PRUNELLA SCALES reads from Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw
7.55 Weather; programme news

by ALISTAIR COOKE

(medium wave)
(from Birmingham)

from St Martin 's Church, Caerphilly: conducted by the Rector, THE REV H. LEWIS CLARKE
Hymns (A and M): Father of Heav'n (164: Rooley Moor); Praise to the Holiest (172: Gerontius)
Readings: Genesis 3, vv 8-15; 2 Corinthians 11. vv 19-31: Psalm 139 vv 1-9; Luke 8, vv 4-15 Organist and choirmaster MICHAEL WHITE

The Director JIM HORNE appeals on behalf of the St Mungo Community Trust which exists to care for the misfits of society, the destitute men and women who sleep on the streets of London.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Jim Horne. St Mungo Community Trust, [address removed]

Introduced by Jim Pestridge
The Manufacturer's Warranty: a discussion with Neville Powley as chairman
On a Shoestring: some thoughts on cheaper motoring by Sydney Urry of Brunel University
Winter Troubles: by Douglas Mitchell of Popular Motoring together with topical news and at 11.43* the latest traffic report.

A countrywide look at politics from outside Westminster
Presented from Birmingham bv GEORGE SCOTT
Producer DAVID SHUTE
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Cliff Michelmore invites you to exchange ideas live by telephone with his guests of the week in the studio.
Ring him on [number removed] and put your question on any subject under the sun, bar politics, to test the skills of his guests. With him this week are: John Mortimer, QC, the lawyer-playwright, Osbert Lancaster, artist and humorist, Honor Balfour. award-winning Anglo-American journalist
[number removed] (16 lines) will take calls from 11.0 am onward as well as while the programme is on the air. If you prefer, send your question in advance on a postcard with your telephone number to Whatever You Think, [address removed]

leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report presented by Nicholas Woolley
Editor HARRY BROWN

at Ross-on-Wye. Herefordshire. Members of the Ross Horticultural Society put questions to FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMEI.L. Question-master FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Producer KENNETH FORD
(Repeated: Tuesday. 4.0 pm)

Isabel Jeans, Margaret Rawlings Robert Hardy and Carol Marsh in Gigi by COLETTE translated from the French and adapted for radio by BARBARA BRAY
The scene: Paris, 1899
Storyteller, MARGARET ROBERTSON
with a selection of music from the soundtrack of the MGM film Producer RAYMOND RAIKES
(Radio Times People: page 5)

ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE

Talking Point

Computer Programming: JANE FINNIS talks to blind people who have taken up this work. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer THENA HESHEL

Costessey, Norfolk
(Extended version: Wed. 7.30)

Panel: DR JAMES HEMMING DR WENDY GREENGROSS and MARY STOTT
In the chair Jean Metcalfe Producer ELIZABETH SMITH

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
David Franklin and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair STEVE RACE
Recorded before an invited audience at the Commonwealth Institute. London
(Repeated: Thurs, 12.25 pm)

On St Bride's Day Fleet Street people in St Bride's Church put their questions about religion to three journalists:
Douglas Brown, the BBC's reporter on religious affairs
Douglas Brown, Assistant Editor of the Sunday Telegraph
Douglas Brown, proprietor, Anglia Echo Newspapers, and formerly lobby correspondent of the News Chronicle
Chairman Colin Semper

BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader COLIN STAVELEY conducted by JÖRG FAERBER Mendelssohn
Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
8.12* Symphony No 3, in A minor (Scottish)

by HUGH WALPOLE
Book 2: Judith Paris adapted for radio by SHAUN SUTTON
2: Watendlath and London
(For full cast see Tues, 3.0 pm) (Fifth of 12 episodes)

Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words.
11: Nation of Shopkeepers - the businessman in the 17th and 18th centuries
Trade, manufacture, statistics, profit, luxury, the South Sea Bubble, Josiah Wedgwood , Liverpool slavers, steam engineers - and the wild fantasy of the 45 ... Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON under the direction of Peter Mathias , Chichele Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford, who also speaks the commentary.
Speakers for the People:
JOHN DALISON. TERRY YARNELL , BRIAN PEARSON , ROGER KING. PHILIP ALLEN , JOHN GORDON , EDGAR ANSTEY , E. J. BURTON , REV ABBOT. OTTO HOLLANDER. DICK GRAHAM. ALEC GUMB , TOM BROWN , BERNARD CASE , BOB DELEW , JIM O'CONNOR , FRED DOUGHTY. FRANK ALDRED , HENRY EBNER. PETER WARHAM , G. RYAN , MRS BURGESS , ARTHUR PIPE R, MICHIE HOLLANDER. MRS RICHMOND-COLLINS. CALUM GRAHAM , REV ELWYN JONES , REV LOASBY, FRED CROFT. JIM BROWN , LOUIS HANKS , ALAN HURFORD , DAVID SCRIMGEOUR , MR MACROBERTS , RUDOLF STRAUSS. BRIAN SAWYER. LILLY POYSER . KEN LLOYD. NORMAN MACCAIG , R. STAPLETON. CHARLIE JOHNSON , PETE SHELDENS , DAVID MUIRSON , ALBERT WALKER , MRS DANSIE , BUNTY KING. PAT BLISS
Producer for the voices of the People CHARLES PARKER , assisted by JOHN MERSON and JON CROOK
The series of 26 programmes created in the BBCRadiophonic Workshop by MICHAEL MASON
(Further details: Wed, 3.45 pm)

The Mercy of God