6.40 Prayer for the Day, REV RICHARD BARRIES
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, Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column I
America at 200
As Americans celebrate the 200th anniversary of their independence, ring Robin Day to put your questions about their view of the past, their hopes for the future, the way they live and work, their relationship with Europe in general and with Britain in particular, in person to the United States Ambassador to Great Britain, The Hon Mrs Anne Armstrong Producer
WALTER WALLICH
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
Checkpoint for Consumers Investigates. A fair deal? What rights do you have? Is it worth the paper it's written on? whom can you trust?
Find out with Roger Cook Producer ISABEL JAMES
nem, p 21: Jesus, Lord, we look to thee (BBC HB 374); Canticle 9; Acts 8, vv 14-25 (AV); Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (BBC HB 323)
The Firebell by MICHAEL PEARSON
Read by Timothy Kightley
' He shrinks back in his chair and gazes at me in horror. The firebell." he croaks, " why did you set off the firebell? " '
Producer PAMELA howi BBC Bristol
2: The Special Mission of Captain Skorzeny
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. Third of six programmes.
Your health and general well-being are the concern of our Friday presenter Bill Breckon.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Baby Talk: PETER WINDOWS hears some, hears interpretations from the mothers, and discusses how it forms the basis of developing speech,
2.0-2.2 News
Elgar: with an appeal under way to restore his Hereford home as a permanent museum, DAVID LLOYD turns up some unique information about his background.
Living Folklore: a look at folk customs around the Midlands, BBC Birmingham
One Step at a Time (5)
Story: The Sea and the Sand-castle by PENELOPE PINE
Presenters ALISON MCMORLAND and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Written by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Five plays specially commissioned from Northern writers to mark the opening of the new Network Production Centre, Sheila Hancock and Graham Roberts in 2: The Story of a Penny Suit by KEN WHITMORE with Arthur Lowe
' I'll get a suit, I'll get a suit. As soon as we've stopped paying a mortgage, 29 quid a week; hp for furniture, eight quid; telephone bill, 25 smackers. Oh yes, I'll get a denim suit with silk veneers and bells on the bottom.'
Produced and directed by ALFRED BRADLEY. BBC Manchester
Poison and Adelaide Bartlett S: La Belle Dame sans merci
Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated; Monday 1.30 pm)
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
Malcolm Muggeridge
Rt Hon Enoch Powell , up Countess of Longford Paul Johnson
Chairman David Jacobs from Sussex
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 Answerst, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Robert Cushman
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Room at the Top by JOHN BRAINE , abridged in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER Read by JAMES BOLAM (Final instalment)
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Bill Wallts. Nigel Rees Chris Emmett 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
