6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Michael Cooke 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, Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 4
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 8.0 am
Checkpoint for Consumers.
An investigative programme presented by Roger Cook. Producer ISABEL JAMES
NEM, p 21; The Father's sole-begotten Son (BBC H\B 67); Psalm 15; Mark 9, vv 1-13 (RSV); Shepherd divine, our wants relieve (BBC BB 348)
Grandad's Magic Moments by MARTIN ELLIOTT
Read by Brian Hewlett
' " You go to the post office for my pension, I know, and don t think I'm not grateful, but what keeps me alive Is my memory bank. My magic moments.... I sense my grandad is getting bored in his bedroom and dull down here in the dining-room
3: Hired for the Shooting
The first of four programmes in which well-known naturalists view the ever-changing scene from their windows.
Today John Barrett looks out from his seaside home in a far corner of Pembrokeshire. BBC Bristol
Your health and general well-being are the concern of our Friday presenter Bill Breckon. Bill Breckon 's book: You Are What You Eat, 11.90 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
Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Godparents: what is their role today? DAPHNE HUBBARD 'S been finding out.
2.0-2.2 News
Former ballerina KATHLEEN TACCHI-MORRIS talks about her memories of Picasso.
Surfer Extraordinaire: a 75-year-old ex-Mayor of Saltash explains her passion for this sport.
BBC Bristol
JIM MCMANUS reads
I Know a Rotten Place by BRYAN BREED (5)
Story: Mrs Cluckabiddy Counts her Friends by STEPHEN WEAVER Presenters AURIOLSMITH and SEAN BARRETT
Written and produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
A Couple of Splints and the Kiss of Life by IVOR WILSON
Norman and Harry plan to make the finals of the Northern First Aid competition a weekend to remember - until there's a disastrous change in their team.
Produced and directed by TONY CLIFF. BBC Manchester
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
The Sole Survivor by ROY VICKERS
Read bv ROD BEACHAM
5: At the Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea
Gordon Clough
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 Holden
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days.
Producer PETER DE ROSA
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Mancroft Dennis Potter
The Dean of St Paul's Sue MacGregor
Chairman David Jacobs from Hereford
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 Answersf, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Chris Powling
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Taken at the Flood by AGATHA CHRISTIE
Read by CYRIL SHAPS (5)
Radio 4's International Business Report: Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
Bill Wallis. Chris Emmett 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
