Presented from the North by KEN FORD
8.40 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
aided by Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl
Enjoy a mixture of argument, humour and music as they meet the personalities, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week.
How many limes can a lizard grow a new tail? What is a robin's pincushion Why would a chifjehaff roll in the dewt
Answers, views or opinions from the team prompted by your wildlife questions.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
NEM, p 54; Our blest Redeemer, ere he breathed (BBC HB 160); Psalm 143; Mark 15, vv 40-47 (NEB); Come, thou Holy Spirit, come (BBC HB 152)
The Private Life of Ifor Tombs by ANNE MERRILL
Read by Valerie Wyn Williams Ifor believed in being economical. He also believed that when the Great Accountant came, prudent pious shop-keepers would be entered into his credit columns but painted harlots marked down in red.' Into which column Ifor will actually go becomes problematical as the story goes on. Producer HARRI GWYNN (Wales)
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter George Luce The World of Work
Where does the unemployment shoe pinch - and how hard? MARGARET KORVING finds OUt and talks about some solutions. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor and musician Stanley Holloway. Show more
Stanley Holloway, actor and entertainer, with Roy Plomley.
12.55 Weather and programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 news
Reading your letters.
Man and his 'Isms' - 2: Anthony Quinton on Idealism.
Clinic: Jill Burridge takes her two-month-old baby for advice.
John Westbrook reads George III at Home by Nesta Pain (6)
Story: The Tiddler by LEILA BERG
Meeting at Night
Persuasion by JANE AUSTEN Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY 6: The Elliots in Bath
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
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
A play for radio by Terence Rattigan
[Starring] Diana Dors
with Gwen Watford, Carleton Hobbs, Robert Harris, Noel Johnson, Robin Browne
This is the author's first play for radio and is based on the sensational Rattenbury murder case in 1935.
With ROSALIND ADAMS, MADI HEDD, DEBORAH PAIGE, MICHAEL BURLINGTON, ALAN DUDLEY, TRADER FAULKNER, DENIS MCCARTHY, CLIFFORD NORGATE, HECTOR ROSS and ANTHONY SMEE Newsreader ALVAR LIDELL
Technical assistants PATIENCE PRATT, MARSAIL MCCUISH and DAVID HITCHINSON
Songs Night brings me you and Dark-haired Marie composed by ALMA RATTENBURY (Lozanne) Pianist MARTIN GOLDSTEIN Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
(Peter Whitman is in "Kennedy's Children" at the Arts Theatre, London)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
In a Beautiful Pea-Green Boat by J. M. SCOTT. abridged in nine parts by MADGE HART Read by Kerry Francis (1)
He found himself adrift on the wide ocean with a very thin chance of survival and in the company of a small child. Producer JOHN CARDY
preceded by Weather