6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN CONGDON
with Brian Redhead in Manchester and John Timpson in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45
English Regions: see column 5
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
nem, p 79; God of mercy, God of grace (BBC HB 455); Canticle 6. part 2; Wisdom of Solomon 7. v 28 to 8, v 13 (RSV); Lord of all being (BBC HB 11)
Joby and the Hooligans by JUNE WIGHTMAN
Read by Richard Pasco
Joby, a retired bargee and scrapman, lives with his dog on the canal. His running battle with the local hooligans brings bitterness and, finally, a poignant surprise. Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
Six readings by John Westbrook from the Charles Dickens character studies.
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 Talk till Two,
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Gallipot Eyes: ELSPETH HUXLEY and her diary of a year in a Wiltshire village.
Choosing and Using - 4: EVELYN ROSE talks about gadgets that earn their keep.
Any Other Business: a look at some of the more domestic points from Parliament. LAWRENCE JAMES reads
Helen with the High Hand by ARNOLD BENNETT abridged in 13 parts by JANET QUIGLEY
(Final instalment)
(Music: Ewald's Symphony for Brass)
Story: Little Pig and the Pink Dog by MARGARET GORE
More stories in Little Pig and the Big Potato, 25p, from bookshops
Raymond Huntley and Noel Johnson in Smiling and Beautiful Death A play for radio by R. D. WINGFIELD
Concussion can play strange tricks on the mind, but Richard Gordon knew what he had seen when he staggered into that remote village seeking help ... he had seen a full-scale funeral - and at one o'clock in the morning ...
Produced and directed by JEAN BOWER
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous and the not-so-famous. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Knock Down t9)
Nicholas Woolley
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
In the studio David Sells
Salad on Saturdays by RICHARD HALLETT with Freddie Jones and Mary Wimbush
' I had to dive to my left and hold it one-handed. It was off their best batsman, too. just as he was looking dangerous.'
Other parts: MICHAEL DEACON and DENIS MCCARTHY
Produced and directed by JOHN SCOTNEY
The Pound In Whose Pocket? Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Sterling has been only one of a number of currencies to suffer from recent vicissitudes of the international money markets. What lies at the root of tire present anarchy and disorder amongst the world's currencies? How far is it due to the instabilities of the weakest economies? Or are the instabilities of these economies caused by the anarchy in the money markets? And what is the way out of the present chaotic situation? Producer TOM READ
Presenter Paul Vaughan
John Tusa reporting
Fanny by Gaslight 14: Motherhood
Read by ANGELA DOWN
preceded by Weather
