Introduced by Brian Redhead with HILARY OSBORN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
by CHARLES DICKENS (5)
Presented by Bob Langley Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Presented by Jeremy Slepmann Lions and Lionisers
This week's programme captures a touch of ' Pianitis ' and samples some celebrated treatments.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON Preview: page 15
NEM, p 38; Rise up, 0 men of God! (BBC HB 364); Psalm 24; Luke 10, vv 1-16 (NEB); The head that once was crowned with thorns (BBC HB 132)
by Gerard Melia
Read by Russell Dixon
BBC Manchester
Presented by Barbara Myers
For thousands of people in Britain, unremitting pain is a way of life. In the past few years, 30 or so pain clinics have been opened in this country and it is to these that the victims of chronic pain are sent as a last resort.
BARBARA MYERS finds out what treatments these clinics have currently to offer and also what they might in the future have to offer.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DENNIS LOWER
(B'cast on Wednesday at 6.30)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by John Parry Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Dancing Feet: JUDI GOODWIN meets some of the girls who entertain Northern carnival crowds and raise money for charity too.
2.0-2.2 News
Comforting the Victims: a Rotherham scheme offers support to people who have been attacked or burgled.
Living on the Line: MARJORIE AND KEN STEPHINSON 'S home is a railway station. BBC Manchester
The Rector's Daughter (4)
Story: Mrs McMuddlc 's Spring Cleaning by MOIRA HERITAGE Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and DAVID BRIERLEY
Written by GLADYS WHlTRED Producer DIANA REED
Editor JENYTH WORSLET
Out for the Count by KEN WHITMORE with June Barry as Molly Martingale
' I'm an old campaigner In the sex war. But when a man's advances are coupled with repeated warnings to be careful with my money, when you run after me all night round the casino, spoiling my pleasure, saying " don't spend this, watch your pennies " - and then when we get back to the hotel, try to break down my bedroom door. it's too much. What I can't stand is you being tight-fisted and randy at the same time! '
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
Mary French, author of A Victorian Village, and Crispin Gill , Editor of The Countryman, discuss rural life at the turn of the century against a background of interviews with inhabitants of the Cornish village of Quethiock. Produced and presented by ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea by ARTHUR RANSOME abridged and read in ten parts by GABRIEL WOOLF (10) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
(Starting on Monday: The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett)
Presented by John Parry Editor DEREK LEWIS
We all have niggling little questions in the corners of our minds. Unload your query onto Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library find the answer for you.
Address: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
with Richard Hudson-Evans
Behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport, including this week. a look at some of the pitfalls and problems of Continental motoring. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard 's selection. Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A personal portrait
The American Involvement in Vietnam
Presented by Michael Charlton I was thunderstruck ... but I only had had 24 hours in the country and my opinion wasn't worth very much.
(AMBASSADOR HENRY CABOT LODGE) 5: The Dropping of President Diem
President Kennedy has deepened the American involvement in Vietnam by sending military advisers. But why did he agree to the overthrow of .Ngo Dinh Diem?
Contributions from GEORGE BALL, WILLIAM BUNDY, WILLIAM COLBY, GENERAL TRAN VAN DON, ROGER HILSMAN, AMBASSADOR HENRY CABOT LODGE, SENATOR MANSFIELD, AMBASSADOR FRITZ NOLTING and DEAN RUSK.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (First broadcast on Radio 3)
In this last report from the Lambeth Conference, Gerald Priestland looks back.
Presenter Mike Phillips Producer DAVID PERRY
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Part the Second of A Little Night Exposure - a band of performing vagabonds.
This week: Plummet to the Top ... A tale of record
'albums, long-players and longer drops!
Other parts played by CHRISTOPHER M. PILKINGTON Script, music and lyrics by A Little Night Exposure
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
Sunset Over Mombasa, written and read by BRIAN THOMPSON. BBC Manchester
A House for Mr Biswas by v. s. NAIPAUL, abridged in 15 parts by MICHAEL VOYSEY
Read by GARARD GREEN (15) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting on Monday: Journey Through a Small Planet)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
