7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anvwhere on earth introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 News and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES ) VHF East Anglia: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
based on Madame de Pompadour by NANCY MITFORD adapted for radio by ALAN MELVILLE
2: If there has to be a mistress with Moira Lister. Edward de Souza and Alan Melville
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
My husband let's me buy from the book - oh it's ever so good I wouldn'dream of using the mail order system
One in every seven households in Britain contains an agent for a mail order firm and in 1970 goods bought through catalogues amounted to £570-million. SHEILA BLACK of the Financial Times examines the phenomenon of the armchair shopper. Producer DAN ZERDIN
NEM p 22: Ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 372); Psalm 27 part 1; Isaiah 32, vv 1-8 (RSV): All glory to God in the sky (BBC HB 29)
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE MARTIN GOLDSTEIN (piano)
DAVID and MARIANNE DALMOUR Today: Music from
Town and Country
Introduced by PETER DONALDSON
The biography of the legendary dancer written by his widow ROMOLA NIJINSKY
Read by ANNA BURDEN 10: The Last Years
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
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12.0 Announcements
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your OwnTime
The eye of the beholder: JEANINE MCMULLEN discusses with architect DONALD INSALL ways in which the diy addict can make his home look better than it really is.
And other topical items too.
VHF South West: see column 2
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
(Thursday's broadcast)
Story: The House that Granny Made by EILEEN HYDE
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by GEOFFREY BRAND and CLIVE LYTHGOE (piano)
Selected for Friday
Between the Two of Us by RHYS ADRIAN with Alec McCowen and Anna Cropper
' What am I supposed to do? If I approach you ... What will happen? And if I approach you ... What are you expecting? I might do all the wrong things.'
Producer RONALD MASON
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
The Cruel Sea by NICHOLAS MONSARRAT Read by GABRIEL WOOLF 10: 1944-45 - The Prize Producer GRAHAM GAULD
The news magazine that sums up your day-and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
John Simpson presenting world news and views
NANCY wise makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
A spontaneous discussion by RT HON RICHARD CKOSSMAN , MP PETER HALL , HARRIET CRAVvLEY CHRISTOPHER TUGENDHAT , MP Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Woodcote, Berkshire
(Repeated: Saturday. 1.15 pm) Listeners' views should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
In 1972-3 the school-leaving age goes up to 16. Will this extra year at school be a waste of time or a tremendous opportunity for the schools and their pupils?
Alex Glasgow examines some of the ways in which the challenge is being tackled, and talks to educationists, teachers and children involved. Producer GILLIAN HUSH
(ROSLA and After 1, a booklet accompanying a forthcoming radio and TV course for secondary school teachers: page 60)
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week,
The Shipbuilders by GEORGE BLAKE
Read by TOM FLEMING (10)
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano look back at the week's news and illustrate the funnv side Script by PETER SPENCE Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Saturday, 5.30 pm)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
