Presented from the Royal Show at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire by BRYAN PLATT.
with Laurie Macmillan f.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
with 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
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
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
Sir John Betjeman introduces a selection of hymns, and talks about their writers.
1: Some 17th-century Hymn. writers
With GEOFFREY SHAW (soloist) and the LONDON EMMANUEL CHOIR Research by BERNARD c. MARTIN Producerdavidwinter
nem, p 97; Lord, thy word abideth (BBC HB 190); Psalm 50; Acts 19, vv 11-20 (NEB); Father, we thank thee who hast planted (BBC HB 201)
Butterfingers by VIVIAN BIRD
Read by Martin Muncaster
' The village cricket match led to fame and fortune and a debt that. in the end, didn't have to be repaid.'
Producer DAVID SHUTS BBC Birmingham
Melvin Harris tells the story of one of the strangest building projects ever undertaken when a series of false-fronted villages and towns were erected to convince Catherine the Great that her people were being housed. The villain of the piece Grigory Potemkin - but were the stories about him true?
Mind and Body Edition
Presented by Bill Breckon with your letters
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Gordon Clough Editor BEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Plymouth by Gillian Miles
Local Influence: three writers from the West Country - JESSICA MANN from Cornwall, NORMA HUXTABLE from Somerset, and DEREK ROBINSON from Bristol consider their surroundings.
2.0-2.2 News
After the News: HUGH SCULLY joins ANGELA RIPPON as she relaxes in her two-acre garden on the edge of Dartmoor.
' An Indispensible Part of Life : TOM SALMON reveals the mystery of the Cornish Pasty, BBC Bristol
Come Hell or High Water (9)
Story: The Old Woman's Cat by JOYCE WILLIAMS
Presenters JEAN ROGERS and JOHN BULL
Written by JEAN ROGERS Producer MARY HAYDON
A Book from Beelzebub A comedy by GEOFFREY PARKINSON with and Mr Newton bought the book for 30 pence at the Church Bazaar. It told an intriguing tale of love and jealousy that appeared to be based more on fact than on fiction.
MRS CORNISH: Don't tempt providence, Mr Newton. It always picks the wrong side.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
We were taken out onto the platform and at long tables were ladies of the Red Cross who gave us each a drink of tea, cigarettes and some bread. There was a nun there, and she touched us on the shoulder - lousy, filthy, vermin-ridden as we were - and said God bless you, British soldier '. That gesture made many of us cry.
The actual experiences of ' other ranks ' as prisoners of war differed from the mythology created by books, the cinema and television.
Elvet Williams tells BRIAN MATTHEW about life in a German Labour Camp in the Second World War.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
The Wind Cannot Read (5)
Presented by Gordon Clougk Editor DEREK LEWIS
A periscopic view of themes and things with words and music
Today: Women at War
Presented by Sarah Dickinson and Tony Bilbow
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
with Barry Norman
A programme for people on the move
Each working day some 15 million people go to office or factory by one or more means of transport -are they given value for money?
The car you buy or the holiday you book may be your biggest outlay of the year -why is it so often based on poor advice?
A close look at the fun, the frustrations and the future in getting around.
And up-to-the-minute news of where you may come unstuck if you are travelling at home or abroad this weekend.
Producer ROGER MACDONALID
(Repeated: Monday 1.36 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes during the past seven days. Producer BRIAN COOK
Comedy in music from John Gould with Bronwen Williams , David Tate and Nigel Pegram Written by JOHN GOULD with additional material by DAVID WOOD , MYLES RUDGE
TERRY JONES and RICHARD SPARKS Producer SIMON BRETT
A spontaneous discussion by Ludovic Kennedy
Rt Hon David Steel , ur Ann Mallalieu
Alastair Dunnett
Chairman David Jacobs from Kirkcudbright
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
A report on this week's General Synod of the Church of England by GERALD PRIEST-LAND, BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent.
Presenter P. J. Kavanagh
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
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 side.
Script by ALASTAIR BEATON , BARRY PILTON , ANDY HAMILTON and others
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
J. B. Priestley introduces a new series in which people talk about some of the pleasures of life. BBC Manchester
Cider with Rosie by LAURIE LEE (5)
Radio 4's Business Report, Market Trends
preceded by Weather
