6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
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
from 9.30
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham (021)-[number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YONG
The lines are open from 8.0 am
Checkpoint - for Consumers
An investigative programme presented by Roger Cook Producer WALTER WALLICH
NEM, p 21; 0 thou in all thy might so far (BBC HB 312); Canticle 9; Isaiah 1, vv 1-6, 16-20 (av); I heard the voice of Jesus say (BBC HB 143)
The Game Hunt by ERIC BEAN Read by Geoffrey Banks
Elsa abruptly stopped pacing and looked at me, but she made no sound. She stretched out on the floor of the cage. so that her head was level with mine. And the animal and the man each looked into the eyes of the other.
A portrait of J. M. W. Turner written and presented by David Thompson England's greatest painter, J. M. W. Turner , was born 200 years ago on 23 April 1775. This programme, compiled from the recollections of people who knew him. celebrates his life and his work.
To give life to a painter purely on radio is not easy. But David Thompson brilliantly evoked Turner ... The production was a model of balance and cohesion. (SUNDAY TIMES) with Anthony Nicholls as J. M. W. Turner and BETTY BASKCOMB , JOHN BULL KATE COLERIDGE , GARARD GREEN
MICHAEL SHANNON , PETER WILLIAMS Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Presenter Jeanine McMullen
A Healthy Interest: items that may affect your well-being in today's edition.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics introduced by Gordon Clough
from 2.0 Introduced from Scotland by Mary Marquis
Body and Mind: the new care of patients.
2.0-2.2 News
When Truth can Destroy: the blackmailer at work.
Take a Letter. Mr Smith : secretaries in the future.
A Book on Scottish Painters: by a young housewife and mother.
(BBC Scotland)
The Joy of the Snow (8)
Story: Wriggly Worm's Happy Birthday by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD
Presenters JEAN ROGERS and John BULL
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Jacob's Ladder
A trilogy by A. R. RAWLINSON with Peter Jeffrey
Sinn Probert , Jane Wenham and William Fox
Glebe, an old Elizabethan manor house, is threatened with demolition. Perhaps it is for the best. for the house has certainly had a disturbing effect upon all the families who have lived in it since the 1920s.
The Second Play
No Truck with the Enemy
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
( Next Friday : 3 - Hands across the Ocean)
The Return by WALTER DE LA MARE abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY (Final instalment)
Producer KAY PATRICK
(Starting on Monday: Victory. by Joseph Conrad )
by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey
by MARGARET HOWARD
Producer MADEAU STEWART
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Malcolm Muggeridge Alex Jarratt Tom Jackson
Joyce Grenfell
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL POWEN from Greater London
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon. 11.5 am)
Presenter Ronald Harwood Producer ANNE WINDER
Douglas Stuart reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look at a topic of the moment
The Little Ottleys
Book 1: Love's Shadow (5)
David Jason , Bill Wallis Nigel Rees and Bill McGuffle at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH DAVID RENWICK and others Producer JOHN LLOYD
preceded by Weather
