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What Britain Is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world.
Introduced by John Tlmpson With LIBBY PURVES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV BRUCE SAUNDERS
7.9. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
4: The Bear
(translated by CHARLES AND NATASHA HEPBURN )
NEM, p 54; 0 brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother! (BBChb376);Psalm126;Luke 24, vv 13-24 (NaB); Gather us In, thou love that fillest all (BBC HB 175)
Under the Bonnet by TONY ASHTON
Read by Roger Snowdon
'When a girl's oar breaks down, she needs a man's help ... or so he thinks.'
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
A book you loved in childhood - how well do you remember It now? Penelope Keith , In conversation with JEAN DAVIS , recalls one of her own favourites. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Today: BBC Shopping Basket Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 Weather: programme news
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines
Presented by Brian Widlako
Introduced by Sue MacGregor New Wave Woman Quiz: SYLVIA BARRETT from Norwich, PAT CARSON from Belfast and BARBARA KELLY from Tayside match their minds for the Woman's Hour radio prize.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Starting from Scratch: FRANCES PERRY reviews the results of the year's work in the Hellens' new garden.
Every Man a King (4)
from 2.0
Story: The Misfit Witch by E. A. ELLICE-JONES
Over the Hills
A play for radio by TRISHA riNI with Doreen Cameron as Christine and Nur and Eileen McCallum as Suzanne and Djemlla Seems kind of a shame I only met you just when I was leaving, but I guess that was right. Thought of you a lot, for several reasons. I'd be really glad If you'd write me and let me know how you're doing. Did you ever get to see the painting I was telling you about? '
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC Scotland
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 CROWTHER
The Little Nugget (4)
The news magazine
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
1.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
Written by Bruno Milna
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham
with Frank Lincoln
Poems about characters, from the village blacksmith to the village prude.
Readier JOHN DARRAN
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS
BBC Wales (Rptd: Sat 11.20 am)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN BOUNDY
direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
In the 1930s Yehudi Menuhin recorded Elgar's Violin Concerto with the composer conducting, a recording which is among the most famous gramophone records ever released. Tonight he conducts a programme of Elgar's music including a performance in which he accompanies one of the brightest stars of the younger generation, the Chinese-American cellist Yo Yo Ma. with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS
Overture: Cockaigne (In London town)
Cello Concerto In I minor
J. W. Lambert invites you to Join him once again in the bar during the interval of this evening's concert for a few tall stories culled from the BBC Sound Archives and the pages of literature.
Part 2
Symphony No 1, In A flat
10.4* Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Introduced by David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The House with the Green Shutters (14)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
