Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day CANON RICHARD STEWART
Introduced by John Timpson and Gillian Reynolds 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
from 9.20 am
Slimming
An over-indulgent Christmas, extra helpings of stodge during the cold weather and a feeling that it doesn't matter what you look like during the winter - and what have you got? A few extra pounds or even stones that you wish you could shed quickly. But just how long does it take to lose half a stone? Just how safe are quick, gimmicky diets? And what exactly is calorie counting?
Tuesday Call brings you advice on slimming and nutrition with Mrs Audrey Eyton, of Slimming Magazine and Professor Arnold Bender, nutritionist of Queen Elizabeth College.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
nem, p 54; Come, labour on! (BBC HB 388); Psalm 48; Colossians 3, vv 9-17 (NEB); God of grace and God of glory (BBC RB 391)
The May Kitten by MEG SEATON
Read by Elizabeth Morgan
What was special about May kittens? ... In the old days, witches were always on the lookout for them, but they never throve (said Mrs Flack ) and they brought things in .. , why then did I keep it?
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Careers without O-levels: the tenth in our series about people who started their careers without any O-levels, is about a production controller.
Careers without O-levels, including today's story and 19 others: 11.00 from bookshops.
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud , Peter Jones and Patrick Moore try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm) Preview by Kenneth Williams : page 17
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor She's a Lady - or Is She?: SYLVIA MARGOLIS searches for a 1976 definition.
Reading your letters.
2.0-2.2 News
Where Have All the GPs Gone?: MAUREEN VINCENT thinks she knows the answer. Arts Notebook.
The Making of a Saint: PAT BENNET reports on the intriguing process of canonisation. A Cage of Hummingbirds (5)
Story: Jessica and the Rag and Bone Man by KATHY MEAGHER
by GEORGE MEREDITH
House of Cards by STANLEY ELLIN
Read by BLAIN FAIRMAN 2: Paul
The news magazine with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer TOM VERNON
Douglas Stuart reporting
Cry, the Beloved Country by ALAN PATON , abridged in ten parts by HARRY FRANKLIN Read by JACK WATSON (Final instalment)
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
preceded by Weather
