6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARR1ES
with Brian Redhead in Edinburgh 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, weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
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
Presented by Roger Cook Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
NEM, p 71; From all that dwell below the skies (BBC HB 5); Canticle 7; Jonah 2, v 10 and 3, vv 1-10 (NEB); See the conqueror mounts in triumph (BBC HB 129)
The Face of Evil by FRANK O'CONNOR
Read by Michael Duffy
I could never understand all the old talk about how hard it is to be a saint. I was a saint for quite a bit of my life and I never saw anything hard in it. And when I stopped being a saint, it wasn't because the life was too hard.'
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 lexcept London and SE) Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0 Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
' Only Speak English ': how inhibited are we in tackling another language?
2.0-2.2 News
A Travelling Life: JIMMY CHIP-PERFIELD recalls those early days with the Big Top.
The Right Approach: advice from a Driving Instructor on how to pass The Test. BBC Bristol
RICHARD LEECH reads
The Way of All Flesh (2)
Story: The Toy Shop by STEPHEN WEAVER
Presenters JEAN ROGERS and JOHN BULL
Written by JEAN ROGERS
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
by Nicholas Palmer
With Joe Melia and Sheila Grant
'You want to look after yourself, Mr Thole. You want to pick and choose your cases more carefully. I don't want you getting gunned down in the Circus.'
Harry Thole, small-time private detective, is down on his luck and looking for a break. Mrs Burroway is looking for her husband.
{Thursday's broadcast)
The Taras Report on The Last Days of Pompeii by ALAN LLOYD
Read by RICHARD PASCO 5: The Gladiators
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's.reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
in Things Could be Worse
BBC Birmingham
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days. Producer BRIAN COOK
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Hailsham of StMarylebone Rt Hon Roy Jenkins , mp Donald Trelford Glenda Jackson
Chairman David Jacobs from Hertfordshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
Norman Bailey , the international opera star, talks to MICHAEL BILLINGTON abOUt his nomadic musicar life and the Wagnerian roles that have made him famous
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE.
The Rains Came (8)
David Jason , Bill Wallis David Tale and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and others
Producers SIMON BRETT and GEOFFREY PERKINS
preceded by Weather
12.1-12.4* am Inshore forecast
