6.40 Prayer for the Day TONY ASHTON
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 Spurts 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 58; I bind unto myself today (BBC HB 170); Psalm 150; Deuteronomy 30, vv 4-6, 11-20 (AV); God liveth still (BBC HB 513)
from Scotland
For Better, for Worse by MURIEL G. THOMPSON
Read by Marjorie Dalziel
If Albert had been one of her precious plants, he would have had more fuss made of him. For 25 years her voice had clacked on, but now she was dead and her plants gone.... yet still the room was filled with the smell of geranium leaves.
Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS
A quiz of words, music and mixed up noises devised and presented by Ian Messiter Producer JOHN DAVIS
Presenter Nancy Wise
A Good Buy?: listen to Shopping Basket 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
Any Other Business: a look at some of the more domestic points from Parliament.
' In a Strange and Muddy Land ... ': behind the official ceremonies which mark Remembrance Sunday are a million simple stories.
The Moon and Sixpence (2)
Story: Gregory's Day Out by SARAH WALSH DEAN
The Link
A play for radio by LEE TORRANCE
POLICE official: Your husband, the professor, didn't come home last night?
WOMAN: No. And my children. I've been so worried. Do you know where he is? Is that why you've come? Nothing has happened to them, has it?
POLICE OFFICIAL: We thought you might be able to tell us.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous, the not-so-famous and sometimes even the downright obscure.
Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Summer of the Seals by GEOFFREY MORGAN
Read by PETER TUDDENHAM 4: Laurie's Place
The news magazine presented by William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday 4.5 pm)
Write to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Bernard Shaw and the BBC with Cyril Cusack as Bernard Shaw
From almost the very start of broadcasting Bernard Shaw was a regular, if at times difficult, contributor. He had strong views not only on the major issues of the day, but on how he should be announced at ttie microphone and on how his plays should be produced for radio. This account of the respectful but wary relationship between Shaw and the BBC over 25 years provides an unfamiliar and entertaining glimpse of one of the great literary figures of the century.
The programme includes previously unpublished correspondence from the BBC's Written Archives.
Narrator Noel Johnson with CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD FREDA DOWIE
KATHLEEN HELME
DENIS MCCARTHY
CLIFFORD NORGATE and MANNING WILSON
Written and produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 5 am)
Close election results and governments ruling with an ever-diminishing share of the popular vote have reopened the debate on the reform of our electoral system and the government has decided that a Speaker's Conference shall look into the whole question. Robin Day discusses the political and constitutional arguments for changing the way we elect our parliaments with Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, MP, Angus Maude, MP and John Mackintosh, MP.
A nightly review of books. films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer TOM VERNON
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
In a Beautiful Pea-Green Bout by j. m. SCOTT abridged in nine parts by MADGE HART Read by KERRY FRANCIS (Final instalment)
Producer JOHN CARDY
preceded by Weather.
