with Peter Jefferson
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather

Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester

with Peter Jefferson
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather

Brian Redhead in Manchester
Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport

medium only
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

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(Thursday'sbroadcast")

NEM, p 93; Might and glory, power and wisdom (BBC HB 265); Psalm 90, vv 1-12; Genesis 18, vv 20-33 and 19, v 29 (RSV); Fill thou my life, 0 Lord my God (BBC HB 271)

medium only Lucky Day by JENNY OLDFIELD
Read by Sandra Clark
For months Colin Wilson drifted alongside his colleagues in the school's staff-room ... without making any real contact. Then one day, the mask slipped. BBC Birmingham

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People in the British Isles and abroad tell of the doings and concerns of their own parts of the world.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE

Presenter Bill Breckon with your letters

A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the Chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Introduced by Gordon dough

medium only from 2.0
Introduced from Northern Ireland by Margaret Percy
JimmytheFluterinTraction: james galway, the irrepressible Belfast flute player, talks to GLORIA HUNNIFORD from his hospital bed in Lucerne.
2.0-2.2 News
Images of Stone: HELEN MADDEN goes to White Island in Lough Erne with HELEN HICKEY , the curator of Fermanagh County Museum, to take a look at the eight inscrutable statues that have attracted archaeologists and historians from many lands.
Ancestor Hunting: KATHLEEN NEILL of the Ulster Historical Foundation spends her time helping the thousands of people who claim they have an Irish grandmother.
Festival 77: an impression of the 15th Belfast Festival at Queen's University which opened last week. Lost Profile (2)
BBC Northern Ireland

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Story: Wriggly Worm and the Artists by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD Presenters NERYS HUGHES and TONY AITKEN
Written by TONY AITKEN
Producer JENYTH WORSLIN

The Secret Life of Martin Peppitt A comedy by GEOFFREY PARKINSON with
Mrs Thelma Peppitt has enough bigotry for both herself and her husband. Martin, and he seems happy enough to accept things that way. But then one Wednesday evening a secret leaks out: Mr Peppitt is not the man he appears ...-
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

Every day a tidal wave of commuters is disgorged from the mainline stations to their work in big cities, and sucked back again in the evening to their homes. Many of these people spend three or four hours a day travelling,
Why do they do it? How do they fill the time? What effect does this way of life have on family relationships? Presenter Joan Yorke
Producer BARBARA CROWTHEa

Decline and Fall
5: The Agony of Captain Grimes

Presented by Gordon Clough

Thanks for What Memory
2: Sheridan Morley recalls ' lost ' songs from West End stage shows of the past and present.
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather

including Financial Report

with Barry Norman
A programme for people on the move that tries to give you more miles for your money.
With up-to-the-minute news of what to avoid if you are on the move this weekend.
Producer ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)

Margaret Howard 's selection Producer JOHN KNICHT
(Repeated: Saturday 9.10 am)

A spontaneous discussion by Sir Richard Marsh Donald Trelford
Baroness Falkender Lord Carrington
Chairman David Jacobs from Buckinghamshire Producer CAROLE STONE
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.15 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at
10.30 pm) to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Presented by Sheridan Morley Producer CHRIS SWANN
9.59 Weather

John Tusa reporting
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNB

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sheila Steafel and the keyboards of Bill McGuffie
Written by ANDY Hamilton , BARRY PILTON and others
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)

Ken Campbell describes one of the pleasures of life. BBC Manchester

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (15)

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude