Presented from East Anglia by David Richardson BBC Birmingham
with Edward Cole
Headlines and weather, a look at the papers, news for sports fans, Prayer for the Day (Mon THE REV GEORGE AUSTIN, TueS-Thurs JOSIE SMITH , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES ), music and something on the lighter side. English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Blackpool at the TUC Conference and Nigel Rees in London look at Britain and the world.
with Edward Cole
Headlines, weather, sport and papers, a spot of music and Thought Jor the Day.
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Blackpool Editor MIKE CHANEY
8.35 News headlines, weather papers and sport
Read by P. G. STEPHENS
Bernard Falk. Fritz Spiegl and Mavis Nicholson
Producer SALLY THOMPSON Review: page 74
Magazine edition including the wildlife sound competition. Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 62; 0 praise ye the Lord! (BBC HB 279); Psalm 36; Mark 1, vv 29-45 (RSV); God liveth still (BBC HB 513)
Just One of Them Bedroom Dramas by ERIC BEAN
Read by Geoffrey Beevers
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
11.50 Announcements
Earning and Saving Edition Presenter George Luce including the World of Worn With MARGARET KORVING
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Dame Daphne Du Maurier. Show more
Chairman Robert Robinson 28: Semi-Final (IV)
GORDON HEPBURN (Ayrshire), schoolteacher; ELIZABETH MAIN (Renfrewshire); THE REV DR MICHAEL DEWAR (Co Down); DAVID MCKEE (Belfast), physicist Programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN , who also, with IAN GILLES , sets the questions. Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Gordon Clough
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Here is Yesterday's News: recent finds, new techniques and a wealth of Roman gold. Archaeology explained by HELEN PALMER.
2.0-2.2 News
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON GOW reporting.
Reading Your Letters.
New Readers Begin Here: BARBARA PYM 'S witty novels have recently been ' rediscovered ', she publishes a new one this month.
(Excellent Wo-men by Barbara Pym : Story Time, 4.35pm) Milk and Honey (5)
Story: The Magic Slipper by EDNA WILLIAMS
An Ordinary Bloke
by Barbara Pym abridged for radio in ten parts by Janet Hickson
Read by Annette Crosbie
Mildred Lathbury's pleasant spinster life is disturbed by anthropologists and a handsome naval officer and there are some odd goings-on in the parish.
BBC Bristol
Presented by Gordon Clough
Bernard Falk goes to the Archive Auction.
Producer BRIAN COOK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
Beetles and Buckman with Sheridan Morley - 2: 1, Soppy in which the earliest recorded member of the dynasty becomes Emperor of Rome.
NARRATOR: ' In Rome a bitter power struggle was in progress. Emperor Augustus was getting long in the tooth, dim in the eye and therefore arsenic in the soup '. Written by ROB BUCKMAN , CHRIS BEETLES Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Fifty years ago C. B. Cochran 's revue One Damn Thing After Another opened at the London Pavilion. Francis Watson went to it as a young undergraduate and was overcome by the glamour of it all.
He still remembers Edythe Baker , Jessie Matthews , Sonnie Hale and other stars of the 20s. In this programme he indulges in a little nostalgia and calls back' voices and tunes from the past.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
By Wally K. Daly. With Peter Jeffrey and Norma Ronald.
'Stigmata, the marks of the cross, traversing a void of nearly 2,000 years to be occasionally manifested on the bodies of the worthiest of believers - the only problem being that it's accidentally hit me, the greatest non-believer of all time.'
4: Totnes
The novelist Derek Robinson criss-crosses Britain and builds up a picture of the country, place by place.
(Repeated: Thursday 11.45 am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Editor ROSEMARY HART
John Tusa reporting, including a review of the day's events at the 139th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
People in the public mind.
(Revised repeat: Tues 11.35 am)
Tender is the Night by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD abridged for radio in 20 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by Kenneth Haigh (1)
The doomed love affair of Doctor Dick Diver and his beautiful ex-patient Nicole, set in the playgrounds of Europe and spanning the 20s, that last and lost hectic decade of ' the beautiful people
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Radio 4's Business Report; Market trends
Q Would you say that it was the Karma of those two women to be raped at knife point?
A Certainly! If they were ...
Moyra Bremner talks to Christmas Humphreys , former judge and practising Buddhist, about the way in which his faith determined his attitude to a career at the Bar.
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
