Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES . BBC Wales
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV FRED MILSON
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
reflects on life in and out of the Sound Archives
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
A live and lively talk show with guests for whom the coming week promises to be a special one. The team of regulars helping to find antidotes to the Monday morning blues includes Esther Rantzen , Bernard Falk , Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl. Producer Michael EMBER
Can you please tell me what happens to a bee or wasp that gets trapped in a car and carried far away from its own habitat? Does it find its way back, does it join up with another colony, or is it condemned to a solitary lifer
No doubt the team, too, will get carried away when they start discussing your questions this morning.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 30; It is a thing most wonderful (BBC HB 81); Psalm 22; John 4, vv 13-26 (AV); Lift up your heads, ye gates of brass (BBC HB 178)
Music: BBC SINGERS
A Sky Full of Birds by GRAHAM SEAL
Read by Clive Merrison
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
Earning and Saving Edition Presenter Sue Cook including the World of Work With MARGARET KORVING , and your letters. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Roy Dotrice. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Robert Williams
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two,
2.0-2.2 News
Ladies Defend YourselvesTr the commonsense of self-defence.
Consumer Notes: with NORMAN TOZER.
' Parish to Marriage ' GEORGE RUSSO married after 20 years as a Roman Catholic priest. Night Without Stars by WINSTON GRAHAM. Abridged in 11 parts by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE
Read by Simon Prebble (1)
Blinded from a war wound, Giles Gordon is not in the mood to celebrate peace. Ha retreats to the South of France There, depressed and resentful he meets Alix Delaisse. Unknown to him, she too is a casualty of the war.
(Music: Bliss's Mêlée Fantasque) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Button Box by R. E. MARSHALL
Advice to a Queen by IAN CULLEN A dramatisation of the scandal that shocked Queen Victoria's court in the early years of her
Other parts: TRADER FAULKNER PETER PACEY and PAUL GAYMON Produced and directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON abridged in five parts and read by Leonard Maguire (1). 1: Search forMr Hyde
1 From that time forward, Mr Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops. By all lights and at hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post.
"If he be Mr Hyde , he had thought, I shall be Mr Seekj '* And at last his patience was rewarded.'
Producer GORDON EMSLIE BBC Scotland
Presented by Robert Williams
5.50 Financial Report .
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Conceived, nurtured and done by Tim Brooke-Taylor
Barry Cryer and John Junkin with the music (?) of The Denis King Trio
Written by BARRY CRYER and JOHN JUNKIN
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS
BBC Manchester (B'cast on R2)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Erik de Mauny
Could you fly from Singapore to Australia with broken instruments? How would you get back to your space ship with no gravity to help? Or could you survive in your own home If things went wrong?
Some of the challenges which the competing teams may have to tackle in this survival quiz. Picking up the challenge this week are Lorry Drivers versus Taxi Drivers. Guest explorer Sheila Scott puts real-life dilemmas to the teams. Other questions are set by DENNIS LEVER. Chris Brasher is in the Chair. Programme devised and produced by SUSAN SNAILUM with PAT TAYLOR
(Revised repeat; Wed 11.5 am)
The Bagman or The Impromptu of Muswell Hill by JOHN ARDEN with Alan Dobie and Sheila Allen In one of his 'autobiographical' plays, John Arden describes some of the problems facing a modern playwright, in the fairy-tale setting of a dream.
and the voices of SEAN BARRETT, WILFRID CARTER, LEONARD FENTON, KERRY FRANCIS, JOHN RYE and DAVID SPENSER.
Music by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced and directed by MARTIN ESSLIN
(B'cast on R3) (Rptd: next Sunday 2.30 pm)
Presenter Peter France
Douglas Stuart reporting
Of Mice and Men (4)
preceded by Weather
