with Harriet Cass
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
with Harriet Cass
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
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AH Work and No Play
Many schoolchildren take on part-time jobs to swell their pocket money, and even to supplement the family income. David Hawksworth examines the kind of work they do; to what extent they are exploited; what the legal implications are; the effect on school and homework; work; and the unexpected advantages of this introduction to working life.
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
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Presented by David Willmott Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY
NEM, P 110; Jesu, thy mercies (BBC HB 324); Psalm 119, part 7; Genesis 26, vv 34 and 35, 27, v 46 to 28, vv 4, 10-14 (rsv); Lord Christ (BBC HB 380)
Today's author is J. G. BALLARD Blain Fairman reads The Garden of Time
The great throng had now receded to the horizon, the entire concourse abruptly flung back in a reversal of time. The flower had shrunk to the size of a glass thimble ... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
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Ren€ Cutforth looks back
Presenter Nancy Wise
New stories about the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
Old Bones by DONALD BULL
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
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Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week: Chief Supt Mary Wedlake , Head of the. Juvenile Section of the Metropolitan Police.
2.0-2.2 News
Anyone Can Ski?: BERNARD JACKSON in the Spanish Pyrenees.
Pick of the Paperbacks: JUNE KNOX-MAWER and EDWARD BLI-SHEN look at the season's crop, with Christmas in mind. Lost Profile (5)
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Story: David Buys a Birthday Present by JOHN FARRINGTON
A Man in the House by HENRY JAMES dramatised from the short story The Third Person by HUGH BURDEN with Noel Hood , Jeanne Watts
Two maiden ladies who had previously lived solitary and lonely lives come together to share a house unexpectedly bequeathed to them. They find companionship in each other but there's also a third person in the house whose presence they can't ignore but whose existence must be kept secret.
Directed by JANE MORGAN (The Ambassadors: tonight on BBC2 at 9.45; at this time next week Juno)
from Ely Cathedral
Versicles and Responses (Rose); Psalms 114, 115 (Attwood in D; Walmisley in A)
Lessons: Genesis 28, vv 10-22; Mark 7. vv 24-30
Office hymn: 0 God, thy soldiers' crown and guard (EH 181)
Canticles (Wills: Verse Service) Anthem: Cantantibus Organis (Peter Philips). Organist and Choirmaster ARTHUR WILLS Assistant Organist STEPHEN LE BBC Birmingham
Decline and Fall. 8: Stone Walls do not a Prison Make
Presented by Brian Widlake
by the Conservative Party
At My Leisure
Noel Edmonds considers some of the personal pleasures discovered amidst the bustle of public life. Producer DAVID EPPS
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Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
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
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by Steve Bradshaw and David Henshaw.
BBC Manchester
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife with MICHAEL MCCLAIN
JO MANNING WILSON Book 2, Chapter 3: The Club
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE
Robert Kee continues his conversations with the powers behind the press.
3: Owen O'Brien. General Secretary Of NATSOPA.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer ARNOLD MILLER
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
England v Poland: Round 1 England: Anthony Quinton
(Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Poland:
Gordon Clough (Chairman), with Karol Malcuzynski, politician and Dr Janusz Stefanowicz, Editor of the Catholic Weekly Universe
Question researcher DAVID MACKAY Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (18)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude