6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
with John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead reporting from the Labour Party Conference
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
from 9.40
Ring Birmingham [number removed] and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott.
Producer JENNY DE YONG
BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.0 am
Presented by Roger Cook Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
NEM, p 1; Dear shepherd of thy people, hear (BBC HB 259); Psalm 99; Matthew 13, vv 44-58 (Rsv); Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy (BBC HB 309)
A Boy's Will by JANET FRAME Read by Nyree Dawn Porter
' " As I have told you, Lily, it's a scientific career for him. With his IQ." ... His mother had said in tones of awe, as if she had been describing an elusive beast instead of his intelligence, that it was so high it had gone off the page ... Aunt Lily replied; " These tests are not as reliable as they were once thought to be."
The Telegraphone Mystery: MELVIN HARRIS unravels anotht'r curious but true story from the recent past.
Presented by Bill Breckon
New stories about the characters created by A. j. CRONIN with in The Rebel by DONALD BULL
Broadcast by arrangement With GRAHAM STEWART
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
(Thursday's broadcast)
from 2.0 Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
The Farmer and the Tourist Should Be Friends? DEREK JONES discusses their differences.
2.0-2.2 News
Breakdown: psychologist STUART SUTHERLAND talks to BARBARA MYERS about his own experience of mental illness and reviews present methods of treatment.
CAROLINE PARSONS talks to MARGUERITE STOCKER about her days as a prison governor. BBC Bristol
A Squirrel Forever (3)
Story: The Golden Day by KATHLEEN RAMSAY
A child disappears from home. A violent patient disappears from a mental hospital. The police have the problem of locating them - with no time to lose.
Six chapters of bookish pleasure, introduced by Amanda Theunissen 5: I Will Be Yours, Mr Rochester
Tormented passion - enduring love - romantic agony: as portrayed in literature, these emotions and the heroic figures who suffered them have enriched the imaginations of generations of lovers.
Stan Barstow, Patricia Beer and Susan Hill in a heart-to-heart conversation.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Felix Holt by GEORGE ELIOT
Abridged in ten episodes and read by GABRIEL WOOLF (Final instalment)
Producer MARGARET ETALL
Gordon Clough
5.56 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather: programme news
in Things Could be Worse with John Baddeley , John Graham and Miriam Margolyes
3: An Englishman's Home by DAVID MCKELLAR and DAVID RENWICK
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed.
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)
6: Maigret and the Young Girl
Presenter Michael Billinglon
Douglas Stuart reporting and John Tusa at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool
High Stakes by DICK FRANCIS (5)
to Dynamic Living
The Free Offer Correspondence Course.
Just fill in your name here (I am over 3 years old) and you will receive - absolutely Free! - a Gullibility Award and Lesson 6: Win Awards the Burkiss Way and - in 15 minutes - you could hear instruction from Denise Coffey, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris from a 15-minute script by Andrew Marshall, John Mason, David Renwick, and a 15-minute production by Simon Brett
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