with John Marsh
English Regions: see column 5
6,52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Derek Cooper in London
with John Marsh
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Derek Cooper in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
Read by ROSEMARY LEACH (9)
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MEM, p 1; How lovely are thy dwellings fair! (BBC HB 458); Psalm 63; Mark 6, vv 30-44 (rsv); Put thou thy trust in God (BBC HB 313)
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The Second Mrs Tudor by WILLIAM PALMER
Read by John Darran Producer HARRI GWYNN BBC Wales
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Presenter Sue Cook including the BBC Shopping Basket and the Best Buys
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
La Bella Figura: ANNE CATCH-POLE looks at Rome's fashion scene.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Chalk and Talk: DAVID HAWKS-WORTHinvestigates some current educational issues.
The Right to Die: LIZ MCNEILL TAYLOR on a modern dilemma. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight (8)
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Story: A Day in the Park by NERISSA BARRETT
The Backward Glance by Sheila Hodgson
based on an idea by M.R. James
with David March as James
"The object he handed me was made of black silk, beautifully worked. I put the period at late 18th century. Oh, and one more point about the mask... across the slits which would normally have been left open for the eyes, there had been stitched something that looked like human skin!"
From cantors to crime-writers - Jack de Manio meets them all. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
4.0-4.5 News
The House of the Seven Flies 4. The Start of the Search
Presented by Brian Widlake
Peter Pratt with a collection and recollection of Gilbert and Sullivan. Producer RONALD COOK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
Written by BRIAN HAYLES
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham
Presented by Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Friday 10.5 am)
A feature for radio on the life and work of the writer Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) written and presented by Bill Morrison , with Harry Towb as Raymond Chandler Edward Bishop as Philip Marlowe Other voices
ROD BEACHAM , HENRY KNOWLEI DON FELLOWS and RAMSAY WILLIAMS
Perhaps more is known about Chandler's famous private eye Philip Marlowe than about the author who created him. What manner of man was he? Was he just another thriller writer, widely admired for his style, or something more than that? Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
(The Big Sleep: next Monday
7.45 pm)
Kieran Prendiville discovers some of the curious sounds recorded on tape and disc. Producer NICK HUGHES
(Repeated: Friday 11.30 pm)
by JAMES FOLLETT
A series of four true staries of German pows who escaped from British camps between 1940 and 1947. 3: The Very Important Prisoner based on A Taste of Freedom by ROBERT JACKSON with Martin Jarvis as Alexander Todt
Rosalind Shanks as Doris Geoffrey Matthews as Narrator and the voices of SANDRA CLARK
WILLIAM EEDLE , NIGEL GRAHAM JANE KNOWLES and PAUL MEIER Directed by.MAURiCE LEITCH
Presenter Paul Vaughan
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Tender is the Night (14)
4: Angus McDermid in Europe
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
