6.40 Prayer for the Day REV LESLIE STOKES
with Brian Redhead in Manchester and John Timpson in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 118; The star of morn has risen (BBC HB 410); Psalm 46; Wisdom of Solomon 12, vv 15-22 (Rsv); Soldiers of Christ, arise (BBC HB 366)
Roddie's Harvest by NAOMI MITCHISON
Read by Dolina MacLennan
When Big Roderick was taken off to hospital in the air ambulance, it seemed like the end of the world to young Roddie. Now he was the man of the croft, the harvest had to be gathered in and there were great lumps of rain cloud coming in from the Atlantic.... Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland
A studio counselling session introduced by Jean Metcalfe
Two women who want the friendship of men but are unwilling to enter into physical relationships with them, discuss their difficulties with Dr Wendy Grecngross. Dr Colin Brewer and Paul Brown. Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Six readings by John Westbrook from the Charles Dickens character studies.
Presenter George Luce including MOLLY PRICE-OWEN and DICK WATKINSON with the BBC Shopping Basket.
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.
Women and the Law: TESS GILL on recent developments.
Bird or Beast - Next Please!: MOLLY PRICE-OWEN attends a veterinary surgery.
Family Units by RUTH FINCH (4)
Story: The Very Windy Day by BRENDA BINGHAM
The Love Match by KEITH MILES with Geoffrey Matthews and John Hollis
'Mayfield died early this morning. You are now searching for not only an arsonist, but a murderer' another in the occasional series about the Bow Street Runners.
Produced and directed by MICHAEL ROLFE
BBC Birmingham
Jack de Manio meets the famous and the not-so-famous.
4.0-4.5 News
Zulelka Dobson or An Oxford Love Story by MAX BEERBOHM
Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS 4: Dinner at the Junta
Nicholas Woolley
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Friday 4.5 pm)
Write to: Any Ansiverst, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
1: The Case of Madeleine Smith with Vivien Heilbron as Madeleine Smith
Written by PETER HUNT
Narrator Frank Windsor
A criminal trial may reveal more than whether or not the defendant is guilty. Occasionally it reveals a great deal about the society of the time.
In 1857 the daughter of James Smith of Glasgow was accused of poisoning her lover with arsenic. The jury's verdict was that the charge was ' not proven '. But if Madeleine Smith was guilty was she entirely to blame for what she did? with STEVE HODSON , DEBORAH PAIGE
JOHN ROWE and MICHAEL SHANNON Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
What Price Your Income?
The Government must shortly make a number of decisions about the next stage in its anti-inflationary policy.
What success can be claimed for the measures taken over the past year to hold down incomes? How seriously do price controls affect industrial activity and what is the disincentive effect of reducing pay differentials?
Ian Mclntyre seeks the views of politicians, economists, industrialists and trade unionists. Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
Presenter Tony Palmer
John Tusa reporting
The Battle of the Villa Florita Read by DAVID DAVIS (4)
preceded by Weather
