Presented from the North by KEN FORD
6.40 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning, what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Malcolm Billings. 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 Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, from bookshops English Regions: see column 5
Arthur Hutchings is delighted by some current uses of words but sharpens his lance to tilt at some of today's misuses.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
aided by Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Esther Rantzen, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl
Enjoy a mixture of argument, humour and music as they meet the personalities, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead.
A new contender for the title 1 our most common bird ' - and why mushrooms ' mushroom.' Also, the wildlife sound competition, your letters, requests, and what to look for in the coming month.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE (BBC Bristol)
Questions to: Wildlife. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 46; Holy Father, in thy mercy (BBC HB 386); Psalm 32; Isaiah 8, v 22 to 9, v 7 (AV); Jesus, gdbd above all other (BBC RB 72)
The Jewels by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by ROGER COLET Read by David Davis
' Everybody sang her praises and people who knew her never tired of saying: " Happy the man who marries her. Nobody could find a better wife ..." M Lantin found fault with only two of her tastes: her love for the theatre and her passion for imitation jewellery ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
Presenter Nancy Wise 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 W1A 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Frederick Forsyth. Show more
Frederick Forsyth. novelist, 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 Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Consumer Commentary: NORMAN TOZER with a round-up of consumer news at home and abroad.
Man and his Isms - 5: ANTHONY QUINTON on Materialism.
Wine and Women-1: JOHN GRINTER looks on the win* when it is red.
Pawley's Peepholes by JOHN WYNDHAM abridged by MADGE HART Read by Anthony Healon First of two parts
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Getting Ready for Christmas by THERESA PHILLIPS
Wobble to Death dramatised by . GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS from the novel by PETER LOVESEY
Victory by JOSEPH CONRAD
Read by JOHN ROWE
6: The Secretary becomes Reckless
The news magazine: presented by Jonathan Dimbleby with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
'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)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views Editor DEREK LEWIS
by WINIFRED FOLEY abridged in eight parts by VIRGINIA BROWNE
Read by June Barrie
5: All Good Things ...
(Bruadcast in Woman's Hour in 1973)
by Alan Gosling
with Rolf Lefebvre, David Spenser, Brian Hewlett, Elizabeth Proud
This play is concerned with the attitude towards insanity of a small rural community in a Suffolk village at the beginning of the 1700s. It is based on a set of Parish accounts of the period.
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Ronald Harwood Producer ANNE WINDER Editor ROSEMARY HART
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world Editor DEREK LEWIS
Charlie
A series of five stories about Kent country life from the turn of the century to the present day.
Written by ALAN BOWER
Read by Michael Harbour
1: A Fair Step for a Morning Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
preceded by Weather
