with Eugene Fraser
English Regions: see column 5
S.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Michael Cooke in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
with Eugene Fraser
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London
Michael Cooke in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather. papers and sport
abridged in 13 parts by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by JOYCE GRENFELL (13) Producer PAT MCLOUGLIN
(First broadcast in Woman's Hour)
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Licence to Die?
Many parents must face the decision whether or not to allow their children the thrills and satisfaction of owning a motorbike.
Statistics warn heavily against, with increasing deaths and injury among teenage motor-cyclists. Concerned organisations urge: ' Don't give your child a licence to die.'
Kevin D'Arcy reflects the facts and opinions arising from the increasing popularity of teenage motor-cycling.
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Presented by Peter Jefferson Producer OLIVIA SELIGMAN
NEM, p 75; My God, my Father (BBC HB 357); Psalm li2; Mark 14, v 66 to 15, v 5 (RSV); All people (BBCHB 450)
Today's author is ARNOLD BENNETT
Gabriel Woolf reads his own abridgement of The Dog
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Ren5Cutforth looks back on some of the unforgettable characters he has met over the years.
Presenter Nancy Wise
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Kate Adie
Guest of the Week: singer and evangelist Cliff Richard
2.0-2.2 News
Down in the Garden something Stirs, Blows, Blasts or Crashes!: PAUL BARNES visits St Albans Steam Organ Museum.
My Marriage to a Pakistani: described by KRYSIA AHMAD. herself of English and Polish parentage.
A Breath of Border Air by LAVINIA DERWENT , abridged in six parts by MYRA BEATON , and read by COLETTE O'NEIL (6)
(Music: Suk's Serenade for Strings)
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Story: Mrs Cluckabiddy Saves the Day by STEPHEN WEAVER
Pretty Polly Barlow by NOEL COWARD
The second of three short stories adapted for radio by JOHN GRAHAM.
' If it wasn't for my loving kindness, you'd still be selling stockings in that God-awful store in Kensington High Street. A trip round the world. A chance of a lifetime, my girl, and don't you forget it.'
Directed by IAN COTTERELL (First broadcast in 1975)
from Norwich Cathedral
Versicles and Responses (Smith of Durham)
Psalm 119. vv 145-176 (Wesley and Stafford Smith)
Lessons: Genesis 2, w 4-9, 15-25: John 1. vv 35-51
Canticles (Stanford in G)
Anthem: Laudibus in sanctis (William Byrd )
Organist and Master of the Choristers MICHAEL NICHOLAS
Organ Scholar GORDON BUSBRIDGE BBC Birmingham
Forfeit by DICK FRANCIS
Read by JACK WATSON (8)
The news magazine: presented by Brian Widlake with PM's s reporting team
At My Leisure
Semprini considers some of the personal pleasures discovered amidst the bustle of a public life.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Semprini introduces Semprini Serenade, 9.2 pm Radio 2)
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the Chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by stsve BRADSHAW and DAVID HENSHAW. -
Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
On 26 October 1917 the last of the countless battalions which had struggled through six waterlogged miles of the Ypres Salient opened the assault at the sodden slope to Passchendaele itself. It had taken five months and 100,000 lives to get there. Before it passes into history, this account draws heavily on the memories of the last survivors of the citizens' army which fought that unforgettable battle. For Passchendaele was different.
Narrated by Gabriel Woolf
Taking part: MICHAEL MCCLAIN
ALARIC COTTER , ANTHONY NEWLANDS Written and dramatised by LYN MACDONALD
Producer RITCHIE cogan
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer john boundt
Douglas Stuart reporting
Jill by PHILIP LARKIN (8)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
