Presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam. 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 English Regions: see column 5
A ' colonial ' autobiography by HARRY FRANKLIN abridged in ten parts by CARMEL ROSS
Read by NIGEL STOCK 6: Back to the Wilds
and prepare to be highly amused, mildly shocked, but always stimulated, as he, David Jessel, Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson, Fritz Spiegl and their guests entertain you for the next unpredictable hour.
The magazine edition - featuring blackbird alarm calls and their meaning, your favourite sounds, listeners' letters, what to look out for in October, and the wildlife sound competition. introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 75; God is my strong salvation (BBC HB 453); Psalm 112; Mark 10, vv 32-45 (NEB): Thee will I love, my God and King (BBC HB 314)
The Bare Tree by ELIZABETH BERRIDGE Read by Diana Olsson
'.....So you're going to be a hero. eh? I shan't cheer for you when you are dead or decorated.' ' Oh, God,' said Dennis, ' I want to be normal. I want to be everything you're not.'
The old lady shook her head. That's the way it goes, from generation to generation. The young setting up new values which are old as the sun.... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Nigel Murphy The World of Work
Where does the unemployment shoe pinch - and how hard? MARGARET KORVING finds OUt and talks about some solutions. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and comedian Paul Jennings. Show more
Paul Jennings, author with Roy Plomley
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
(Friday's broadcast)
from 2.0 introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
4 Cs of Hair Care (1); Cut - advice from ROBERT GRIFFIN.
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON cow reporting.
Fun for a Fiver: DAVID COOMBS on starting a collection.
SHIRLEY COOKLIN reads Walls (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Tom is in the Garden by IVY EASTWICK
Paradiso
Woman in the Mirror by WINSTON GRAHAM abridged for radio in ten parts by EVANGELtNE BANKS Read by Simon Lack
There is something mysterious about Morb House: a rambling place in Wales, owned by the indomitable Althea Syme. Norah Faulkner is invited there as Althea's friend and secretary. Gradually Norah enters a nightmare world and realises that the reasons for her being there have sinister implications. Who is the woman reflected in her mirror? 1: Arrival at Morb House Producer DAVID SPENSER
Gordon Clough
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game for four hands Leader of the pack and Chairman is David Nixon who deals to June
Whitfield Patrick Moore. William Rushton Devised and shuffled by IAN MESSITER
Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject.
There was a young man of Japan
Whose limericks never would scan;
When they said it was so, He replied ' Yes, 1 know.
But I always try to get as many words into the last line as ever I possibly can.' and the voices of TONY HANCOCK , BILL KERR
FENELLA FIELDING, FRASER KERR
WARREN MITCHELL , SPIKE MILLIGAN JULIAN ORCHARD , ALAN BENNETT BENNY HILL , PETER MOLONEY and ROGER MCGOUGH
Producers SIMON BRETT and JOHN DAVIS
A Century of Modern Theatre Outward Bound by SUTTON VANE adapted by CYNTHIA PUGHE
' Padre, has it struck you by any chance that there's anything strange about this boat? And another thing, isn't it absurd sailing with our passenger list - there are so few of us. I tell you it's strange.'
Producer GORDON EMSLIE (Scotland)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting. music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer LOUISE PURSLOW Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world Editor DEREK LEWIS
by P. G. Wodehouse abridged for radio in 15 parts by Manning Wilson
Read by Nigel Lambert
1. Psmith receives two separate invitations to Blandings Castle: from the delightfully vague Lord Emsworth, in a case of mistaken identity, and from the peer's son Freddie on a mission not entirely unconnected with Lady Constance's diamond necklace. But Psmith is not the only house-guest masquerading under another name, and there are others after the necklace.
Producer Cherry Cookson
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book. How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
Presenter Ulla Terkelson
A series of four programmes assessing the impact of the BBC's local radio stations
1: Raison d'etre and Modus Operandi
preceded by Weather
