6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
with Brian Redhead in Manchester 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 and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
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 investigates. Fair? Is it worth it? Are you well protected? Points at issue for consumers.
Presented by Roger Cook Producer ISABEL JAMES
nem, p 46; The race that long in darkness pined (BBC HB 496); Psalm 119, vv 73-80 (bcp); Acts 9, v 43 to 10. v 16 (av); Ye servants of God, your master proclaim (BBC HB 287)
Discord
Written and read by SeaB O'Faolain
' At the square and low-pitched window of the priest's room high under the eaves and overlooking the city, the two lovers - they had been married only yesterday and were in Dublin for the honeymoon - clutched the window-frame level with their chins and saw the field of roofs.'
Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
Reg Valltntine , 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. Fourth of six programmes
Your health and general well-being are the concern of our Friday presenter Bill Brecken.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clongh
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Northern Guest: Melvyn Bragg , Cumbrian author and broadcaster.
2.0-2.2 News
School Trips Abroad: DENISE ROBERTSON wonders if they are worth it.
The Mill Girls: PHIL smith reports on the changing life of women working in the Lancashire cotton industry, BBC Manchester PHIL BROWN reads
Reflections on a Mountain Summer by JOANNA M. GLASS (4)
Story: Nail Soup (trad)
Presenters ALISON MCMORLAND and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Written by AVERIL COULT and ALISON MCMORLAND
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Five plays specially commissioned from Northern writers to mark the opening of the new Network Production Centre.
3: Juniper Drive Weighs Anchor by BRIAN THOMPSON
' It's always the same with that Eric and Janet . , . They make me feel restless ... I mean, I can see that they're not the sort of people I want to be, particularly. But..... I'd like there to be more than this.'
Produced and directed by TONY CLIPr
BBC Manchester
Poison and Adelaide Bartlett by YSEULT BRIDGES abridged in ten parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by DAVID BRIERLEY
10: The Verdict on Adelaide Bartlett Producer
MICHAEL ROLFE BBC Birmingham
(Starting next Monday: Jonah and Co by Dornford Yates , read by Tcnniel Evans )
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed.
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days.
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Robens
Wynford Vaughan Thomas Lord Chalfont Anna Raeburn
Chairman David Jacobs from Anglesey
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
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
What's Become of Waring <5)
Bill Wallis. 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
