6.40 Prayer for the Day REV ALEC GILMORE
with Brian Redhead in Manchester and John Timpson in London
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*
from 9.20 am Keeping Pets
As a nation we have a reputation as pet-lovers but how many of us, through misplaced kindness, are in fact inflicting cruelty? If a pet needs a cage what is the best sort? How much food should be given and how often?
In the studio to answer questions about keeping pets and to hear of your own experience, is James Allcock , a practising veterinary surgeon and member of the British Veterinary Association Council.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
NEM, p 42; The Lord will come, and not be slow (BBC HB 479); Psalm 98; Hebrews 9, vv 1-14 (NEB); Son of God, eternal Saviour (BBC HB 377)
A Convert by R. B. CUNNINGHAME-GRAHAM Read by Andrew Cruickshank
'Over their gin, or stretched out smoking in their hammocks during the long, hot hours after the second breakfast, traders and merchant skippers, Scotch clerks, and the occasional globe-trotters, all agreed that a great change had come upon The Reverend Macrae.'.
medium wave onlu
Marl Prichard presents the Tuesday edition, concerned with home and family affairs.
starring Arthur Lowe
John Le Mesurier , Clive Dunn
Big Guns. Captain Mainwaring and his men set their sights on total dominance of Walmington-on-Sea. featuring JOHN LAURIE
ARNOLD RIDLEY , IAN LAVENDER
LARRY MARTYN , JULIAN ORCHARD
MICHAEL MIDDLETON , JOHN SNAGGE Adapted for radio by MICHAEL KNOWLES and HAROLD SNOAD Producer JOHN DYAS
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Children's Books and Writers: talks to MARY RAYNER about ' scarey ' stories, discusses the latest books telling children about sex, and asks ELAINE moss for a reading list.
2.0-2.2 News
Anec-Notes: IRENE THOMAS with the stories behind the music.
The Road Back: helping people back to work after a disabling illness.
The Camera for You: REG MASON'S advice to amateurs.
Family Units by RUTH FINCH (12)
Story: Aunt Aggie Makes a Clootie Dumpling by DORRITH M. SIM
by Victor Hugo
Robert Hardy as Victor Hugo, Trevor Martin as Jean Valjean and Morag Hood as Fantine
(Sunday's broadcast)
by Josephine Tey
Read by Bernard Hepton
The news magazine: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
as Radio 3
Sheila Hocken was born with cataracts on both eyes which increasingly clouded her vision throughout childhood and eventually caused total blindness. For nearly 20 years she has not seen at all. Last September she underwent an operation which resulted in her being able to see clearly for the first time in her life, She talks to
MARGARET HOWARD about the impact of sight and her reaction to a world she has never properly seen before. Producer
THENA HESHEL
Presenter Michael Oliver
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Little Ladyship by IAN HAY
Read by PETER WILLIAMS (2)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
