Brian Redhead at the Liberal Assembly in Southport, with Libby Purves in London.
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With The Rev John Congdon
7.0 and 8.0 Today's News
Read by Peter Donaldson
7.30 and 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
7: Pigs, Squalls and Squabble*
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Mental Handicap
Is your child mentally handicapped? If so then today's programme is for you, whether your child is one or SO. What are your rights and the rights of your child? Do you want information on Toy Libraries, Holiday Play Schemes and Sport and Recreational facilities particularly for the older child and the adult? What kind of financial help can you get?
How can you set about securing the future for your child when you are no longer around to support him?
In the studio Phillipa Russell. from the Voluntary Council for Handicapped Children and the mother of a 14-year-old mentally handicapped boy, and Peter Mittler. Professor of Special Education at Manchester University.
In the Chair: Barbara Myers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The lines are open from 8.0 am 'Accident of Birth: tonight
10.25 pm BBC1)
"Who today remembers the fate of Armenians?" - asks Assadour Guzelian.
Growing up in the Middle East as a stateless person, he soon learned that resilience and adaptability are part of the Armenian character and. with his wife Vivienne, he strives to keep his Armenian identity alive in Britain.
"But we Armenians - throughout history - have learned how to laugh even. during the saddest times. Under Stalin's regime we created a fictional Radio Armenia as an outlet for all our jokes. And we've hung on to it. Today all Armenians have a fund of anecdotes of Radio Armenia and one of them goes like this..."
NEM. p 38; Come, let us join our cheerful songs (BBC HB 122); Canticle 12; Luke 16, vv 16-18 (NEB): Crown him with many crowns (BBC HB 124)
Our White Deer by BUDD SCHULBERG
Read by William Roberts
That white deer-how can I explain it? - he was our white deer. We wanted to see him and try to make a pet out of him. We didn't want anybody to hurt him.'
Last Respects by MICHAEL TOFT
'Just take young Joe for a start ... I lamented more when our budgie died than he's doing over his own father. Mind you. they were daggers drawn, you know.'
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
(First broadcast in 1976)
(Rev repeat o/ Monday's broadcast at 10.30)
including Volunteer Week Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Presented by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Pop Goes the Music: a two-part report on the record industry by COLIN HAMILTON. 1: The Song.
2.6-2.2 News
Evenina in Baghdad: LYN TEN KATE takes a stroll along the riverside.
A Pick of the Paperbacks: chosen by JUNE KNOX-MAWER and EDWARD BLISHEN.
Dr Wortle's School (2)
Story: Mrs Cluckabiddy by STEPHEN WEAVER
Episode 2
The Sword in the Stone (7)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Peter Clayton says: ' Thank you, Mr Walpole ' for telling us what to call our chance disccoveries.
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
A chance to catch up on what you've been missing.
Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer star in this antidote to panel games starring William Rushton and Tim Brooke-Taylor with Humphrey Lyttelton as the star chairman and COLIN SELL as the star pianist
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm) ( Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden are in ' The Unvarnished Truth ' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
Identity: The complexity of the Welsh sense of identity is explored in poems by R. S. Thomas , Dylan Thomas. Douglas Phillips and John Tripp. Reader PHILIP MADOC
Presenter Frank Lincoln
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS
(Repeated: Saturday 11.20 am)
as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
A nightly review of hooks. films. plays. broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Jim Hiley
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
Douglas Stuart reporting
Zorba the Greek (12)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
