A note from GERALD PRIESTLAND
6.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by KEN FORD BBC Manchester
7.40 Today's Papers
NORMAN TOZER with Saturday's consumer report, with the weekend's best buys and the adventures of Superbuy and Astra, Radio 4's consumer cops.
7.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
with Tony Lewis
From the world of sport and leisure a magazine series, presented by TONY lewis , former England cricket captain.
The programme captures the atmosphere on a day when England meet Australia in cricket and England play Scotland in the Home International football championship. Plus the issues that matter, the personalities in the news, and up-to-the-minute news of events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sports Unit production
8.45 Today's Papers
Sir Geoffrey Jackson calls himself ' an old Middle-East/South America hand '. When dogs lick him, he always steals away to wash his hands - against rabies. In this talk he recalls some of his encounters with the deadly disease.
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Talking Politics
The relationship between Ministers and senior Civil Servants is central to the way this country is governed. How does it work out in practice? What are the conflicts? Where does the ultimate power of decision really lie? In the first of two programmes Anthony King examines this relationship with some of the people who have been closely involved.
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES looks at an aspect of newspaper coverage this week. Narrator COLIN DORAN Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
TOM READ and ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning, page 110; God is love (BBC HB 7); Psalm 16; Revelation 7, vv 1-4 and 9-17 (Rsv); Love, unto thine own (BBC HB 523)
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD
Presented by Peter Evans Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Esther Rantzen , Lord Jacobson Graham Dowson and Austin Mitchell, mp Chairman David Jacobs
(Esther Rantzen is in Waggoners' Walk: Tues, Wed, 4.30 R2)
A lively hour with Jill Burridge and Norman Tozer guests in the studio and reporters around the country.
CHRIS cvnc reads the European papers. And GAVIN CAMPBELL reads the fourth of six Roman Tales by ALBERTO MORAVIA
4: The Go-Between. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The Trouble with Mrs Henshaw by KEITH PARRY
' Here's the rent book, young man. You needn't bother to count it - it's always there to the last penny. I want you to look at my airing cupboard door. It doesn't shut and I want something done about it.'
Produced and directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester (Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)
: as Radio 3
Presented by Gordon Clough
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and his guests. Musical interludes by-INSTANT SUNSHINE Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Sir Oliver Millar, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Spanish Package by JAMES FOLLETT with Irene Sutcliffe and Michael Harbour
Peter and Jane have retired to Spain. Each year they look forward to a visit from their daughter, Clare. She was unable to come last year, but this year when they go to meet her at Alicante Airport....
Produced and directed by DAVID H. GODFREY (Rptd: Mon 3.5)
9.58 Weather
Paul Barker , Stanley Cohen and Peter Hennock with Brian Redhead
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester
Evening prayers led by THE REV DOUGLAS AITKEN. BBC Scotland
preceded by Weather
