Presented from East Anglia by DAVID RICHARDSON BBC Birmingham
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 Papors: at 7.25* and 8.25' VHF Regional News, Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45' English Regions: see column 5
by COMPTON MACKENZIE abridged in 15 parts by NAN MACDONALD
Read by JOHN GRAHAM (6)
Producer JOHN CARDY
Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl review some of the events in the forthcoming week.
During this very dry summer, why is it that the birds have not taken our unprotected red-currants and raspberries? Normally they strip them as soon as they start to ripen.
This juicy problem is discussed by today's Wildlife team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p84: Lord of all, to whom alone (BBC HB 294): Psalm 51; 1 John 2, vv 317 (RSV); How are thv servants blest, O Lord (BBC HB 305)
New Every Morning, £1.25 (hardback), 50p (paperback), from bookshops
Anything Legal Considered by BRIAN ORPINGTON
Read by Jim McManus
His mother said. "I don't know why you can't go into accountancy like the rest of the family. Like your brother. He's doing very nicely, thank you. And he goes all over the place. Paris, New York, Bishop's Stortford " ... ' Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Nancy Wise The World of Work
With jobs hard to find, MAR-CARET KORVING studies the market and looks at new opportunities in training and employment. Your Money
What should you be doing with it now?
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is flautist James Galway. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Learning to be a Tycoon?: JOCELYN HAY takes a look at the London Graduate Business School.
. If I Were ... I Would
ANNE JONES as The Archbishop of Canterbury.
Clinic: JILL BURRIDGE takes her one-year-old baby for advice. ANNA MASSEY reads The Painted Veil by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (5) Editor WYN KNOWLES
story: The Sea and the Sand-castle by PENELOPE PINE
Listen with Mother Stories, £2.00, from bookshops
The Kildruim Hoard by JOHN LAWSON
The Toff on Ice by John Creasey abridged for radio in ten parts by Neville Teller
Read by Geoffrey Wheeler
Richard Rollison, otherwise known as the Toff, seemed to have lost his enthusiasm for life - even his passion for solving difficult criminal cases seemed to have waned. His Aunt Gloria insisted on arranging a birthday party for him to try and cheer him up - but it was a party that ended in disaster. For amid the hustle and bustle of the gathering, a tube of arsenic - one of the Toff's souvenirs - vanished.... and reappeared later in the ice-cream served to the guests..... 1: Party Poison
Producer Herbert Smith
BBC Manchester
The news magazine: presented by 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 Anything to Declare starring Tony Hancock, Sid James Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams, Pat Hayes and Noel Drydon
Script by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
Theme and incidental music by Wally Stott
Producer Tom Ronald
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Twenty-five Years of The Archers, 60p from bookshops
In the studio Brian Beedham
Frank Muir gives an irreverent commentary on our social history. 1: Food and Drink Readers Alec McCowen and Norman Shelley
'" Turbot, sir." said the waiter, placing before me two fishbones, two eyeballs, and a bit of black mackintosh.'
Adapted by SIMON BRETT in seven episodes from The Frank Muir Book , to be published 27 September.
Producer IIALI.AM TENNYSON
(Alec McCowen is in ' The Family Dance ' at the Criterion
Theatre, London) Preview: p 11
Spin a Loving Thread by ALICK ROWE withand
'Ah hello! Like my name's Andy Nairn. From the College. I mean could you come down to the door, please? Ah. Hello. Mrs Deans? '
An adolescent boy. in ' taking on' Mrs Deans as part of a scheme to help old people, comes under a considerable influence.
Produced and directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
A nightly review of hooks, films, plays. broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Michael Oliver Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Doughs Stuart reporting
Taken at the Flood by AGATHA CHRISTIE
Read by CYRIL SHAPS (11)
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
Part1
The river as a place of work. Jack Dash revisits the Docks With CLIVE JACOBS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
preceded by Weather
