8.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Michael Cooke in Manchester 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 and weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5
by ALAN BOWER
Read by MICHAEL HARBOUR 5: Come Next Spring ...
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
Sex, money, death - which is the most taboo subject in your family? Chances are you may be able to talk freely about the first two, but what about the third?
Should we be totally honest with children about mortality? Or is it better to play down the finality of death?
Brenda Kidman talks to families who have had to cope with death and bereavement. Producer MARY REDCLIFFE
(First broadcast in the series Parents and Children)
NEM, p 114; Hail, thou source of every blessing (BBC HB 66); Psalm 29; 2 Timothy 2, vv 1-13 (NEB); From the eastern mountains (BBC HB 65)
Janey Mary by JAMES PLUNKETT
Read by Harold Goldblatt
' Janey Mary had been begging all morning, without success. She turned the corner into Nicholas Street and leaned wearily against a shop front to rest.'
Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
1: A Child of the Chapel
Harry Soan has been telling stories all his life. In this new six-part series, he tells his own story ... and begins, not unnaturally, with his childhood. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Mind and Body Edition Presenter Bill Breckon with your letters
Bill Breckon 's book: You Are What You Eat, fl.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 Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Belfast by Margaret Percy
Ulster ' Write-In ': studio guests answer your questions aboutlifeinNorthernIreland.
2.0-2.2 News
Bessbrook: HELEN MADDEN visits one of the world's first model villages one year after ten of its menfolk were savagely murdered on their way home from work.
BBC Northern Ireland JOHN PULLEN reads Sweet Confusion by NORMAN DENNY (9)
Story: The Busy Body Bird by RUTH PAINE
Presenters: GLAIDYS WBITRED and TONY AITKEN
Written by AVERIL coult
Producer JENRM WORSLEY
by Joan Sadler
When Pam inherits a house in the country, she has mixed feelings about whether to keep or sell it - until her family start taking an interest ...
I Capture the Castle by DODIE SMITH abridged for radio in nine parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Read by ANGELA DOWN
9: The Prisoner in the Tower Producer CHERRY COOKSON
Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
MARGARET HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days. Producerbriancook
A spontaneous discussion by Tom Hopkinson
Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe , mp Ann Clwyd
Julian Mitchell
Chairman David Jacobs from South Glamorgan
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat 1.15pm ; Mon 11.5am) Listeners'viewsforriseinAny Answers? (Thursday 7.30 pm) to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Robert Cushman
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The Captain's Doll by D. H. LAWRENCE
Read by ANNA MASSEY (2)
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 ALASTAIR BEiATON , with ANDY HAMILTON , BARRY PILTON MARTIN SMITH , WILL ADAMS and others.
Producers SIMON BRETT and GEOFFREY PERKINS
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