Presented from Wales by GERRY MONTE
6.40 Prayer for the Day
Introduced by John Tlmpson 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, including the latest news on the Lombard RAC International Rally from BARRIE GILL at York: 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
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
aided by Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl
A thrush on my lawn has been truing to eat not a worm but an elastic band. Don't birds have a sense of taster
Just one of the selection of wildlife questions to be chewed over by the team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE (BBC Bristol)
NEM, p 5; 0 God, give ear unto my cry (BBC HB 466); Psalm 96; 2 Samuel 1, vv 1-4, 17. 19-27 (AV); Fill thou my life, 0 Lord my God (BBC HB 271)
New Every Morning, £1.00 (hardback). 50p (paperback), from bookshops
medium icare only The Haunted Bed by BERNARD CROFT
Read by Peter Tuddenham
Mr Merryweather found himself going to bed earlier than he had done for many years. The bed seemed to call him, and he responded - joyfully . . . He had not been asleep for more than a few minutes-or so it seemed - when he felt something .. ,
medium uave only
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Jeanine McMullen 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
Write to: You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA IAA
Roy Plomley's castaway is National Trust gardens expert Graham Thomas. Show more
Graham Thomas , Gardens Con. sultant to the National Trust, with ROY PLOMLEY
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Jonathan Dimbleby
(medium wave only from 2.0)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two:
2.0-2.2 News
Clinic: JILL BURRIDGE takes her three-month-old baby for advice.
Man and his 'Isms' -4: ANTHONY QUINTON on Rationalism.
A Stringer in India - 1: LIZ MCNEILL TAYLOR recalls her days as a young journalist in Bombay.
MARJORIE WESTBURY reads The Joy of the Snow by ELIZABETH GOUDGE (4)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Surprise Box by ELIZABETH EVANS
by Simon Masters
with Douglas Blackwell as Carter, John Forrest as Toby Lisemore
(Saturday's broadcast)
The Return by WALTER DE LA MARE
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY
The news magazine: presented by Jonathan Dimbleby with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
'twixt Eleanor Summerfield Katharine Whitehorn and David Nixon , Tim Rice
Tune-twisters from Steve Race In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Twenty-five Years of The Archers, 60p from bookshops
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views.
by WINIFRED FOLEY abridged in eight parts by VIRGINIA BROWNE
Read by June Barrie 3: Saints and Sinners (BBC Bristol)
(A Child in the Forest, £2.25 from bookshops)
A thriller by Edward Boyd
Starring Edward Judd
with Anne Kristen, Diana Olsson and James Cairncross
I'll go hunt the badger by owlight;
'Tis a deed of darkness.
(The Duchess of Malfi)
(BBC Scotland)
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
See feature: A whiff of menace
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer LOUISE PURSLOW Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world Editor DEREK LEWIS
by Ada Leverson
Book 1: Love's Shadow abridged in ten parts by Ann Rees-Jones
Read by Geraldine McEwan
Fashionable London in the 1900s. Hyacinth Verney is a young lady of independent means She is beautiful. charming, intelligent and she can have almost anything she wants - except Cecil Reeve. Mr Reeve is in love with someone else.
Producer John Cardy
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
preceded by Weather
