Presented by John Timpson and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary.
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by clive ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
by ENID BAGNOLD abridged in four parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Wendy Hiller (1) In 1914 the author was 25 years old. At the outbreak of war she went to work as a VAD nurse at the Royal
Herbert Hospital, Woolwich.
In 1918 she published this diary of her years there - a portrait of the whole miniature world of the hospital, self-absorbed, unreal, yet, through the eyes of this watching, pitying girl, more real to us at this distance than the reality. Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Dear George by EUZA LEWIS Read by Gillie Gratham Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales
from St Paul 's Church, Birmingham
For all the saints (BBC HB 227); Ephesians 2, w 8-13 (JB); Ye holy angels bright (BBC HB 286) BBC Birmingham. Stereo
A weekly guide to your rights at work.
5: Discipline, Dismissal and Redundancy
What power does your boss have to discipline you? Can you be sacked if you're continually ill? If you're made redundant, is your firm legally obliged to offer you alternative work?
Paul Heiney tries to unravel your rights and how to enforce them with barrister Jeremy McMullen.
Reporter John Buckley Producer BILL MORRIS
Editor LESLIE ROBINSON
Early morning theatre presents
Singers of an Autumn Night by TREVOR OXFORD-HYPHEN-CAMBRIDGE
David returns to Lakeside
Farm to discover Jenny has melted, Brian thinks he's a telephone, and Sandra has married a chicken - but all is not as it seems.... Starring and Written by ROB GRANT and DOUG NAYLOR
Music by PETER BREWIS
Producer ALAN 'Polytechnic' NIXON
Stereo
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story Anansi Spider and the Pudding Tree adapted by LEILA BERG
2.5 The Music Box Written and presented by MICHAEL BURNETT and SANDRA KERR
2.20 Living Language The Wanderer (5) Adapted from The Odyssey
2.40 Newscast Presented by LIBBY FAWBERT
Introduced by Sue MacGregor It started by scaring the pants off the British male and many men haven't adjusted their dress since then. JENNY CUFFE reports on the effect of Women's Lib upon the nation's men.
Cluny Brown (7)
by Gordon McKerrow
Why does Cutty want Bran buried six foot underground when he's very much alive? Is it because Cutty has designs on Bran's wife?
(Stereo)
with Neil Landor
Producer NIGEL ACHESON
Anglo-American Attitudes Hunter Davies packs his dictionary and inspects his insularity on a tour of 0. Henry country and, with the help of novelist William Boyd , examines how we see them and they see us.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Behaving Badly (9)
Presenters Robert Williams and Richard Bath continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm)
Introduced by John Timpson Compiled by laurie MASON Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
Paul Heiney follows up today's earlier programme by putting your questions and queries to Jim Ramsey , Personnel
Director of British Alcan, and Jeremy McMullen , barrister. Lines open from 7.0 pm
for disabled listeners Presenter John MiUs
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA iWW Ring [number removed](10.0 am-5.0 pm)
Editor MARLENE PEASE
with Christopher Bigsby Producer KEVIN JACKSON
Quick Service (9)
Presented by John Hosken
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Caribbean Links A series of six programmes in 5:Trinidad and TobagoReporter KATHY williams
In the 1920s, little Winifred Mason never met another younger girl, Edna Edmunds , who was also playing in the Forest of Dean. Now they meet as Winifred Foley , best-selling author of A Child in the Forest, and Edna Healey , writer and wife of The Rt Hon Denis Healey , mp. Together they retrace the secret paths through foxgloves and fern which led to such unexpected destinies.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
followed by an interlude
General Studies: Nuclear Power
12.30 The Case of Druridge Bay
12.50 The Great Debate
