6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
with Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Bees 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
The programme that investigates your consumer problems. Presented by Roger Cook Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
nem, p 46; Ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 372); Psalm 85; Matthew 27, vv 27-44 (rsv); The Lord my pasture shall prepare (BBC HB 477)
A Week of Crime StorieM 5: Three's a Shroud by JOHN SHERWOOD
Read by Noel Johnson
' When Marion and Edward looked at me with tragic faces and told me that Hermione had deserted them, it seemed sensible to suggest that they should prepare a warm milk drink, select something suitable .from their range of sleeping pills, and go to bed.'
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 with your letters
Bill Brecfcon 's book: You Are What You Eat, £1.90, from bookshops
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
Transatlantic Exchange: CLAIRE WALMSLEY reports on a project which takes schoolchildren to America for a year.
2.0-2.2 News
A New Life: KATIE HEYWOOD had to face the break-up of a 34-year-old marriage.
My Favourite Ingredient... , S: cinnamon for EVELYN ROSE. BBC Manchester FAITH BROOK reads Tisha (13)
Story: The New Joke by JOAN WYATT
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer jENYTH WORSLEY
Dustbin Days by PETER SILCOCK ! You know those mornings when the car won't start and it's pouring and it's February. So you go down the bus stop and everyone's ratty and you're late for work. And they put up the price of everything ....'-
Produced and directed by TONY CLIFF. BBC Manchester
The Making of a Marchioness by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT abridged in ten parts by EVANGELINE BANKS
Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY 10: ' It Was You! '
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Gordon Clough
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
in Things Could be Worse
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer BRIAN COOK
A spontaneous discussion by Steve Race. Anthony Howard Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Michael Ivens
Chairman David Jacobs from the West Midlands Producer MICIUEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
Presenter Paul Vaughan
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Rains Came (3)
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
preceded by Weather
