with Laurie Macmillan
English Regions- see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Derek Cooper in London
with Laurie Macmillan
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Derek Cooper in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
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Thefirstofsevenprogrammes in which Richard Baker considers the lives and characters of some great composers as revealed in their letters and music.
Today: Mozart in 1777-1778 with HENRY KNOWLES as the composer, BRUCE BEEBY as his father Leopold, and KATHLEEN HELME as his mother.
Producer GRAHAM sheffiel*
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Presented by Colin Doran Producer William HORSLEY
NEM, p 84; Lo, now is our accepted day (BBC HB 342); Psalm 142; Psalm 51, vv 1-13 (AV); Forty days and forty nights (BBC HB 341)
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The Essential Red Herring by JOHN GLOAG
Read by Nigel Stock
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
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A series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Louis Blom Cooper , QC,. and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London. Today's proposition:
Prisons do more harm than good
It is proposed by Professor Terence Morris , Professor of Sociology with special reference to criminology, University of London and opposed by Teddy Taylor , mp for Glasgow Cathcart
Each advocate will call his witnesses, cross-examine his opponent's, and argue his case. The jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial, so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer DAVID ANTHONY TURNER
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
Adapted by Chris Miller
12.55 medium only Weather and programme news; VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Wldlake
medium only from 2.0 Introduced by June Knox-Mawer Guest of the Week:
John Hawkesworth , television writer and producer (including The Duchess of Duke Street and Upstairs, Downstairs)
2.9-2.2 News
Read Alt About It: DULCIE ash-down has some winter advice for summer travellers.
A Life on the Ocean Wave: DAVID HAWKSWORTH visits the Royal Naval College, Dart-mouth, to see how officers are prepared for a naval career.
The Friendly Prostitute: PAT STACKE with another memory of her time as a policewoman. Emma hy JANE ALSTEN (18)
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Story: Building Houses by MARY V A UGH AN JONES
An Island Soldier by JAMES MATEER With
Benjamin Whitrow as Faustus Denys Hawthorne as the Abbot Sean Barrett as Bran and Michael Harbour as Agobard
' There are rats in our house, my Lord Bishop, and when one has rats one does not waste time chasing them around the garden. One finds out where they breed. They breed in Ireland. So Ireland is where I will go.'
In a Celtic monastery on the north-east coast of Ireland in the sixth century, an Irish Abbot and a stranger from the Roman church in Gaul fight for control of the life of a young man.
Directed hy liane AUKIN
for Ash Wednesday, from
St John's College. Cambridge Responses (Ebdon)
Misere mei (Allegri) (The Latin text of Psalm 51)
Lessons: Jeremiah 14, vv 7-9; I Corinthians 9, vv 19-27; Canticles (Elway Bevin , The Short Service), Anthem: Ne reminiscaris Domine I Philips) Organ scholar DAVID HILL
Director of Music GEORGE GUEST
Harriet (8)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Conversations with Cooper
There's nothing wrong with enjoying your food and being interested in it.'
(SHEILA HUTCHINS )
' We find we have most fun sitting round the table with our children and friends and talking. (JANE GRlGSON) Derek Cooper meets two of the country's cookery writers and discusses the British attitude to food.
Producer DENNIS LOWER
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news. weather
Including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by EDWAKD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
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 STEVE BRAD SHAW and DAVID HENSHAW. Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
The Five Red Herrings by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in eight episodes by CHRIS MILLER starring
Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter 6: Evidence of a Commercial Traveller
Producer SIMON BRETT
Dr A.H. Halsey, Professor of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Oxford.
'We seem to have created a children's paradise. No age has ever been more child-centred or gone so far towards making death socially invisible. Yet parental anxiety, exacerbated by marital uncertainty, is endemic. Fathers, and more especially mothers, inhabit a world which takes away their control over, and simultaneously insists on their responsibility for, the fate of their children.'Ã
(Repeated: Sunday Radio 3)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting
England v Denmark. Round 2 (End of Round 1 Scores:
England 15 - Denmark 14) England:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Denmark:
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Seren Sarensen , Professor of Music, and former Rector of Aarhus University and Malin Lindgren. a leading Danish woman journalist Question researcher DAVID MACKAY
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
(Revised repeat: Tues 10.5 am)
Troubles by J. G. FARRELL (13)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
