6.40 Prayer for the Day NANCY WILKINSON
with John Tlmpson 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
Talking Point
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Questions to: Talking Point, The Lining World, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
This Hurts Me More Than it Hurts You!
Are some people braver than others or do they have a higher pain threshold? Are we able to bear more pain if personal pride is involved? Are things like toothache really more painful than a sprained wrist, for example? Joan Yorke tries to answer some of these questions when she looks at the subject of pain. Medical adviser DAVID DELVIN Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.
Introduced by JOHN HEDGES Producer TERRY LLOYD
NEM, p 97; Father of mercies, in thy word (BBC HB 189); Psalm 119, vv 105-112 (bcp); Acts 2, vv 22-33 (AV); City of God (BBC BB 173)
Ban ulele Days bv WILLIAM SANSOM
Read by Jonathan Cecil
' We were obedient then. So that soon I was standing out in the dark.... missing the beginning of the next dance. When I got back, she was dancing with the same darkjowled, confident, laughing, amusing, non-blase grown-up fellow of at least 23 ..."
The Last of the Big Spenders
Presenter Nancy Wise
I Know My Rights - or Do it
Chairman Robert Robinson 16: Northern Ireland
JAMES MCCORMICK (Belfast), senior university counsellor; PAUL BURROWS (Co Armagh), schoolmaster; DAVID MCKEE (Belfast), physicist; ANDREW HEMPHILL (Coleraine), schoolteacher
Including Beat the Brains Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , Who, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions. Producer TONY LUKE
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Barry Tuckweli , French Horn player
2.0-2.2 News
Ann and Yolande - Four Years Together: ANN MACPHERSON in conversation about - and with - her police-horse, Yolande.
Food Facts on Bread - 3: JANET WARREN gives us some cooking hints.
Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments, places to go. Requiem for a Wren (5)
Story: Brown Bunnies with Pink Ears by JEAN SUTCLIFFE
Arts and Crafts by LESTER POWELL with . Of course, both Hugh and I have been lovers of the Arts all our lives, and especially the visual arts But our taking it up professionally was not entirely motivated by a desire to get out of the rat race.'
Produced and directed by HARRY CATLIN
A hundred years ago this month Mary Sumner , wife of a country clergyman, summoned a meeting of mothers in the drawing-room of the rectory of Old Alresford. This was the beginning of the Mothers' Union-the worldwide Anglican association which now has nearly 300.000 members in this country alone.
Robert Dougall looks at the past and present of the Mothers' Union and introduces some of its members. Producer ANGELA TILBY
Ride a Paper Tiger by WILLIAM ASH
Read by MICHAEL SPICE 3: Suspicions
Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Anona Winn. Isobel Barnett Humphrey Lyttelton Desmond Morris
In the Chair Cliff Michelmore Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
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Ring Robin Day to put your questions in person to our guest of the evening.
Producer WALTER WALLICH
Call [number removed]from 6.0 pm
Written by DAVID THOMPSON with Narrator Stephen Murray
' Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own. And I would rather possess a free-hold. though but a cottage. than live in a palace belonging to another.'
The English landscape painter John Constable was born 200 years ago. on 11 June 1776. This programme tells the story of his private and public life. of his love for his family, of his struggle to win acceptance for landscape painting as a major form of artistic expression. Constable's personality is explored through his letters and those of his wife and friends and other contemporary written sources.
With PATRICIA GALLIMORE WALTER HALL , PAUL MEIER
ELIZABETH PROUD , MALCOLM REID
ROGER SNOWDON , JAMES THOMASON Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Constable Observed: Friday
9.25 pm BBC2)
Presenter Peter France
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Room at the Top (3)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
