Presented from East Anslia by DAVID RICHARDSON BBC Birmingham
6.40 Prayer for the Day DAVID PARTRIDGE
with John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
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* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives, but once asain comes to no serious conclusion.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson, Bel Mooney and Richard Stilgoe invite you to join them and their guests for a look at some of the important events, issues and opinions of the next seven days.
Our family has recentlu been joined by a dormouse. Each evening, when we ao to feed the cats, we find it sitting inside the tin of cat food, feasting. Dormice aren't meant to be carnivorous, are theyf
A tasty morsel for consideration by today's Wildlife team. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM, p 9; My God, my King, thy various praise (BBC HB 13); Canticle 6. part 1; Hebrews 2. vv 5-18 (NEB); Let us with a gladsome mind (BBC HB 461)
The Adventures of Marlowe Written and read by David Barry
It was a hot June day; the wind blew the heat down from Pasadena. It was a time when little old ladies beat hell out of their dogs, and husbands come home from work and murder their wives. Business was bad for a private eye. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
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(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
Presenter Sue Cook The World of Work
With jobs hard to find, MARGARET KORVING studies the market.
Your Money: what should you be doing with it now? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor John Laurie. Show more
12.55 (medium wave only) Weather and programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
Editor DEREK LEWIS
(Medium wave only from 2.0)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two.
2.0 - 2.2 News
Strong and Sturdy: Celia Thomson visits a school in Derbyshire that makes toys for handicapped children.
Reading your letters.
A Bewildering Choice: Roy Day attempts a guide to some DIY materials on the market today. 3: Underfoot-Tiles and Carpet.
Ace Effects-Man: from James Bond superworlds to Aces High - Derek Meddings reveals some trade secrets.
Shirley Cooklin reads Family Units by Ruth Finch: 6
Editor WYN KNOWLES
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Stories: Arctic Ted by TRINA ROCKEY and Jack in the Box by RUTH AINSWOKTH
Other Paths to Glory by ANTHONY PRICE
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story by MAX BEERBOIIM
Read by GEOFFREY BEEVERS
6: A Message from the Gods Preview: page 15
Robert Williams
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VIIF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
or How to identify a situation given a few obscure facts and a little lateral thinking.
Panellists: Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, Sheila Steafel Chairman John Timpson Hidden voice JOHN BENSON Compiled by JOHN DAVIS Producer TONY LUKE
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Editor ALASTAJR OSBORNE
Strong Poison by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in six parts by CHRIS MILLER
1: Old Bailey Producer
SIMON BRETT
West End Winners
George Cole. Charles Gray and John Rye in The Philanthropist A Bourgeois Comedy by CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON
I'm not unhappy. I mean, 1 am at the moment, but .. when you consider how pleasant my job is, how well-fed and privileged and comfortable I am. and how easy it is for me to be tolerant and compassionate, it does seem perverse to be unhappy as well, doesn't it? I mean, to be unhappy on top of all that does seem unreasonably self-indulgent, don't you think? '
Produced and directed by WALTER ACOSTA
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Peter France Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The Battle of the Villa Florita by RUMER GODDEN
Read by DAVID DAVIS (6)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Hirket Trends,
preceded by Weather