News, weather, papers, sport
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world.
Introduced by John Timpson With LIBBY PURVES including at 7.0. 9.0 Today's News. read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
(A shortened version of Saturday's broadcast at 7.30)
Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY
NEM, p 38; The eternal gates lift up their heads (BBC HB 131); Psalm 20; Luke 4, vv 1-13 (NEB); Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (BBC HB 327)
Mr Dunphy 's Phenomenon by ERIC CROSS
Read by Patrick Brannigan Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
(Broadcast: Monday 9.15 pm)
Presenters Margaret Korving and George Luce
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two: live from Llangollen International Eisteddfod.
2.0-2.2 News
Collectors and Their Enthusiasms: JENNIFER MAY talks to ANTHONY Oliver about Staffordshire pottery figures.
' Touchstones ': phrases and sayings which ease life's little irritations - WYN KNOWLES 'S choice.
Answering Your Questions: replies to some of those receivedbutnotairedinrecent Tuesday Call programmes.
Now BarabbasWas a Rotter (7)
Story; The Discontented Teapot by JEAN KENWARD
medium only from 3.5
medium only
Live from the House of Commons.
medium only
Jack de Manio meets them all. Could you be on his list? Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
The Terrific Kemble (4)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Singers in 78 Alan Blyth looks back to the era of the 78 rpm record, and devotes this week's programme to the German soprano, Elisabeth Schumann.
Producer PETER TANNER
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC newsmen around the world.
Written by WILLIAM SMETHURST (Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Producers TONY SHRYANE and VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
(Repeated: Friday 10.5 am)
' Nye Bevan applied to the nation the lessons he had learned in Tredegar.'
(LEO ABSE, MP)
The legend in this South Wales mining town. Bevan's birth-place, is that the National Health Service began here.
Exactly 30 years after the formation of the NHS, Paul Ferris goes back to Tredegar to discover what health conditions and medical services were like between the wars and how they influenced the design of the National Health Service.
Researcher MIRIAM BARTRAM
Producer HUGH PURCELL
Shadow or Substance?
Presented by George Ffitch
As the country looks towards the next election, whenever it may be. the parties are busy selling their wares and polishing their images. Advertising agents, public relations men and party machines are now part of the business of politics. Do they help or hinder the democratic process or do they hide the real issues while promoting illusions?
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND (Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
Presenter Paul Gambaccini
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The Secret Agent (4)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
