Presented from Wales by GERRY MONTE
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
Introduced by John Tlmpson 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; Todays Papers at 7.35* and 8.35* and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 Editor AI.ASTAIR OSBORNE
English Regions: see column 5
remembers his 40 years before the mast with the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
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.
Talk by MICHAEL BARRATT
Most moths only come out when it's dark - so why are they attracted to bright lights? And why don't they fly towards the moonf
The team on this and other fascinating wildlife topics. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
NEM, p 5; Praise, 0 praise our God and King (BBC HB 441); Psalm 19, vv 1-11; Mark 14, w 12-31 (NEB); We come unto our fathers' God (BBC HB 255)
A Week of Love Stories
White for a Virgin by JOYCE TOWERS
(The winning story in the recent
Woman's Own competition, published as ' This Night will Last for Ever ')
... it is not good to be afraid when one should be filled with happiness ... I am betrothed, soon I am to be married, and I am in love ...
Read by Nerys Hughes Series producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Jeanine McMullen The World of Work
Where does the unemployment shoe pinch - and how hard? MARGARET KORVING finds out,
Roy Plomley's castaway is producer John Julius Norwich. Show more
Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
Editor ANDREW BOYLE
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.1 News
Litz Pisk : GORDON GOW with a profile of Britain s ' first lady' of stage movement.
Gardening by the Sea: JANE GREGOR 'S experience.
' Tear Down the Walls of Your Mind': HILTGUNT ZASSENHAUS , author of last week's serial, tells of her life since the downfall of Hitler's Germany.
George III at Home by NESTA PAIN, abridged by MYRA PINE Read by John Westbrook (First of ten instalments)
The private life of ' the one sober and virtuous member of a uniquely raffish family.'
(Music: Scarlatti's II Giardino di Rose)
Story: Toffee Carrots by EDNA WILLIAMS
Omegapoint
Persuasion by JANE AUSTEN abridged for radio in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Rosalie Crutchlry
1: The Elliots of Kellynch Hall Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot s character; vanity of person and of situation.... He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy: and the Sir Walter Elliot who united these gifts was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough
Editor ANDREW BOYLE
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 IAS MESSITER
Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views Editor DEREK LEWIS
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject, and the voices of Peter Sellers, Irene Handl, Michael Flanders, Donald Swann, Alan Bennett, Woody Allen and the Monty Python team.
The Antique Baby by JENNIFER PHILLIPS
MRS HERBERT : ' It's marvellous to me, it really is. I mean I walk in and you look as though you haven't stirred since yesterday. Gives me this feeling of continuity, does me good.'
In a small hotel for retired people of private means, situated on the Sussex Downs, the residents pursue their day-today rituals with fixed determination. ignoring hints of sinister changes in the world outside. But violence is to come closer.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
(Repeated: next Sun 2.30 pm)
(Stephanie Turner is in ' Absurd Person Singular ' at the Vaudeville Theatre. London)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer MIRIAM RAPP Tditor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world Editor DEREK LEWIS
by P. G. WODEHOUSE
Read by NIGEL LAMBERT (11)
preceded by Weather
