6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
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; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather;
Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5
by COMPTON MACKENZIE
Read by JOHN GRAHAM (10)
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
Checkpoint for Consumers investigates. A 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 RITCHIE COGAN
NEM, p 102; Come, my soul, thou must be waking (BBC HB 404); Psalm 119, vv 89-96 (bcp); i Peter 1, vv 1-11 (NEB); Lord, it belongs not to my care (BBC HB 355)
Maggie and the Angel by ANNE-MARIE GWYNN
Read by Gladys Spencer
' " Good morning! " Maggie called in a high, thin voice to the angel. " Are we going today? " It was terrible the way they watched you here, and worse the way they kept you when you were all ready to go.'
(Gladys Spencer is a National Theatre player)
5: Dead On Arrival
Naturalist Tony Soper views the ever-changing scene from thewindowsofhisboatwherever it may be - with wildlife particularly in mind, 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
Miller's Tale
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics introduced by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Northern Guest: Irvine Hunt, poet and humorist
2.0-2.2 News
Not a Bit Like School: Catherine Turner teaches prisoners to read and write.
Not for One, But for All: Judi Goodwin meets the youngsters behind a new newspaper
BBC Manchester
Anna Massey reads The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (9)
Story: Scruffy Sam the Tug Boat by MARY WALKER
Presenters GLADYS VVHITRED and TONY AITKEN
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Commercial Break by GILLIAN FREEMAN
Simon gets his first break in a television commercial when he's filmed in his pram in the park. It gives his mother big ideas for his future.
Produced and directed by HARRY CATLIN
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by david JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Write to: Any Answersf, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
The Toff on Ice by JOHN CREASEY
Read by GEOFFREY WHEELER
5: A Robbery Will Take Place
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
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed. In the studio Brian Beedham Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes.
Producer phyllis ROBINSON
A spontaneous discussion by Malcolm Muggeridge
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone Katharine Whitehorn Lord Cudllpp
Chairman David Jacobs from East Sussex
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 Billington
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Mark Twain and Royalty and Me by BERNARD SABATH
Read by FAITH BROOK 3: How it Ended
(Starting on Monday: The Invisible Man by H. G. Well*, read by Stephen Murray )
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
David Jason. Bill Wallis and Bill McGufBe at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by CHRIS MILLER and ANDREW MARSHALL Producer JOHN LLOYD
preceded by Weather