6.40 Prayer for the Daj JOSIE SMITH
with John Timpson in London and Michael Cooke in Manchester
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; and Thought for the Day at 7.45* English Regions: see column 5
by COMPTON MACKENZIE
Read by JOHN GRAHAM (14)
(A shortened versiun of Saturday's broadcast)
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in-the politics and the people.
NEM, p 122; We come unto our fathers' God (BBC HB 255); Psalm 40; Matthew 2, vv 1-12 (rsv); Light's abode, celestial Salem (BBC HB 250)
Mantrap by DAVID YOUNG
Read by Geoffrey Banks
. 1 don' suppose limps are catching, but if they were you could say I caught mine in the Ingleridge branch of the Northern General Bank.' Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
In a series of five reminiscent talks the well-known barrister, author and broadcaster recalls some of the strange, amusing, and even frightening, things that have happened to him and the people he's known. 3:Chance Encounter
Presenter George Luce including MOLLY PRICE-OWEN with the BBC Shopping Basket, the weekend's best buys, all the news that affects consumers, and, of course, your views in What's On Your Mind?.
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Birmingham is Revolting with NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY and JOHN GRAHAM
Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
MARGARET KORVING offers help for the unemployed teenager 4: Interviews and Tests. Reading your letters.
Focal Point: JUDITH HANN with a round-up of news from the world of science.
A Prospect of Orchards by H E. BATES abridged in two parts by MYRA BEATON Read by Douglas Blackwell (1)
Story: The Hippopotamus who Yawned by ANGELA PICKERING
A Blaggin' Job by JOAN LOCK with Edward Kelsey and Bruce Beeby
Two prisoners wait for their cases to come up in court-Wallace, the old lag, is accused of a blaggin' Job ' - robbery with violence - although he says he is innocent. But what has Rowan done? Wallace is curious because Rowan has been badly beaten up by someone. Who? And why?
Other parts played by CLIFFORD NORGATE and ANNE ROSENFELD Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous, the not-so-famous and sometimes even the downright obscure.
Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
The Toff on Ice by JOHN CREASEY
Read by GEOFFREY WHEELER 9: Drama at The Docks
The news magazine, presented by Brian Widlake with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Based on the original TV series by JIMMY PERRY and DAVID CROFT starring Arthur Lowe John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn The 2½ Feathers
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analvsed. In the studio Peter Hobday
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions! Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Friday 4.5 pm)
Write to: Any Answers!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
by Jean McConnell
Six classic cases in the story of British criminal investigation as we know it today. With David Graham as Harry Dobkin. Narrated by John Rowe
"That constable never saw me about lights. There was no lights or water, it was all bombed. I claim this charge is simply invented... Where's that constable's evidence? Why wasn't I asked to identify the body? I also wish to state..."
with the Voices Of BRUCE BEEBY, CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD, DOUGLAS BLACKWELL, MADI REDD, PAUL MEIER, JEFFREY SEGAL, JOANNA WAKE and PETER WOODTHORPE
Produced and directed by WALTER ACOSTA
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
Presented by Sue MacGregor
The jury system has been described as 'the lamp that shows that freedom lives'. But is it the best way of ensuring that justice is done? Critics say the system is fallible and expensive. How does it actually operate, and are there better ways of doing the job?
BBC Manchester
Presenter Jacky Gillott
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
by H. G. Wells
Read by Stephen Murray (4)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
A series of four programmes
Lisa Appignanesi introduces satirists, including Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Peter Cook who, in America and Britain, used cabaret to launch full-scale assaults on their societies.
preceded by Weather
