6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
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 Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
English Regions; see column 5
from 9.30
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham (021)-[number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YONG
The lines are open from 8.0 am
Checkpoint for Consumers
An investigative programme presented by Roger Cook Producer PAT TAYLOR
NEM. p 25; 0 for a closer walk with God <BBC HB 333); Psalm 119. vv 57-64; Deuteronomy 5, vv 1-11 (AV); 0 happy band of pilgrims (BBC HB 335)
The Boots
A story for Hallowe'en by GEORGINA CALE
Read by Michael McClain
Suddenly I kicked off my shoes and put on the boots. It was like burying one's feet in velvet. I got down from the car and walked a few steps to and fro ... The boots felt alive and full of power , r .
Julie Andrews's phenomenal rise to success began when she was a very little girl singing with her mother and stepfather. She won the hearts of millions of radio listeners with her appearances in "Monday Night at Eight" and "Educating Archie" and, at the age of 18, Julie went to Broadway to star as Polly Brown in "The Boyfriend". The successes that followed bear testimony to a truly great talent.
Pete Murray looks at the career of Julie Andrews with a special tribute from Stanley Holloway.
The last of four programmes
Jteg Vallintine , Director of the British Sub-Aqua Club, talks to divers about their fascinating and often hazardous operations, and learns what they have discovered in that silent, mysterious world.
4: The Mystery of Gun Rocks
Presenter George Luce
A Healthy Interest: items that may affect your well-being.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
Editor ANDREW BOYLE
from 2.0 Introduced from Belfast by Margaret Percy
Hallowe'en: with the help of the Irish folklorist MICHAEL j. MURPHY , and some local children, ROISIN MCAULEY investigates the origins of tonight's festivities.
2.0-2.2 News
Women Together: GLORIA HUNNI-FORD meets some of the people working in this peace movement.
Art Therapy: what is it?
Behind the Baton: ALUN FRAN cis, resident conductor of the Ulster Orchestra, discusses the state of music in Ulster and looks forward to next week's Queen's University Arts Festival.
George III at Home (10)
Story: The Happy Little King by MOIRA HERITAGE
Presenters MAUREEN MORRIS and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Written by AVERIL COULT
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
by Graham Easton.
"I can't do it alone. It's as simple as that. A car with one person in it? That hasn't been seen since private motoring became illegal. So I had to ask someone and I had to be certain that whoever it was wouldn't give me away if he didn't want to join me."
Persuasion by JANE AUSTEN : abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY 10: The Letter
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
Nicholas Wonlley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 medium waveonly Financial Report
VHFRegionalnews and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey
Editor DEREK LEWIS
MARGARET HOWARD presents her own selection of items.
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
Hugh Scanlon Melvyn Bragg
Arianna Stassinopoulos Graham Dowson
Chairman David Jacobs from Hampshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon, 11.5 am) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter P. J. Kavanagh Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
Douglas Stuart reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look at a topic of the moment Editor DEREK LEWIS
In a Beautiful Pea-Green Boat
Read by KERRY FRANCIS (5) iRpt)
David Jason. Bill Wallis Chris Emmett Simon Jones and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
DAVID RENWICK , ANDREW MARSHALL and others
Producer JOHN LLOYD
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