Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV TIMOTHY RAPHAEL
with Brian Redhead in Manchester, John Timpson in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, Including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Conflicts in the Family
Even the happiest families have rows - sometimes they are just a temporary flare-up, other times they are a continuous battle between parents and children. What time should a 14-year-old be in by? Who's going to do the washing-up? Why can't young people keep their rooms tidy? And the biggest conflict of all is about what teenagers choose to wear. Parents and children are invited to discuss ' family conflicts ' with Dr Faith Spicer , of the London Youth Advisory Centre, and John Hipkln , teacher and father of three.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 93; Might and glory, power and wisdom (BBC HB 265); Psalm 11; Matthew 21, vv 10-22 (RSV); A safe strong-hold our God is still (BBC HB 297)
The Tiny Miracle by HADRIAN ROGERS
Read by Richard Hurndall
' He was a pessimist. He had looked into the vast space of the tiny atom and he had found - what? Mathematics. And he knew that mathematics ... depended on nothing more profound than the simple ... fact that if you added one to one you got the answer two. You didn't find meaning in the atom ... '
BRIAN jOHNSTON recently visited Oakham in Leicestershire. Producer CAROLE STONE. BBCBristoI
breaks into the BBC Sound Archives but comes out with more than he bargained for.
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mari Prichard with your letters
Programme 7
A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services stationed in Germany, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar. (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 Brian Widlake
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Visit a Hampshire turkey farm With MARY CHERRY.
2.0-2.2 News
News Extra: ANNE SUTER prefers the silly season stories in her newspaper.
Handmade for Christmas (2): Have fun and save money. Make your own Christmas Cards.
Looking at the World Through Two Different -Windows: JANE HAMILTON-MERRITT learnt to be ' mindful ' in a Thai temple. A Touch of Mistletoe by BARBARA COMYNS abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS Read by YSANNE CHURCHMAN (Final instalment)
(Music: Walton's Music for Children)
Story: Rufus by K. N. BUCHANAN
With Anna Cropper as Laura, Jack Watson as Commodore Tribe and introducing John Gillett as Theodore Jenks
(Sunday's broadcast)
visits Battle, Sussex where members of the Battle Floral and Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS , ALAN GEMMELL. Questionmaster michAEL BARRATT. Producer KENNETH FORD. BBC Manchester
Black as He's Painted 7: Mr Sheridan 's Past
Brian Widlake
5.56 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. BBC Birmingham (Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed, In the studio David Sells
Part 1 as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
Presenter Michael Oliver
Douglas Stuart reporting
And So - Victoria Book 2 Read by GARY WATSON (12)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
