Introduced by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
6.45*, 7.45* Thought for the Day
by CHARLES DICKENS (15)
Material from local and regional broadcasting.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Jeremy Siepmann follows the colourful progress of the piano. The Pride of the Parlour
This week's programme finds that the piano is a girl's best friend. Prince Albert entertains, and Gershwin makes a hit. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
NEB. p 89, 0 for a closer walk (BBC HB 333): Psalm 67: Luke 12, vv 13-31 (NEB); Soldiers of Christ, arise (BBC m 366)
A Light Affair bv TERRY TAPP Read by Philip Manikum Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
(B'cast on Wednesday at 8.0)
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
(B'cast on Wednesday at 6.30)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
One Really Happy Day: manv mentally-handicapped patients are making new friends thanks to special One-to-One visiting days. JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH reports.
2.0-2.2 News
' If there is a heaven on earth, it is here ...': GAY WARD recalls the years she spent in India, and the places and events that inspired some of her poems.
High Noon in Redditch: ANN TENNANT meets some Midland ' cowboys ' who have built their own Western village and regularly stage breakouts from the local jail. BBC Birmingham Five Short Stories by Ruth Rendell
3: The Clinging Woman
Story: Hamish and the Pedlar's Pipe by MOIRA HERITAGE
Presenters PATRICIA LEVENTON and MICHAEL DEACON
Written by moira HERITAGE Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
by Keith Waterhouse
This dramatised account of how the mythical rival station, 3LO reached listeners might have come from the long defunct station's programme record library.
BBC Manchester
An old peasant lady living in the heart of the Brittany countryside described her countrymen and women as being ' Breton souls living uncomfortably in French skins % Richard Snailham visited Brittany recently to try to discover what is so special about the Bretons and why they feel themselves to be so separate and different from the rest of the population of France. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
The Old Wives' Tale (10)
Presented by Gordon Clough
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 find the answer for you. Address: Enquire Within, BBC. London W1A 4WW Producer DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Travel with Barry Norman 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 7: From Tonkin Gulf to Tet — from Getting in to Getting Out At this period, the United States is fighting a war in Vietnam by bombing the north and with tens of thousands of heavily equipped combat troops. Why did this policy fail? And did the protest movement at home accelerate the ultimate withdrawal?
Contributions from
GEORGE BALL , WILLIAM BUNDY, J. K. GAL-BRAITH, SENATOR EUGENE MCCAR -THY. SIR ROBERT THOMPSON , PAUL WARNKE and GENERAL WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
The second in a series of Kaleidoscope reports looks at the Scottish Opera's production of Pilleas et Melisande; and productions of The Tempest and A Midsummer-Night's Dream. There are also reports from the Film Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe.
Presented by Michael Oliver Producer CHRIS SWANN
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Part the Fourth
This week: Hamburg, Here We Come ... A tale of seafaring, see through-ing and lechery.
Script, music and lyrics by A Little Night Exposure
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
Written and read by Jim Andrew.
BBC Manchester
Journey Through a Small Planet by EMANUEL LITVINOFF abridged for radio in ten parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by DAVID SWIFT (10)
Producer BERNARD KRICHEFSKI
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
