6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN GREGORY
Introduced by John Timpson and Brian Redhead 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
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
nem, p 42; Jesus, Lord, we look to thee (BBC HB 374): Psalm 122; Romans 14, vv 5-13 (NEB); Father, who on man dost shower (BBC HB 389)
The Rankin File by CHRIS BARLAS Read by Tony Robinson
Work is not to everyone's taste and when Rankin was made redundant he'd had enough of it - but how to stay out of work? Well, that called for ingenuity, and more courage than he bargained for. Producer STEWART CONS BBC Scotland
In the third of six programmes, the best-selling author of books on all creatures great and small, talks to JEANINE MCMULLEN about his phenomenal literary success and his veterinary practice in Yorkshire.
3: By Gum, It's a Hard Lifel Producer PETER DE ROSA
Presenter Nigel Murphy
A Good Buy?: listen to Shopping Basket and find out.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
All Under One Roof: GEORGE SOMERWILL looks at Community Health Centres, which were devised to suit the needs of Britain's overseas territories and are now being applied at home.
A Disc or Two: PETER CLAYTON with a review of some January record issues.
A Cage of Hummingbirds (7)
Story: Pottle Pig and Mrs Hen 's Family by NANCY NORTHCOTE
Flight 231 by PETER BERRY
Transdelta's evening flight from New York Kennedy to London Heathrow looked like being just another routine trip
... until a woman passenger was taken ill and the plane developed a slight technical fault.
Producer TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous, the not-so-famous and sometimes even the downright obscure. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.8-4.5 News
House of Cards by STANLEY ELLIN
Read by BLAIN FAIRMAN 4: Enter Dr Morillon
The news magazine
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Friday 4.5 pm)
Write to: Any Answersf, BBC, Bristol BS8 3LR
Barry by DAVID FITZSIMMONS
NAN: He's here. That's him. That's Barry all right. There's no mistake about that.
MUM: The wind's blowing his hair about. You wouldn't think he had a parting.
NAN: Chin up, that's my grandson.
Barry is the only son. Not only that, he's also the only grandson.
Producer Richard WORTLEY
(First broadcast live in March 1973)
(Starting at this time next week: Something to Declare, in which Christopher Matthew talks to distinguished writers and travellers)
Towards One Europe
Following his report to the EEC on European Unity. Leo Tindemans , the Prime Minister of Belgium, talks about his view of Europe and its future withCharlesWheeler.
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer DAVID PERRY
John Tusa reporting
Five Roundabouts to Heaven Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (2)
preceded by Weather
