Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
C.40 Prayer for the Day MARGARET MARTYN
Introduced by John Ttmpson and Brian Redhead 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
[number removed]
Parent and Pupil Power
Do you feel that, as a parent, you are kept in the dark about what's going on at schoolt Should parents and pupils be allowed to express their news about, for example, which languages are taught, about sex, religious and political education/
If you feel that parents and pupils should be consulted about what goes on in school, if you hesitate about ' making a fuss,' if your child is unhappy at school, if you're worried about whom to approach and how to put your case, ring in with your questions to Barbara Bullivant , Honorary Secretary of the Confederation for the Advancement of State Education, and Graham Bond , Primary School Headmaster and Chairman of the Home and School Council.
In the Chair Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
NEM, p 79; Rejoice, 0 land, in God thy might (BBC n 433); Psalm 148; Isaiah 26, vv 12-21 (av); Christian, unflinching stand (BBC HB 350)
A Dag's Life by JOAN O'CONNOR
Read by Lockwood West
'He was a dog without a master, a child without a governess ... She was a French-woman. a passionate if indifferent painter, impecunious, charming in a raffish way and very kind ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Lockwood West is in ' Billy at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London)
Santham. Warwickshire
Presenter Jeanine McMallen
Careers without O-levels: the fifth in our series about people who started their careers without any O-levels, is about a commercial artist.
Careers without O-levels, including today's story and It others: £1 00 from bookshops.
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud. Peter Jones and Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Devised by IAN MESSITIER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
Introduced by Sue MacGregor The Pantomime is Alive and Well! : PAUL BARNES discovering some of the secrets of the Christmas Shows.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Children with Diabetes: DR ANDREW CUDWORTH describes a hopeful new line of research.
A Holiday Haunt: HEATHER VENABLES and MAUREEN O'LEARY tell BERNARD JACKSON about a strange experience.
Breakthrough: HARRY FORBES talks about the effect of a first exhibition on a young artist... LAURENCE HARRINGTON reads Shake Hands forever by HUTM RENBEU. (5)
Story: The Box that Wanted a Name by OLIVE DOVE
by Jane Austen
with Elizabeth Counsell as Elizabeth Bennet, Eleanor Sommerfield as Mrs Bennet, Robert Sansom as Mr Bennet
The news of Lydia's elopement with Wickham brought a sudden end to the visit of Mr and Mrs Gardiner and their niece to Derbyshire
(BBC Bristol)
MICHAEL BARRATT invites
FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. Producer KENNETH FORD
Questions, on postcards please, to ' Gardeners' Question Time,' BBC, Woodhouse Lane. Leeds LS2 9PX
Drawn from Memory by E. H. SHEPARD
Read by AUBREY WOODS
2: The Aunts and Jubilee
The news magazine presented by 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 Frank Muir challenge
Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the Chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
(Repeated: Thursday 11.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
John TIdmarsh presenting world news and views
A nightly review of books, films. plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer ANNE WINDER
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
Dauglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
The Little Ottleys by ADA LEVERSON
Book 2: Tenterhooks
Read by GERALDINEMCEWAN (2)
preceded by Weather