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Introduced by John Timpson and Gillian Reynolds
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 short story by SYLVIA LEWIN Read by Tony Britten
1 You're looking at that drawIng. I see. Good. Isn't it? 'Very good.' 'But you're wondering why It's there. in a headmaster's study. Guy Fawkes in the act of trying to blow up Parliament - the crowning gesture against authority, what? '
Producer JOHN CARDY

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 BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.0 am

Checkpoint - for Consumers
An investigative programme presented by Roger Cook Producer WALTER WALLICH

NEM, p 5; Behold. the great Creator makes (BBC BB 44)r-Psalm 47; Luke 1, vv 5-16 (RSV); In dulci jubilo (Oxford Book of Carols 86)

A Week of Animal Stories
5: Worthington's Snow Bird by MARJORIE AND TONY BILBOW
Anyone would be puzzled to find a half- frozen parrot lying on his hearthrug -but was it just any parrot, or could it be Gladstone?
Reader Tony Bilbow

Are the songs of birds actually 'music ' in our human sense of the word?
Joan Hall-Craggs , who makes a professional study of birdsong. and Steve Race. musician and garden bird-watcher, show us how birds employ many musical devices, sing duets and trios, and even curse when they sing a wrong note! Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol

' A genius ' was how Coleridge described this 19th-century writer, but Hook's real claim to fame was for.... a practical joke. Written and read by Michell Raper

Presenter George Luce
A Healthy Interest: items that may affect your well-being.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS

Introduced from Cardiff by Teleri Bevan
Welsh Guest: Professor Llnford Rees , President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
2.0-2.2 News
How Green was My Valley: NERYS HUGHES. who appears in Monday's BBC2 serial, talking to BRIAN HOEY.
Composer in Conversation: GRACE WILLIAMS talking to KENNETH LOVELAND.
Our Mam: thoughts and recollections gathered by ANITA MORGAN.
Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
TONY ROBINSON reads
I Had a Little Nut Tree by LOUIS BATTYE (5)

Story: The Hippopotamus who Yawned by ANGELA PICKERING Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN
Written by GLADYS WHITRED Producer JENYTB WORSLEY

Elaine Stritch , Derek Nimmo Margot Boyd and Aubrey Woods in The Lady from Tunls by SARAH MAXWELL
ERNEST: The Lady from Tunis has been top of the list of American best-sellers for the past two years: Baldwin's got the film rights and Steinway's doing the script. They want you for the lady.
SAL: Oh Ernest, you know I'm in no shape to go to work again. Look at me. A monument to the long-distance gin drinker.
Other parts played by MALCOLM HAYES , MICHAEL BURLING-TON , MADI HEDD and ROSALIND ADAMS
Producer GLYN DEARMAN

Wartime William
A selection of RICHMAL CROMP-TON'S stories, abridged and read by MARTIN JARVIS
5: William and the Bomb
(Starting on Mon: The Luck of the Vails by E. F. Benson , read by Norman Shelley )

Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather

(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)

Dick Tracey
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE

MARGARET HOWARD presents her own selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and Television.
Producer PETER DE ROSA
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)

A spontaneous discussion by Peter Kirk.
Mr Katharine Whitehorn
Roderick MacFarquhar , MP Michael Barratt
Chairman David Jacob * from Hampshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon. 11.5 am) (Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at
7.30 pm) to: Any Answertt BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR

Presenter Ronald Harwood Producer TOM VERNON

John Tosa reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look at a topic of the moment Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE

The Little Ottleys
Book 2: Tenterhooks (13)

Bill Wallis. Nigel Rees Chris Emmett 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 ALASTAIR BEATON
ANDREW MARSHALL and Others Producer JOHN LLOYD

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