from Friedrich Engels
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:
Sir Hugh Casson - Architect.
2.0-2.2 News
A Part for Every Child: ANN HEYNO watched 200 school-children perform Ian Rodger 's new play The Evacuees which reconstructs the events of September 1939.
Reading Your Letters.
Sounds of Norway: DOREEN TAY LOR has been collecting some Scandinavian folk music. Milk and Honey (7)
Story: The Five Funny Men by MARY VAUGHAN JONES
Boy with Lobster Pot byGRAHAM ENGLAND, with Gillian pays a visit to the seaside house of her childhood. What happened to her brother Joey gradually emerges in this gently atmospheric story.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Jack Brymer dips into his fund of stories about music and musicians and illustrates them with gramophone records,
Excellent Women (3)
Presented by Brian Widlake
At My Leisure
Alan Melville considers some of the personal pleasures discovered both in and out of the theatre.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
An investigation into the workings of the TUC Conference seen through the eyes of three of the annual delegates at Blackpool. Will their expectations be realised or will events at the conference, including today's big debate, disappoint them? Presenter Peter Paterson
Producers CAROLINE MILLINGTON and TONY HALL
In the first of four programmes, Magnus Magnusson investigates some of the threads and strands in the history of Ireland.
(Full details see Friday 11 am)
In a unique set of recordings, drawn from the BBC Sound Archives, several great figures from the past are recalled by people who were fortunate enough to meet them.
In the first of four programmes Sir Compton Mackenzie remembers Kaiser Wilheim II
at the Edinburgh Festival looks at the world premiere of Thea Musgrave 's opera
Mary Queen of Scots, and at an intriguing exhibition about the history of the gramophone. Presented by Michael Oliver Producer DAVID PERRY
John Tusa reporting including a review of the day's events at the 139th meeting of the British Association.
Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick A musical portrait of the celebrated piano duo introduced by Edward Greenfield. records
Tender is the Night (3)
I think that everyone should be entitled to be as mad, or crazy, or as insane as they happen to be.
Dr R. D. Laing , psychiatrist, talks to Moyra Bremner about the conflict between his attitude to the treatment of mental illness and established practice.
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
