With MARGARET HEBBLETHWAITE BBC Birmingham
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
It Is Your BBC
What do you think about it?
Are there too many repeats, or not enough? Do you find it good value? Should pensioners be exempt from paying the licence-fee? Should the licence-fee be realistic, or should the BBC find its money some other way?
Should it accept advertising? The BBC's Director-General,
Alasdair Milne , answers your questions on BBC programmes, policy and funding.
In the Chair, Sue MacGregor
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am
0 FEATURE: page 12
Producer ZAREER MASAM
The Courtship by REARDEN CONNER
Read by John Hewitt
Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland
from Manchester led by THE REV HAZEL ADDY
With the GREATER MANCHESTER
RADIO CHORALE
Luke 7, w 1-10; Father, we love you; I'm going to sing; Bind us together
BBC Manchester. Stereo
'I opened a tin of beans and found them riddled with holes and crawling with small insects. What are they?'
Pat Morris. Michael Chinery and Jim Flegg pit their wits -beans and creepy-crawlies in hand.
Presented by Derek Jones
Producer CAROL JEFFERSON-DAVIES BBC Bristol
Presented by Paul Heiney
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell Questions compiled by PETER MOORE Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm) Stereo
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: A Little Bit of Music by NICK WARBURTON
2.5 History: Long Ago Gentlemen of the Road by DAVE ROBINS
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (13) by DEREK FARMER
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories): A Walk in Wolf Wood 1: The Wolf Hunt by MARY STEWART Adapted by PADDY BECHELY
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Wolves: not vicious beasts feeding off little girls, but interesting animals which respond to intelligent training by big girls. In the company of her howling friends, THERESA PALMER talks to AUSON JOSEPH.
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (7)
Slimming Down by NANCY UVINGSTON andand andand
When Johnson Wire finds itself in financial trouble, the lives of its employees are radically affected. Some can cope, some can't.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING Stereo
What is it that gives us our strongest feeling of attachment to a particular town or part of the country: the people the history, or the buildings?
On a journey round Scotland, Maurice Lindsay encounters some strong loyalties - held for a variety of reasons. Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland
The 27th Kingdom 2: The First Flight
Presenters Phil Longman and Valerie Singleton
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Stereo
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer ROGER HUTcmNGS Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Repeated: Thursday 10.0 am)
The first in a series of programmes on famous people who made it against all the odds.
This week: how Maurice Micklewhite, a porter at Smithfield Market, became millionaire superstar Michael Caine.
William Davis talks to Caine in his Californian home.
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Sir Peter Parker , former Chairman of British Rail, chooses Advice to a Young Scientist by P. B. Medawar. Presented by Nigel Lewis Reader NIGEL GRAHAM
Producer MIRIAM NEWMAN
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)
Presenter Paul Allen Producer RICHARD DUNN
Second from Last in the Sack Race (7)
Presenter Charles Wheeler
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
Staying in Business Presented by PETER HOBDAY
4: Managing Money
followed by an interlude
Help Yourself Biology: Human Physiology
12.30 The Capillary Network: A Leaky System and at 12.50 The Circulation System at Work by PETER WARD
