6.40 Prayer for the Day REV GEORGE AUSTIN
with Nigel Roes in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today. Including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column S
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 89; Jesus, stand among us (BBC HB 262); Psalm 67; Isaiah 40, vv 18-31 (av); Lo! he comes (BBC HB 35)
Paddy's Removals by C. S. WILKINS. Read by JohnBott Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
Rene Cutforth looks back.
6: I Hope I Haven't Scandalised Anybody
'After a long press conference full of cliches and totally lacking in information the American n NATO general said. " Any questions? " One tall correspondent rose up slowly like a tape-worm and said, " Just one, General. Is God love? " '
Producer PETER DE ROSA
Consumer Edition
Presenter George Luce
Including the BBC Shopping Basket with MOLLY PRICE-OWEN .
(Tuesdall's broadcast)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
What I Mean by Liberal: Steve Atack , Chairman of the Young Liberals, presents his political philosophy; ANDY BEVAN , Chairman of the Young Socialists and MICHAEL JACK , Chairman of the Young Conservatives, challenge his viewpoint.
2.0-2.2 News
Those Desperate French Drains in their Fearsome Latrines: BA MASON on her unfavourite aspect of La belle France.
Any Other Business: a look at some of the more domestic points from Parliament.
A Disc or Two: PETER CLAYTON with a record selection of Christmas' presents.
The Way of All Flesh (6)
Story: Susanna's Magic Kisa by JOCELYN HAINES
Four from 'The Day's Work'
A series of four plays based on the short stories of RUDYARD KIPLING adapted and dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON with 2: The Ship that Found Herself The Dimbula is only a cargo steamer of 25-hundred tons, but she is the last and latest of her kind - nothing has been spared in the building of her.
However a ship is only as good as the parts that comprise her and those parts have to learn to work together.
The 'working parts' of the Dimbula:
DOUGLAS BLACKWELL, GEOFFREY COLLINS, PETER CRAZE, WILLIAM EEDLE, WALTER HALL, ADAM RICHARDSON and PETER SETTELEN
Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
From gardeners to ghost hunters: from poets to pop-stars. JACK DE MANIO meets them all. Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
4.0-4.5 News
The Taras Report on The Last Days of Pompeii by Alan Lloyd abridged in nine episodes by Donald Bancroft.
Brian Widlake
5 50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1 30 pm)
In the studio Peter Hobday
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Fri 4 pm)
A true-life Victorian Melodrama
In the early summer of 1856 William Palmer went on trial at the Old Bailey charged with the murder of a friend to whom he owed a considerable amount of money There were believed to have been other victims - his own wife, several babies (a dozen at least) and his brother-in-law. To the end his mother believed in his innocence: she called him 'my saintlyà Billy.'Ã
Peter Hunt tells the story of the events which led to Palmer's arrest and trial and asks if Palmer alone was guilty.
with Alan Devereux as William Palmer
and Michael Cochrane, Roger Gartland, Laurence Harrington, Madi Hedd, Anne Jameson, Tony McEwen, Deborah Paige and Peter Williams
(Repeated: Friday 11 am)
The Arab Outlook
1: The Confrontation States
The ideal of Arab unity has been severely tested during the recent civil war in Lebanon. Sharp political and ideological differences within the Arab World have been brought to the surface, especially between the three ' confrontation states ' - Egypt, Syria and Jordan. How deep are those divisions? How far have they been resolved by the Cairo Summit? Is national self-interest taking over from the wider quest for Arab unity?
Presented by Peter Mansfield Producer TOM READ
Presenter Michael Oliver
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
The Rains Came
Read by NIGEL ANTHONY (12)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
