Presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
6.40 Prayer for the Day
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
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)
and prepare to be highly amused, mildly shocked, but always stimulated as he, Sheridan Morley , Mavis Nicholson , Lance Percival , Esther Rantzen -, Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Splegl and their guests entertain you. Producer HUGH PURCELL
Can you tell me anything about a queer, shiny, black beetlef If touched, the rear end curls up like a scorpion, with two spikes protruding. Would it actually stino' It looks so formidable one hesitates to touch it.
Comments from the team today on this mini-monster, as well as other forms of wildlife. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE
NEM, P 67; 0 dearest Lord, by all adored <BBC HB 266); Psalm 119, vv 17-24; Isaiah 26, vv 1-12 (av); Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (BBC HB 17)
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Mr Mendax and Fate by DAVID PHILLIPS
Read by Frank Duncan
' Madam,' said Mr Mendax , rising resolutely to his feet, ' I have never seen you before in my life, let alone met you, or seduced you, or otherwise abused you, though I can see that those last fates might easily befall one as attractive and desirable as you ... ' Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(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
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Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Margaret Price. Show more
Margaret Price, soprano, 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
(Friday's broadcast)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Answer and Comment.
An Outsider Looks In: PETER FORSTER visits a comprehensive school.
Season of Goodwill 3: KEITH ALLAN and a good neighbourhood scheme in the North-East. LAURENCE HARRINGTON reads Shake Hands Forever by RUTH RENDELL (4)
Story: Rainy Day by EMMA MILTON
Deadweight
Drawn from Memory by E. H. SHEPARD abridged in five parts and read by Aubrey Woods
A selection from the childhood memories of the artist who is best known for his illustration of children's books - especially Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows. Born in 1879. the stories tell of the period when he was seven to eight years old. 1: Septimus
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
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)
Twenty-five Years of The Archers, 60p, from bookshops
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views Editor DEREK LEWIS
by WIKlFRED FOLEY abridged in eight parts by VIRGINIA BROWNE Read by June Barrie
6: The Wide Wide World Singer HEATHER MILES (BBC Bristol)
A Child in the Forest, £2.25 from bookshops
Lion's Roar by PETER RUSSELL with Peter Woodthorpe Norman Shelley Carleton Hobbs Nigel Anthony and John Rye
The limit of the civilised world can be calculated. It extends, from this point, one thousand lengths of Old Careless, who is the oldest animal that ever lived, as old almost as the gods themselves, and as fine a horse as you will ever see. He has measured the ground Old Careless knows '
Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Peter France Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
With voices and opinions from around the world
The Little Ottleys by ADA LEVERSON
Book 2: Tenterhooks abridged in 15 parts by ANN RF.ES-JONES Read by Geraldine McEwan (1)
It lias long been clear to Edith Ottley that her husband Bruce is emotionally immature and unstable. Out of pity for him and for the sake of their children she must make their marriage work. But she will need all her wit and good humour and the emergence of another man in her life is not going to help.
Producer JOHN CARDY
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
preceded by Weather
