6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
with Michael Cooke In London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including at 7.17* and 8.17* latest news of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, and the rest of the sports news: 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 9.0 am
Checkpoint for Consumers Investigates. 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 1: 0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (BBC HB 267); Psalm 63; Colossians 4, vv 2-18 (NEB); Believe not those who say (BBC HB 317)
The Third Eye by FRANK HEADLAND
Read by Robert Rletty
"Jeannie must be ten now.
A dog's natural life is, say, 14. Aren't you a little afraid of the future? "
1: The Ripper's Apprentice
The first of two talks by Melvin Harris in which he describes some fantastic happenings and their less remarkable origins.
1: Johnny Coulon - The Man who Defied Gravity
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?
Bill Breckon 's book: You Are What You Eat, £1.90 from bookshops
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 Northern Ireland
Presented by Margaret Percy Londonderry -The Maiden City
Today we invite you to meet some of the citizens who live on the banks of the Foyle in the north-west of the Province,
BBC Northern Ireland CLARE HORNE reads
The Gipsy in the Parlour by MARGERY SHARP (9)
2.0-2.2 News
Story: Bertha's Circus by LIANE SMITH
Presenters MAUREEN MORRIS and GARY TAYLOR
Written by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
More stories about Bertha in Bertha the Tanker, 20p from bookshops
Trapped by ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON with Tim Seely , David March
Michael Trent , photographer, surprises an intruder in his country house. After a tricky first encounter they reveal their problems to each other, and develop a fantasy friendship . . .
Produced and directed by NORMAN WRIGHT
(First broadcast in 1968)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Read by Nigel Stock 5: The Final Problem
1 1 think you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by no means a nervous man. At the same time it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognise danger when it is close upon you."
Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
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. In the studio David Sells Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Clive Jenkins
Norman St John Stevas , MP Alex Jarratt
Esther Rantzen
Chairman David Jacobs from Essex
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 Michael Billingtes
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNK
Dr Gully by ELIZABETH JENKINS abridged for radio in 13 parts by MONICA GREY
Read by RACHEL KEMPSON (8) Producer JOHN CARDY
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Bill Wallis. Chris Emmett Bob Kingdom and Bill McGufiie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script bycoLrN BOSTOCK-SMITH ALASTAIR BEATON and others Producer MARTIN FISHER
preceded by Weather
