6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Introduced by John Tlmpson
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
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
medium wave only
Checkpoint for Consumers
An investigative programme presented by Roger Cook
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
NEM, p 34; Jesus, where'er thy people meet (BBC HB 263); Canticle 8; Luke 8, vv 26-39 (rsv); All people that on earth do dwell (BBC HB 450)
On Call by JOHN FARRIMOND Read by Graham Roberts
She saw the shape of a miner, one leg out of sight, and half the body. only the helmeted head completely visible. Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
medium wave onlu
Renee Houston looks back on the music of her Glasgow childhood, in particular her mother singing Bach's Ave Maria.
' Up to a certain age I was going to be a nun. My husband always said there'd be none like me.'
Third of four 'programmes Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
Your health and general well-being are the concern of our Friday presenter Bill Breekon With. of course, your views in What's on Your Mind?
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
from 2.0 Introduced from Bristol by Daphne Hubbard
'In Service': former lady's maid ROSE HARRISON, and ex-kitchen maid MARGARET POWELL in conversation with JOHN WALMSLEY.
2.0-2.2 News
CLIFF RICHARD, in Bristol for a Christian meeting, talks to ANDY RADFORD.
Health and Safety: factory inspector MARY NATION takes MIKE PURTON on her tour of a Dorset tile factory.
MARTIN JARVIS reads Lucky Jim by KINGSLEY AMIS (5)
Story: The Singing Canary by NERISSA BARRETT
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN
Written by GLADYS WHITRED Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Friday Night Man by T.D. Webster
A furtive dance without a tune, A ritual over too soon,
There's no losing, there's no winning,
There's no end, there's no beginning,
Waiting for the Friday night man,
Waiting for the Friday night man.
Producer Harry Catlin
Framley Parsonage by ANTHONY TROLLOPE abridged in ten parts by RONALD RUSSELL
Read by PAUL ROGERS
10: Lady Lufton's Request Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Starting on Monday: A Murder of Quality by John le Carr é, read by Geoffrey Banks )
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey presenting world news and views
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Jacky Gillott
Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe , mp Sir Campbell Adamson Carwyn James
Chairman David Jacobs from Mid-Glamorgan
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon, 11.5am) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at
7.30 pm) to: Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The history of the word 'gossip', and what's being said about the disgraced ex-President Nixon accepting an invitation to go to China.
by ALISTAIR COOKE
'Britain has for too long been an economic and cultural colony of Hollywood.'
Ronald Harwood takes a look at the British Film Industry and the recent Report of the Prime Minister's Working Party.
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look at a topic of the moment
A Handful of Dust by EVELYN WAUGH
Read by HUGH BURDEN (8)
David Jason. Bill Wallis Nigel Rees 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 JOHN LLOYD
preceded by Weather
