Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers
Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day GEORGE RUSSO
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
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; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Is it still worth making an old-fashioned Christmas cake, or are there cheaper alternatives? How do you store Christmas puddings and mince pies? When should you start preparing Christmas foods, and can you make long-term preparations without a freezer? Put your own questions on Christmas fare and general cooking to experts Pru Leith and Delia Smith.
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 34: Stand up. and bless the Lord (BBC HB 268); Canticle 8; Matthew 26, vv 57-68 (Rsv); Sing alleluia forth in duteous praise (BBC HB 282)
A Week of Crime Stories
2: The Man in White Gloves by TED WILLIS Read by David Lloyd Meredith
What was it that made the detective wonder about the man who was so fastidious that he even wore white gloves in his own home? Did his obsession hold the clue to something more sinister? Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
Home and Family Edition Presenter Mari Prichard with your letters
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Questionmasters: Tim Gudgin and Bob Holness
Latymer Upper School v. Westminster City School
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
Whatever Became of Polite-ness?: GORDON cow tries to discover.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
My Favourite Ingredient . . 2: orange for SUE NICHOLS. Arts Notebook.
FAITH BROOK reads Tisha (10)
Story: Smarticat by ANNE WELLINGTON
Part 5
visits South Humberside, where members of the Burton on Stather and District Horticultural Society put their questions to
FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS
ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster
MICHEAL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD BBC Manchester
The Making of a Marchioness by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY 7: A Child is to be Born
The news magazine: presented by Brian Widlake with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHFRegionalnewsandweather
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
BBC Birmingham
(Stereo)
(Repeated: Wed 1.30 pm)
A daily programme in which reports from around the world are discussed and analysed. In the studio David Sells
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
The Man in the Queue by JOSEPHINE TEY abridged in 12 parts by DONALD BANCROFT Read by SIMON LACK (Final instalment)
Producer PATRICIA BRENT
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
