with Brian Redhead and Michael Stewart
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Lively and unpredictable conversation with people from all walks of life.
Julian Lloyd Webber. Producer PIPPA BURSTON

visits Buckinghamshire where members of the Emberton and District Flower Club put their questions to
Geoffrey Smith
Daphne Ledward and Dr Stefan Buczacki Questionmaster Ken Ford
BBC Manchester

Head-Bangers by MICHAEL A. PEARSON Read by Timothy Kightley
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

True Greatness, the Example
NEM, p 118; I heard the voice of Jesus say (BBC
HB 143); Give almes of thy goods (Tye); Mark 9, w 30-42; It fell upon a summer day (BBC HB 71)

The third of six programmes Malcolm Muggeridge looks out from his home in Sussex and sees sheep on a green slope framed by trees - a view of eternity through a window in time. Producer
JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Presented by Pattie Coldwell
Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.
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11.0 am

by JOHN MASEFIELD
The last of six parts adapted by COLIN finbow
A group of 16 sailors have struggled to stay alive after their tea clipper was struck by a steamship.
They have fought with the sea and each other, but they are a part of the same crew. And now they are drawn together again with the sighting of The
Bird of Dawning - another clipper, apparently abandoned ...
Narrator BRETT USHER
Music coach
GEOFFREY COLLINS
Additional research and shanty man HENRY STAMPER Technical presentation DAVID GREENWOOD
RICHARD BEADSMOORE and ROGER DANES
Directed by PETER KING

Presenter
Michael Charlton with news and topics in and behind the headlines

by the Labour Party

Introduced by Gillian Reynolds including
Guest of the Week: the pioneering children's writer Geoffrey Trease
The Birds Fall Down (15)

It's Only Natural by CHRIS CURRY
'I don't want him brought up by her mother, the Incredible Sulk. Why couldn't I look after him? Don't come out with that "it's not manly" rubbish,
I'd expect that from "keep'em-bare-foot-and-pregnant" Douglas, not you. I mean it's a challenge isn't it?
Coping with a young life....'
Directed by TONY cuff BBC Manchester

Frank Eyles reflects upon his life as a bank manager.

Futility (3)

with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.50-5.55

with CLIVE ROSLIN including
Financial Report

A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)

(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)

Is it all free drinks and hobnobbing with the famous? Do you need a crash course in writing expense accounts? Would you recognise a scoop if you tripped over it? In the second of five programmes, Patrick Hannan gives some misleading advice to would-be hacks.
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

A series of eight programmes in which
Tom Vernon rides his bicycle from Exeter to Edinburgh; with an eye for the countryside and an ear for the people along the way.
IV: Woollybacks and Yellowbellies: the Cotswolds to
Lincoln Producer JENNY DE yong

Each week Antony Hopkins explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

John Dunn looks back over 60 years of BBC
Schools Radio. The first national broadcast to schools was a talk on music by Sir Walford Davis on 4 April 1924.
Soon the service expanded and schools up and down the country enjoyed the benefits of 'new voices' in the classroom ...
Ann Driver with her Music and Movement programmes;
Eric Parker 's nation talks;
French lessons from
Monsieur E. M. Stephan ; and the famous historical dramatic interludes by Rhoda Power.
The story from pioneering days to the present is told by the actors, writers, producers and administrators who worked in the Department as well as the teachers and children who have used the broadcasts in the classroom.
Producer PETER HOARE

Paul Allen presents tonight's edition, including interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY

I'm Not Complaining (3)

Headlines - an hour of national, international and financial news, background analysis and comment.
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