with Laurie Macmillan
6.52 VHF
Regionalnewsandweather
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
Ring Birmingham [number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YOXG 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
NEM, p 67; 0 come, let us sin; to the Lord (BBC HB 465); Psalm 146; Acts 17, vv 4-15 (NEB); Praise the Lord, ye heavens (BBC HB 16)
The Match Maiden bv WALTER MACKEN
Read by Margaret D'Arcy
Come now. Your mother sent to look for you. We have only 20 minutes to get to the church.'
Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
Basil Boothroyd presents The Levity and Gravity of Sydney Smith, the 19th-century clergyman and reformer whom Lord Macaulayclassedasasatirist secondonlytoSwift.'The
Sloth spends its life in trees. He moves suspended, rests suspended. sleeps suspended, and passes his life in suspense .. ; like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop.' Sydney Smith is played by Colin Blakely
Producer PETER DE ROSA
(Colin Blakely is in ' Just
Between Ourselves ' at the Queen's Theatre, London)
There are church organs, electric organs and mouth-organs, but in today's talk Melvin Harris tells the story of one of the strangest musical instruments ever invented. It was built in the middle ages and only gave one performance - at a royal banquet. And the contents were cooked and eaten!
Mind and Body Edition
Presented by Bill Breckon
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced from Northern Ireland byMargaretPercy
The Stalely Homes of Ireland: frankdelaneysamplestheculinary and other delights of some grand mansions.
2.0-2.2 News
Greenfinches of the UDR:
GLORIA HUNNIFORD goes Out On patrol with some of the skirted members of the part-time Ulster Defence Regiment.
Treading the Ulster Boards:
Ulsterman and ' Aquarius ' producer DEREK BAILEY talks about the healthy state of amateur dramatics in the Province. Studio Guest: Jennifer Johnston. novelist. BBC Northern Ireland
Come Hell or High Water (4)
Story: The Story of Nothing-at-All by MARGARET HOPKINS
Presenters MAUREEN MORRIS and davidhitchen.Writtenbymoira HERITAGE. Producer MARY HAYDON
A Trip North bv PETER RUSSELL with Alaric Cotter as Terence When Lucy decides to leave her husband, Simon, and their two children and go and live with Alex Williamson , the family is shattered. Terence, Lucy's brother who works in London, is called home to try and sort the matter out.
Terence as a child. judy BENNETT Lucy , his sister.... JANE KNOWLES
Directed by DAVID H. GODFREY
by Agatha Christie, abridged in ten episodes for radio by Joy Osborne
Read by Prunella Scales
(Starting on Monday: The Wind Cannot Read by Richard Mason, read by David Davis)
Presented by Brian Widlake
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
David Jason. Dilys Laye and Bob Monkhouse throw the punches; Terry Wogan referees Sketches by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH , EDDIE FOXALLand PATRICIA NEWMAN Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(First broadcast on Radio 2)
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
(Nextweek: The Archers 7.5 pm)
In the studio Erik de Mauny
MARGARET. HOWARD presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes during the past seven days. Producer ADRIANNE ALLEE
(Repeated: Saturday 9.10 am)
Clive Jacobs
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone Patricia Hewitt Robert Moss
Chairman David Jacobs from Cheshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Sat 1.15)
Presenter Sheridan Morley
Douglas Stuart reporting
Life at the Top by JOHN BRAINE abridged in ten parts by NEVILLE TELLER. Read by JAMES BOLAM (10) Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
David Jason , Bill Wallis David Tate and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny siide. Script by AiLASTAIR BEATON , BARRY PIL-TON, ANDY HAMILTON and others. Producer GEOFFREY PEIRKINS
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
(David Jason is in ' A Bedfull of Foreigners ' at the Duke oi York's Theatre, London)
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