C.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Prayers of Hope: talks by Richard Harries , 70p, from bookshops

The world this morning, what Britain's getting up to. pius (he news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Gillian Reynolds Including at S.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
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, front bookshops English Regions: see column 5

from 9.40
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
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 110; Help us to help each other (BBC HB 378); Psalm 16; I John 4, vv 10-21 (NEB); O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother! (BBC HB 376)

New Every Morning, £1.00 (hardback), 50p (paperback), from bookshops

Death of a Mistress by ARTHUR APPLETON
Read by Juliet Cooke
She had been surprised the affair had gone on for so long. It had gone on for years. For ten years. Ten years. It was enough to make you weep. And nothing now could take away those years, unsullied years. Humphrey had never found out.
Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester

The prospect of life in a long-stay hospital does not often strike one as just another home from home. What is it like to spend a sizeable part of your life in hospital, away from your usual friends and surroundings?
Joan Yorke has been visiting hospitals which cater for all age groups and all types of disability: looking for the common denominator.
Producer DENNIS LOWER

Presenter Nigel Murphy
A Healthy Interest: items that may affect your well-being. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to: You and Yours, BBC. Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA

12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Editor DEREK LEWIS

from 2.0
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Husband Battering: may sound hard to believe but it's true as PETER WINDOWS discovers.
2.0-2.2 News
The Monastic Exporters: BARNEY BAMFORD goes to Prinknash Abbey as they go into Europe. Doorstep Gospel: JENNIFER KAYANAGH gives a personal viewpoint.
Summer B and B: MARGARET SOUTAR reveals the inside story to JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH . MARGARET INGLIS reads
A Cage of Hummingbirds by JUNE DRUMMOND (8)

Story: Cinderella, based on a play in verse by RHODA POWER

The Other Dear Charmer by ROBERT KEMP with Paul Young and Gwyneth Guthrie
.' When I wrote verses to the fair sex before, they were pleased to have them, but no more pleased than if I had given them a ribbon or a nose-gay of flowers. You are the first who has given a thought to my genius. So you would have me your platonic friend?
Producer GORDON EMSLIE BBC Scotland

House of Cards by STANLEY ELLIN
Read by BLAIN FAIRMAN 5: Exit Louis Le Buc

The news magazine Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news

(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
(Gareth Armstrong is a member of the RSC)

Dick Tracey presenting world news and views Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNI

MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of items from BBC Radio and Television.
Producer MADEAU STEWART
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)

A spontaneous discussion by Marghanita Laski Lord Robens Peter Jay
Professor John Vaizey
Chairman David Jacobs from Greater London
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon, 11.5 ami (Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at
7.30 pm) to: Any Answersr, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR)

How the Democrats and the Republicans all came from a federalist starting point – and how they're both trying to hang on to the overcrowded middle ground.

by AI.ISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday 9.15 am)

Hooray For Hollywood
The second of two special programmes which take a critical look at Hollywood's America-the myth and the reality.
Presenter Alexander Walker Producer JOHN POWELL
9.59 Weather

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

Five Roundabouts to Heaven Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (3)

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 and others Producer MARTIN FISHER

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