With Laurie Macmillan
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
With Laurie Macmillan
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester 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 YONG BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.0 am
with Sir John Betjeman 4: Four Rectors
With GEOFFREY SHAW (soloist) and the LONDON EMMANUEL CHOIR conducted by MURIEL SHEPHERD Research by BERNARD c. MARTIN Devised by DAVID WINTER
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
NEM, p 50; Lord of all being, throned afar (BBC HB 11); Psalm 86; Acts 25, vv 13-22 (NEB); 0 spirit of the living God (BBC HB 159)
Beggars can be Choosers by TERRY TAPP
Read by David Ponting Producer PAMELA howe BBC Bristol
Actor Michael Crawford talks about how he views success and what it means to him,; BBC Birmingham
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 DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
' A Streytforrad Lancashire Mon ': HARRY BOARDMAN is the father figure of the Lancashire folk scene.
2.0-2.2 News
On Patrol: PAT CALLAGHAN spends a day with the National
- Park wardens in the Lake District.
On the Cards: the Moodie family's solution to the problem of sharing the housework. BBC Manchester
Far from the Madding Crowd by THOMAS HARDY
Read by DAVID BUCK (14)
Story: Miss Tiny tot and the Visitor by ZENNIA ESTERSON
Presenters MAUREEN MORRIS and JOHN BULL. Written by RACHAEL DIRLEY. Producer MARY HAYDON
A play for radio by Michael Abbensetts
with Don Warrington
Quentin Williams, a young West Indian solicitor, has lived in London nearly all his life, and seems more English than the English. A broken love affair forces him to move house, and he discovers he has taken a room in a 'black house', where all his neighbours are West Indian or African. Quentin has to discover for himself that 'no man is an island', and to come to terms with his own identity.
And in conclusion, I most earnestly do pray,
May God protect Her Majesty for many a day ...
Arthur Marshall ponders over the tributes from Poets Laureate and other self-styled laureates which have been offered to our long-suffering monarchy. Readers:
VALENTINE DYALL and ROBIN HOLMES Producer
PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great edited by DOMINIQUE MAROGER translated by MOURA BUDBERG and abridged for radio in ten parts by CHRISTINE MEEK
Read by Barbara Jefford 10: The Coup d'etat
Producer CHERRY COOKSON
(Starting on Monday: The Warden by Anthony Trollope , read by Paul Rogers )
Presented by Gordon Clough
A periscopic view of themes and things with words and music
Today: Father in the Kitchen Presented by Colin Hamilton Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
with Barry Norman
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 MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard 's selection Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday 9.10 am)
Comedy in music from John Gould with Bronwen Williams David Tate and Nigel Pegram Written by JOHN GOULD with additional material by DAVID WOOD , CHRIS MILLER and RICHARD SPARKS
Producer SIMON BRETT
Malcolm Muggeridge The Rt Hon
Sir Christopher Soames
The Countess of Longford The Earl of March
Chairman David Jacobs from West Sussex
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Sat 1.15)
Presenter Michael Billington
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
David Jason , Bill Wallis
David Tate and Bill McGuffie at the piano look back at the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by BARRY PILTON, ANDY HAMILTON and others Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
Stan Barstow describes one Of the pleasures of life. BBC Manchester
Marnie by WINSTON GRAHAM
Read by YSANNE CHURCHMAN (10)
preceded by Weather
