Presented from Scotland by ARTHUR AN'DEIRSON BBC Scotland
with Edward Cole
Headlines and weather, a loolr at the papers, news for sports fans, Prayer for the Day (Mon THE REV LESLIE STOKES , Tues-Thurs TONY BLACK, Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES ), a little music and something on the lighter side.
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 9
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London look at Britain and the world this morning.
with Edward Cole
Headlines, weather, sport and papers, a spot of music and Thought for the Day
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
Editor MIKE CHANEY See Letters
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
on Hitler's invasion of Russia (Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
and his guests
Bernard Falk , Fritz Spiegl and Mavis Nicholson.
Producer FRANCES DONELLY
While in a pub the other day I ivas startled to hear a hoarse voice ask How are you? ' On looking round I found there was a parrot in a cage at the end of the bar. This prompted me to wonder - if parrots can talk, why can't dogs, since they're so intelligent?
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 34; Come, let us join (BBC HB 122); Psalm 57; Acts 13, vv 13-15 and 43-52 (NEB); My soul (BBC HB 526)
The Price of Pride by ALAN C. JENKINS
Read by Norman Shelley
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
EarningandSavingEdition PresenterNancyWise including the World of Work with MARGARET KORVING who also answers your queries. Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is cricketer Derek Randall. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Robert Williams
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Start the Week with Yoga: JOY BURLING helps us to relax and find a new way of life.
Off the Beaten Track: suggestions from JEAN RICHARDSON.
When Your World Contracts: PHYLLIPPA GRESHAM-BROWN Who has Systemic Sclerosis, talks to JEAN GOODMAN.
A Detail on the Burma Front by WINIFRED BEAUMONT, abridged in nine parts by PAT MCLOUGH-LIN and read by PEGGY GOSS -CHALK (9) (Music: Gold's Boston Pops March) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Penny in Jenny's Pocket by MARGARET HOPKINS
Omegapoint by BRUCE STEWART
It is odd that the energy plant should be computerised in such a highly sophisticated manner; and odder still that the communications room should pick up a strange, coded message. The only clear sound on it is the -identification word - OMEGAPOINT.
Effects specially created by roger limb of the BBC Radio-phonic Workshop. Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
Sleeping Murder by AGATHA CHRISTIE ;, abridged in ten parts by joy ASBORNE
Read by Prunella Scales (1)
Gwenda Reed has come over from New Zealand to search for a home in England. She moves into a house which feels strangely familiar to her ... Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
Presented by Robert Williams
5.50 Financial report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio Erik de Mauny
Dirk Bogarde reads from his autobiography abridged in seven episodes by Jack Singleton.
Sent to the Chelsea Polytechnic, the young Dirk is taught by Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore - but his father, driven to distraction by his insistence that he should become an actor, arranges an audition at the Old Vic.
Bitter Gate by TANITH LEE , with In her first play for radio, the author, with a new feminist slant, re-tells the classic tale of Odysseus' return to Ithaka to reclaim his wife Penelope from her suitors.
Incidental music composed and conducted by CHRISTOS PITTAS Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY (Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
Presenter Michael Oliver
John Tusa reporting
by John Braine
abridged for radio in ten parts by Neville Teller
Read by James Bolam
Joe Lampton got to the top all right - by marrying Susan Brown and into the firm of Brown and Co. Now, ten years later, he has a son almost that age and a young daughter. He has wealth and a position of sorts. But is he happy?
BBC Manchester
preceded by Weather
