C.22 Farming Today: david ABOt
C.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam
Including at 6.50 and 7.51 Travel news. What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and programme news at C.55 and 7.55
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45 7. 5t Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
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Shoplifting - Is There Such a Thing?
Or should we call it theft and treat it like any other form of crime? Why is it an increasingly serious problem? Is it greed and a decline in honesty, or are shoppers subjected to unnecessary temptations?
With George Scott in the chair ring [number removed]to discuss with other listeners your views on the subject of shoplifting in this people-to-people edition. Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
The programme that minds the consumer's business. Presenter Roger Cook
Producer WALTER WALLICH
NEM, p 5; Praise the Lord! ye heavens, adore him (BBC hb 16); Psalm 19, vv 1-11: Colossians 4, vv 2-18 irsv); Ye boundless realms of joy (BBC hb 483)
The Eyelash by ELSPETH DAVIE Read by Eileen McCallum
When you find a single, strange hair anywhere, do you at once connect it with some imagined person? From one hair do you see in a flash a complete human being with all the details?
Producer GORDON EMSLIE (Glasgow)
Orphans
I've seen more hatred and tearing apart in families than ever we met at the orphanage. Recollections of three people whose childhood was spent largely in institutions. A second opportunity <o hear the pooled experiences of author Janet Hitchman (Barnardo's); public servant Sir Stanley Ray mond ( Shaftesbury Homes); and playwright Philip Levene (Jewish Orphanage).
Introduced by DEREK PARKER Script by JANET HITCHMAN Producer DAN ZERDIN
DEREK PARKER introduces recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
Presenter Nigel Murphy You and the Law
Permission to build?; wha-are the rules and regulations you need to observe when you plan an extension to your home? DAVID RAWKSWORTH finds OUt. Editor DENNIS LOWER
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Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle Editor ANDREW BOYLE
(Thursday's broadcast)
from 2.0 Introduced from Bristol by Daphne Hubbard
- A Likely Lad ': James Bolam talks to CAROLE STONE.
2.0-2.2 News
Land. Sea and Air: MRS VICTOR bruce has been breaking racing and endurance records since winning the ladies' cup in the Monte Carlo Rally of 1927. Witches. Fairies and Giants: traditional folk tales from the West Country.
MARY WIMBUSH reads
Shroud for a Nightingale (10)
Story: The Very Wet Day by ALEXANDRIA FAY HETHERINGTON
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JEAN ROGERS , SEAN BARRETT
Scripts by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Selected for Friday
High Twig on a Low Bough by KENNETH JOHN
Christine Monsey lives in a Norfolk fishing village and, in spite of her mother, tries to find a more exciting, loving life than the one she has.
Producer JAMES DUCKETT (Birmingham) (1971)
(Thursdays broadcast)
The Pass Beyond Kashmir by BERKELY MATHER
Read by GARARD GREEN
10: From a Great Height
William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
NANCY wise makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and Television.
Introduced by DAVID DUNHIL Producer ROGER THOMPSON
(Repeated: Saturday, 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Kearton Nary Goldring
Michael Parkinson Cyril Smith. up
Chairman David Jacobs Producer ROY HAYWARD from Lancashire
(Rptd: Sat. 1.15; Mon, 11.5 aIR) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to: Any Answersf, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Introduced by Nigel Rees Producer Miriam RAPP
S.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Deputy editor VINCENT duggleot Editor BRIAN BLISS
So Big by EDNA ferber
Read by LIANE AUKIN (10)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL mcguffie at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side:
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and others
Producer SIMON BRETT
preceded by Weather
12.1* am Inshore forecast