6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Brian Redhead in Manchester and John Timpson in London 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 7.450
English Regions: see column 5
by JOHN GILBERT abridged for radio in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by JULIAN GLOVER (Final instalment)
Producer HARRY CATLIN
from 9.40
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 Investigates
Fair? Is it worth it? Are you well protected? Points at issue for consumers, presented by Roger Cook.
Producer RITCHIE COGAN
nem, P 106: Lord, teach us how to pray aright <BBC HB 344); Psalm 95; Matthew 12, w 22-32 (RSV); 0 for a faith that will not shrink (BBC HB 310)
by Elizabeth Taylor
Read by Marjorie Anderson
"He gave a name which meant nothing to her and she invited him in, thinking he was about insurance, or someone from her solicitor. He stood in the sitting-room looking keenly about him until she asked him to sit down and tell her his business".
(medium wave only)
An Investigation
Reincarnation is a religious belief in many parts of the world ... Memories of previous lives are reported by living people.... Hypnotists claim to regress patients to former lives ...
Edward Ryall claims to remember in detail his life as John Fletcher in 17th-century Somerset, and his death at the Battle of Sedgemoor.
And other contributors speak of their ' experiences ' of this controversial subject.
Reporter and presenter Leslie Smith Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER (Revised repeat)
Your health and general well-being are the concern of our Friday presenter Bill Brecken.
12. 55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
from 2.0 Introduced from Cardiff by Sue MacGregor
Welsh Guest: Rt Hon George Thomas. mp, Speaker of the House of Commons.
2.0-2.2 News
Going Up for the First Time: thoughts from a group of students starting at University. Collapse and Recovery: MER-VYN DAVIES , the former Welsh Rugby Team Captain, recalls the past six months. BBC Wales The Right True End (10)
Story: The Happy Little King and the Soldiers' Socks by moira HERITAGE
by Margaret Harris
With Betty Hardy and Colette O'Neil
Emily Grazeby is 40 years old. All her life she has been dominated by an ailing mother. But one day she decides that her life must change - and it does - with startling results.
(Broadcast in 1973)
Introduced by Amanda Theunissen
4: Gentlemen and Cads
Decent chaps ... absolute bounders: where would popular fiction have been without them? And where have they all gone in 1976? Stiff upper lips are presented by Auberon Waugh. George MacDonald Fraser (author of Fleishman), and Richard Usborne (author of Clubland Heroes). Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
(The Book Programme returns this tceek on BBC2)
Felix Holt by GEORGE ELIOT (5)
Gordon Clough
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and TV programmes. Producer PETER DE ROSA
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
5: Maigret Sets a Trap
from Pebble Mill, Birmingham Presenter Michael Billington
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
And So - Victoria by VAUGHAN WILKINS , abridged in 15 parts by MADGE HART
Book 1: Christopher Harnish Read by GARY WATSON (Final instalment)
Producer JOHN CARDY
(NextMon: High Stakes by Dick Francis ; And So-Victoria, Book 2, starts Monday 11 October)
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