with Eugene Fraser
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather

Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester

with Eugene Fraser
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather

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

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If a man invents a better mousetrap, then it's said ' the world will make a beaten path to his door ' - or will it?
In this series on the personalities of modern innovators, Bill Breckon has heard of their struggles for success and recognition. whether they invent alone or lead a research and development team. Today he asks what lessons can be learnt from their experiences, and whether Britain really cares about those who come up with better mousetraps.
Series producer RITCHIE COGAN

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Presented by Laurie Macmlllan Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY

NEM, p 106; Lord of all, to whom alone (BBC HB 294); Psalm 23; Jeremiah 2, w 4-13 (RSV); Shepherd divine, our wants relieve (BBC HB 348)

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Today's author Is E. M. DELAFIELD
Jonathan Cecil reads
The Lady from the Province* abridged and produced by JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFF

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A series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Dick Taverne , Qc, and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London. Today's proposition:
The Act of Settlement of 1701 should be Repeated (the Act says that the Heir to the' Throne may not marry a Roman Catholic)
It is proposed by Ronald Butt , Assistant Editor of the Sunday Times and opposed by Professor John Kenyon , Professor of History, University of Hull
Each advocate will call his witnesses, cross-question his opponent's, and argue his case. The jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial, so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer DAVID ANTHONY TURNER

News and information that affects the way you live. Presenters Sue Cook and George Luee

by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
Adapted by Chris Miller

12.55 medium only Weather and programme news: VHF Regional news and weather

and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Brian Widlake

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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Richard Boston, Editor of Vole
2.0-2.2 News
Science in the Kitchen: SUSAN GOODMAN on the effect of salt. Reading Your Letters.
Any Other Business: a look at some of the more domestic points from Parliament.
Emma by JANS AUSTEN (13)

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Story: The New Teapot by ELEANOR TIMS

Dark Interval by GWEN CHERRELL
' The trouble is we never stop and think. We just jump to a conclusion and usually it's the wrong one. In our family it's known as " proceeding to the nearest disaster".'
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING (First broadcast in 1976)

from St John 's College, Cambridge
Responses (Morley)
Psalms 6. 7. 8 (C. Hylton Stew-art; K. J. Pye )
Lessons: 1 Samuel 1, vv 20-28: John 2, w 13-22
Canticles (Walton, The Chichester Service)
Anthem: Videte miraculum (Tallis)
Organ scholar JOHN SCOTT
Director of music GEORGE GUEST

Harriet (3)

Presented by Brian Widlakc

Conversations with Cooper
' Here mate,' everyone on the plane said, ' we don't want to go to Invercargill, we want to go to Hokitika.' There was a silence and then the pilot said, ' Sorry, that's right. We're going to take a crack at Hokitika.' Journalist Dick Ross tells Derek Cooper how he returned to his home town in New Zealand after an absence of 18 years.
Producer DENNIS LOWER
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Weather and programme news VHF Regional news, weather

Including Financial Report

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)

(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)

Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to Current events at home and abroad with reports by STEVE BRAD SHAW and DAVID BENSHAW. Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester

The Five Red Herrings by DOROTHY L. SAYERS , adapted in eight episodes by CHRIS MILLER starring
Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter 5: Alibis
Producer SIMON BRETT

Change in British Society 4: The Rise of Party
Dr A. II. Halsey, Professor of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Oxford, argues that the full story of the rise of party organisation along class lines in 20th-century Britain must also comprehend the beginning of its displacement from the centre of party politics and perhaps its apparent demise.
(Repeated: Sunday Radio 3)

A report on this week's General Synod of the Church of England by GERALD PRIESTLAND, BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent.

Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN MILLS

John Tusa reporting

England v Italy. Round 2 (End of Round 1 Scores: England 13 - Italy 14) England:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Italy:
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Professor Luigi Spaventa, economist, on the staff of Rome University and Francisco Russo. journalist and London Correspondent of L'Espresso
Question researcher
DAVID MACKAY. Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
(Revised repeat: Tues 10.5 am)

Troubles by j. G. FARRELL (8)

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude