6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
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*
English Regions: see column 5
Ring Birmingham [number removed] and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners.
Producer JENNY DE YONG
BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.0 am
The programme that investigates your consumer problems presented by Roger Cook , Producer ISABEL JAMES
NEM, p 25; My Lord, my life, my love (BBC HB 330); Psalm 9; Hebrews 7, vv 4-19 (NEB): Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round (BBC HB 321)
Deliverance by MAURICE MCALEESE Read by Bill Hunter
' Mouldy bread,' volunteered Mr Simpson , ' used to give me nightmares. I used to imagine half the town down with food poisoning, all because they'd eaten mouldy bread and I was to blame.'
Producer PAUL MULMON BBC Northern Ireland
A series about people who are happy at their work.
A waiter - Luigi Ragazzonl BBC Birmingham
Your health is the concern of our presenter Bill Breckon
This week:
Margaret Lockwood. AnonaWinn Ned Sherrin , Jim Dale
In the Chair Cliff Michelmore Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Margaret Lockwood is in ' Double Edge - at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
from 2.0
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
First Love , How it Happens and How it Ends: an investigation by PETER WINDOWS.
2.0 - 2.2 News
Guinea Pig: SHEILA HOWE volunteered to become a medical school patient and then assessed the doctors' preformance.
Glass-Blower: EVA ALMBERG comes from Sweden and claims to be the first woman glass-blower in a British factory.
Vicar in the House: GWYN RICHARDS spends a night in hospital with a minister who's also a trained nurse. BBC Birmingham
Family Units by RUTH FINCH (10)
Story: Mrs Mitten 's Birthday Hat by NANCY NORTHCOTE
Presenters MAUREEN MORRIS and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Written by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
David March as Dracula by BRAM STOKER , adapted for radio by ERIC MACDCNALD 'There he lay, looking as it youth had been half renewed. The cheeks were fuller and the white skin seemed ruby red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood.'
Other parts PAT KEEN
JIM MCMANUS , MADELEINE CEMM
Like all the best melodrama it was absurd, but it was real ... you knew what was coming, the acting was roughly life 21 and the music told you when to grip the arm of the chair, (PAUL FERRIS, Observer) Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story by MAX BEERBOHM abridged and read in ten parts by GEOFFREY BEEVERS 10: Renunciation
Producer KAY PATRICK
Gordon Clough
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Willis Lynda Chalker , up Patrick Moore
Michael Barratt
Chairman David Jacobs from Shropshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat 1.15; Mon 11.5 am)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at
7.30 pm) to: Any Answers f, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita The novel by RUMER GODDEN abridged in ten parts and read by DAVID DAVIS (10)
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
(Starting next Monday: Little Ladyship by Ian Hay *
Bill Wallis , Nigel Rees Chris Emmett and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news-
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH ALASTAIR BEATON and others Producer MARTIN FISHER
preceded by Weather