Introduced by John Timpson with MARGARET HOWARD Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV RICHARD BARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45. Thought for the Day
Selected and presented by Bob Langley
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
or, Down with Virtue
A final lucky dip In which Jeremy Slepmann pulls out a miscellany of music written, or made up on the spot, for the important purpose of having fun. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in. Producer PADDY O'KEEFFP
NEM, page 5; Come, my soul (BBC HB 404); Psalm 47; Genesis 21. vv 1-19 (RSV); Praise the T.ord! ye heavens (BBC HB 16)
Written and read by Tenniel Evans
BBC Bristol
Brian Johnston recently visited C'omrie, Perthshire. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
After more than 40 years on the staff of the BBC, the last 20 as Senior Television Newsreader, Robert Dougall undertakes an assignment to read the daily television news on board a world cruise.
Things are not quite the same....
Producer MICHAEL GlLLIAM
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Barry Took challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden In the Chair
John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham
12.55 Weather; programme news:
Presented by Brian Widlake. Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
'An inquest is to be held ... ' The coroner's concern with death does not endear him to the public, but how fair is the popular image? And what are a coroner's duties? PAT CALLAGHAN investigates.
2.9-2.2 News
Moscow Overland: DORIS AND JAMES CHAIILTON went on a motoring holiday to the Soviet Union and got a ' behind the scenes' view of the Russian way of life.
The Other George: niCH-ARD CARRINGTON tells the storyofGeorgeHenry
Lewes and his ' scandalous ' relationship with novelist, George Eliot - relation ship which led to some of our greatest literary masterpieces. BBC Birmingham
Hedingham Harvest by GEOFFREY ROBINSON , abridged by BA MASON and read by Hugh Dickson.
Last of nine instalments. (Music: Kreisler's String Quartet)
from 2.0
Story: The Donkey Who Couldn't Bray by JOAN HARCOURT
Presenters PATRICIA LEV-ENION and SEAN BARRETT Written by JANEY GORDON Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas
'Lareggub Hill, that mystic tumulus, the memorial of peoples that dwelt in the region of Llareggub before the Celts left the land of summer and where the old wizards made themselves a wife out of flowers.' with (in order of appearance):
A Transcription Services recording by Adrian Revill, with Michael Black and Prudence Menmuir
(Some of the cast are members of the Welsh National Theatre Company)
(Repeated: Monday at 7.20 and Thursday at 7.30 pm)
There is a feature in next week's Radio Times.
Presented by Gordon Clough and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55 Weather; programme news:
In the light of the forthcoming wavelength changes Barry Norman takes a look at the developing world of in-car entertainment and information.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection
Producer NICK HUGHES
(Repeated: Sat 10.30 am
A personal portrait
General Sir John Rackett Esther Rantzen
Lord Willis David Dimblchy
Chairman David Jacobs from the Joint Headquarters Rheindahlen, Germany, in co-operation with British Forces Broadcasting Services Producer CAROLE STONE i Repeated: Sat 1.15 pm)
Presenter Richard Cork Producer CARROLL MOORE
Douglas Stuart reporting
with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tale , Sheila Steafel and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by JOHN LANGDON , GUY JENKIN, BARRY BOWES , RICHARD QUICK, JEREMY BROWNE , ROGER V.ODDIS
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Repeated: Sat 5.30 pm) Woddis on ... page 7 Preview: page 17
with Fritz Spiegl BBC Manchester
Repeated: Sat 11.55 am)
Ihe Price of Love 5)
medium wave
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
