Presented from Wales by GERRY MONTE
6.40 Prayer for the Day DOM EDMUND JONES
The world this morning, what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, 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 af 7.27 and 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35* and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 Editor MIKE CHANEY
Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, from bookshops English Regions: see column S
reflects on life in and out of the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
Aided by Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl.
Enjoy a mixture of argument, humour and music as they meet the personalities, pre. view the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead.
Soon it will be time for frogs to go a-wooing, doves a-cooing and for the birds to build their nests in your nest-boxes -if if you've placed them well. Just some of the topics in this magazine edition.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM. p 122; Virgin-born, we bow before thee (BBC HB 240); Psalm 40; Luke 2. vv 22-33 (av); The Son of God his glory hides (BBC HB 68)
A Woman's Place is in the Wrong by MICHAEL BALL Read bv Brian Hewlett
'I loved the girl, but a man can only take so much . made up my mind that Melanie would have to change . ;
(Brian Hewlett is in 'Old Mother Hubbard ' at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch)
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter George Luce
The World of Work. With Jobs hard to find MARGARET KORVING studies the market,
Roy Plomley's castaway is jazz club impresario Ronnie Scott. 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
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON GOW reporting.
Food Facts on Cheese - 1: KATIE STEWART gives advice on how to buy it.
The Social Workers - 3: when tragedy occurs we look for a scapegoat-it is often a social worker.
The Sad Fortunes of The Rev Amos Barton
(from Scenes of Clerical Life) by GEORGE ELIOT abridged in five parts by EVANGELINF. BANKS
Read by Tennlel Evans
'Rather a low-bred fellow, Barton, said Mr Pilgrim. 'They say his father was a dissenting shoemaker: and he's half a Dissenter himself....'
(Music: Mozart s Bassoon Concerto)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Little Yellow Taxi by RUTH AINSWORTH
Presenters AURIOL SMITH and SEAN BARRETT
Scripts by PACHAEL BIRLEY Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
The Rose Garden
Framley Parsonage by ANTHONY TROLLOPE , abridged in ten parts by RONALD RUSSELL Read by Paul Rogers
1: The Chaldicotes Set
' How was it possible that such a one as our vicar should not relish the intimacy of Mr Sowerby ? It might be very well for a woman like Lady Lufton to turn up her nose at him. Women did not understand such things, the vicar said to himself: even his own wife did not understand that a man in the world must meet aU sorts of men: and that in these days it did not do for a clergyman to be a hermit.' Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol Preview: page 13
Robert Williams
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
'twixt Katharine Whitehorn Eleanor Summerfield and Tim Rice. David Nixon
Tune-twisters from Steve Race In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer MARTIN FISHER .
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNC
Eva Rueber-Staier, a former Miss World who is now building her career in films and television, discusses with Derek Jones her enthusiasm for wild animals and their conservation. illustrating it with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.
BBC Bristol
Ripples by MAISIE MOSCO starring Thora Hird and Hugh Manning
FATHER: Everyone has to do what's expected of them - we're a crew, aren't we?
JILL: I thought we were a family.
FATHER: A family is a crew, love - all pulling together.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Gladys Spencer is a National Theatre Player)
(Rptd: next Sunday at 2.30 pm)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59. Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting* Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Five Roundabouts to Heaven Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE (9)
preceded by Weather
