6.40 Prayer for the Day REV PAUL BARBAR
Introduced by John Tlmpson 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; Tuday'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)
NEM, p 9; The Lord of Heaven confess (BBC HB 478); Canticle 6, part 1; Luke 7, vv 11-23 (rsv); For the beauty of the earth (BBC HB 272)
Laughing Shadows by MICHAEL PEARSON
Read by Ian Richardson
There's trouble in the gods, according to the failing comedian. But what sort of trouble? Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
In six programmes, the best-selling author of books on all creatures great and small talks to JEANINE MCMULLEN.
5: The Full Star Treatment Producer PETER DE rosa
Presenter George Luce
A Good Buy?: listen to Shopping Basket and find out. Editor DENNIS LOWER
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two,
2.0-2.2 News
Maters, Mams and Mummys: ANN DALLY on mothers. Reading your letters.
Any Other Business: the more domestic points from Parliament.
Food Facts on Cheese -4: MONICA MAWSON with a recipe. The Sad Fortunes of The Rev Amos Barton (4)
Story: The Farm Brother* Band by URSULA HOURIHANE
by Lester Powell
with Ginnette Clarke as Alison and Andrew Sachs as Farrow
'I don't suppose I'm the most efficient kidnapper you ever met - forgetting so many details. The absent-minded kidnapper! Rather funny. I'll have to be careful to remember where I put you when I go out to contact your father.'
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous and the not-so-famous. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Framley Parsonage 4: The Little Bill
Nicholas Woolley
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
(Gareth Armstrong is a member of the RSC)
Dick Tracey
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionsf Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
(Repeated; Friday 4.5 pm)
The second of four programmes in which writers and travellers discuss some of the pleasures and perils of their Journeys.
This week Eric Newby and Dervla Murphy are overheard talking of the problems of walking in the Hindu Kush , bicycling to India, pony trekking with a six-year-old above 20,000 feet in the Himalayas, and much else.
Christopher Matthew , who is nominally the Chairman, occasionally gets a word in. Producer DENYS GUEROULT
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
The Public Purse Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Public expenditure has risen substantially during the last decade and now accounts for nearly 60 per cent of national income. Some observers see this trend as a major cause of Britain's economic difficulties and argue that public spending must be reduced. Others believe it should be maintained to preserve employment, but the White Paper due this month is expected to show major cuts in government programmes. How far should the public sector be allowed to grow as a share of the national economy? How effectively is public spending controlled?
Producer MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
Presenter Paul Vaughan S.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
A Handful of Dust (2)
preceded by Weather
