S.40 Prayer for the Day GEORGE GORMAN
Introduced by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHP 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
David Niven reads from his best-selling autobiography. 3: Playing the Goat on Malta
After happy years at Stowe School and a not so happy period at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he is commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry and sent to Malta.
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.
Introduced by SUSAN DENNY Producer JEREMY ECCLES
NEM, p 46; Ye servants of God, your master proclaim (BBC HB 287); Psalm 85: I Corinthians 1, vv 10-18 (NEB); At the name of Jesus (BBC HB 120)
From All His Friends by A. G. FORD
Read by Richard Hurndall
'... What was wrong with the old system? That's what I'd like to know. The customers were real people, flesh and blood. Now we don't know who half of them are ... only the machine knows that ... '
Introduced by Cliff Morgan who explores the treasures of English hymn-writing.
3: Charles and John Wesley Producers ANGELA TILBY and DAVID WINTER
Presenter Nigel Murphy
I Know My Rights - or Do I?: find out in today's edition.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Bob Holness
Paisley Grammar School, Scotland v Eastwood Comprehensive School, Nottingham
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Professor Christiaan Barnard , South African heart surgeon.
2.0-2.2 News
Going Away This Year? - 1: unusual holidays in Britain.
Open School: PETER WINDOWS visits a new school in Milton Keynes where every other Friday the normal timetable is discarded in favour of special projects.
A Cage of Hummingbirds (6)
Story: Little Train Loses his Flowers by ROSALIND FOX
The Special Guardian by ROY LOMAX and There is a legend in India that all scientific knowledge is controlled by the most powerful secret society on earth, the Nine Unknown Men, founded over 2,000 years ago by the Emperor Asoka. Jack Davies has spent 30 years trying to trace and prove the existence of the Nine.
Producer HARRY CATLIN
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, one of the foremost youth orchestras of the world, is composed of young people, many of whom will never become professional musicians. Nevertheless, they spend a large part of their school holidays in rehearsing together.
NATALIE WHEEN visited the orchestra last summer to find out why.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
House of Cards by NORGATE ELLIN
Read by BLAIN FAIRMAN
3: The Late Sidney Scott
The news magazine with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send are discussed this week by Renee Houston. Isobcl Barnett Janet Hitehman. Beryl Reid In the Chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Ageing
Need retirement and advancing age bring meaningless misery to old people? Have they been by-passed by a medical system that rates cardiac surgery far more highly than the medical speciality that deals with the country's six million people over 65?
Dr Geoff Watts examines what the ageing process means to all of us and looks at what is being done both medically and socially to help old people to live better lives.
At 8.30. you can ring DR WATTS and a panel of experts in the studio to put your views and questions on ageing.
Producers MICHAEL BRIGHT and DAVID PATERSON
01-580 4411 (16 lines) will take questions from 6.0 pm until the end of the programme
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer CHRIS SWANN
Douglas Stuart reporting
Five Roundabouts to Heaven by JOHN BINGHAM abridged and adapted in ten parts by GRIZELDA HERVEY and ELISABETH ROWLEY
I had come to the chateau that summer evening to dream only of the pleasant, remote past. but instead, little by little, I found myself drawing nearer and nearer to the events of a nearer date, of 26 February, that cold night of pain and anguish and fear.'
Read by Denys Hawthorne (1) Producer HARRY CATLIN
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
