6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Prayers of Hope: talks by Richard Harries , 70p, from bookshops
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
by ANTHONY ARMSTRONG Read in five parts by IAN CARMICHAEL
5: Dining Rosemary and Gift
Pipe Rosemary entered the Berkritz with the studied air of any well-dressed girl entering an expensive restaurant - that is, as if she considered it too intolerably foul to have to feed in such a cheap dump.
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham [number removed] and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners.
Producer JENNY DE YONG
Checkpoint - for Consumers investigates the fair deal. What rights do you have? Who can you trust?
Find out with Roger Cook Producer WALTER WALLICK
NEM, p 13; All as God wills (BBC HB 1); Psalm 116; Luke 2, vv 40-52 (RSV); Come, ye people, rise and sing (BBC HB 270)
Ah, Missus by JENNIFER JOHNSTON Read by Trudy Kelly
- I have always been afraid of gypsies. It is one of several irrational fears, of which, even now, as a mature and reasonably sophisticated woman, I have never been able to rid myself ..." Ah, Missus they say, and remain clamped to the spot until they are convinced that they have got out of you all that they feel it is possible to get.'
Producer PAUL MULDOON
John Ebdon talks about his relationship with the family Siamese and hopes to convince his wondering audience that Perseus really does exist.
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
A Healthy Interest: items that may affect your well-being. Editor DENNIS LOWER
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
If You Haven't Much Time: the Lancashire Cookery Club team Of EVELYN ROSE and MARGARET TRAVIS offer quick and easy tips on home baking, sweet and savoury.
2.0-2.2 News
Rural Rhymes: JESSE BAGGALEY is both farmer and poet.
All Together: JUDI GOODWIN reports on a nursery school which integrates handicapped and normal children. TONY ROBINSON reads
I Had a Little Nut Tree (10)
Story: Lucky Jenny by BARRIE WADE
Presenters this week AURIOL SMITH and TONY AITKEN
Programmes compiled by RACHAEL BIRLEY
Producer BRIAN SCOTT-HUGHES Editor JENYTH WORSLEY
The War Crime by JOHN B. KEANE
A public figure has been murdered by terrorists. Should his neighbours have condemned the crime publicly? Was their silence due to fear or prudence? What if it were a legal obligation to speak out? A prominent citizen is accused of the crime of silence.
Producer MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
Write to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The Luck of the Vails by E. F. BENSON
Read by NORMAN SHELLEY 5: Bird of Night
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting. team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Bob Holness
Southend-on-Sea High School for Girls v. Whitecross School, Lydney, Gloucestershire
Dick Tracey presenting world news and views
MARGARET HOWARD presents her own selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and Television during the past seven days.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
A spontaneous discussion by Malcolm Muggeridge
Rt Hon Edward du Canh, Mr Glenda Jackson Lord Jacobson
Chairman David Jacobs from Greater London
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Bptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon, 11.5 am), (Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at
7.30 pm) to: Any Answersf, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look at a topic of the moment
Cry. the Beloved Country Read by JACK WATSON (3)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
Bill Wallis , Nigel Rees Chris Emmett and Bill McGuffie 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 MARTIN FISHER
preceded by Weather