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 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
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 BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.0 am
;
The programme that investigates your consumer problems. Presented by Roger Cook
NEM, p 54; To thee, 0 Comforter divine (BBC HB 164); Psalm 48; John 12, vv 12-19
(Av); Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (BBC HB 508)
The Whole Truth and ... by EVAN HUGHES
Read by John Darran
Esther thought that husband Jim had a fancy woman on Saturday afternoons. But Jim's fancy had four legs and the ability to win an embarrassing amount of money. The time had come to make a clean breast of the whole thing, but ... Producer HARRI GWYNN BBC Wales
with John Arlott
On Saturday, England meet Australia in a special centenary match in Melbourne to mark 100 years of Test cricket between the two countries.
John Arlott reflects upon some of the epic matches and the legendary characters who played in them... great batsmen like Grace, Hobbs, Bradman and Hutton, and some of the finest bowlers of all time - Spofforth, Larwood, Lindwall and Laker.
A Radio Sports Unit production
(Centenary Test Coverage starts tomorrow R3 mw)
Sir Geoffrey Jackson calls himself ' an old Middle East/South America hand '. Putting on his shoes, he still taps out the heel on the ground. That is against scorpions.
When dogs lick him, he always steals away to wash his hands. That is against Rabies.
In this talk, he recalls some of his encounters with the deadly disease.
Mind and Body Edition Presenter Bill Breckon with your letters
Bill Breckon 's book: You Are What You Eat, 11.90, from bookshops
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman: Nicholas Parsons and in which Ray Alan
Clement Freud , Peter Jones 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
from 2.0 Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Savour the Flavour: the Lancashire Cookery Club team of EVELYN ROSE and MARGARET TRAVIS suggest simple ways of transforming ordinary ingredients.
2.0-2.2 News
Seven Years of the Blackie: PHIL SMITH visits an unusual arts centre in Liverpool.
Medicine house on the move: the writer ALAN GARNER added an unusual extension to his medieval home. BBC Manchester
Royal Highness by THOMAS MANN translated by A. CECIL CURTIS revised by Constance MCNAB abridged by JOHN CARROLL and GABRIEL WOOLF
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF Final Instalment
(Music: Komzak's Bad'ner Mad'ln waltz)
Story: Lumpo Goes Painting by STEVE GIBBONS
Presenters JEAN ROGERS and DAVID HITCHEN
Written by JEAN ROGERS Producer MARY HAYDON
Self Portrait byBARRIE KEEFFE with NEIL: Orchards in bloom and cornfields.... sweltering in the blazing heat of midsummer. He must have looked like an ancient sun worshipper, burned up by the sun ... yellow dominates all his pictures of this period, just as the sun dominates our universe.
Produced and directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Sense and Sensibility (5)
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
(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 MADEAU STEWART
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Russell Braddon Baroness Phillips Antony Jay and The Bishop of Bristol Chairman David Jacobs from Avon
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Sat 1.15 pm; Mon 11.5am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan
Douglas Stuart reporting
Lucky Jim by KINGSLEY amis (10)
David Jason , Bill Wallis 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.
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
preceded by Weather
