Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers robin hicks and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day JEAN RICHARDSON
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; at 6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 English Regions: see column 5
(medium wave only from 9.20am)
Two cookery experts, Mary Berry and Pru Leith, will be in the studio to answer your usual cookery queries; but with Christmas just 37 days away you may want to know about early preparations for the holiday. Things like mincemeat and cranberry sauce, the cake and the pudding.
Sue MacGregor will be in the chair, and the number to phone is 01 (if you're outside London) [number removed].
The lines are open from 8.00am
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
medium wave onlu
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 102; Love of love, and light of light (BBC HB 521); Psalm 147. vv 12-20; 1 Samuel 17, vv 1-11 (AV); God of eternity (BBC HB 390)
The Frog by JOHN CADELL
Read by Peter Howell
In spite of his name and Huguenot ancestry. Louis-Philippe was English through and through. But he was a great disappointment to his parents. Why couldn't he learn to speak French, for example?
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
medium wace only
Presenter Lyn Macdonald
A look at home, school and everyday family life.
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud. Peter Jones and Michael Palin try to talk for just a minute Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Children's Books and Writers: looks at the making of a new book. asks children about Christmas Annuals, and suggests books for holiday reading.
2.8-2.2 News
Biofeedback - Just Another 'Magic' Black Box?: ANNE BROWN with a short report on medical applications of a new technique.
Living Another Woman's Life: BRYONY AND ANDREW EDMUNDS 'S conclusions on taking part in a life-swap experiment.
Home and Away: STELLA PARK and family ' did ' Europe while 'holidaying at home. The Moon and Sixpence by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN read by DAVID MARCH (Final instalment)
(Music: Lyadov's ' From The Book of Revelation ')
Story: The Three Ladybirds by STEPHEN WEAVER
by JANE AUSTEN. Part 1
The Return (2)
Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and John Wells challenge
Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
A portrait of Fred Streeter by LESLIE SMITH - a tribute to Fred and his lifetime's love for all growing things.
Born Pulborough , Sussex. June 1877 - Died Petworth, Sussex, A" Saints' Day 1975
Producer RALPH ROLLS
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Overture and Beginners (7)
preceded by Weather
