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
(A shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
nem, p 110; May the grace of Christ our Saviour (BBC HB 524); Psalm 119, vv 49-56; 1 Samuel 17, w 38b-51 (AV); Son of God (BBC HB 377)
A Shared Interest by BRENDA BYRON
Read by Nyree Dawn Porter
Douglas and Laura have been married for many years but it was the police who made them realise they had something in common.
Producer DAVID SHUTE (Birmingham)
A quiz of words, music and mixed up noises devised and presented by Ian Messiter Producer JOHN DAVIS
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
A Good Buy?: listen to Shopping Basket and find out.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Millionaire's Hens Lay Eggs on New York Roof!: a look at a roof garden with a difference. Bird Brain!: a parrot talk with LINSEY GINNET.
Community Service Orders: ANN HEYNO examines the success story of this experimental alternative to jail sentences. The Joy of the Snow (2)
Story: The Happy Little King's Cook has a Holiday by MOIRA HERITAGE
Two Fingers Finnegan Comes Again by TONY ALLEN and VERNON MAGEE
'And to think he used to be the best safeblower in this area. He could open any safe in five minutes. Now it takes him half an hour to get the top off a bottle of whisky! '
Producer HARRY CATLIN
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous, the not-so famous and sometimes even the downright obscure. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
The Return (4)
Nicholas Woolley
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm) Cast for the week:
Dick Tracey
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
Written and presented by Barry Took with the voices of: JACK BENNY , BOB HOPE
SHELLEY BERMAN , BOB NEWHART MIKE NICHOLS , ELAINE MAY
WOODY ALLEN and many others who have reflected the American sense of humour from the beginning of this century to the present.
Producer MARTIN FISHER
The Right to Choose What?
Presented by Gerald Prlestland Although the government has accepted all the proposals of the select committee considering the Abortion (Amendment) Bill sponsored by Mr James White, the campaigners for stricter control of the law, and those who wish to see it liberalised still further, continue their campaigns. The religious and moral arguments for and against abortion have been debated since the Bourne case, but given that we have now had legal abortion since 1967, the issue is more one of where consensus may be found, and whether the solution arrived at by parliament is workable.
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
S.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Overture and Beginners (9)
preceded by Weather
