6.40 Prayer for the Day BILL DRUMMOND
John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester with reports from the Liberal Party Assembly in Llandudno from Michael Cooke
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* English Regions: see column 5
Read by JULIAN GLOVER (9)
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 75; Come, labour on! (BBC HB 388); Psalm 119, vv 9-16 (bcp); Matthew 10, vv 1-16 (RSV); Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard (BBC HB 491)
The Pommy Sheila by MARGARET WILLIAMS
Read by Trader Faulkner
'I didn't want to come here in the first place, Ray, you knew that. I'll never fit in it's all too big and empty.* Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
It's 100 years since Richard Jefferies wrote his classic study of the rural scene, Hodge and his Masters. In this series of six programmes, Hugh Barrett compares the characters of the 1870s with their successors of today.
1: Hodge, the Labourer Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Presenter George Luce including MOLLY PRICE OWEN with the BBC Shopping Basket, the weekend's best buys, all the news that affects consumers,
Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher
In the Chair McDonald Hobley Special guest Joe Loss
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(McDonald Hobley is in No Sex, Please - We're British ' at the Strand Theatre, London)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and Weather
Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Sport for All - HELEN PALMER (4): It takes all sports ... some unusual sports.
The Matron!: JESSIE KESSON remembers a character from her orphan childhood.
Singing for Supper: as the amateur choral and operatic societies get under way for the winter season, IAN HUMPHRIS and cast provide an operatic guide on learning to sing.
JACK CARR reads The Right True End by STAN BARSTOW (4)
Story: Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present by CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW
Petrella
Four detective plays specially written by MICHAEL GILBERT with Peter Gilmore as ' Det-Insp Patrick Petrella 2: The Death of Mrs Key
There's no doubt she took her own life. She organised it very thoroughly. Shut the windows and bolted the doors. Pushed a mat under the door. Then turned all the gas taps on. Produced and directed by GRAHAM GAULD
JACK DE MANIO meets the famous, the not-so-famous and sometimes even the downright obscure.
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
4.0-4.5 News
Napoleon and Josephine 14: The Glory Fades
Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Third of six programmes of some of the highlights of this series since it began in October 1948. Presented by MICHAEL BOWEN. BBC Bristol
James Cameron presents a personal account of Britain in the post-war years in ten programmes covering 1945-56.
3: 'There was no need to empty the dustbin because everything you had - paper, peelings, old shoes, anything at all - all went behind the fire.' (MANCHESTER HOUSEWIFE) So we tried to keep warm in the dreadful winter of 1947. As the sea froze and snow covered the land, we ran out of fuel. The spivs had a field-day and the dream of a speedy economic recovery faded. Help came from America with the Marshall Plan and, with the Russians' rejection of it, came too the realisation that the Cold War was here to stay. But 1947 brought too the first Edinburgh Festival, a marvellous summer and. at last. we could have seaside holidays again. Producers HELEN PRY and GWYNETfl HENDERSON
Is chanting ' Hari-Krishna ' in the street to the accompaniment of jeers from passing motorists or snatching an hour's meditation in a crowded railway carriage, just part of the ' spiritual ' rigmarole left in the wake of the hippies who proffered ' peace and love ' with drooping daffodils to every passing stranger? The converts to movements like ' Krishna Consciousness ' and ' Divine Light ' don't think so. Thev believe they have found an important alternative to a selfish and materialistic way of life and to a church out of tune with their needs and fears. Linda Blandford finds out from some converts about their beliefs and aspirations; hears from some who claim to bridge the gap between the Christian church and the 'Alternative Religions'; and from a member of the Christian church dedicated to widening the gap into a chasm and so protecting impressionable young people from what he sees not as ' alternative ' but as ' counterfeit ' religion. Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham Preview: page 15
Presenter Paul Vaughan
John Tusa reporting including a report from the Liberal Party Assembly
And So - Victoria Book 1 (9)
The last of four talks in which Robin Ray compares falling in love to the four seasons.
A chill wind blows from the north in winter but it can feel just as cold when two people cease to love one another.
preceded by Weather
