C.40 Prayer for the Day TONY BLACK
with Brian Bedhead in Manchester and John Timpson in London
At 7.1 and 8.0 News and more of Today with 7.15* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather: and Thought for the Day at 7.45
English Regions: see column
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 58: Be near us, Holy Trinity (BBC HB 165): Canticle 1, vv 1-15: Wisdom of Solomon 4, vv 7-17 (Rsv); Bright the vision (BBC HB 269)
A House In Cardiff Docks written and read by Dillwyn Owen
A house in Cardiff docks, the finding of a wallet, and memories of the last Tsar of Russia - these ingredients are unexpectedly brought together in this story.
Producer HARRI GWYNN BBC Wales
Six readings by John West-brook from the CHARLES DICKENS character studies.
4: The Contradictory Couple
' They agree in nothing but contradiction ... friends often deplore their frequent disputes, but observe that there is no doubt they are very much attached to one another ... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
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 consumer news.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Yours Etc: KENNETH GREGORY browsing through the correspondence columns of The Times.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Life in Ancient Rome: GEORGINA MASSON bringing to life for ANNE CATCHPOLE the ruins of Ostia Antica, founded about 350 bc.
Let's Play Some Music - 3: ASTLEY JONES on the sound, texture and tone of the classical guitar.
Helen with the High Hand (8)
Story: Jackalaska by MARJORIE DARKE
The Service Flat by BILL KNOX
' Vi, listen. I'm 30, unmarried, and I live alone. I work nine ro five, five days a week. While I'm out the flat stays locked and empty. But lately, when I've come home. there's been something wrong. Something not quite right ...
Produced and directed by GORDON EMSLIE . BBC Scotland
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous and the not-so-famous. Producer MICHELL RAPER
Knock Down (4)
Nicholas Woolley
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Dick Tracey
Prunella Scales as Diana Law in Make the Tongue Speak
When Diana Law , an educational and liaison manager with an important computer firm, was struck down with a brain haemorrhage in 1967, it seemed that her usefulness as a human being had ended. Her right side was paralysed and she couldn't speak. How she fought against these disabilities and emerged from ' the darkness' to form her own speech clubs for people similarly handicapped, is a most original and courageous story.
Script and production by ALAN BURGESS
A look at how much we've learned about stress at home and at work: at why some of us break down under it more quickly than others and at how we can help ourselves to meet it unscathed.
Dr Malcolm Carruthers of St Mary's Hospital advocates schools where the middle-aged can go to choose which killers to avoid: Peter Blythe discusses physical clues as to who will break down under stress and Professor Ivor Mills paints a daunting picture of the decline of our race as we are driven - by stress - into ' a lemming-like journey to our own destruction.'
Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
Fanny by Gaslight
9: Another Kind of Life Read by ANGELA DOWN
preceded by Weather
