6.40 Prayer for the Day JEAN RICHARDSON
Introduced by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
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
Read any Good Books Lately?
With 31 shopping days to Christmas, this programme is devoted to recently published books about wildlife, which you might like to give - or receive! Introduced by PETER FRANCE
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
Events and sounds of a past year to challenge the memories of Resident team
Isobel Barnett and Terry Wogan and Guests Irene Thomas and Paul Barnes
Chairman Sheridan Morley
MARGARET HOWARD sets the questions with selected recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer HELEN FRY
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country.
Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN Producer TOM READ
NEM, p 106; The king of love my shepherd is (BBC HB 475); Psalm 121; 1 Samuel 17, vv 21-38a (av); Praise, my soul, the king of heaven (BBC HB 15)
The Force by MEG SEATON
Read by Noel Johnson
I don't personally see why, towards the end of the 20th century, we need any country at all ... before very long we shan't need to waste good building space for farming purposes. I should like to see England covered in concrete from end to end ...
A domestic comedy about retirement written by Anne Jones starring Deryck Guyler
This week: Mother's Not Well
Home to Roost theme by Alex Welsh, played by his band.
by J.C.W. Brook
(medium wave only)
(Saturday's broadcast)
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
I Know My Rights - or Do I?: find out in today's edition.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
A general knowledge contest
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Bob Holness
Whitecross School, Lydney. Gloucestershire v. Beaminster School, Dorset
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
John Boyd , General Secretary of the AUEW.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Do it Yourself Medicine with CHRISTINE DOYLE - 1: HOW tO use your chemist.
Leisure and Pleasure. The Joy of the Snow by ELIZABETH GOUDGE abridged by DOREEN ESTALL Read by Marjorie Westbury First of 12 instalments
'If at the end of my life I appreciate roses more than snow, that wasn't the case at the beginning. Then. in company with all children and most dogs. I thought snow the wonder of the world ...'
(Music: Faurt's Ballade for piano and orchestra)
Stories: The Hippo who had no Name and The Hippo who had no Clothes by JANICE RANDALL
'Twas Like a Bird without a Tail by ALAN G. BOWER
'There's something at the back of that lad's mind that's not settled an' there always has been. I only hope he'll find somebody else who knows how to cope with it ... because I don't.'
Producer ROGER PINE (Birmingham)
About 12 years ago, in a ceremony in the chapel of Endsleigh Convent in Hull, Anne Hewitt took her final vows as a member of the community of the Sisters of Mercy and emerged as Sister Mary Agatha.
The programme looks at her way of life in the community and outside it. where she works as a teacher of backward children. How does a modern nun cope with the traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience? Producers
JOHN AND SHIRLEY CORDEAUX
The Return (3)
Nicholas Woolley
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send are discussed this week by Renée Houston Katie Boyle
Charmian Innes Joy Adamson
In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITF. R
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
What is Education About?
Ring Robin Day to put your questions in person to
Norman St John-Stevas , mp. Conservative Spokesman on Education and Science.
Producer WALTER WALLICH
with records of Early and Later Loves
Second of six programmes
America and the World Experience
Six talks on the eve of America's bicentennial celebrations by Daniel J. Boorstin , Librarian of Congress and former Senior Historian at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
2: From Pilgrim Fathers to Founding Fathers
In his first lecture Dr Boorstin examined the consequences for mankind of the discovery of America. He goes on to trace the change of consciousness that took place between the early settlement of North America and the creation of the United States, the first man-made nation with visible beginnings. A crucial element in this change he sees as being a movement from a world of Again-and-Again to a world of history.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer JOHN POWELL
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Overture and Beginners written and read by MICHAEL DENISON (8)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
