News, weather, papers, sport
Two hours of news and views from home and around the world.
Introduced by John Timpson With LIBBY PURVES
6.45. Prayer for the Day
With THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.3a News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by HENRY JAMES abridged in four episodes by MICHAEL VOYSEY
Read by MARGARET ROBERTSON (4) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Bernard Falk.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Jeremy Siepmann follows the colourful progress of the piano. Mechanomania or Pianists are a Nuisance
This week's programme welcomes some self-reliant guests. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
(Broadcast on Thursday at 7.20)
NEM, p 114; Before the Almighty Father's throne (BBC HB 452); Psalm 42; Luke 13, vv 22-35 (NEB); 0 God, our help in ages past (BBC HB 467)
Sand by MICHAEL ELDER Read by Sheila Donald
Take some sand, a boy and his dog and you have the stuff that dreams are made of. Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland
Bridget Boland shares some of the gardening wisdom she and her sister learnt from country-men and women - the sort you don't find in modern scientific books - that gets passed down from one generation to another, Producer HELEN FRY
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough with voices and opinions from around the world
Introduced from Cardiff by Noreen Bray
Twenty-five years ago the world lost one of its finest poets - Dylan Thomas. In the studio today, DR DANIEL JONES and DAVID PONTING discuss his life and works. NOREEN BRAY visits the Money family in mid Wales to find out the meaning of self-reliance, BBC Wales
Peers and Plebs (3)
2.0-2.2 News
Story: Wriggly Worm and the Artists by EUGENIE SUNIMERFIELD Presenters JEAN ROGERS and TONY AITKEN
Written by JEAN ROGERS
Producer JENYTH WORSLM
The Love Knot by MICHAEL J. BUTLER with Barbara Leigh Hunt
David Buck. Rosemary Mellale and Julian Curry
Social respectability, family unity, the power of the Church and of money are all pervasive influences on the Love family in 1910. For the head of the family, Marmy, control of the family fortune means ultimate power over the destinies of her children but there are forces abroad which threaten to undermine it all.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
A 70th-birthday tribute to the great Australian batsman, captain and administrator.
Introduced by Michael Kennedy with the recorded voices of the late SIR ROBERT MENZIES with ALAN MCGILVRAY , SIR LEONARD HUTTON , BILL BOWES and BBC scorer and statistician BILL
FRINDALL.
Producer DON MOSEY BBC Manchester
The Old Wives' Tale by ARNOLD BENNETT abridged for radio in 15 parts by NEVILLE TURNER
Read by EDWARD DE SOUZA (15) Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Starting on Monday: The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White )
Presented by Gordon Clough
We all have niggling little questions in the corners of our minds that we mean to follow-up some day ... when we have the time. Now you can unload your query on to Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Questions, on postcards, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
Barry Norman with the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport. Producer GEOFF DOBSON
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A personal portrait
A series of programmes about The American Involvement in Vietnam
Presented by Michael Charlton
The CIA's assessment of both the bombing of North Vietnam, and the major military actions, is that they really were non-conclusive, that the real war was at the village lerel.
(WILLIAM COLBT)
8: Trying Not to Lose
The fighting in South Vietnam continues, but the strategies and negotiations of President
Nixon and Dr Henry Kissinger finally result in the Paris Agreements and the ceasefire in January 1973. Could a negotiated settlement have been achieved earlipr?
Contributions from
WILLIAM COLBY , WARREN NUTTER TAD SZULC, SIR ROBERT THOMPSON and PAUL WARNKE
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (First broadcast on Radio 3)
The final Kaleidoscope report looks at the Zurich Opera's production of three Monteverdi operas conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt ; and reports from the Festival Fringe. Presented by Michael Oliver Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Part the Fifth of a weekly ramble through the adventures, calamities and miscalculations of A Little Night Exposure - a band of performing vagabonds. This week: The Old School Tie-Up ...
A tale of the three Rs: Reading, 'Riting and Ramburger
Script, music and lyrics by A Little Night Exposure
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
The Life-Class
Written and read by BRIAN THOMPSON BBC Manchester
Zorba the Greek by NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS (5)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
