With THE REV MATTHEW RODGER Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25* 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters
Christopher Dunkley , of the Financial Times, airs your comments about the BBC. Producer JEAN SNEDEGAR
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Write to: Feedback, BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
The Plan by JIM MCCALLEN
Read by Ian McElhinney Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland
NEM, p97; Father, hear the prayer we offer (BBC HB 352);
Psalm 3; Isaiah 6, w 1-8; Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371). Stereo
In the last programme in the series Leonard Barras reads two more of his fairly likely stories: Laid On with a Trowel and Everything but Vertigo
'He said that his wife, who had been the first do-it-yourself woman in Wallsend, had always cleaned their chimneys by dropping a football down them, until that calamitous day
35 years earlier when she had decamped with the wandering insurance man.'
Producer Gillian Hush BBC Manchester
with John Howard
For information about this week's programme, write for Factsheet No 4: [address removed]Please send sae
Derek Cooper with his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 International Story- Writing Competition (BroadcastMondayatl.55pmFM)
2.05 Let's Join In More of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by CATHERINE STORR (R) (e)
2.25 The Song Tree The Amazing Secret Music-Maze (3) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR with PYEWACKETT. Stereo (R) (e)
2.40 Scottish Traditional Dancing Presented by BILL TORRANCE This week: An Edinburgh Assembly, George Street Assembly Rooms BBC Scotland. Stereo (e)
from Manchester
The programme that offers a heady blend of the practical, personal and political, the trendy, topical and timeless. Presenter Helen Boaden Serial: Cold Showers (7)
by ARNOLD BENNETT dramatised in six parts by PETER MACKIE with and 1:1863-5
A handsome commercial traveller, Gerald Scales, calls into a draper's shop in Bursley to flirt with young Sophia
Baines, little realising that his visit will bring exile for the girl and ultimate ruin to himself.
Directed by PHILIP MARTIN BBCPebbleMill.Stereo
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The last of four programmes looking at film versions of famous novels.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
When Alan Sillitoe 's screen adaptation of his own novel was first released in 1960, audiences felt that British movies had finally grown up - with Albert Finney thumbing his nose at authority, a new kind of hero was born. But
Christopher Cook finds many differences between Sillitoe's original novel and Karel Reisz 's film version. With soundtrack illustrations and readings from the book by Paul McGann.
Producer WENDY CLAY
Presented by Gordon Clough and Frances Coverdale
5.25* PM Letters
5.30* News Summary
5.31* City News continued on FM5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
with Tom Boswell , Clive Jacobs and Alanah Martin Producer IRENE MALLIS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Written by GILLIAN RICHMOND Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
with Margaret Howard
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE. Stereo (Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)
Baroness Trumpington, Parliamentary Secretary (Lords), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Bryan Gould , mp David Alton , mp
Max Hastings , Editor of the Daily Telegraph from Northampton
Chairman Sue MacGregor Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 10pm)
The Lord Chancellor answers questions from John Eidinow in this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the courts and by Parliament. Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
Alistair Cooke's weekly talk on American life, history and politics.
by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Pure Fool
When Wagner wrote his sacred festival opera, Parsifal, he created all sorts of problems - transformation scenes, disappearing gardens and castles, with magic spears that stop in mid-air. How were they solved for the first production in 1882 and how have
Bill Bryden and Bernard Haitink approached the staging and musical challenges in the new Royal Opera House production which opened last night? Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Nairn in Darkness and Light (5)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
A satirical review of the week's news with Bill Wallis David Tate , Sally Grace and Royce Mills
Written by MARK BURTON
JOHN O'FARRELL. PAUL B. DAVIES STEVE PUNT, MIKE COLEMAN
BILL MATTHEWS , ROBERT UNFORD MAX HANDLEY. GED PARSONS PETER HICKEY. DAVID BADDIEL ROB NEWMAN. ALISON RENSHAW and others
Producer JO BUNTING. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)
followed by an interlude
Help Yourself: Russian Studies Programmes 5-8. Stereo (e)
