with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45 Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Join Richard Baker and his guests for entertaining and provocative conversation.
... Phone the Thursday Exchange on [number removed]and cross-question the studio guests as they examine one of the week's major talking points with David Davies.
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The News on the hour from the BBC Newsdesk.
10.30 Morning Story
Read by Peter Adamson as Harry Kemp , a northern photographer. 4: All Together Now by DAVID CAMPTON
10.45 An Act of Worship
... in the Lions' Den Who should decide whether an under-age girl should take the Pill?
Victoria Gillock faces doctors and Family
Planners. Pattie Coldwell ensures fair play.
... follow the progress of Able Seagull Herring
... link up with commentators throughout the country for a local perspective in Network UK Produced by the Rollercoaster unit

Bill Breckon opens the door on the housing world with the help of financial expert Tom Tickell.
Producer HELEN ROBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD Telephone if you have questions you'd like answered in the follow-up programme this evening at 8.25
Lines open from 12.20-1.30

The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife with MARGOT BOYD PALUNE LETTS and BRIAN HAINES Book 4, Chapter 1 The Present
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE

Presenter Sir Robin Day

by JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE
The second of three programmes
A portrait in words and music of the great English composer with Julian Glover as Edward Elgar
Narrator John Rowe
The Enigma Variations made Elgar's name. What was his own response? 'A country life,' he wrote from his new home in the Malvern Hills, 'I find absolutely essential.'
His creative spirit was as fulfilled as it was ever to be.
With WILLIAM EEDLE ,
NIGEL GRAHAM ,
EDWARD KELSEY , JOHN UVESEY and PATIENCE TOMLINSON Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Final prog: Fri 2.0 pm)

Big City Incident by BETTY PAUL
Karen arrives in London hoping for a new job and a new start in life. She gets her new start, but it's not quite what she had in mind.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC
Reference Library sort out your queries.
Producer JAN TAYLOR

Time after Time by MOLLY KEANE abridged and read in 12 parts by Sheila Mitchell (1)
In a mixture of elegance and squalor, Jasper Swift and his three sisters live in the decayed splendour of their family home in Ireland. They are growing old, but for the second time around, and in the guise of a blind woman, their youth is about to catch up with them. Producer JOHN CARDY

with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
VHF only 5.50-5.55

with PAULINE BUSHNELL including
Financial Report

(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by JAMES ROBSON Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham

with David Jacobs
Compiled by LAURIE MASON Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

Themes and variations from the lives of the British in South-East Asia, in the days of the Empire: in the words of some of those who were there. 1: Shanghai
'There were no less than 400 nightclubs in Shanghai ... It was a place where you could see anything, do anything, get anything ... I never felt it was a wicked city, it was an exciting city ... There was something about the air of Shanghai. You didn't need much sleep.'
Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS
BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP Compiled by CHARLES ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON

Bill Breckon and Tom Tickell are joined by experts to answer your questions on mortgages. Producer HELEN ROBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD Lines open from 8.0 pm

A series of nine montage documentaries
4: American Airwaves: Dallas to Sacramento
I've been recently divorced and I'm 17 ... I'm kinda shy ...
Be the envy of your local fallout shelter with the handy Heiney survival kit.... Uncle Gene's Baked Beans - they're the classiest cos they're the gassiest! The second part of a journey across the USA in the sound of some of her 9,698 radio stations.
Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

When Hunter Davies challenged Bookshelf listeners to produce a contemporary ghost story, hundreds of spine-chilling tales poured in. A selection of some of the, best is read in the second ' of two programmes.
Producer KATE FENTON

Arthur Miller
The current Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman starring Dustin Hoffman in the role of Willy Loman , has received rave reviews from the critics.
Christopher Bigsby talks to Arthur Miller in New York, about the genesis of this play as well as his other dramas, including The Crucible and After the Fall; about growing up in New York, his marriage to Marilyn Monroe and why he chose to be a playwright rather than a novelist.
Producer CARROLL MOORE

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