Presented from Scotland by ARTHUR ANDERSON . BBC Scotland
with Edward Cole
Headlines and weather, a took at the papers, news for sports fans, Prayer for the Day (Mon THE RKV VERNON SPROXTON , Tues-Thurs THE REV TIMOTHY RAPHAEL , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES ), a little music and something on the lighter side.
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead at the Edinburgh
International Festival and Nigel Rees in London
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 at the Edinburgh International Festival Editor MIKE CHANEY
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers, and sport
by Simon Harcourt-Smith abridged in five parts by Joy Osborne
Read by James Villiers
Tryphena - Would it happen? Had something miscarried? She prayed - that it hadn't, that it had. The lovely house, as lovely as a day-dream, a temple for youth and music, not for the cackles of two old spinsters.
The team of regulars helping to find antidotes to the Monday morning blues includes Bernard Falk. Fritz Spiegl and Mavis Nicholson.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
(Fritz Spiegl 's My Delight: Friday 10.55 pm)
Do house-martins suffer from indigestion? They must swallow a lot of air as they fly around catching insects.
The team repeat their usual performance today in answering your wildlife questions, Introduced by Derek Jones Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 17; Jesu, our hope (BBC HB 126); Psalm 111; I Corinthians 12, vv 12-20 (rsv); 0 love, how deep (BBC HB 73)
The Kite by TERENCE SHARKEY Read by Michael McClain
' All at once he was aware of the boy's hand on his, prising open the gnarled fingers. " Let it go! Let it go! Please." ... With a final triumphant tug the kite was free, rising like a giant bird in the sky.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
A. J. Alan
For 16 years the man who called himself A. J. Alan was the most popular storyteller on the wireless. Not only did he tell mystery stories, but was himself an enigma. No one was allowed to know who he was or where he came from. Alongside one of A. J. Alan 's best tales, Tony Bilbow unravels the story of this secretive man.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON (Repeated: Thursday 8.45 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Earning and Saving Edition Presenter George Luce including the World of Work With MARGARET KORVING Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Deborah Kerr. Show more
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Robert Williams Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Talfc Till Two: a discussion on a matter of current concern,,
2.0-2.2 News
Car Care: MOLLY PRICE-OWEN learns how to check and change the fanbelt.
Niminy Piminy: JOAN WHITE teaches British-style drama to American students.
Not So Haute?: GINETTE SPANIER reflects on different attitudes to clothes.
The World of Ukridge by P. G. WOODHOUSE abridged by JOAN YORKE. Read by John Rye
1: Ukridge's Dog College Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Woman who Flummoxed the Fairies adapted by GREGOR ROBERTSON BBC Scotland
A Quest for Witches
Twilight for the Gods by ERNEST k. GANN , abridged in ten parts and read by Blain Fairman (1) In the autumn of 1927 the threemasted barquentine Cannibal sailed from Papeete bound via Suva for Mexico with a cargo of copra and a complement of passengers notable only for their poverty and their failure in a dozen parts of the world. The ship is an unseaworthy anachronism; the Master an embittered refugee from rum. The consequence of their coming together is disaster. Producer ROGER PINK BBC Birmingham
The news magazine, presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
Glyn Daniel goes to the Archive Auction.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Claws, with NORMA RONALD , RONALD BADDILEY and JOHN GRAHAM
Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
The Loved and the Unloved by FRANCOIS MAURIAC dramatised by JOAN O'CONNOR with Thelma Whiteley
Tom Wilkinson , Simon Cadell and Emily Richard
Love is not something that you can force anyone to feel, but Agathe's passion is so great that she is determined to have the young man of her choice at any price and regardless of the damage to other people.
Direioted by JANE MORGAN
(Rptd: next Sunday 2.30 pm)
2: Swindon
The novelist Derek Robinson criss-crosses Britain and builds up a picture of the country, place by place.
(Repeated: Thursday 11.45 am)
Presenter Chris Powling Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNfi
Weekly portraits of people in the public mind.
(Revised repeat: Tues 11.35 am)
A High Wind in Jamaica by RICHARD HUGHES abridged for radio in 15 episodes by DONAUD BANCROFT Read by JOHN HOLLIS
6: Auction at Santa Lucia Producer jENYTH WORSLEY
The British are famed for their obsession with the weather. The reason could be that, as an inland race, we're constantly assailed by it, either diireOtly by exposure to its vagaries, or indirectly by its effect on food availability, transport and pollution. In this series, four authorities on melteorology examine various aspects of the weather and climate of Great Britain.
1: Regional Differences and the Effects Created by Man by Professor Stan Gregory of the Department of Geography, Sheffield University
Producer jimimy mack
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
