6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES

Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees 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
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? Find out with Roger Cook Producer ELIZABETH SMITH

nem, p 25; It fell upon a summer day (BBC hb 71); Psalm 27, vv 1-7; Matthew 26, vv 17-29 (rsv); Thou art the way; by thee alone (BBC HB 338)

The Picking by BERNIE MCCLELLAND Read by J. J. Murphy
' It had been freezing during the night and a thin veil of ice coated yesterday's puddles. It cracked and crunched under the feet of the two girls as they hurried along the still-sleeping street/
Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland

A farmer and a scientist discuss questions on food, farming and the environment.
Produced and presented by Anthony Parkin
BBC Birmingham

Mind and Body Edition Presenter Bill Breckon

12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Gordon Clougb

from 2.0 Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
Film Fun: MARGARET HARPER NELSON looks back over a golden age in British film-making - the Ealing comedies.
2.0-2.2 News
Superspud: HAIG GORDON reports on what is fast becoming a luxury vegetable, and what Scottish growers are doing to improve the quality and size of future crops.
The Word Game: ISHBEL MACLEOD, Editor of one of Britain's top dictionaries, talks about the craft of the lexicographer. BBC Scotland Tisha (8;

Story: Mr Bingle 's Apple Pie by ANNE WELLINGTON
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN
Written by GLADYS WHITRED
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY

Post-Mortem by NOEL COWARD with Written in 1930, Coward describes this play as ' an angry little vilification of war '. The Spirit of John Cavan , dying from wounds received in the First World War. jumps forward in time to 1930 to find out if his death and the deaths of so many have been worthwhile. Has the world changed for the better? Has it learnt anything from all those sacrifices?
Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
(Derek Fowlds is in ' Confusions ' at the Apollo Theatre, London)

The Making of a Marchioness
5: A Marriage has been Arranged

Gordon Clougb
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news

in Things Could be Worse

(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 during the past seven days. Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)

A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Enoch Powell , MP Lord Robens
Rt Hon Judith Hart. MP Bishop of Winchester
Chairman David Jacobs from Hampshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat 1.15pm; Mon 11.5am)

How Americans feel about Jimmy Carter - the story revealed by the polling.

by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday 9.15 am)

A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Billington

Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world

The Man in the Queue by JOSEPHINE TEY
Read by SIMON LACK (10)

David Jason , Bill Wallis David Tate 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

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