Presenters John Timpson and David Byrne
6.30. 7.30. 8.30
News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Your Letters

Part 5

BBC correspondents look at a contemporary issue. (Repeated: Sat 4.0 pm)

The Man from the Shadows by HONORE BE BALZAC freely translated by HARRY BELL
Read by David March

NEM. P 58; High in the heavens, eternal God
(BBC HB 9); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; Genesis 3, vv 14-24; To the name of our salvation (BBC HB 284). long wave only

by MIKE WALKER
Narrator HUGH BURDEN with David March as Howard Phillips Lovecraft The solitary, eccentric, American horror-fiction writer was only published in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales during his lifetime (1890-1937), but has exerted a powerful influence in recent years. That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange eons even death may die.
First reader.BLAiN FAIRMAN Second reader
GARARD GREEN
Producer
SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBCBristol
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Shoals of Shockers
Did you know that more than 250 sorts of fish produce electric shocks?
And that the electric eel can fell a man with a quick zap of 550 volts?
Terry Langford absorbs shocking facts about electric rays, eels, catfish and snoutfish.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only

John Howard introduces the latest news and advice for consumers.
Norman Tozer looks for a topical bargain,
For Fact Sheet 19 send an sae to [address removed]

Presenter Brian Widlake

Introduced from Cardiff by Noreen Bray
The Mole-catcher of Miskin Manor: HENRY HARRY has caught thousands of moles, but still abides by his rule: ' Always give a mole an honourable burial.'
Discovering Women's History: in attics, museums or just by lounging around on the sofa at home watching old films - with authoress DEIRDRE BEDDOES.
Producer ANGELA JENNER BBC Wales
ThWleVal.s by WINSTON GRAHAM abridged in 12 parts by JACK SINGLETON Read by DAVID YICALISTER (12) (Music: Maconchys
Serenata concertante) long wave only

by ELIZABETH GASKELL dramatised in nine parts by BARRY CAMPBELL , With Kathryn Hurlbutt as Molly
Anne Louise Lambert as Cynthia Robert Lang as Squire Hamley
Angela Fleasence as Clare Tom Wilkinson as Mr Gibson and Thelma Whiteley as Mrs Gaskell
4: Mr Osborne Hamley 's Secret
' Molly, we are all wrong at home! Osborne has lost the fellowship at
Trinity he went back for. Then he has gone and failed miserably in his degree, after all that he said and that his mother said. I can't understand it. I never expected anything from
Roger; but Osborne! And then it has thrown
Madam into one of her bad fits of illness; and she seems to have a fancy for you, child! '
Mrs Hamley. LILLIAS WALKER
Gardener. PETER TUDDENHAM Robinson NIGEL GRAHAM Pianist RACHEL PORTMAN Music composed by RACHEL PORTMAN
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Anne Louise Lambert is a National Theatre player)

goes inside Rugby League With MICK MORGAN

followed by an interlude

The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (5)

Presenters Gordon Clough and Richard Bath

with BRIAN PERKINS
Including Financial Report

Chris Serle brings you the stories from the world of travel and transport, with Eric Tobitt , Alanah Martin and Tom Boswell.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm) Cast for the week
BBC Birmingham

Radio and TV extracts with Margaret Howard Producer SIMON ELMES
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)

A personal portrait of a public figure or the story of a private individual.

from Dumeld, Derbyshire with The Rt Hon
Roy Hattersley , MP Edwina Currle , mp The Rt Hon
David Owen , mp Adam Raphael
Chairman David Jacobs Producer GEOFFREY JAMES BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)

includes reviews of English National Opera's new production of Ariadne on Naxos by Richard Strauss , with Donald Sinden in the role of the Major-domo, at the Coliseum, London; and the ITV series based on the life of espionage agent Sidney Reilly , the illegitimatesonofa
Russian doctor, who spied for several countries, including Britain, became a millionaire and was involved in the Russian Revolution. Presenter
Sheridan Morley
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD

with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Tate Bill Wallls , Jon Glover and Sally Grace Written by JAMES IIENDRIE , IAN BROWN ANDREA SOLOMONS , ROY APPS RICHARD QUICK
JOHN LANGDON , JOHN COLLEE ROGER PLANER
PETER HICKEY and others.
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)

The Member of the Wedding by CARSON MCCULLERS abridged in ten parts by CATHERINE STEWART Read by GAYLE HUNNICUTT (10)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
(Starting on Monday:
'Stranger in the House by Georges Simenon )

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More often than not, it is the spectacular virtues, shamelessly displayed, which can pose more of a threat to civilised, everyday life than good, old-fashionedsin.
Terence Blacker advises the sinner on how to recognise those virtues and deal with them. 3: Modesty
Producer HELEN FRY long wave only

Edward Cole remembers some classic film musicals. This week: Gold Diggers of 1933 long wave only