Reports on the Smithfield Show plus other news and prices.
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
with Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
At 7.0 and 8.4 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25' VHF Regional News and weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5
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 118; Hark, the glad sound, the Saviour comes (BBC HB 490); Psalm 46; Matthew 22, vv 34-40 (NEB); Eternal God, whose power upholds (BBC HB 23)
The Holly Bears a Berry by PATTIE HALLAM
Read by Olive Pendleton
'Cherished. A wry smile pulled at Miss Pritchett's lips. She was about as cherished as those poor mites up at the Children's Home. About as cherished as Lovelace Jolland who had nothing and nobodv. Unless you counted one ageing ex-schoolmistress. Herself.' Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
Questions on food, farming and the environment are discussed by the experts.
Produced and presented by Anthony Parkin
BBC Birmingham
Mind and Bodii Edition Presenter Bill Breckon with your letters
Bill Breckon 's book: You Are What You Eat, £1.90, from bookshops
12.55 medium wave onlu
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Cardiff by Sue MacGregor
Welsh Guest: Max Boyce
2.0-2.2 News
Falling Apart: ELAINE MORGAN talks about the theme of her recent book.
Diary of a Disaster: ANITA MORGAN describes what happened in the 11 weeks since 24 September when tip slurry demolished the house of Roger and Denise Davies in Trehafod, Rhondda.
Producer TELER) BEVAN BBC Wales richard LEECH reads The Way of All Flesh by SAMUEL BUTLER (12)
Story: A Very Busy Week by ANNE WELLINGTON
Presenters MICHAEL RICHMOND and special guest Nerys Hughes Written by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Handsome Hubert by RITA Z1MMER translated by JANE BRENTON with Carole Boyd and Annabelle Lanyon
This play, from East Germany, is a gentle comedy about a young woman and a child and two men, one real and one imaginary.
Produced and directed by MARTIN ESSLIN
A Kiss Before Dying by IRA LEVIN
Read by WILLIAM ROBERTS 5: Detection
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
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
on behalf of the Liberal Party Speaker: David Steel , sip. Leader of the Liberal Party
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days. Producer MICHAEL MURRAY
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Arianna Stassinopoulos Dr Magnus Pyke
The Archbishop of York Arthur Scargill
Chairman David Jacobs from South Yorkshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat 1.15pm; Moil 11.5 am) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday 7.30 pni) to: Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LK
Presenter Michael Billington
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around- the world
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The Rains Came by LOUIS BROMFIELD
Read by NIGEL ANTHONY (IS)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
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
