6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
presented by Brian Bedhead with LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV DAVID PARTRIDGE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A short story by ANTON CHEKHOV translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT
Read by Geoffrey Beevers Producer MAURICE LEITCH
plus regulars
Dr Anthony Clare , Russell Davies , Fran Moirison in Edinburgh and Gerry Monté in Cardiff taking part in a live talk show, that each week features a celebrity birthday interview as well as intriguing personal stories and musical interludes.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
NEM, p 102; Come, my soul, thou must be waking (BBC HB 404); Psalm 100; Matthew 24. vv 14-28 (AV); At thy feet, 0 Christ, we lay (BBC HB 402)
The House with Thin Walls by JOHN SHERWOOD
Read by Cécile Chevreau Gideon and his younger brother, Arnold, heard a good many conversations which were not intended for them.... '
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
(Full details: Fri 8.30 pm)
Story: Mr Dickens and the Donkey by BETTY SPENCE
Today JILL TODD helps you save money with the latest food news and prices in the BBC Shopping Basket.
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
11.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by William Davis
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Overeaters Anonymous: MIKE SHEILS finds out how they help compulsive eaters in America.
Talking Point on Children and their Environment: one of the themes of this, the International Year of the Child.
With Rings on Her Finners: PAM GILLHAM takes advice on looking after your jewellery.
A Trip to Auntie's ': in Paris. NOREEN RIOLS has visited the Credit Municipal, the government-run pawnshop. Sabrina (3)
The weekend's listening on Radio 4UK
4: Akenfield and Others.... Tom Vernon goes to Suffolk to meet Ronald Blythe and others who have written about the towns and villages of East Anglia and talks to best-selling writers Hammond Innes and Norah Lofts Readers SHEILA ALLEN and PETER TUDDENIIAM
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
by Philippa Adams
A flock of pigeons are blown off their course home by a storm and take over an empty building in London. As men try to shift them a new order begins to emerge among the birds.
BBC Manchester
pigeon Post (9)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
(Repealed: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by HELEN LEADBEATER
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Thirteen programmes on the theme of childhood to mark the International
Year of the Child
Compiled and introduced by David Davis
7: My Good Child
Readers Prunella Scales and Martin Starkie
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
(Repeated: Sat 11.20 am)
A sequence of dramatisations by Bill Morrison of four Philip Marlowe novels, 1939-1949
When Mrs Murdock asked Marlowe to recover a rare gold coin stolen by her daughter-in-law, the private eye took the case. He didn't like Mrs Murdock but he needed the job. Three murders and a great many lies were not part of the deal.
(First broadcast in 1977)
In conversation with George Scott , Lord ' Rab ' Butler, a key member of the Tory Cabinets of Churchill. Eden. Macmillan and Home. talks about the effects of his 1944 Education Act. Suez and the post-war industrial boom.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Tony Palmer reports from the Edinburgh International Festival on THE NATIONAL BALLET of CUBA and THE CITI
ZENS COMPANY, GLASGOW, who present two plays on the Diaghilev theme. Chinchilla and The Good-Humoured Ladies.
Producer JOHN ROUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting
From earliest times talking about oneself has been seen as helpful in solving problems or at least making one feel better about them. During the last 50 years doctors, psychologists and others have attempted to harness the beneficial effects of talking in the practice of psychotherapy.
In a series of six programmes Dr Anthony Clare gives his personal assessment of the present state of psychotherapy in its many forms.
4: Can It Help Me Realise My Full Potential?
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Fritz Spiegl keeps a keen eve and ear on what's written and said.
BBC Manchester
Some Do Not (9) long wave only
long wave only
Edward Cole presents a sequence of music for late-night listening.
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
