6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Nigel Rees 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* Editor MIKE CHANEY
English Regions: see column 5
from 9.20
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
One spring morning back in 1868, a Mr Gilchrist was standing on the granite bridge in the fishing port of Helmsdale in the Scottish Highlands. Gazing down into the burn, he saw something shimmering in the water. It was gold! His discovery led to a gold rush on the Kildonan and Suisgill Burns. A shanty-town grew up for the prospectors and over fl5,000 worth of gold was recorded as having been taken from the burns. The actual sum was probably three times that amount. But in 18 months it was all gone. Or was it?
Alexander Frater sets out to discover exactly how much gold there is in Britain, talks to experts about its commercial possibilities, to the crofters who've actually found gold in the Sutherland hills and wades into the Kildonan burn to pan for gold himself. Producer JOHN KNIGHT (Revised repeat)
NEM, p 110; Jesus, where'er thy people meet (BBC HB 263); Psalm 119, vv 129-136 (bcp); John 1, vv 40-51 (AV); Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 329)
A Fine Romance by GEORGE GRANT
Read by David Suchet Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
2: Preacher Afan
Harry Soan recalls his teenage transition from apprentice gas-fitter to student minister. BBC Birmingham
Mind and Body Edition Presenter Bill Breckon with your letters
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman: Nicholas Parsons and in which
Clement Freud , Peter Jones Derek Nimmo and Kenneth Williams endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that. Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN BROWELL
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0 Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Families at the Factory: PHIL SMITH visits an unusual enterprise on Merseyside.
2.0-2.2 News
Tailor-made for the Teenager: MARION HAYWOOD 'S first novel is for the reluctant young reader. Creating a Co-Op: a group of Sunderland women have opened a new kind of shop.
The Catalyst by AUDREY STUBBS Read by GEOFFREY BANKS BBC Manchester
Story: Missus Cluckabiddy's Picnic by STEPHEN WEAVER Presenters JEAN ROGERS and JOHN BULL
Written by JEAN ROGERS
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Some Cold Night Air by GILLY FRAZER BRENDA
: I'm not an old woman, Jan. I'm 33. I could be out every night if I didn't care about you .. You need a man sometimes, Jan . , . I know we haven't talked all that much about things like that ...
JANET: Are you going to give me the sex lecture now? t .. You needn't bother, we did all that in the first form.
Other parts: GEOFFREY COLLINS , DAVID GRAHAM. NICOLETTE MCKENZIE and JOAN MATHESON
Produced and directed by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI
Rendezvous with Rama 5: New York Rama
Presented by Gordon Clough
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Margaret Howard Producer MADEAU STEWART
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
Jean Rook. Hugh Scanlon Magnus Magnusson Ronald Utiger
Chairman David Jacobs from Tyne and Wear
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat 1.15pm;Mon 11.5am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
The Captain's Doll by D. H. LAWRENCE , abridged in seven parts by MONICA GREY Read by ANNA MASSEY Producer JOHN CARDY (Final instalment)
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 ALASTAIR BEATON With
ANDY HAMILTON , BARRY PILTON MARTIN SMITH , WILL ADAMS and others.
Producers SIMON BRETT and GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
preceded by Weather
