6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Sylvia Home in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
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
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Checkpoint Investigates
Fair? Is it worth it? Are you well protected? Points at issue for consumers presented by Roger Cook
NEM, p 114; 0 God of truth, whose .living word (BBC HB 359); Psalm 42; John 8, vv 12-20; The Lord will come, and not be slow (BBC HB 479)
Bomb Box by JOHN MCGAHERN Read by Michael Duffy Producer PAUL MULDOON
4: The Armoured Hedgehog Written by GEORGE ROSIE
Narrated by Rene Cutforth with GAVIN CAMPBELL
On the morning of 20 November 1953, French paratroops began to rain down on Dien Bien Phu - a cluster of tiny hamlets 200 miles from Hanoi. Soon 16,000 regular and colonial troops had created an ' impregnable ' fortress and were inviting the communist Vietminh Army to come out of hiding and fight. The decisive battle for Indo-China had begun. With the voices of DON FELLOWS, ROD BEACHAM
PETER MARINKER , TIMOTHY BATESON
STEVE HODSON , JEFFREY SEGAL
JAMES THOMASON , BERT KWOUK and PETER HOWELL
Produced and directed by MAURICE LEITCH
Mind and Body Edition Presenter Bill Breckon with your letters
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
with Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.0 Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
A Way of Life: JOY BURLING helps us to relax with yoga.
2.0-2.2 News
Readjustment: BARBARA BUCHANAN reports on a unit for school-girl mothers in Bristol.
AMANDA THEUNISSEN looks at household gadgets from the 19th-century. BBC Bristol
Life Among the Savages (4)
Story: David Plays Postman by JOHN FARRINGTON Presenters:
GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN Script by GLADYS WHITHED Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
The Fall and Rise of Big Arthur by T. D. WEBSTER with Eric Allan as Arthur
'Arthur has seen his heart's desire and he feels that everything and everybody is conspiring to stop him getting it. It's as good a basis for a tragedy as any I know.'
Produced and directed by HARRY CATLIN (First b'cast 1975)
Everest the Hard Way by CHRIS BONINGTON
Adapted -for radio in ten parts and narrated by David Mahlowe Reader GEOFFREY WHEELER (10) Producer HERBERT SMITH
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
...to Dynamic Living
Radio's Co-respondents' Course. Fill in your confession here to receive legal aid from Lesson 16
Get Off with Life the Burkiss Way
Appearing for the prosecution and defence
Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris
From briefs prepared by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick
Under the judicial eye of Producer Simon Brett.
(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.
A spontaneous discussion by Norman St John-Stevas, MP, Lord Willis, Lord Byers and Mary Warnock
Chairman David Jacobs from Hertfordshire
Presenter Michael Billington
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A report on this week's General Synod of the Church of England by Gerald Priestland , the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent
Bill Wallis, Chris Emmett, 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, Martin Smith and Will Adams, Barry Pilton and others
preceded by Weather
