Presented from the South East by BRYAN PLATT
long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead with Mike Vestey
Including at 6.45* Prayer for the Day
with Sister Judith Ellen
7.0 and 8.0 Today's News
Read by Susan Denny
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by ROGER MASON (2)
Holidays in 79 This year you might want to organise your own European tour or give a holiday to your children on their own. go camping. or on a walking holiday. or even a ' craft ' holiday. Or perhaps you are tempted by an easy and cheap package holiday. or two weeks in one of Britain's booming resorts. The brochures for 1979 seem more glossy and more tempting than ever and the choices even wider. This year perhaps our two guests, travel correspondents Elisabeth de Stroumlllo and John Carter , could help you with that difficult holiday decision.
In the Chair
Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines are open from 8.0 am
Material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by David Lloyd.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
NEM, page 9: Behold, the great Creator makes (BBC HB 44); Psalm 65; Colossians 1, vv 3-14 (rsv); A great and mighty wonder (BBC HB 41)
By a Frozen River by NORMAN LEVINE
Read by Jon Glover
What Else Did Daddy Say? by BEN STEED with Matthew Ryan as Patrick Elizabeth Bell as Mum Peter Wickham as Dad and Sarah Steed as Emma
Ten-year old Patrick, it seems, understands more about the break-up of his parents' marriage than they do themselves.
Directed by LIANE AUKIN
In the first of three talks Hamish Maclnnes of Glencoe looks at avalanches and recalls his own survival in five of them in Scotland and the Himalayas. BBC Scotland
Story: The Bad-Tempered Little Bridge by JUDITH DRAZIN
Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long waue only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Wlicn The Trolls Grant a Fiddler's Wish: TONY BARNFIELD with the young performers, producer and composer PETER MAXWELL DAVIES, as they rehearse his children's opera ' The Two Fiddlers '.
(The Two Fiddlers: Thursday 4.55 pm Radio 3)
A Plain Woman's Guide: today SHEILA BLACK explains the workings of the Price Commission.
Animal Relations: an occasional look at the world of animals with MOLLY PRICE-OWEN .
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Moon's Ottery (5)
Four programmes on how Parliament works. Presented by Anthony Howard with the help of recordings from the 1978 proceedings of the House of Commons.
1: Across the Dispatch Box
Question Time is perhaps the most publicised h iur of the parliamentary day, and twice a week it provides a stage for the ritual clash of Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition.
Producer GRAHAM TAYAR
The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. LAWRENCE dramatised for radio by LIANE AUKIN , With Diana Bishop as Hester Carter
Moray Watson as Oscar Cresswell Adam Godley as Paul Carter
There is always the need for money. The house is haunted by the whispers. which the children hear. ' Is money luck? ' the boy wonders. The rocking horse holds the secret. and the boy rides it tn search of an answer.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
4.30 Announcements
1066 And All That by w. C. SELLAR and R. J. YEATMAN
* A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates.'
Abridged in four parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Arthur Marshall and Barry Justice (1) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long ware only
5.55 Weather; programme news
A marital comedy starring Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick
4: Edward Seeks to Expand his Mind, with the Help of a Gentle Armlock from Dorothy featuring
DAVID BURKE , LEWIS FIANDER JOHN GABRIEL , GEOFFREY MCGIVERN
Written by BARRY PILTON Producer
GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Some illnesses are healed by orthodox medicine. some by more unusual methods, some. as it seems, by miracles. What role does religion play in helping the sick get well? Heather Formaini talks to doctors, clergy and others.
(Rev. repeat)
The Story of J. M. Barrie and Peter Pan
Compiled and narrated by Brian Sibley
It is just 50 years since Sir James Barrie published the play of Peter pan and, in so doing, confessed that he had no recollection of ever having created Peter. We go in search of the Boy whj wouldn't grow up and the Man who didn't want to. with David Steuart as J. M. Barrie and HILARY GILMAN , ELIZABETH LINDSAY , JENNIFER PIERCEY , EVA STUART , FRED BRYANT. ROY SPENCER and Anthony Miall as Peter Pan
Producer GRAHAM GAULB
Introduced by John Maddox
Where was the cradle of mankind - and when did the first hominoid walk on earth? Professor David Piibeam. of the Department of Anthropology at Yale University, believes some of the answers are becoming clearer. Our most likely ancestor was a tree-dwelling creature weighing roughly 40 pounds, with a stature like that of a medium-sized dog. This hominoid called Ramapithecus inhabited the land-masses between East Africa and China between 15 and eight million years ago.
JOHN MADDOX discusses how these inferences and others concerning the life-style of such creatures can be made on the basis of a few jaw fragments recovered from fossil deposits.
Producer DAVID PATERSON
Presenter Richard Cork Producer ANNE WINDER
9.5S Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Slave (2) long nave only
long wave only
A selection of music for late-night listening.
Weather report: forecast
