with Susan Denny
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Blackpool at the TUC; Nigel Rees in London
with Susan Denny
7.52 VHF regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Blackpool
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
Read by p. G. STEPHENS (8)
(A shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
(Next edition: Saturday 10.2am)
NEM, p 75; I to the hills (BBC HB 459); Psalm 119, pt 1; Mark 2. v 23 to 3, v 6 (nsv); Father all-seeing (BBC HB 385)
A Delicate Question by MARJORIE ECCLES Read by John Bott
Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
Consumer Edition Presenter Sue Cook including the BBC Shopping Basket and the Best Buys
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Wldlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Born under Virgo: SUE MAC GREGOR and RUSSELL HARTY discuss with NORMAN TOZER the qualities attributed to their birth sign.
2.0-2.2 News
Mind Matters: TONY BUZAN with news of some current developments in psychology.
Lifting the Veil: AMINA SAID talks to ANNE CATCHPOLE about the events that led to the emancipation of women in Egypt. Milk and Honey (8)
Story: Big Fat Rosie at the Seaside (Part 1) by MARY CALVERT
Free for All by ALMA CULLEN
Imagine being back in Edinburgh, Queenie: two hardened old nomads like us. And at Festival time. Where else in the world do you find precisely that quahty of tension? Brooding savagery just held in check by puritan wakefulness.'
Directed by GORDON EMSLIE BBC Scotland
From cantors to crime-writers. Jack de Manio meets them all. Could you be Dn his list? Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
4.0-4.5 News
Excellent Women (4)
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 KEITH MILES
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham
Presented by Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated; Friday 10.5 am)
Kieran Prendiville discovers some curious sounds on tape and disc. Producer NICK HUGHES (Repeated: Friday 11.30 pm)
by JAMES FOLLETT
A series of four true stories of German pows who escaped from British camps between 1940 and 1947. 1: The Ten Day Terror
A dramatisation of the mass breakout from the notorious Island Farm Camp in South Wales which led to the biggest police and army manhunt ever mounted in Britain. With and Directed by MARGARET ETALL
Presenter Paul Vaughan
9.5S Weather
John Tusa reporting
Presented by Dr Martin Bax 5: Towards Language
Between crying and the acquisition of true language, the baby produces sounds and gestures. Are these gestures a form of pre-speech?
Tender is the Night (4)
'Who, he [Lord Norman-brook] wondered, would or could replace Hugh Greene if, for any reason, he should go? ... ' How about Charles Curran ? ' I asked. He looked mildly shocked. ' Curran? Certainly not. Curran wouldn't do at all. We should never have a Roman Catholic at the head of the BBC. 7 SIR ROBERT LUSTY , former Vice-Chairman of the BBC in his book
Bound to be Read
Moyra Bremner talks to Sir Charles Curran. who retires as Director-General of the BBC at the end of this month, about the difficulties he has faced as a Roman Catholic running the BBC at a time of increasing permissiveness.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude