6.40 Prayer for the Day: Rev Richard Harries
with Brian Redhead in Manchester and Michael Cooke 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, Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
On Wednesday Radio 4 presented A Plain Man's Guide to Communism. Now we invite you to give your views on Communism.
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
medium wave only
Presented by Roger Cook
nem, p 1; God is my strong salvaton 1BBC HB 453); Psalm 99: Acts 5, vv 11-26 Uv); The God of Abraham (BBC HB 283)
Five from the North
5: What Would Immanuel Kant Have Done? by LEONARD BARRAS
Read by Alex Glasgow
Dandelion and Burdock was her husband's favourite drink. a vile concoction at best. He would hardly notice the difference. shereasoned. if she substituted a concentrated solution of pesticide.
1: The Spiritualists
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.
Second 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?
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
Story: Mrs Cluckabiddy '. Cornfield by STEPHEN WEAVER Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN
Written by GLADYS WHITRED Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Five plays specially commissioned from Northern writers to mark the opening of the new Network Production Centre. James Cameron tells the story of 1: Five Days in Fifty-five (The Gilberdyke Diaries) by ALAN PLATER with Bernard Cribbins and Barbara Mullaney
Edited highlights from Mrs X's breathtakingly tedious verbatim account of events which might have taken place in a Yorkshire town when a new lodger moved in just at the time that Burgess and Maclean were moving out.
Produced and directed by ALFRED BRADLEY. BBC Manchester
Preview: page 13
Ride A Paper Tiger by WILLIAM ASH abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by MICHAEL SPICE 10: Freedom
Producer GERRY JONES
(Starting on Monday: Poison and Adelaide Bartlett by Yseult Bridges, read by David Brierley )
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Chairman Robert Robinson
Denis Vandervelde, management consultant
Miss Oonagh Lahr, lecturer
Thomas Dyer, schoolmaster
Mrs Jean Tait
Including Beat the Brains
Programme devised by John P. Wynn, who, with Ian Gillies, sets the questions. Producer Tony Luke
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
MARGARET HOWARD 'S selection Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Kearton. Hugh Scanlon Roy Shaw , Valerie Pitts Chairman David Jacobs from Nottinghamshire
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 Answersr, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
A special edition
Kenneth Tynan. in conversation With MICHAEL BILLINGTON , reflects on some superlative performances in the theatre, on the cricket pitch and elsewhere.
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Room at the Top by JOHN BRAINE , abridged in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by JAMES BOLAM (10) Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
Radio 4's International Business Report: Market Trends
Bill Wallis. Nigel Rres 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 BOSTOCK-SMITH ALASTAIR BEATON and others Producer MARTIN FISHER
preceded by Weather
