Presented from the North by KEN FORD
BBC Birmingham
S.40 Prayer for the Day REV DERRICK GREEVES
The world this morning, what Britain's getting up to, plus thenewsfromanywhereon earth, introduced by John Timpson
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 fur the Day 7.45-7.50 Editor MIKE CHANEY
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, from bookshops English Regions: see column 5
asks ' Whatever happened to the Wireless? ' and finds part of the answer in the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
and prepare to be highly amused, mildly shocked, but always stimulated as he, Sheridan Morley , Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl and their guests entertain you for the next unpredictable hour. Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
If a fly has 1,000 facets to each eye - that is 2,000 in all - how does it know which of the 2,000 pieces of food it ' sees ' to eatf A problem for the fly, perhaps, and also for today's Wildlife team
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 89; Stand up, and bless the Lord (BBC HB 268); Psalm 67; Luke 5. vv 27-35 (RSV); Fight the good fight with all thy might (BBC HB 302)
The Singing Willow by EILEEN HOTS
Read by Joan Matheson
Janet had worn herself Into the present so imperceptibly that she hardly ever stopped to consider it ... But now the TV programme was about to begin ... She barely recognised Daniel at first, but she could remember him as if it were yesterday....
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.51 Announcements
Presenter Jeanine McMullen The World of Work
With jobs hard to find MARGARET KORVING studies the market and looks at new opportunities in training and employment. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is thriller writer Gavin Lyall. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
A Lot Less Litter: HELEN PAL MER finds out why our towns aresountidyandwhatwe could do about it - if we wanted to.
The Social Workers 2: how should they be organised? MARGARET INGLIS reads
A Cage of Hummingbirds by JUNE DRUMMOND (W
Story: Little Benny by JEAN DARLING
Guest storyteller WENDY CRAIG
The Heroine
House of Cards by STANLEY ELLIN
Read by BI,AIN FAIRMAN 6: Into the Trap
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.56 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
'twixt Eleanor Summerfield Katharine Whltehorn and David Nixon. Tim Rice
Tune-twisters from Steve Race In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer MARTIN FISHER
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
on behalf of The Labour Party
Bing Crosby discusses with Derek Jones his keen interest in wildlife and its conservation - with illustrations from the BBC Sound Archives.
BBC Bristol
(Bing takes part in International Pro-Celebrity Golf: Tues 8.10 BBC2)
A Century of Modern Theatre Juno and the Paycock
A new production of SEAN O'CASEY 'S tragedy, with Donal McCann. Pauline Delany Marie Keane , John Kavanagh Niall Buggy , Sorcha Cusack
In a Dublin tenement during the 1922 civil war, a poor family struggles to survive. Juno Boyle nurses her wounded son while her idle husband passes the time in drinking and romantic talk. Then a sudden legacy promises to change their lives.
Producer and director MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
BBC Northern Ireland
(Rpfd: next Sunday 2.30 pm)
Presenter Peter France Producer joy HATWOOD Editor ROSEMARY HART
John Tusa reporting
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNI
Five Roundabouts to Heaven by JOHN BINGHAM abridged and adapted in ten parts by GRIZELDA HERVEY and ELISABETH ROWLEY
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (4) Producer HARRY CATLIN
preceded by Weather
