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. 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* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
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
Checkpoint for Consumers
An investigative programme presented by Roger Cook Producer ISABEL JAMES
NEM, p 106: Lead us, 0 Father, in the paths of peace (BBC HB 308); Psalm 95; Acts 3, vv 1-16 (AV); The Lord my pasture shall prepare (BBC HB 477)
A Question of Resilience by TOM MACINTYRE
Read by Harold Goldblatt
Gunning was the region's champion boozer. Resilient class of an evening ', he would remark. Gunning's favourite word - resilient.
Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
Reg Vallintine, Director of the British Sub-Aqua Club, talks to divers about their fascinating and often hazardous operations, and learns what they have discovered in that silent, mysterious world below the sea.
First of six programmes
Your health and general well-being are the concern of our Friday presenter Bill Breckon With, of course, your views in What's on Your Mind?
Anona Winn , Isobel Barnett Humphrey Lyttelton Desmond Morris
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0 Introduced from Cardiff by Sue MacGregor
Welsh Guests: MEINIR and FFRED FRANSlS of The Welsh Language Society.
2.0-2.2 News
People's Republic: PENNY KANE recalls her recent visit to China to study the country's population policy.
The Housing Queue: a look at a report by the Welsh Consumer Council.
Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
IAN RICHARDSON reads Requiem for a Wren by NEVIL SHUTE (7)
Story: Big Fat Rosie's Washday Adventure by MARY CALVERT Presenters AURIOL SMITH and TONY AITKEN
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
More stories by Mary Calvert in Turnip Tom and Big Fat Rosie, 30p, from bookshops
Caribbean Honeymoon by DAVID STEWART with Maureen O'Brien
Kathleen Michael , Peter Craze A honeymoon in Haiti as guests of long-lost relatives-it should be a wonderful time. But Norma and Tony are not quite so wrapped up in each other that they fail to notice the man shadowing them, the watcher on the beach, the menace behind the voodoo drums . 7 1 with WALTER HALL , VALERIE MURRAY Produced and directed by JOHN CARDY
Ride A Paper Tiger
5: The Risks Increase
Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 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 GWYNETH HENDERSON
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Barbara Castle, up Michael Parkinson P. J. Kavanagh
William Waldegrave
Chairman David Jacobs from Gloucestershire
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?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Robert Cushman
John Tusa reporting
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORXE
Room at the Top (5)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Bill Wallis. Nigel Rees Christopher Scoular and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN ROSTOCK-SMITH ALASTAIR BEATON and others Producer MARTIN FISHER
preceded by Weather
