6.40 Prayer for the Day PHED MILSON
Introduced by John Timpson and Malcolm Billings including at 6.50 and 7.59 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 17; May the grace of Christ our Saviour (BBC HB 375); Psalm 33, vv 13-21; Mark 16, vv 9-20 (NEB); Be thou my vision, 0 Lord of my heart (BBC HB 316)
A Worcester Pippin by OLIVE BOWATER
Read by Ian Richardson
The Civil War, an English inn, but who is the traveller in the shadows of the fireplace? Producer DAVID SHUTE (Birmingham)
The last of five short programmes in Which MICHELL RAPER talks to famous comedians about their craft, their philosophy and what makes them laugh.
Today: Alfred Marks
Producer MICHELL RAPER
Presenter George Lace
A Good Buy?: listen to Shopping Baslcet and find out
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
William Hardcastle
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
A South Sea Spell: JUNE KNOX-MAWER and PEARL BINDER, talk about their book on myth and magic in Fiji.
Answer and Comment.
First Impressions - 2: a young soldier, who has already served in Belfast, talks to COLIN SEMPER. George III at Home (9)
Story: The Giant and The Harp byOLIVE DOVE
by Dennis Woodford
There's trouble enough when one young person skips into a middle-aged couple's lives. But when the eternal triangle becomes an eternal quadrangle, what price anyone's vows?
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous and the not-so-famous. Producer MICHELL RAPER
Persuasion by JANE AUSTEN 9: A Party is Planned
William Hardcastle
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey
Continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated; Friday 4.5 pm)
Introduced by Charles Lefeaux Gladys Young. who died earlier this year. was the outstanding radio actress of her time and her contribution to the development of radio drama is incalculable. In this programme, which contains many extracts from her performances in the BBC Sound Archives. VAL GIELGUD. MARY BOPE ALLEN , ARCHIE CAMPBELL and CARLETON HOBBS discuss her, both as an actress and a person; and survey a radio career which, starting with her first broadcast in 1926, lasted for nearly 40 years.
Ulster -What Next?
Presented by Gerald Priestland When the Constitutional Convention of Northern Ireland adjourned earlier this month, there were few signs that the province was any nearer to a political solution. And the talks, informal and official, between the parties, have gone on against a background of undiminished violence. What chance is there of compromise on the crucial question of power-sharing? How important is Mr William Craig 's campaign for political moderation? Can the Convention find a constitutional settlement ' likely to command the most widespread acceptance throughout the community '?
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Presenter Paul Vanghan Producer CHRIS SWANN
Douglas Stuart reporting
In a Beautiful Pea-Green Boat Read by KERRY FRANCIS (4)
preceded by Weather
