6.40 Prayer for the Day MARTHA BLOUNT
Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
NEM, p 25; Thou art the way; by thee alone (BBC HB 338); Psalm 9: John 10, vv 11-21 (AV); It fell upon (BBC HB 71)
Mrs O'Mara and the Zeppelins by CONAL O'CONNOR
Read by Callum Mill
Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland
with Roger Cook and Tom Vernon
... according to your cloth
- And cuts in cloth have hit the textile towns of Calderdale yet again. This month two mill closures threaten the close-knit communities of Todmorden and Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire. Time for Action examines the consequences for the workers and their families. Production assistance by SALLY DIPLOCK. Producer RITCHIE COGAN
Jeanine McMullen talks to Major Sedley Sweeny about the rotation of crops on a self-sufficient smallholding.
Consumer Edition
Presenter George Luce
Including the BBC Shopping Basket with MOLLY PRICE-OWEN
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
Reading Your Letters.
Collecting: the first in a series which looks at collectors and their enthusiasms. 1: JOHN BLY on Silver. Soldiers of the Queen: DAVID HAWKSWORTH with music and musicians of the military
Royal Highness (4)
Story: Mrs Cluckabiddy 's Day for Digging by STEPHEN WEAVER
by Sheila Hodgson based on an idea by M. R. James with David March as James.
In which James, in an effort to heal a breach between a young man and his father tells a cautionary and chilling tale of evil and witchcraft.
from gardeners to ghost hunters; from poets to pop-stars; JACK DE MANIO meets them all. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Raffles by e. w. HORNUNG (9)
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Written by WILLIAM SMETHURST (Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBCBirmingham
Continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
BBC Bristol (Rptd:Fri 4.5 ptn)
3: The Ambassador Must Be
Seduced. Narrator Rend Cutforth The Ambassador was French: the diplomatic post Moscow. At the age of 56 it was known to the KGB that he retained ! a vigorous interest in women '. Could the KGB blackmail the Ambassador?
Based on the book KGB by JOHN BARRON ; adapted and produced by ALAN BURGESS
A Farewell to Arms?
President Carter's commitment to non-proliferation and arms control leading eventually to ' complete elimination of nuclear weapons from the earth ' has brought new emphasis to the debate on the strategic balance, détente and the future of SALT. Laurence Martin. Professor of War Studies at King's College, London, examines the implications.
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
Lucky Jim by KINGSLEY AMIS (4)
preceded by Weather