Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES . BBC Wales
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, including Sports News and. Today's Papers: at 7.25* and 8.25" VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
hunts through the BBC Sound Archives for the voices of those who have made history.
who. together with Mavis Nicholson , Kenneth Robinson. Sheridan Morley and their guesis, will be providing the incentive to face Monday morning once again.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
I have heard it said that birds only sing. to mark out their territories. Don't they ever sing just for the pleasure and beauty of it!
The team voice their thoughts on another selection of your wildlife questions.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM. p 34; Jesu, our hope, our heart's desire (BBC HB 126): Psalm 57: Hebrews 8, vv 1-13 (NEB); Look, ye saints, and see how glorious (BBC HB 127)
Charlie Chester reads from
A Circular Tour by w. w. JACOBS Keep your hair on ' says the cabman; ' It'll be three-and-six for the fare. and I'll take the money now.'
'You'll 'ave it when you get there,' says Ginger.
' I'll 'ave it now,' says the cabman. ' 1 'ad a fare die on the way once before.' Producer
JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFP
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Sue Cook The World of Work
MARGARET KORVING studies the jobs market. Your Money.
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is cricketer Tony Greig. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
(medium wave only from 2.0)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Basic Principles of Photography: advice for beginners from Reg Mason, Editor of Amateur Photographer. Arts Notebook.
Family Units by Ruth Finch (11)
Story: The Giant and the Harp by OLIVE DOVE
Footnote to the Conspiracy by BRUCE STEWART
by Josephine Tey, abridged in ten parts by P.M. Wilson
Read by Bernard Hepton
A 15-year-old schoolgirl kidnapped and ill-treated by two apparently respectable women - that's Betty Kane's story. And when Robert Blair, solicitor, is called to the house named 'The Franchise', he's set the task of proving the girl a liar.
Producer Pamela Howe
BBC Bristol
Robert Williams
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards, Ted Ray, Arthur Askey, Cyril Fletcher
In the Chair McDonald Hobley
Special guest Thora Hird
From an idea by Jimmy Edwards
Producer Edward Taylor
(McDonald Hobley is in "No Sex, Please - We're British!" at the Strand Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed.
Strong Poison by DOROTHY L. SAYERS , adapted in six parts by CHRIS MILLER with and 2: Ten Minutes in Bloomsbun/ Marjorie Phelps ROSALIND ADAMS
Producer SIMON BRETT
Anna Calder-Marshall
Isabel Dean , John Phillips Paul Seed and John Rowe in Like the Leaves by GIUSEPPE GIACOSA , translated by HENRY REED
' These are people who can't stand up to a blizzard - the first puff of wind, and they're blown away, Blown away, like the leaves from a tree.'
Produced and directed by DAVID SPENSER
Presenter Angela Hull ) Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
by Ian Hay
Abridged for radio in ten parts by Nigel Lambert
Read by Peter Williams
Sir John Brent, a consultant surgeon, falls in love with Eve Angela Bingley Jessup , a society schoolgirl. They marry and are very happy, but Eve soon hankers after adventure...
Producer David H. Godfrey
Radio 4's International Bust-ness Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather