with Susan Denny
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Susan Denny
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
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 an
A weekly investigation of how bureaucracy, bad business practice and unfair trading affect you Conducted by Roger Cook Producer WALTER WALLICH
NEM, p 62; Father, in whom we live (BBC hb 166); Psalm 36; Romans 11, v 33 to 12, v 9 (NEB); God liveth (BBC HB 513)
The Sand Diggers by J. E. A. GUBB
Read by Sue Evans
Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
The second of six programmes. Rene Cutforth looks back on Three Schoolmasters.
' I was 17 and still at school. One Sunday I slipped into the village pub for a quick pint. In came the master we used to call ' Crumpers '. He caught sight of me at the bar and said, " Ah, Cutforth. Have a drink." 'Producer PETER DE ROSA
Mind and Body Edition
Presented by Bill Breckoa with your letters
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
from 2.8 Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Hyper-Active or Just Plain Energetic?: a child psychiatrist discusses with two mothers the pressures of coping with non-stop small children.
2.0-2.2 News
Unexpected Addition: MARY NIELSEN at the age of 47, has just given birth to her fifth child.
About Turn: after 12 years in the Royal Navy, JEFFREY EVANS decided to become a mature student.
BBC Bristol
Fear to Tread by MICHAEL GILBERT
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY (13)
Story: Mrs Garrity 's Visitor by SHIRLEY GEE
Presenters: special guest Nerys Hughes and JOHN BULL
Written. by RACIIAEL BIRLEY Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Claudine at School by COLETTE adapted for radio by YVONNE MITCHELL with Angela Pleasence as Claudine
Two years after our marriage, therefore about 1895, Monsieur Willy said to me one day, ' You ought to jot down on paper some memories of your Primary School ... '
These words written by Colette preface the first of her famous stories about the enchanting Claudine.
CLAUDINE: It would surprise me very much if I enjoy the world as much as I've enjoyed being at school.
Produced and directed by LIANE AUKIN
The Dead Secret by WILKIE COLLINS abridged for radio in ten parts by NEVILLE TELLER 10: Lost Fortune?
Read by DAVID MARCH (Final instalment)
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Starting on Monday: Gulliver's Travels)
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather: programme news
Presented by Patrick Fyffe and George Logan with DAPHNE HEARD and JONATHAN HOWELL Written by mike craig
LAWRIE KINSLEY , RON MCDONNELL Producer JAMES CASEY BBC, Manchester
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 ptn)
In the studio David Holden Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer phyllis ROBINSON
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Kearton. Patrick Moore Hugh Scanlon
Baroness Young
Chairman David Jacobs from Derbyshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
The Prospect Before Us
A rehearsal diary of the forthcoming spectacular Prospect Theatre production ' War Music ' with the poet Christopher Logue, the composer Donald Fraser. the designer Pamela Howard , the choreographer William Louther. the director Toby Robertson and the actor Timothy West , with members of the Company.
Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART
John Tusa reporting
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Buried Alive (5)
David Jason , Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sheila Steafel 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 , BARRY PILTON and others.
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
(David Jason is in ' A Bedfull of Foreigners ' at the Duke of York's Theatre, London)
preceded by Weather