with Laurie Macmillan
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Nigel Rees in London and Michael Cooke in Manchester
with Laurie Macmillan
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Michael Cooke in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
(A shortened version oj Saturday's broadcast)
NEM, p 84; Jesus, Lord of life and glory (BBC HB 291); Psalm 142; Romans 15, vv 7-17, and 16, vv 25-27 (NEB); 0 brother man, fold to thy heart (BBC HB 376)
Friends, Countrymen and So On ... by TERRY TAPP
Read by Timothy Kightley
If Shakespeare had known what was at stake, he'd have written Julius Caesar with more care. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
A quiz of words, music and mixed-up noises, devised and presented by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN BRIDGES
Consumer Edition
Presenter Sue Cook
Including the BBC Shopping Basket and Best Buys for the Weekend, and answers to your related queries from jim HUMBLE
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON , TONY SHRYAN1 John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE BBC Birmingham
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.
The Country Wife: ANNE MAC-NAMARA talks to CONSTANCE HOWARD , MBE, ARCA, designer of a Festival of Britain hanging depicting the work of the Women's Institutes.
Words about Words: a not-too-serious study of English.
Stories of The Nightwatchman 3: The Money Box
Story: Mrs Daisy and Mr Bowler by ANNE WELLINGTON
Not My Pigeon by JOHN RINGHAM with Geoffrey Beevers and Christopher Godwin
' It's not my pigeon,' is the philosophy of Oates as he wheels and deals his way through his National Service. But, just before demob in the year 1948, on a train in the Middle East, Oates's philosophy misfires. For there he meets his match in the muddle-headed shape of Caldicott-the result is disaster!
Produced and directed by KAY PATRICK
Still curious. Jack de Manio returns once more to the West Country.
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
4.0-4.5 News
Gulliver's Travels by JONATHAN SWIFT
Read by FRANK DUNCAN (4)
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)
BBC Birmingham
Twenty-Five Years of The Archers: 60p from bookshops
In the studio Peter Hobday
by the Conservative Party
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
by CHARLOTTE and DENIS PLIMMER The story of the disappearance of the St Stephen's Crown of Hungary.
Narrated by Gavin Campbell and David Strong
In the dying days of the Second World War, a group of patriotic Hungarians spirited St Stephen 's Crown out of the country. In this programme we discover what happened to the Crown, and something of its history. With the voices of JEFFREY SEGAL , DAVID GRAHAM
TIMOTHY BATESON , MICHAEL GOLDIE
NEVILLE JASON , POWELL JONES GARRICK HAGON , ANDREW SACHS PETER HOWELL , ROD BEACHAM Produced and directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
The Conservative Party
Presented by John Eidinow
Despite its recent electoral successes, the Conservative Party remains thwarted in parliament by the Labour-Liberal agreement.
Is the Party once again united after the divisions of the leadership election? Does it have a coherent set of policies to put before the electorate? Does it have the organisation and the will to win a General Election? Producer MICHAEL
GREEN
BBC Manchester
Presenter Michael Oliver
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Buried Alive by ARNOLD BENNETT Read by TONY BRITTON (9)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
