6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
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 Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions; see column 5
from 9.40
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
Checkpoint lor Consumers
An investigative programme presented by Roger Cook
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
NEM, p 62; Pjaise ye the Lord, ye servants of the Lord (BBC MB 280); Psalm 25. vv 1-10; Luke 9, vv 51-62 (RSV); God is working his purpose out (BBC HB 177)
Courage by FORREST REID
Read by Pitt Wilkinson
The house, whose chimneys he caught a glimpse of through the trees, had been empty for years and years. Long ago a lady lived there, but she had been very wicked and very unhappy, and even now could find no rest in her grave. Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
( Thursday broadcast)
Actor John Laurie looks back on the music of his childhood, in particular to Dvorak's 'Songs My Mother Taught Me,-Last of four programmes Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
Your health and general well-being are the concern of our Friday presenter Bill Breckon With, of course, your views in What's on Your Mind?
starring Kenneth Williams with Lance Percival Miriam Margolyes and the Nic Rowley Trio
Script by PETER SPENCE , with additional material by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and DAVID RENWICK Producer SIMON BRETT
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Gorton Clough
from 2.0
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Like Father. Like Son: PETER WINDOWS investigates what happens when boys follow their fathers' footsteps - and when they don't.
2.0-2.2 News
The Phobics: SUSAN MCKENZIE meets a group at Nottingham who help each other.
Local Studies Library: EILEEN TOTTEN explores a part of a library that deals with very recent history.
Sewing Snips and Tips from BETTY FOSTER - 5: up-dating old clothes.
Studio guest: playwright David Edgar , with successes in Bristol and London, whose newest offering opens in Birmingham next week. MARTIN JARVIS reads Lucky Jim by KINGSLEY AMIS (10)
Story: Mr Arthur Stocking in Space by MARY CALVERT Presenters
GLADYS WHJTRED (Music) TONY AITKEN (drama)
Written by AVERIL coult
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00 from bookshops
by A. A. Beeching
With Barry Foster, Penelope Lee and Steven Pacey
"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom" (Edmund Burke)
Producer
MICHAEL ROLFE BBC Birmingham
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
A Murder of Quality by JOHN IE CARRE
Read by GEOFFREY BANKS 5: The End of the Chase
(Starting next Monday: The House of Gair by Eric Link -later, read by John Shedden )
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VIIF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A general knowledge contest
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Bob Holness
King William's College, Isle of Man v Paisley Grammar School, Scotland
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey
MARGARET HOWARD presents her own selection of items from BBC Radio and Television during the past seven days. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Lady Barnett Hugh Scanfon
Sir Monty Finniston
Phillip Whitehead. mp
Chairman David Jacobs from Derbyshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Afon, 11.5am)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at
7.30 pm) to: Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol BS8 ZLR
A Declaration of Independence The American voice in the novel and on the stage. In this bicentennial year. MALCOLM BRADBURY , TONY TANNER and BRENDAN GILL discuss with PAUL BAILEY the development of fiction and drama in America,
Douglas Stuart reporting
Friday Special: a deeper look at a topic of the moment Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A Handful of Dust by EVELYN WAUGH : abridged in 13 parts by DONALD BANCROFT Read by m'GH BURDEN (Final instalment)
Producer GLYN DEARMAN
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 ANDREW MARSHALL and others Producer MARTIN FISHER
preceded by Weather
