6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News
Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Ring Birmingham [number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott. Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.0 am
Points at issue for consumers presented by Roger Cook
NEM, p 5; Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC HB 481); Psalm 47; John 9, vv 1-12 (AV); Lord of the worlds above (BBC HB 462)
Red Alert by GEOFFREY PERKINS Read by Windsor Davies Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
In 1973, when she was 28, Jacqueline du Pr6, the world-famous cellist, was told she had multiple sclerosis. In this programme she describes her career and her fight to come to terms with the disease that brought it to an.end.
With the voices of her husband, Daniel Barenboim ; her teacher. William Pleeth ; her consultant neurologist; and her old friend, Sir John Barbirolli , Narrator MICHAEL OLIVER
Compiled and produced by PATRICIA BRENT (First broadcast in October 1976)
A perceptive balance between the appalling waste of talent, the horrors of the illness and the radiant hope of its patient.
(GUARDIAN)
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 , Patrick Moore 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 Birmingham by Maureen Staffer Talk Till Two
I don't trust computers ':
How much is fact and how much fallacy?
2.0-2.2 News
Oliver 68: PETER WINDOWS meets the organiser of a scheme for children's holidays that was sparked off by Woman's Hour. My Own Fire Engine: GWYN RICHARDS meets a Gloucestershire policeman who's restored an old fire engine.
Spike Milligan , conservationist, talks to ANN 1ENNANT BBC Birmingham
Life among the Savages by SHIRLEY JACKSON abridged by ROBERT GLADWELL Read by ANNE MURRAY (Final instalment)
(Music: Herrmann's Welles Raises Kane ')
Story: My Naughty Little Sister and the Crusts by DOROTHY EDWARDS
Presenters: ALISON MCMORLAND and MICHAEL RICHMOND
Script by MICHAEL RICHMOND Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Craven's Stone
A comedy thriller by FREDERICK BRADNUM
' There he is again. Does he live here? A cemetery squatter,is he? Or a blooming ghoul? Three times I've been here this week to pay respects and I haven't because he's been playing peek-a-boo round the tombstones. Find out who he is. You're a big girl, Stella, so go and put your flowers on your Dad's grave and see what happens.'
Produced and directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
(Clive Swift is in ' Dirty Linen ' at the Arts Theatre Club, London)
Raffles (5)
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 Amazing Revolution Course in which the programme's subject is... (we can't tell you yet, because it's a secret). In Lesson 17: This is Your Life the Burkiss Way. Do you remember these voices from Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris?
And who wrote these words? (Here's a Clue - Andrew Marshall and David Renwick)
And whose name is in producer Simon Brett's little black book this week? (Hold your breath - it could be yours!)
(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. Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Sir Richard Marsh
Lady Antonia Fraser
Professor Bernard Williams and Patricia Hewitt
Chairman David Jacobs from Bedford
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat 1.15pm; Mon 11.5 am)
Presenter Chris Powling
John Tusa reporting
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Cranford by MRS GASKELL abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE Read by JILL BALCON Producer JOHN CARDY (Final instalment)
David Jason , Bill Wallis and David Tate with 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. Producer SIMON BRETT (Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
preceded by Weather
