6.40 Prayer for the Day FR JOHN HARRIOTT
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Patricia Hodgson 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*
English Regions: see column 5
(A shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 71; Rejoice today with one accord (BBC HB 281); Psalm 145, vv 13-21; John 6, vv 41-58 (AV); The Church of God a kingdom is (BBC HB 183)
Ouch by ERIC BEAN
Read by Colin Edwynn
' This is no off-the-shelf remedy. This is a bespoke, made to measure, anti-biotie, prophylactic, germicidal embrocation specially concocted to eliminate the debility. The chemist carefully wraps a sheet of tissue round the tablets but not before I read the label. Fifty Aspirins.' Producer HERBERT SMITH BBC Manchester
But this week John Fortune investigates another of the seven deadly sins.
Consumer Edition
Presenter George Luce including the BBC Shopping Basket with MOLLY PRICE-OWEN , the best buys for the weekend, and your letters.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
A Life of Adventure - 3: MERLIN MINSHALL - travel courier. (Merlin Minshall is in Read All
About it: next Sunday BBC1) For love or money?:
LYNN TEN KATE with the amateur authors of a ' writer's circle '. Back to the Beginning: EVELYN ROSE re-examines basic cooking techniques - 4: baking. Night Without Stars (9)
Story: The Happy Little King's New Jersey by MOIRA HERITAGE
Last Chance Frances by BILL CORRIGAN
Frances, at 39 years of age, and jealous of her husband's apparent lack of interest in her, decides to have a last fling - before it's too late. Spurred on by her friend Maggie, the two go out on the town and attempt to pick up a couple of younger men in a nightclub with disastrous results.
Produced and directed by MICHAEL ROLFE. BBC Birmingham
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
Everest the Hard Way by CHRIS BONINGTON
4: Pushing Upwards
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
In the studio Peter Hobday
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
BBC Bristol (Rpt: Fri 4.5 pm)
Edgar Lustgarten tells the story of one of the most sensational cases of the 19th century.
'I suppose - had it happened today, the popular press might have revelled in headlines like " Vicar's wife and eminent freethinker on trial for publishing an obscene book ".'-
But the accused were social reformers, not pornographers.
With Sarah Badel as Annie Besant, Wilfrid Carter as Charles Bradlaugh
Quebec - The Brutal Question Presented. by John Eidinow
' Quebeckers ... seek personal fulfilment in a free and independent way. The central question, therefore, is whether this growth of freedom and independence is best assured by Canada or by Quebec alone. Canadians must think about this brutal question now.'
(PIERRE TRUDEAU)
' You cannot be half-in and half-out. I do not see the Canadian federation loosening up enough to give a decent and respectable framework for what we seek as our national affirmation.' (RENE LEVESQUE,
Premier of Quebec)
Have the people of Quebec really voted to become a separate state and how politically and economically ready are they for separatism?
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
Presenter Michael Oliver
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Cranford by MRS GASKELL
Read by JILL BALCON (4)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
