with Laurie Macmillan
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Laurie Macmillan
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather. papers and sport
from 9.40
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
A weekly investigation of how bureaucracy, bad business practice and unfair trading affect you. Conducted by Roger Cook Producer WALTER wallich
NEM, p 25; Be thou my guardian (BBC HB 135); Psalm 9; 2 Peter 3, vv 8-14 (Rsv); My God, accept my heart (BBC HB 356)
His Women by NORA WINDRIDGE Read by June Barrie. Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
When Edison played back his own voice reciting "Mary had a Little Lamb" it was as sensational in the 19th century as stepping on the moon in the 20th. Joe Pengelly tells the exciting story of sound recording from 1875 to 1925, and illustrates it with the voices of Caruso, John McCormack and the last of the Sistine Chapel castrati.
(B'cast Thurs)
The last of six programmes.
René Cutforth looks back on a young friend called Kim.-
I met Kim in Korea, a strange, gangling, green-faced youth. I had picked on him to take my luggage upstairs when I realised he was starving.' Producer PETER DE ROSA
Mind and Body Edition, presented by Bill Breckon with your letters
Editor DENNIS LOWER
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Gordon Clougn
from 2.0 Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
'Lies all Lies -and Why Not? ': a query from BARBARA BUCHANAN
2.0-2.2 News
Facial Hair: a personal story from PAMELA SWITZER.
Twenty-four Hours a Day: DAPHNE HUBBARD meets a married couple who also work together.
BBC Bristol
A Detail on the Burma Front (8)
A Detail on the Burma Front by Winifred Beaumont : L3.50 from bookshops
Story: The Happy Little King's New Suit by MOIRA HERITAGE
Presenters AURIOL smith and SEAN BARRETT
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer MARY HAYDON
The Wooing of Mr Drimble A comedy for radio by J. C. W. BROOK
Mr Drimble is a confirmed bachelor of confirmed habits. He always takes his holiday at the same seaside resort, in the same boarding house. One year he meets Jenny and romance blossoms. But he reckons without Jenny's mother and his seaside landlady, the formidable Mrs Cattle. with Alison Leggatt as Mother Ann Beach as Jenny John Hollis as Mr Drimble
Barbara Mitchell as Mrs Cattle Directed by IAN COTTERELL
Castle Dor by SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH and DAPHNE DU MAURIER , abridged for radio in ten parts by BARRY CAMPBELL. Read by ALAN MOORE
10: Then I Must Die for Love of Thee. Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Starting on Monday: Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie , read by Prunella Scales )
Presented by Gordon dough Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Kenneth Connor , Dilys Laye and Bob Monkhouse throw the punches; Terry Wogan referees.
Sketches by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and JIM ELDRIDGE. Producer
EDWARD TAYLOR (First b'cast on R2)
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Kathryn Davies
Presented by JUNE KNOX-MAWER Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Robens, Marghanita Laski Harold Evans. Lord Thomson Chairman David Jacobs from London. Producer
MICHAEL BOWEN. BBC Bristol
Presenter Sheridan Morley
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A Bullet in the Ballet by BRAHMS and SIMON, abridged and read in ten parts by GABRIEL WOOLF (10) Producer MARGARET ETALL
(Starting on Monday: Life at the Top by John Braine , read by James Bolam )
David Jason , Bill Wallis , David Tate and Bill McGuffie at the piano look at the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by ALASTAIR BEATON , BARRY PILTON , ANDY HAMILTON 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
