6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Brian Redhead in Manchester and John Timpson in London 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 7.85* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Read by JULIAN GLOVER (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
BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.0 am
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 ELIZABETH SMITH
NEM,p79; We plough the fields, and scatter (BBC hb 444); Psalm 104, vv 25-36: Matthew 10, w 16-28 (rsv); 0 come, let us sing to the Lord (BBC HB 465)
The Growing Graves by ROSEMARY TIMPERI. EY
Read by Michael McClain
' He pointed to a stone which had been springing up at a great rate. That used to be smaller than me. Now it looks down on me. But when I tell Them about it, They don't believe me. " ... We're the great XJnbelieved, the very old and the very young.'
'The Curie Laboratory tn which radium was discovered was a cross between a stable and a potato cellar and if I had not seen the work-table with the chemical apparatus, I would have thought it a practical joke.' (WILHELM OSTWALD) Robert Reid introduces an adaptation of his biography Marie Curie , with Sheila Allen as Marie Curie
Martin Jarvis as Pierre Curie and Paul Daneman as narrator with the voices of GARARD GREEN. PATRICK BARR
CLIFFORD NORGATE , IRENE SUTCLIFFE NICOLETTE MCKENZIE , PETER CRAZE Script by ROBERT REID and GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS Producer ROSEMARY HART
(Sheila Allen is a member of the RSC; Martin Jarvis broadcasts by permission of the Chichester Festival Theatre) (Revised repeat)
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
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 Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Northern Guest: Stan Barstow , author of the trilogy which began with A Kind of Loving and ends with the current Woman's Hour serial.
2.0-2.2 News
Suspended in the Royal Exchange: PHIL SMITH visits Manchester's newest and most revolutionary theatre.
The Club that Grew in Bootle: JUDI GOODWIN talks to its founder MAY LOGAN.
Sport for All (5): CELIA THOMSON looks at sport for the disabled. JACK CARR reads The Right True End by STAN BARSTOW (5) BBC Manchester
Story: Moving House by ELAINE DAVIES
Presenters ALISON MCMORLAND and SEAN BARRETT
Written and produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
As a tribute to Dame Sybil Thorndike, CB, who died in June aged 93, we are re-broadcasting some of her most outstanding radio performances.
Four of the great scenes from Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw, chosen and introduced by Dame Sybil, who acts her original role in this play which took London by storm in 1924.
with Walter Fitzgerald, Ian McKellen, Clive Morton, Michael Spice, Alan Wheatley
"It's 43 years since Dame Sybil first played Shaw's Saint Joan. Yesterday Dame Sybil was at it again, playing the part of the 19-year-old saint and sounding totally confincing. That's quite an achievement at the age of 42, but at 85 it's just incredible." (Sunday Times, 28 May 1967)
John Foulds's music (composed for the 1924 production) conducted by Alan Paul
Produced and directed by Graham Gauld
(Arsenic and Old Lace: 9 Oct)
Six chapters of bookish pleasure, introduced by Amanda Theunissen
3: A Nice Murder Please
P. D. James and Jessica Mann are heiresses to the blood-stained legacy of Agatha and Dorothy, Ngaio and Margery ... Edgar Lustgarten , notorious chronicler of suspicious death, is baffled by this Mystery of Make-Believe Murder ... Will he discover the vital clue? Or will they slip him the poisoned cup? Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
Napoleon and Josephine 15: Till Death Do Us Part
Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
(Wednesday's Broadcast)
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes over the past seven days. Producer PETER DE ROSA
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
Presenter Michael Billingloa Editor ROSEMARY HART
John Tusa reporting including a report from the Liberal Party Assembly Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
And So - Victoria Book 1 Read by GARY WATSON (10)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
to Dynamic Living
The Correspondence Course with No Easy Weekly Payments. No Deposit, No Hidden Extras! Just fill in your name (BLOCK LETTERS, PLEASE) for Lesson 4: Solve Murders the Burkiss Way with easy-to-follow instruction from Denise Coffey, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris easy-to-follow scripts by ANDREW MARSHALL, JOHN MASON and DAVID RENWiCK , and easy-to-follow production by Simon BRETT
preceded by Weather
