Presented from East Anglia by DAVID RICHARDSON BBC Birmingham
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
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 Mon-Thurs: REV RUTH PATTER-son, Assistant Minister at Gardenmore Presbyterian Church, Larne
English Regions: tee column 5
asks ' Whatever happened to the Wireless? ' and finds part of the answer in 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, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead.
If it takes a force of two ounces to push the sharpest needle through human skin - how does a bee that weighs so little sting us?
The team sharpens its wits to answer another selection of your wildlife questions.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 46; Dear Lord and Father of mankind (BBC HB 351); Psalm 32; Luke 9, vv 1-17 (RSV); To the name of our salvation (BBC HB 284)
Spring Cleaning by IRIS MACFARLANE
Read by Ysanne Churchman
'She knew where she would start ... on the stack of Regimental News Letters.... Her husband would complain, but she didn't care ..."
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Mavis Nicholson The World of Work
With jobs hard to find MARGARET KORVING studies the market and looks at new opportunities in training and employment.
Your Money: what should you be doing with it now? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is tenor Luciano Pavarotti. 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
Reading your letters.
Sewing Snips and Tips from BETTY FOSTER - 1: how to get the correct fitting at the neck and on the shoulders.
(Also a current television series Dressmaker: BBC1 Sunday
9.45 am, BBC2 Friday 7.5 pm) Women in Crisis: DOROTHY BOND gave her son David one of her kidneys. BRENDA KIDMAN reports. MARTIN JARVIS reads Lucky Jim by KINGSLEY AMIS (6) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Supper Time by HERBEY MCKAY
The Night of Caesar's Knivet
by JOHN LE CARRE abridged for radio in five parts by BERTHA LONSDALE
Read by Geoffrey Banks
The seemingly well-ordered life of a public school is shattered when a murder is committed in the home of a junior master. A former Intelligence Service man becomes curiously involved in the investigations because of his remote connection with a religious weekly newspaper.
BBC Manchester
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
or How to identify a situation given a few obscure facts and a little lateral thinking.
Panellists: Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, William Franklyn
Chairman: John Timpson
Hidden voice: John Benson
Compiled by John Davis
Producer Tony Luke
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Twenty-five Years of the Archers, 60p, from bookshops
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNK
Becket by JEAN ANOUILH adapted for broadcasting by ROGER PINE from the translation by LUCIENNE HILL with Ian Holm as Becket
David Buck as Henry II Peter Jeffrey as the Bishop of London
Sire, crush them now, or in five years' time there will be two Kings of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury and you. And in ten years' time there will be only one.'
Producer RONALD MASON
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
A Handful of Dust by EVELYN WAUGH
Read by HUGH BURDEN (9)
preceded by Weather