C.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day CANON G. WILLIAMS
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather: at 6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news. At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27: Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.
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Pocket Money
How has galloping inflation affected what we give the children? 5p or £5 - how much is enough' Should they earn pocket money, or is it theirs by right however they behavet Kevin McGrath , teacher, and Katharine Whitehern , journalist, are among the parents who discuss money with a group of children.
Presenter Paddy Feeny , Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
BBC Home correspondents and reporters: introduced by DENIS JONES
Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 25; Thou art the Way (BBC to 338); Psalm 119, pt S; John 4, vv 27-42 (nsv); It fell upon a summer day (BBC m 71)
A Bayonet in Bombazine by R. T. PLUMB
Read by Joan Matheson
... Positively, the man who accompanied my young and pretty aunt, or a least was' frequently to be seen with her, wasn'her husband ...
Derek Waring discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in wildlife and mountaineering and chooses some recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer JOHN BURTON (Bristol)
The Gilt on the Gingerbread by MAISIE MOSCO
Margo Courtney. a housewife in her forties, has developed a fixation about the middle-aged couple who have recently moved into the house opposite. Why are they so happy - and what have they got that her marriage lacks? Margo gradually involves everyone around her in a quest to discover the truth about her neighbours and whether it's guilt - or gilt - on their gingerbread.
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
Presenter George Luce
Share a Flat: you may be sharing more than a room and facilities. HEATHER FORMAINI looks at the legal tangles.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
William Hardtastle
from 2.0 pm Presenter Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Alison Dawes , professional show-jumper.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
The Discerning Tourist at Home (3): And perhaps it is your home town MAEVE BINCHY describes.
Another Age, Another Land: MAUD KARPELES, at the age of 90, recalls her Appalachian travels with Cecil Sharp in search of English folk songs. ALEXANDER john reads Let Sleeping Vets Lie by JAMES HERRIOT
Story: Pottle Pip and the New Baby's Pram by NANCY NORTE-COTE
The Trip by JOHN D. VINCENT
' Are you seriously suggesting that a 15-year-old girl is so fascinated by a clapped-out old heap of tin that she spends all her evenings round here? ... Girls of 15 should be out with kids of their own age group. not hanging round middle-aged men.'
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)
Over dinner the great jazz violinist 'talks to FRANK DIXON who plays some of his most famous records.
Producer HERBERT SMITH (Manchester)
In a Marmalade Saloon by PATRICK O'CONNOR
Read by MICHAEL DEACON 3: The Immortal Wullie
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional'news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Renée Houston, Joy Adamson Beryl Grey , Margaret Powell In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer JOHN BRIDGES (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Music of Vienna
Introduced by Charles Osborne gramophone records
The House That Annie Built by CHARLES FAIRLESS
A case of attempted sharp practice by a 70-year-old expert in the art of local power politics.
You're sure you wouldn'like me to put the matter in writing for you, Mrs Morgan ? '
'No damn fear: Every time anybody puts anything in writing for me it flares up and burns my fingers.'
Producer LORRAINE DAVIES
(Kepeated: Thursday 3.5 pm)
P. J. Kavanagh invites
Alan Bennett. Michael Frayn and Amanda Theunissen to test their literary wits. Reader TIMOTHY KIGHTLEY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Presenter Edwin Mullins
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Douglas Stuart reporting
Lolly Willowes
Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY (5)
preceded by Weather
