Presented from the North by KEN FORD. BBC Manchester
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 Thought for the Day at 7.45* English Regions: see column 5
by COMPTON MACKENZIE
Read by JOHN GRAHAM (11)
The studio guests. join Esther Rantzen , Benny Green , Fritz Spiegl and Lance Percival for 55 minutes of interviews, discussion and mild irreverence. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
What did clothes moths eat before we provided clothes for them?
We hope you find no holes in the answers offered by today's Wildlife team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 110; Help us to help each other, Lord (BBC HB 378); Psalm 138; 2 Peter 3, vv 8-14 (NEB); Jesu, lover of my soul (BBC HB 145)
The Seafaring Man, written and read by Brian Hayes
' Everyone else involved in the affair persistently maintained that it must have been one of Jerry's more elaborate jokes, that it misfired and that he was covering up by refusing to admit it. The truth must lie somewhere - because the other explanation is unbelievable. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Sue Cook
The World of Work: MARGARET KORVING studies the market. Your Money
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Penelope Keith. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
MARGARET KORVING offers help for the unemployed teenager - 1: What to Look For.
Dressage by the Sea: HUGH SYKES visits the Lipizzaner stallions at the Porlock Vale Equitation Centre.
Family Health: DR ROBERT ANDREW talks about managing the sick - and avoiding joining them.
The Painted Veil (10) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Little Grey Donkey has a Day by the Sea by BERENICE ROBBINS
Weekend at Montacute
The Toff on Ice
6: Dangerous Blooms
John Parry
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather S.55 Weather, programme news
Starring Tony Hancock, Sid James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams and Alan Simpson.
(The Blood Donor: 7.40 BBC2)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Brian Beedham
Frank Muir gives an irreverent commentary on our social history. 2: Table Manners Readers Alec McCowen Norman Shelley and Margaret Robertson
When I sat next the Duchess at tea,
It was just as I knew it would be.
Her rumblings abdominal
Were something phenomenal - And everyone thought it was me.
Adapted by SIMON BETT in seven parts from The Frank Mutr Book , to be published 27 September.
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON
(Alec McCowen is in ' The Family Dance ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
The Skin of Our Teeth A satirical morality by THORNTON WILDER (1897-1975) edited by BILL MORRISON Toby Robins as Sabina Don Fellows as Mr Antrobus Betsy Blair as Mrs Antrobus
The Antrobus family live both in prehistoric times and in a New Jersey suburb today.
* Fellow mammals, fellow vertebrates. fellow humans, as your President I thank you, Little did my dear parents think - when they told me to stand on my own feet - that I'd arrive at this place. My friends, we have come a long way.... The dinosaur is extinct, the ice has retreated, and the common cold is being pursued by every means within our power.'
With PETER CRAZE , WILLIAM EEDLE WALTER HALL , LESLIE HERITAGE NICOLETTE MCKENZIE CLIFFORD NORGATE
JEFFREY SEGAL , JOANNA WAKE
Special sound sequences by DICK MILLS of the BBC Radio-phonic Workshop Producedand directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Tony Palmer Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
The Invisible Man by H. G. WELLS abridged for radio in ten parts by JANET HITCHMAN
Read by Stephen Murray (1)
Unimaginable power and wealth seem to be at his command when Griffin, a talented young physicist, discovers a potion that makes him invisible to other men But the drug has deadly side-effects. And Griffin is unable to prepare an antidote ...
Producer GORDON HOUSE,
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
Four programmes on the history of cabaret presented by Lisa Appignanesi
1: Montmartre Gives Birth to Cabaret
Rare recordings of ARISTIDE BRUANT and YVETTE GUILBERT , with a newly translated ' black tale ' by ALPHONSE ALLAIS , recreate the atmosphere of Le Chat Noir at the turn of the century. Series producer HUGH PURCELL
preceded by Weather
