News, weather, papers, sport
Introduced by Brian Redhead and Mike Vestey
7.1. 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
by CHARLES DICKENS (10)
A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Jeremy Siepmann follows the colourful progress of the piano. The Gadgeteers or ' Encumber not with needless aid'. The piano suffers - and recovers - from a plague of improvements '.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
NEM, p 67; Rejoice today with one accord (BBC HB 281); Psalm 146: Luke 11, w 14-28 (NEB); Father most holy, merciful and loving (BBC HB 167)
Megan by NESS DRIVER
Read by Gaynor Morgan Rees
This is a story about aspects of love set against a background of strict people in a non-permissive age.
Producer HARRI GWYNN BBC Wales
"He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene" (Marvell on Charles I)
"'Tis he the force of scattered time contracts
And in one year the work of ages acts" (Marvell on Oliver Cromwell )
Andrew Marvell, poet, scholar politician, died 300 years ago this month. Brilliant but enigmatic, he eulogised both Charles I and Cromwell in his verse. This assessment of his life and work is written and introduced by Ian Grimble, with Timothy West as Marvell and the voices of Eric Allan and Peter Williams
(Timothy West is in 'The Homecoming' at the Garrick Theatre. London)
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Editor DENNIS LOWER
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Bristol by Rene Wyndham
CAROLINE PARSONS talks tO young nurses who care for the patients in psychiatric hospitals, and asks, who cares for them?
2.1-2.2 News
Fitness Fanatics or Sensible Souls?: CHRIS DENHAM looks into the health club boom.
NORMA HUXTABLE gives her kingdom for a horse - and finds it's not all hay and sunshine. BBC Bristol
The Rector's Daughter (0) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Big Fat Rosie's Wash-day Adventure by MARY CALVERT
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and DAVID BRIERLEY
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer DIANA REED
Editor JENYTH WORSLCY
Sleeping Dogs Lie by GRAZYNA MONVID
Gary Brown is a lonely little boy, silent and withdrawn both at home and at school. The only person he's happy with is Bill as he tells him amazing stories of a life spent on railways around the world.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
Horse lovers generally, and especially lovers of the Welsh mountain pony, will grieve over the imminent sale of one of the foremost breeding establishments in Wales - The Coed Coch Stud. The mountain pony and its partner, the Welsh cob, are now well-known around the world, and this programme traces the history of this ancient breed and talks to child owners, dealers and judges. Presenter Mari Priehard
Producer WYRE THOMAS
BBC Wales
The Old Wives' Tale (5)
Presented by Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
We all have niggling little questions in the corners of our minds. Now you can unload your query onto Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Address: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Richard Hudson-Evans goes behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard 's selection Producer BRIAN DEAN
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A personal portrait
The American Involvement in Vietnam
Presented by Michael Charlton Ultimately, President Johnson's view of Asia was closely related to his view of the race problem and of social reform in the United States.
(FROFESSOR WALT ROSTOW)
6: Trying to Win with LBJ
The problem of Vietnam is inherited by President Johnson. Why does he first obtain approval from Congress (following the Tonkin Gulf incident) for waging war. and subsequently bomb the north and send an expeditionary force of American combat troops to South Vietnam?
Contributions from GEORGE BALL , WILLIAM BUNDY, SENATOR FULBRIGHT, WALT ROSTOW, DEAN RUSK, GENERAL MAXWELL TAYLOR and SIR ROBERT THOMPSON.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (First broadcast on Radio 3)
Presenter Paul Gambaccini Producer DAVID FERRY
John Tusa reporting
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNC
Part the Third of A Little Night Exposure
This week: From Sadie with Love ... A tale of health, horror and histrionics.
Script, music and lyrics by A Little Night Exposure
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
Ozzie the Wonder Dog Written and read by LYNDA MARCHAL
BBC Manchester
Journey Through a Small Planet (5)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
