6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Prayers of Hope:' talks by Richard Harries , 70p, from bookshops
with 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;at7.25*and8.25*VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5
by COMPTON MACKENZIE
Read by JOHN GRAHAM (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 8.0 am
The programme that investigates your consumer problems, Presented by Roger Cook Producer ISABEL JAMES
nem, p 75; Put thou thy trust in God (BBC HB 313); Psalm 112; Jeremiah 31, w 27-34 (Jerusalem Bible); Rock of ages, cleft for me (BBC HB 296)
In the Bag by BERNARD CROFT
Read by Peter Tuddenham
' " You see," she said, edging further forward on her seat and bringing her knees nearer to mine, " if I don't explain, you might think that what I am going to do in a minute or two is rather odd."
4: Horror in a Hat-box
Second of four programmes. Naturalist Phil Drabble looks out from his study window and enjoys the wildlife that has come to live in the sanctuary of his Staffordshire nature reserve, BBC Bristol
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
Where There's Smoke
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
introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Unlucky for Some: has today's date filled you with dread? PETER WINDOWS looks at the lighter side of superstition.
2.0-2.2 News
Forty Years on the Road: GWYN RICHARDS talks to NANCY HEWINS about her 40 years with the all-girl Osiris Touring Theatre.
Feministo: LIZ DANIELS investigates a group of women who communicate with each other through art by post, and who currently have their first public exhibition. BBC Birmingham ANNA MASSEY reads The Painted Veil by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (4)
Story: The Odd Brown Slipper by FLORENCE B. POOLE
Presenters AURIOL SMITH and SEAN BARRETT
Written by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
The Nemesis Machine by ERIC SAWARD
London 1890. Richard Mace. England's greatest actor and most astute amateur detective, comes once again into conflict with the international arch-villain Professor Kasper Gutman. Despite the almost constant fog, Mace traces Gutman to London's literal underworld, the sewers, where their greatest and perhaps final battle takes place.
Produced and directed by ROGER PINE
BBC Birmingham
The Peep Show by WALTER WILKINSON
Read by PAUL NICHOLSON 5: I Walk into the Past
The news magazine: presented by 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 analvsed. In the studio Brian Bee 'dham Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
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 Ludovic Kennedy, Melvyn Bragg, Michael Clayton, Baroness Masham
Chairman David Jacobs
from Cumbria
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?, [address removed]
Presenter Chris Fowling
Alex McLeod reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Taken at the Flood by AGATHA CHRISTIE
Read by CYRIL SHAPS (10)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
David Jason , Bill Wallis David Tate and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funnv side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH ALASTAIR BEATON and others Producer JOHN LLOYD
preceded by Weather
