6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
with 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 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
from 9.40
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
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 79: Rise up. 0 men of God! (BBC HB 364); Psalm 148; Matthew 20, vv 17-28 (Rsv); God is working his purpose out, as year succeeds to year (BBC HB 177)
Pictures in the Fire by NORA WINDRIDGE
Read by June Barrie
1 " Simple," her sisters used to call her. " Emily is so simple - so direct - so childish." " I am, I am," Emily agreed, " but they look after me!" ' Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
The life of Wilhelm II compiled and written for radio by ELIZABETH HOLFORD , With Paul Eddington as the Kaiser Narrator George Ralstrick
The story of how a delicate little boy with a damaged arm became in time the bogeyman of Europe and a target for unremitting hatred from the people of Britain.
This programme looks behind the image of the baby-devourer to present a human picture of this all-too-human individual. With the voices of CAROLINE BLAKISTON , PENELOPE BROWNJOHN , TREVOR MARTIN , HENRY MOXON , HECTOR ROSS , MANNING WILSON Produced and directed by BRIAN MILLER. BBC Bristol (Revised repeat)
Mind and Body Edition Presenter Bill Breckon with your letters
Bill Breckon 's book: You Are What You Eat, £1.90, from bookshops
Mother's Boy
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
from 2.0 Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
A First Step: CELIA THOMSON reports on a Manchester attempt to rehabilitate homeless women.
2.0-2.2 News
Complete with Corsets: the historical costumes LESLEY EDWARDSmakes are perfect in every detail.
Thirteen Kinds of Scones: novelist LILLIAN BECKWITHin ctudes them in her new cookery book. BBC Manchester A Touch of Mistletoe <10)
Story: Terrible Thomas by ANNE WELLINGTON
Presenters AURIOL SMITH and SEAN BARRETT. Script by AVERIL COULT.Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
As a tribute to Dame Sybil Thorndike, CH, who died in June aged 93, we are rebroadcasting some of her most outstanding radio performances.
A play for radio by Magda Szabo, translated from the Hungarian by George Mikes
[Starring] Sybil Thorndike as the Old Woman, Janet Suzman as Agatha, Joan Matheson as Gilta, Duncan McIntyre as Gustaf, Leonard Fenton as Feri
This play is by the distinguished Hungarian novelist Magda Szabo. It tells the story of an old lady whose two daughters have become reconciled after years of quarrelling. Why should this have happened?
Director Geza Varga of the Hungarian Radio, Budapest
Black as He's Painted 5: Small Hours
Gordon Clough
5.50 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
6: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot by DAVID MCKELLAR and DAVID RENWICK
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
MARGARET HOWARDpresents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days. Producer MADEAU STEWART
A spontaneous discussion by Cliff Michelmore
Sally Oppenheim , MP Bryan Gould. mp Alan Gemmell
Chairman David Jacobs from Avon
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thurs 7.30 pm) to Any Answersf, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Sheridan Morley
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
And So -Victoria
Book 2: The Reckoning
Read by GARY WATSON (10)
Radio 4's International Bust-ness Report; Market Trends
Bill Wallis. Bob Kingdom 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
Producers SIMON BRETT and GEOFFREY PERKINS
preceded by Weather
