6.40 Prayer for the Day REV IAN HOLDCROFT
Introduced by John Timpson and Malcolm Billings 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 shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live In - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 118; Christ be with me, Christ within me (BBC HB 136); Psalm 46; Mark 13, vv 28-37 (NEB); A safe stronghold our God is still (BBC HB 297)
from Scotland
A Matter of Time by SHEILA KEELEY
Read by Sheila Donald
Terry used to skip school and daub gang-slogans on walls with nicked paint - that was all until the newly appointed Town Artist ' took a hand in his work. But when the artist and the gang leader both began to fancy his big sister-it was only a matter of time.... Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS
The third of five short programmes in which MICHELL RAPER talks to famous comedians about their craft, their philosophy and what makes them laugh.
Today: Roy Hudd
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
A Good Buy?: listen to Shopping Basket and find out
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Magic Bus: ANN HEYNO visits an unusual library in Leicestershire.
Women and the Law: TESS GILL on recent developments.
A Cottage by the Sea: ANDY PRICE with the pros and cons of the retirement dream.
SHIRLEY cooklin reads Walls by HILTGUNT ZASSENHAUS (11)
Story: Aunt Emily by ZENNIA ESTERSON
The Narrow Door by RICHARD AUSTIN and Peter Woadthorpe as Steve We're very close, you and I. ' Though you don't realise it. Part of you, like. The bit that's dark, secret. We belong to each other. Maybe for ever! '
Other parts played by NORMA RONALD , PETER WILLIAMS and STEVE HODSON
Producer HARRY CATLIN
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous, the not-so-famous and sometimes even the downright obscure. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Woman in the Mirror 9 Funeral Pyre
The news magazine presented by William Hardcastle
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Ray Gowdridge
A selection of listeners' letters Introduced by David JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday 4.5 pm)
One of the John Silence series of Stories of the Supernatural and the Uncanny by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD : adapted for radio by SHEILA HODGSON
' It is never wise for an overcivilised man to isolate himself in a place where Nature rules. For surely he will revert.'
Producer HARRY CATLIN
A Home of Their Own
Presented by John Vaizey
Housing goes on year after year, government after government, not getting better but getting progressively irorse.
(LORD GOODMAN. Chairman of the Housing Corporation)
Despite special mortgage schemes, rent rebates and improvement grants, millions of people are still living in conditions unfit for human habitation. The present Government has launched a full-scale housing review and its findings are expected early next year. How relevant are traditional assumptions about housing needs? Are current ideas too rigid? Can we devise a policy which will stop the situation getting progressively worse? Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Presenter Ronald Harwood Producer JOHN POWELL
John Tusa reporting
Leave it to Psmith (9)
preceded by Weather
