6.40 Prayer for the Day MARY MCKAY
with Brian Redhead In Man chester 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, Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 38; At the name of Jesus (BBC HB 120); Psalm 24; Luke 1, vv 5-17 (NEB): On Jordan's bank (BBC HB 38)
It's Me You've Come to See by CLARA ELLIS
Read by Sheila Donald
When you're in hospital and no one comes to see you it's bad - but when the only friend you've got starts taking more interest In the old man in the next bed, it's time to remind her just who she's come to see! Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland
6: Stourhead Gardens and White Sheet Hill -
Wiltshire Andy wanders from the tranquil beauty of the gardens surrounding the mansion of Sbour Head to the starkness of White Sheet Hill immersed in Iron Age history.
The last of six programme* Producer MARLENE PEASE
Presenter George Luce
Including MOLLY PRICE-OWEN with the BBC Shopping Basket.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The Seychelles - rumoured to be the site of the Garden of Eden: MIKE SHEILS visits one of the last colonies on the eve of its independence.
2.0-2.2 News
The Silent Ladykiller: RUDOLPH VALENTINO drawn by ALEXANDER WALKER.
Living Folklore - 3: a look at folk customs around England. Talking about Gardens: FRANCES PERRY and ARTHUR BILLITT With JILL BURRIDGE.
One Step at a Time (4)
medium wave onlu
Story: Joanna Jones 's Garden by BETTY FALK
The Haunted Instant by MARGARET HARRIS with John Rowe and Heather Bell
Some scientists believe that there are things that will never be explained by science. Anna and Martin Spencer certainly believe this - she is a writer of ghost stories, he is a painter. The experience they suffer in the old cottage they have rented only confirms them in that belief - if only it hadn't had to end so tragically!
Piano played by MARY NASH Produced and directed by KAY PATRICK
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous and the not-so-famous. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Poison and Adelaide Bartlett 4: The Beginning of the End
Brian Widlake
5.50 medium wave onlu Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed.
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions/ Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
2: The Special Mission of Captain Skorzeny
Written and narrated by Robert Gladnell with George Raistrick as Otto Skorzeny and Ewan Hooper as Adolf Hitler
In July 1943 secret agent Captain Skorzeny of the Waffen ss was summoned for the first time in his life to the presence of the Fiihrer. The outcome of their meeting was to be one of the most daring exploits of the Second World War: a plan to release Mussolini from his usurping captors.... with the voices of DENNIS BOWEN RICHARD CARRINGTON
ALARIC COTTER
PETER CRAZE RICHARD MATHEWS
BENHYMOXON and ANGELA PHILLIPS Produced and directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
Institutions for Europe
The nine stars of the European Economic Community have become more and more tarnished by the successive crises of the last few years. Its institutes have been accused of failing to build the Europe dreamed of by the original founders. The politicians have been berated for putting national considerations above European ones.
Michael Shanks , who has just returned to Britain after nearly three years as one of the four British Directors-General in Brussels, examines the state of the Common Market and asks not only how it can be improved, but whether it can survive.
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
Room at the Top by JOHN BRAIN
Read by JAMES BOLAM (14)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
