with Brian Redhead and John Timpson
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

And good company - 55 minutes of conversation with people from all walks of life.
Mary Whitehouse is the birthday guest.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON

visits Northamptonshire where members of the Moulton and District Gardeners Society put their questions to Geoffrey Smith Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczacki Questionm aster Ken Ford
BBC Manchester

The Sisterhood by AUSON WEAVER Read by Patricia Gallimore
Nobody, but nobody, could affect such a deliberately dopey look, such a cross-eyed, cretinous gaze, such a sickening simper. Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham

NEM p 34; Fairest Lord
Jesus (BBC HB 138); Psalm 57; Acts 11, vv 22-30; New every morning is the love (BBC HB 408) long wave only

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Ten programmes
6: A Nice Quiet Meal
Johnny Morris calls on 25 years of dealing with animals - and their dealings with him. BBC Bristol long wave only

Presenter Pattie Coldwell Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family.

A serial in six parts by JOHN FLETCHER
4: Wrongfully framed for a murder, Terry Prince is trying to find out who really did it. His suspicions fall equally on the government's Internal Security Department and on gangsters of the London underworld....
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Presenter Sir Robin Day

Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Guest of the Week:
Jessica Mitford Little Sister by MARGARET GAAN abridged in ten parts by MADGE HART Read by Rosalind Shanks Patience Tomlinson and Crawford Logan (1) In 1925, while Little Sister is staying with her Chinese-American relatives in Shanghai, revolutionary events, both political and emotional, occur!
(Music: Ireland's The Almond Tree) long wave only

The Plays of Giles Cooper A series selected from the work of one of radio's leading dramatists
The Disagreeable Oyster A highly stylised handling of an apparently real situation, as rich as a cartoon film in outrageous comic invention, and as sober as a Chekhov play in its concern for human beings. with TIMOTHY BATESON , DIANA BISHOP, MALCOLM HAYES , KATHLEEN HELME ,
VERNON JOYNER , ELIZABETH MORGAN , HILDA SCHRODER and WILLIAM SLEIGH
Special sound by the BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP Directed by CHARLES LEFEAUX and DESMOND BRISCOE

Three programmes in which a notable ancestor is recalled by a notable descendant.
2: Lord David Cecil on Lady Gwendoline Cecil (1860-1945)
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol

Laughing Gas (8)

with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons

with PETER DONALDSON including
Financial Report

devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)

(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)

A series of weekly investigations into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud. Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thurs 12. noon)

goes to Italy.
We eat their ice-cream, we wear their shoes, we admire their design and buy their knitwear.
In Business joins a Trade Mission to persuade
British companies to sell to the Italians as vigorously as they do to us. Producer ROSAUND BEW

A ten-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann casts a generally benign but occasionally cynical eye on the history of music-making in the home. 5: A Most Practical Art In which Bach gives a lesson, music brings about a cure and a lawyer's singing condemns his client.
Producer RAY ABBOTT

The Spending Trap
Hard though she has tried over the past five years. Mrs Thatcher has not managed to meet her pledge to cut government spending. She's been beaten by such basics as birth, death and old age.
How the spending trap has tightened around successive governments, how it might be sprung and the mayhem that could cause, are explained by Mary Goldring.
Producer DAVID MORTON (Repeated: Fri 11.0 am)

"... my physical faculties may diminish - but up there, at the back of my eyes, I'm convinced the undiminished A-Z of my life is there - from what I had for breakfast on my fourth birthday, to the thoughts and feelings on first seeing the Indian Ocean.'
In the first of five talks, playwright
Brian Thompson sifts this mass of autobiography to emerge with 'boots, barrack, butler, bull and boxing'. BBC Manchester
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with Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY

Far Away and Long Ago 3: Aspects of the Plain

Presenter
Richard Kershaw
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