6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Prayers of Hope: talks by Richard Harries. 70p, from bookshops
with Michael Cooke in London and Brian Redhead 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 7.4S* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5
Read by BONNIE BURREN (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
Checkpoint for Consumers
An investigative programme presented by Roger Cook Producer RITCHIE COGAN
NEM, p 25; Father, we thank thee who hast planted (BBC HB 201); Psalm 9; Matthew 5, vv 27-37 (Rsv); Come, 0 thou traveller unknown (BBC HB 4)
Crater by JOHN TARRANT Read by Richard Grant
' They were drifting slowly and steadily across the edge of the Pit.Beneaththeirkeelthe shelf of rock ended abruptly in a vertical cliff plunging down into dark and silent depths.
Sir John Betjeman introduces and reads, with JILL BALCON and GARY WATSON , a selection of his own poems to celebrate his 70th birthday on 28 August. The poems include: A Subaltern's Love-Song; Devonshire Street Wl; Indoor Games near Newbury; and Hunter
Trials
ProducergeorgeMacbeth
(Revised Repeat)
Your health and general well-being are the concern of our Friday presenter Bill Breckon. Bill Breckon 's book: You Are What You Eat, £1.90. from bookshops
Nobody Heard
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 Bristol by Jennt Murray
Why Do We Take Those Holiday Snaps?: we discuss our desire to record that special occasion with a psychologist and a photographer.
2.0-2.2 News
Living with a Colostomy: a talk by a member of the Coiostomy Welfare Group.
Flowers Galore: floral artist and demonstrator BRIAN HALLI -DAY will be designing the floral arrangements at Longleat House this weekend on a Victorian theme. BBC Bristol
MARJORIE WESTBURY reads I Was Murdered by G. M. WILSON (4)
Story: Millions of Cats by WANDA GAG adapted by BIDDY BAXTER Presenters JEAN ROGERS and john BULL
Written by AVERIL COULT
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
No Quarter by BARRY BERMANGE with Nigel Anthony , Gerald Cross Walter Hall and Victor Lucas
Why has fat Mr Barton to climb to the 17th floor to reach his room? Aren't the lifts working, and why are there no lights? And shouldn't a hotel room have windows?
Produced and directed by DICKON REED
BBC World Service production
Six chapters of bookish pleasure, introduced by Amanda Theunissen
Charles Causley, Jenifer Wayne and Edward Blishen talk about the self-centred magic in some of the best writing about childhood - David Copperfield, for instance - where 'truth' is not always the same thing as 'fact'.
BBC Bristol
Napoleon and Josephine 5: Crisis
Gordon Clough
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 analysed. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes.
Producer MADEAU STEWART
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
2: Maigret in Montmarlre
Presenter Angela Huth
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The Invisible Man by H. G. WELLS abridged in ten parts by JANET HITCHMAN
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY Producer GORDON HOUSE (Final instalment)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
to Dynamic Living
Radio's Continuing Correspondence Course
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Pass Examinations the Burkiss Way with dynamic instruction from Denise Coffey. Nigel Rees
Chris Emmett and Fred Harris from dynamic scripts by ANDREW MARSHALL , JOHN MASON and DAVID RENWICK and dynamic production by SIMON BRETT
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