6.40 Prayer for the Day HILDA FLINT
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
NEM, p 34; When all thy mercies, 0 my God (BBC HB 22); Psalm 57; Isaiah 57, vv 15-21 (AV); Christ, above all glory seated (BBC HB 121)
Light of Other Days by BOB SHAW Read by Patrick Brannigan Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
says It's Been a Lot of Fun and recalls some amusing, as well as more serious moments in his 30 years of broadcasting. A series of four programmes 2: In the Commentary Box
Consumer Edition
Presenter George Luce including the BBC Shopping Basket with MOLLY PRICE-OWEN .
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor What I Mean by Conservative: Michael Jack , Chairman of the Young Conservatives, presents his political philosophy: STEVE ATACK , Chairman of the Young Liberals, and ANDY BEVAN , Chairman of the Young Socialists, challenge his viewpoint.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Someone I'll Never Forget: PAMELA WILCOX remembers Dame Sybil Thorndike.
Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments and places to go.
Milk My Ewes and Weep by JOYCE FUSSEY abridged in five parts by LOUIS BATTYE
Read by Marlene Sidaway (1)
Every summer the Fussey family used to spend a fortnight on a little Yorkshire farm, an enchanted place to dream about for the rest of the year. But when they discovered that 1 their ' bungalow was to be sold, they took a decision which had far-reaching con, sequences.
(Music: Basel March played by the PHILIP JONES BRASS ensemble;
Story: Mouse in the City by MARGARET GORE
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 4: The Bridge Builders
India. The early 1890s. A new railway bridge is being built over the River Ganges, with giant stone supports on either side. But ' Mother Gunga ' refuses to be hemmed in by these stone wails and calls upon her gods for help.
Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
From gardeners to ghost hunters; from poets to pop-stars; from cantors to crime-writers. JACK DE MANIO meets them all. Could you be on his list? Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
A Kiss Before Dying by IRA LEVIN
Read by WILLIAM ROBERTS 9: Conviction
The news magazine: presented by Brian Widlake with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Friday 4.5 pm)
Write to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR
Writers and travellers discuss some of the pleasures and perils of their journey. This week:
Elizabeth Forster. Ray Gosling and Sebastian Snow discuss, among other things, travelling the entire length of South America on foot. climbing a volcano in eruption, finding knitting patterns in Tierra del Fuego and penetrating to the heart of Goole. Chairman
Christopher Matthew Producer
DENYS GUEROULT (Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
Poland -The Shape of Socialism Presented by Chris Cviic
The response to the Polish Government's attempt earlier this year to raise food prices was a series of workers' riots in several parts of the country. The proposed measure had to be abandoned. Now the Polish leadership is trying once again to overcome the economic and political malaise which those events provoked. Can the Poles resolve their economic difficulties without damaging political stability? How important is the opposition to current policies? What are Polish attitudes now towards the Soviet Union and the members of the Warsaw Pact, and towards the West? Producer MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
Presenter Michael Oliver
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Rains Came
Read by NIGEL ANTHONY (21)
preceded by Weather
