Two hours of news and views from home and around the world.
Introduced by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer jor the Day
With THE REV JOHN CONGDON
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News Headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
9: A Bolt from
Records introduced by Christopher Grier
(A revised 's broadcast ut 8.30)
BBC Correspondents through
' out the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
(Next edition: Monday 7.20 pmi
NEM, p 46; O dearest Lord, by all adored (BBC HB 266); Psalm 119, Part 4; Luke 17, vv 1-10 (NEB); Lift up your heads, ye gates of brass (BBC HB 178)
The Chinese Gown
Written by NORA WINDRIDGE
Read by June Barrie
' When he wakes he'll find me waiting, cool and assured, rich and beautiful, in Chinese brocade
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Do little girls experience religion in a different way from little boys? Three women-Jewish, Catholic and Ilinduremember their childhood.
This week June Rose rememhers a Jewish girlhood in the Golders Green of the ,30s. Producer MONICA FURLONG
including Volunteer Week Presenters Sue Cook
, and George Luce
12.53 medium only: Weather and programme news
Presented by Brian Widlake
(Broadcast on Wednesday at 7.
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
The Singing Sweetheart of the 50s: ROSEMARY CLOONEY has written her autobiography.
I'm a Bad Manager: a confession from KOSEMAHY NICE.
Preserving Nature: MOLLY PRICE. OWEN talks to the wardens who create habitats for wildlifr Dr Wortle's School (4)
Story: The Wind and the Tickly Vest by DOROTHY EDWARDS
by William Smethurst
"Would you believe to call a man a Capitalist was a deadly insult? An actionable insult? Something you could be dragged through the courts for, hauled up before the majesty of law or, fined, imprisoned and, no doubt, hung for?"
Directed by Roger Pins BBC Birmingham
Jack de Manio meets them all. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
The Sword in the Stone (9)
The news magazine
Presented by Brian Widlake with PM's reporting team
hy the Conservative Party
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 Ed wardian public?
Producer RONALD COOK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
(Broadcast on Monday at 12 27,
Written by WILLIAM SMETHURST (Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
with Denis Quilley, John Woodvine, Judy Parfitt
The author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" was born in Russia 150 years ago.
Leo Tolstoy recorded his turbulent life in his diaries, letlers and stories. They give a picture of his stormy relationships with family and friends, his extreme and often violent emotions as well as of his genius and his ideas
(John Woodvine is in 'Every Good Boy Deserves Favour' at the Mermaid Theatre, London)
(Boradcast on Mon at 11.5 am)
An invitation to join Elizabeth lane Howard in an exploration.
Producer NATALIE WHEEN
I Broadcast on Saturday at 1.15
A nightly review of books. films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CARROLL MOORE
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
- the drink of a nation
An excellent and by all physicians approved China drink, called by the Chineans, Tcha. by other nations Tay alias Tea, is sold at the Sultan's Head in Sweeting Rents by the Royal Exchange , London.'
1658 and the first mention of tea in Britain. John Green traces the history ot this crucial British drink with a little help from
JACK BUCHANAN , DR JOHNSON, BINNIE BALE, H. C. WELLS and QUEEN ANNE-not to mention THE GOONS. TONY HANCOCK , BERNARD CRIBBINS, PETER COOK and JOHN WESLEY.
Further flavour added by FRASER KERR , HAROLD KASKET. GREGORY DE POL.MAY, ANNE ROSEN tELD, DUDLEY .SllAlNS (tenor) and geoffrey brawn ipianoi
The whole concoction stirred by PIERS PLOWRICHT i Repeat)
Zorba the Greek (14)
Radio 4's International Business Report, Market Trends
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
