Presented from the South West by David Butler
BBC Bristol
6.40 Prayer for the Day
Rev Alec Gilmore
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 S
by COMPTON MACKENZIE abridged in 15 parts by NAN MACDONALD
Read by John Graham (1)
Not a drop of Scotch left on Great and Little Todday ! In those dark days in the middle of World War II it seemed that Hitler must triumph as the Western Isles ran dry, and that only a miracle could save Scotland and the Allies now. Producer JOHN CARDY
The programme that takes its own particular look at some of the issues and personalities of the forthcoming week. The studio guests join Kenneth Robinson , Bel Mooney and Sheridan Morley for 55 minutes of interviews, discussion and mild irreverence.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
Please identify this extremely vicious dart-shaped fly. Its eyes are a brilliant blue-preen colour and no amount of flailing about will deflect it from its taroet - but when it lands its sting is like a red-hot needle ...
The Wildlife team will attempt to soothe this sorely troubled listener in this morning's programme.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILKS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 58: Lo. God is here! let us adore (BBC HB 264); Canticle 1, vv 1-15; Jeremiah 6. vv 10-16a (Jerusalem Bible); I bind unto myself (BBC HB 170)
A Professional Secret Written and read by Gerald Young
' There were voices behind her! Raised in what sounded like considerable excitement! She swung round to peer through the branches of a flowering acacia ... Miss Finch was addicted to detective stories....'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
Presenter Nancy Wise
The World of Work: MARGARET KORVLING studies the market. Your Money
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
Introduced by Sue MacGregor BA (ou) - a Passport to What?: PETER WINDOWS tialks to Open University Counsellor MARGARET COOOPER , to find out what an ou degree means to its graduates.
2.6-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Consumer Notes: NORMAN TOZER. 1776 a.nd All That: one of the moat successful American bicentennial exhibitions is at Greenwich, MOLLY PRICE-OWEN reports.
JIM MCMANUS reads
I Know a Rotten Place by BRYAN BREED , abridged In six parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN (Final instalment)
(Music: Bart's ' We're Going to the Country
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Piggy and the Old Lady by MRS A. M. BRAZIER
It's a Battlefield
The Peep Show by WALTER WILKINSON abridged and read in five parts by Paul Nicholson
One summer in the 1920s John Barleycorn and his wife Martha, the boy Pippi. a pierrot, a pretty girl named Sally, a prizefighter, a monkey and a parson went on tour together around the West Country. They were in fact puppets belonging to Walter Wilkinson and The Peep Show is the journal of their adventures together. 1: First Steps
ProducerMARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Robert Williams with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Another chance to hear The Love of Bill's Life starring Tony Hancock SID JAMES , BILL KERR
LILLIAN GRASSON , WILFRED BABBAGE FRASER KERR and LEIGH CRLTCHLEY
Script by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON
Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT
Producer TOM RONALD
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Dorothy Tutin. Max Adrian Alec McCowen and Janet Burnell in Major Barbara by BERNARD SHAW with Tim Seely , Nigel Graham and Anthony Jackson
Trombone and concertina played by ALF EDWARDS
Produced and directed by JOHN POWELL
Presenter Paul Vaughan Editor ROSEMARY HART
Alex McLeod reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Taken at the Flood by AGATHA CHRISTIE abridged in 12 parts by ANN REES-JONES
Read by CYRIL SHAPS (6) Producer GERRY JONES
First of four programmes
Some reflections offered by traveller and author Jan Morris
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
(Tomorrow: Gerald Priestland)
preceded by Weather
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