6.40 Prayer for the Day TONY ASHTON
Introduced by 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
(A shortened version oj Saturday's broadcast)
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
nem, p 30; Jesu, grant me this, I pray (BBC HB 517); Psalm 31; Luke 8, vv 22-25 (rsv); Stand up, stand up for Jesus (BBC HB 368)
On Tintock Tap by DOROTHY HAYNES
Read by Mary Riggans
Tinto was a hill we had grown up with. In the distance it was a placid hump with a pimple of a cairn on top, but after I was lost on it, in the lonely silence of the mist, my vision of the mountain was never the same again. Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland
In the last of six programmes, the best-selling author of books on all creatures great and small talks to JEANINE MCMULLEN. 6: A Man's Best Friend Producer PETER DE ROSA
(Starting next Thursday at this time: Odds Against - six success stories)
Presenter George Luce
Including MOLLY PRICE-OWEN , SUE COOK and DICK WATKINSON with the BBC Shopping Basket, the weekend's best buys, and all the news that affects consumers.
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
Reading your letters.
Learning Through Animals: David Hawksworth visits a primary school with a special biology project.
Life Begins at 40...: Liz McNeil Taylor, John Percival and Maureen Stevens look at the delights and disappointments of middle-age.
Lucky Jim (4)
Story: Daisy Kate has a Ride by MARGARET JOY
The Body In the Park A play for radio by ROBERT LORD
' It's Morrisey's fault. Typical. He always rushes into things.' * I wonder if he'll sue us? '
' That'd be the last straw. I suppose we'll have to give Pinfield a citation.'
Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous, the not-so-famous and sometimes even the downright obscure. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Framley Parsonage 9: Touching Pitch
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 third of four programmes in which writers and travellers discuss some of the pleasures and perils of their journeys.
This week Pamela Egremont John Julius Norwich and Jan Morris
Chairman Christopher Matthew Producer DENYS GUEROULT
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
The State of The Soviet Union
The doubts over Soviet commitment to the policy of detente, the increasing influence of the military in party affairs, and the poor Russian grain harvest in 1975, will cause observers to watch the 25th Soviet Communist Party Congress later this month with even keener interest than usual. What changes will be discerned in party policies? What shifts in the internal power balance?
Brian Beedham discusses the state of the Soviet Union with Sir Thomas Brimelow , who has just retired as Head of the Diplomatic Service; Professor Alee Nove , Director of the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow; and Professor John Erickson of Edinburgh University.
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
Presenter Michael Oliver
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
A Handful of Dust (7)
preceded by Weather
