6.40 Prayer for the Day REV ROGER GRAINGER
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
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 54; Come, gracious spirit, heavenly dove (BBC HB 150); Psalm 143; I Peter 2, vv 13-25 (Rsv); Judge eternal, throned (BBC HB 393)
Benjy by RHONA UREN
Read by Michael Elder
Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland
The State Visit to Nepal.
The third of four programmes.
House-Buying Week 4: Counting the Cost
Presented by Sue Cook with other consumer topics
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Stage Door Fright: DULCIE GRAY has written a book of horror stories.
Reading your letters.
Consulting a Counsellor: a deserted wife talks to
YVONNE GUNN.
Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure
Written and read by JOYCE GRENFELL (8)
Story: Claire-Claire Orange Hair by E. BROTHY
by James Follett
[Starring] Douglas Blackwell as Det-Insp Simmonds, Peter Wickham as Det-Sgt Colt, Joan Matheson as Mrs Francis
Two police officers discover the body of a local businessman's wife in the boot of his Rolls-Royce, stolen from outside his shop in the new town centre. It should be an open and shut case - only the new town centre won't be built for another five years.
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?
4.0-4.5 News
The Frightening Talent (9)
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Peter Hobday
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionsf Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
BBC Bristol.
Four classic cases of Court Martial
2: The Loss of the Birkenhead by JOHN PREBBLE
On 26 February 1852 Her Majesty's Steam Ship Birkenhead was lost off the southern coast of Africa. A court martial was, of course, held to try to establish the cause, and this programme recreates that court martial and what happened on the strip at the time of its loss.
Narrated by Nigel Graham with NICOLETTE MCKENZIE , TERRI LANG VALERIE MURRAY , ANNE ROSENFELD Produced and directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
The series devised and edited by DONALD THOMAS
2: Tom's
Story Tom Hart began social work with children by accident and today he is Superintendent of Cumberlow Lodge Reassessment Centre.
He was found the thousands of children in his care mostly unloved, sometimes unlovely, often touching and funny but always, he says, suffering from
' a sickness of the soul ' caused by the denial of their right to live in a loving home.
He talks about his efforts to provide one, to keep free of the straitjacket of red tape that might prevent him and to preserve his own equilibrium in a community which, he says, will tear its hair over a stray cat up a tree but avert its gaze from an unwanted child. Presented by Roma Byer Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
Presenter Paul Vaughan
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Coming Up for Air by GEORGE ORWELL abridged in 17 parts by MONICA GREY
A fat, disillusioned insurance salesman, tired of life, with a nagging wife and unlovely children, remembers with a sudden longing the peace of his childhood in a country town, but a sentimental journey back cannot cure his unease. The novel, written just before the Second World War, is full of Orwell's own prophetic fears for the future. Read by David Ryall (1) Producer MARGARET ETALL
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
