Presented from Scotland by ROV GREGOR
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning, what Britain's getting up to. plus the news from anywhere on earth
Introduced by John Timpson and James Burke
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
remembers his 40 years before the mast with the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am) (Hubert Gregg is in ' An Evening of Words, and Words and Music ' at the Theatre Royal, Windsor)
Are rabbits immune from electric shock? This pet rabbit chewed through a ring-main cable, fusing the whole house, while he emerged from the meter cupboard with singed whiskers and a slightly bemu.sed expression, but otherwise unscathed.
Flashes of inspiration are also expected from this morning's Wildlife team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
NEM, p 71: When all thy mercies, 0 my God (BBC HB 22); Psalm 145, vv 1-13: 1 Samuel 1, vv 19-28 (av): Jesus shall reign (BBC HB 460)
He strolled quietly away from the post-box, knowing that the game was up This was the end. and he was not prepared for it.
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Nigel Murphy 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 writer Rumer Godden. Show more
Rumer Godden , novelist
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Consumer Commentary: NOR
MAN TOZER with a round-up of consumer news at home and abroad.
Man and his Isms (3): ANTHONY QUINTON on Scepticism. High Kicks in the 20s: MARY MITCHELL With LEILA TAYLOR , a former Tiller girl.
The Moon and Sixpence (4) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Treasure by MARGARET GORE
Nocturne by FRANK SWINNERTON dramatised for radio by BRUCE MONTAGUE with Stephanie Turner and Michael Deacon
For a poor family, life in England just before the First World War is a struggle. Emmy and Jenny, two sisters, each have their dreams of escape - and in the course of one evening both discover whether or not such hopes and dreams can ever be fulfilled.
Producer KAY PATRICK
-along with Shakespeare -asks ' What's in a Name? ' as he looks at some of the names we give our children and the names of the places in which we live. coming up with some fascinating and intriguing answers.
Summer of the Seals by GEOFFREY MORGAN
Read by PETER TUDDENHAM 6: Heron Creek
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 Chair-ma, 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
Winifred Foley's memories of childhood in a miner's family in the Forest of Dean, and of youth 'in service'.
Abridged in eight parts by Virginia Browne
Read by June Barrie
Singers: Children of Pillowell County Primary School
Producer Pamela Howe (Bristol)
(Broadcast in Woman's Hour in 1973. "A Child in the Forest", £2.25 from bookshops)
A Sabbatical by JOHN KIRKMORRIS with Hugh Dickson and Alethea Charlton
A vicar can't take time off from God. nor is he supposed to want a rest from his wife. but Geoffrey has reached a moment of crisis when he can't face either of them.
Producer JANE GRAHAM
Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London proposes the toast of Her Majesty's Ministers.
The Prime Minister. Rt Hon Harold Wilson. mp, replies.
Scene described by DAVID HOLMES from Guildhall, London
(Also tonight at 11.0, BBC1)
John Tusa reporting
written and read by Michael Denison (1)
He went to Harrow and Oxford. She was a judge's daughter born in Malaya. They met at drama school, fell in love, married just before the war and have been delighting their public separately and together ever since.
The story of Dulcie Gray and Michael Denison
Abridged in ten parts by Virginia Browne
Producer John Cardy
(Michael Denison is in "The Black Mikado" at the Cambridge Theatre, London)
preceded by Weather
