6.40 Prayer for the Day REV GUY GOODALL
Introduced by John Timpson 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; Today's Papers at 7.35' and 8.35* and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 English Regions: see column 5
Talkinq Point
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
A series to investigate medicine and your health. Fit for Everywhere
Nancy Wise visits a rehabilitation unit where patients with serious physical injuries are helped back to fitness by the devoted teamwork of the staff. Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.
Introduced by COLIN DORAN Producer TERRY LLOYD
NEM, p 5; Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (BBC HB 327); Psalm 96; Luke 13, vv 10-21 (RSV); Rejoice, 0 land, in God thy might (BBC HB 433)
The Gold-Field by DOUGLAS RAILTON
Read by Denis McCarthy
' Luther called to the mules and went forward to move what he expected to be a stone ... But it wasn't a stone ... He'd come back when it was dark ...'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Introduced by Cliff Morgan , who explores the treasures of English hymn-writing and talks about the writers. 10: Victorians
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
Samson Enterprises by J. P. BEAN
' I don't know what the entertainment world's coming to ... making a living for this lot. I've known what it's like at the top in this game and, all being well, I'll be back up there soon.'
Producer TONY cliff BBC Manchester
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do I? Find out in today's edition.
With, of course. your views in What's On Your Mind?
A general knowledge contest Chairman Robert Robinson 3: Home Counties
FRANCIS MILES (Herts), sales executive
MISS PAULINE FOWLING (CatfOrd, London), schoolteacher JAMES EAST (Essex), chartered surveyor
ROBERT SPALDING (Kent), retired public analyst including Beat the Brains
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who, With IAN GILLIES , sets the questions. Producer TONY LUKE
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Sir Robert Mayer , nonagenarian musician.
2.0-2.2 News
Giving up Smoking - 2: DONALD NORFOLK on why you should.
1 What I'm Protecting is her Decency and Respect ': Cypriot schoolgirls find a conflict between their families' and English customs as they grow up.
Images of Rose (11)
Story: The Invisible Pig by DOROTHY EDWARDS
Whistling Wally by WALLY K. DALY with Christian Rodska
John Hollis , Kathleen Helme
Kev is deeply affected by the news that his Dad is suffering from an incurable disease, especially as he has not had a close relationship with him.
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
Three programmes on some of our literary ' fan clubs.'
3: The Baker Street Regulars written by LIONEL w. BAILEY
I think that if he hadn't been the creator of Holmes he would have been a very enthusiastic member of the Sherlock Holmes Society. On a number of occasions when I've been to the dinners I've thought, ' Oh dear, if only my father was listening to this too.' (DAME JEAN CONAN DOYLE ) Narrated by Anthony Jacobs with Stephen Thorne as Sherlock Holmes and Wilfrid Carter as Doctor Watson
Readings by MICHAEL SHANNON and JEFFREY SEGAL
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Death on the Nile
3: Poirot's Warning!
Nicholas Woolley
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
starring Kenneth Williams with Lance Percival Miriam Margolyes and the Nic Rowley Trio
Script by PETER SPENCE , with additional material by DAVID RENWICK , COLIN BOSTOCK - SMITH, PHILIP MUNNOCH and MIKE COLE Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Thrice armed is he who has his quarrel just ...
But should we rely on that?
Ring Derek Cooper to put your questions on our and our allies' defences, and whether they are adequate to meet our commitments, to Laurence Martin , Professor of War Studies at London University. Producer WALTER WALLICH
Call [number removed]from 6.0 pm
The soldier's life in peace and war in a programme of poems read by Jill Balcon and Gary Watson , and introduced by George MacBeth , including:
THOMAS HOOD A Waterloo Ballad WILFRED OWEN The Sentry
HENRY REED Judging Distances
ROBERT SOUTHEY The Battle of Blenheim
CHARLES LEVER The Irish Dragoon Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
(Revised repeat: Friday, 11.5 am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Stone Angel (13)
preceded by Weather
