6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead at the Conservative 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 25; Blessed Jesus, at thy word (BBC HB 257); Psalm 119, vv 137-144; Matthew 15, vv 29-39 (rsv); Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 328)
Caught in the Rain by ERIC BEAN
Read by Colin Edwynn
' And then there's raindrops. Big drops spattering on the dry pavement. Bouncing on the pavement. Making holes in the dust. You wouldn't believe it, it's so sudden and then the rain really starts coming. It's so hard I can feel the pain when it hits my head.' Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
A Right Arm to Save the Republic: MELVIN HARRIS unravels an incredible but true story.
Your health and general well. being, with Bill Breckon.
in Physician Visiting a Lady by DONALD BULL
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART. Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Wed's broadcast)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
from 2.0
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Autumn Love: thoughts and reflections of people who have found love and even marriage, late in life, with PETER WINDOWS.
Golliard: ANDREW GEUTER and CHRIS BROWN discuss and play some medieval instruments.
The Bird Lady: DENNIS MCCARTHY talks to MARGARET SHIPSIDE , who looks after injured birds.
Warwickshire Destroyed Buildings: PAT EAGLESTONE meets PETER BOLTON , editor of a review of the buildings that have disappeared from the county. BBC Birmingham
In the Dead of the Truffle
Season by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Astley Jones
medium waveonly
Story: The Three Little Pigs adapted by JEAN SUTCLIFFE <Rpt) Presenters AURIOL SMITH and MICHAEL RICHMOND. Written and produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
The Wall by DOROTHY GHARBAOUI , with Kate Blnchy and John Hewitt
GERRY: Listen, that's the way the world is: our world: we're living in it, both of us. Maybe we're different sorts of people, but the same wall hit us. We came in the same ambulance. CLARE: Hand in hand, they tell me.
. Produced and directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
BBC Northern Ireland
Last programme introduced by Amanda Theunissen 6: Zounds,
Sir Percy Historical fiction may caricature Ye Olde Tymes with wigs and flagons and what R. L. Stevenson called 'tushery'; but it can also, at its best, illuminate the past more vividly than any textbook.
John Hale. Derek Parker and Geoffrey Trease talk cloak and dagger. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Winnie-the-Pooh
A 50th Birthday Celebration Told by Bernard Cribbins
5: In which a House is built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore; and Tigger comes to the Forest and has Breakfast
Winnie-the-Pooh's and Piglet's good intentions have the most unexpected results when doing such neighbourly things as building houses, and feeding Tiggers.
(Tomorrow at 3.5 pm, 6: In which it is shown that Tiggers don't climb Trees, and we learn what Christopher Robin does in the Morning)
Gordon Clough
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Countess of Longford
Norman St John-Stevas, mp Lord Soper, Antony Hopkins Chairman David Jacobs from Sussex. Producer
ROY HAYWARD. BBC Bristol
( Rptd: Sat 1.15 pm;Mon 11. 5 am) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thurs 7.30pm) to Any Answers', BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Jacky Gillott Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting and John Tusa at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton Editor ALASTAIR OSB6RNE
High Stakes by DICK FRANCIS abridged in 10 parts by BRIAN GEAR. Read by JACK WATSON (Final instalment). Producer MICHAEL BOWEN. BBC Bristol
Bill Wallis, David Tate, Fred Harris and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by Colin Bostock-Smith and others
preceded by Weather
