Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV VIVIEN BAGGS
Introduced by John Timpson 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
from 9.20 am Fresh Starts
Redundancies, lay-offs, and unemployment figures are everyday news affecting old and young alike. For many, the problem now is how to make a second start in another job or even a new career.
What sort of employment is available in different parts of the country? Can a man or woman over 50 hope for a new career? What chance has a redundant junior executive of getting a similar position? What are the prospects of another job after retirement? What sort of re-training schemes are available? And how are employers helping?
In the studio to answer your questions and near about your own experiences will be Margaret Korving, author of two books on second careers, Out of the Rut and Happy Return, and Jim Davidson of the Training Services Agency.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
NEM, p 114; Soldiers, who are Christ's below (BBC HB 337); Psalm 29; Acts 1, vv 15-26 (NEB); Disposer supreme, and judge of the earth (BBC HB 226)
Flossie by DIANA COOPER
Read by Annette Crosbie
' She was very solemn, very still. One crumply hand rested on the soft toy at her side. I felt myself impelled to rest my own fingers on the child's soft, fair curls. It felt like a floss of flowers ... '
Mari Prichard presents the Tuesday edition, concerned with home and family affairs
A panel game controlled by Nicholas Parsons in which Clement Freud
Peter Jones. Aimi Macdonald 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)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Children's Books and Writers: critic MARGERY FISHER and artist SHIRLEY HUGHES give advice on how to choose children's books and ELAINE moss reviews the pick of the New Year.
2.0-2.2 News
Setting up Home - 3: looking it over - The Surveyor.
The Healthiness of Health Foods -4: honey.
A Medical Mystery: 12 sets of Siamese twins have been born in southern Africa in just over a year, setting a world record. PROFESSOR PETER BEICHTON of Cape Town University is trying to find out why the phenomenon occurred. Lucky Jim by KINGSLEY AMIS abridged in 12 parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by MARTIN JARVIS (Final instalment)
Story: Granny Apple's New Cushions by PAULINE HILL
by THOMAS HARDY
2: Christmas at Bloom's End
visits Ugley Green , Essex
Members of the Ugley Village wi put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD BBC Manchester
The House of Gair
2: Mr Crome and Mary
Nicholas Woolley
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
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
Presenter Edwin Mullins
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
The Stone Angel by MARGARET LAURENCE
Read by MARGARET ROBERTSON (2)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
