Producers LESLIE COTTINGTON and BRYAN PLATT
A note from Gerald Priestland , Religious Affairs Correspondent
6.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
with Norman Tozer
7.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
From the world of sport and leisure, Tony Lewis highlights the issues that matter and talks to personalities in the news With up-to-the-minute coverage of events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and ob production
8.45 Today's Papers
In the siege of Paris, just over a century ago, it was said that women arsonists known as petroleuses roamed the streets at night setting fire to countless houses. Michell Raper describes this strange episode which ends with the question: did the petroleuses actually exist?
Margaret Howard 's selection Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
(Further editions: Monday 7.20 pm end Thursday 10.5 am)
New Every Morning, page 9; 0 God, thou art my God alone (BBC HB 468); Psalm 65; Mark 14, vv 12-31 (rsv): Before the almighty (BBC HB 452)
Nigel Rees takes a weekly look at the Press and talks to editors, journalists and their readers about what the newspapers print and why. Producer ANNE SLOMAN
Hugo Young discusses some of this autumn's political books, including Ian Gilmour 's Inside
Right and Woodrow Wyatt 's What's Left of the Labour Party? Producer ANNE SLOMAN
Presented by Peter Evans Producer DAVID PATERSON
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.0 pm)
as Radio 3
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Dorian Williams Dennis Potter
Sheila Hancock , Simon Jenkins Chairman David Jacobs BBC Bristol
A series of programmes featuring the best in Royal Variety Performances over the past 25 years.
Introduced by David Nixon This week: 1959 with The Army Game Arthur Askey
Sir John Barbirolli and the Halle Orchestra Dickie Henderson Jewel and Warriss Liberace, Al Read and Tommy Trinder
Written by MICHAEL POINTON Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
Cold Steel by PAM TICKELL with Katherine Parr and Betty Hardy
What were conditions like in an industrial town at the turn of the century? Angela Carruthers, a student sociologist, attempts to find out; but Vi and Em - her two case studies - succeed in revealing more than she had anticipated.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
Marilyn Alan presents a new programme for and with disabled people, in which The Rt Hon Alfred Morris , mp, Minister for the Disabled, answers questions sent in by listeners about the mobility allowance.
Producer THENA HESHEL
(Disabled people are invited to telephone [number removed]after the programme 'until 4.30 to pass on their comments and suggestions or raise issues for future discussion)
as Radio 3
Top of the charts? Top of the ratings? Paul Vaughan makes a selection from the books. plays, films, music and other arts reviewed during the past week. Editor ROSEMARY HART
(Friday's broadcast) 5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and his guests in conversation inspired by amusing or bemusing episodes of the week. Musical punctuations by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Christopher Grier with records (Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The King's Colours by ROY BOLITHO with Norman Bowler as Richard Kerslake Neil Stacy as Captain Corlase and Mary Larkin as Celia Cornwall , summer of 1644. Richard Kerslake , Royalist soldier, has become a prisoner of the Roundheads, who have decided to force him to perform an extraordinary task ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Mon 3.5 pm)
Michael Holroyd
Professor Harold Perkin David Pownall inconversationwith Brian Redhead
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Saturday Evening Prayers
An evening meditation led by STEPHEN WHITTLE BBC Manchester
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
