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. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
6.45*-7.45 Thought for (he Day
by CHARLES DICKENS (14)
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
nem, p 84; Behold the amazing gift of love (BBC HB 484): Psalm 51; Mark 3, vv 7-19 (AV): 0 for a heart to praise my God (BBC HB 334)
The Weather by JAMES YOUNG
Read by Richard Cordery Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGrcgor Talk Till Two: a discussion on a matter of current concern.
2.4-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
I Shall Keep Going Until I Can Run. GEORGINA HEYHOE talks to JOCELYN HAY about her recovery after a bad motor-cycle accident.
Starting from Scratch: FRANCES PERRY visits the Hellens' new garden in its first summer season.
Five Short Stories by Ruth Rcndell
2: People Don't Do Such Things
Story: The Golden Frog by RUSSELL HOBAN
A Coating of Rum by PRANK SINGUINEAU and STUART A. BLACK from a short story by VALERIE MURRAY Jamaica The eve of the Sunday School Outing. Clarence Duncan would rather be in the local bar than on the Sunday School bus. but he's determined to liven things up-with a coating of rum.
Other parts played by SOLITA BYRON , NICOLA-ANNE BLACKMAN. FRANK SINGUINEAU , BRYONY NOLAN, STACEY NOLAN Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Jack de Manio meets them all. Producer Florence AKST
The Old Wives' Tale (9)
Presented by Brian Widlake
What's on at the Empire? Presented by Peter Pratt
While Gilbert and Sullivan reigned at The Savoy. what other entertainment delighted the late Victorian and Edwardian public?
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham
A recording of a hearing brought before the London Small Claims Court.
This week: The Rollerblind In Ashes - followed by a discussion about the Small Claims Courts and their value.
Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR. (The recording was made with the permission of the London Small Claims Court)
A documentary by Vera Blackwell
Shortly after 11 o'clock on the evening of Tuesday. 20 August 1968, troops from Russia and the other Warsaw Pact countries invaded Czechoslovakia. The Prague Spring of Dubcek's ' socialism with a human face had turned into the summer swarm of Soviet tanks. ' It was just such a tremendous emotional shock, to suddenly find yourself completely helpless, to come crashing down from the heights of exhilaration into total despair.'
Some of the people who lived through those August days of invasion and occupation tell their own story: a story of passive resistance and Czechoslovak national unity, of ingenuity and wit and of facing weapons with words. Producer
JOY HATWOOD
Join Elizabeth Jane Howard in an exploration.
Producer NATALIE WHEEN
Kaleidoscope at the Sutherland Gallery in Picton Castle, Wales.
On his 75th birthday, the artist Graham Sutherland talks to Bryan Robertson.
' I look upon my work as a metamorphosis of an original object. Nature in the raw is almost impossible to represent today. One has to re-present it in a different way; and in a way which keeps the savour of the original impact felt by the artist.' Producer JOHN BOUNDY (Rerised repeat)
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Bernard Falk has been off again to meet all kinds of people who have found the secret of happiness in unusual and sometimes eccentric occupations.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Geoffrey Wheeler describes one of the pleasures of life. BBC Manchester
Journey Through a Small Planet (9)
Radio 4s International Business Report; Market Trends
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
