Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.50 Yours Faithfully: a note from Gerald Priestland, Religious Affairs Correspondent.
VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Today's listening; weather
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Yours Faithfully
with Paul Barnes
At 8.0
News and more of Today with at 8.25* VHF Regional news and weather
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with IAN WALLER
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES invites readers of the Daily Mirror to confront its Editor, Mike Molloy.
Narrator LAURIE MACMILLAN Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
TOM READ and ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning page 30; Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (BBC Hymn Book 369); Psalm 31; John 10, v 40 to 11, v 15 (AV); 0 love, who formedst me to wear (BBC HB 361)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC Radio and Television programmes during the past seven days.
Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly survey of what Is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Lady Barnett,
Professor Alan Gemmell, Harry Soan and Ann Mallalleu
Chairman David Jacobs
From Shropshire
BBC Bristol
Anne Gregg and Norman Tozer present an hour of varied talk and ideas, including a look at some of the problems lone parents face in combining a job with home responsibilities, and bring us up to date on what the European papers are saying.
And Stephen Murray reads April in Paris by Ursula Le Guin
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Dark Green by Rose Tremain with Irene Sutcliffe and Judy Bennett
Miss Rowlandson used to be a good teacher - Charlie is potentially an imaginative and intelligent pupil. The problem is that they seem to be unable to communicate with one another. It is a problem to be found in many schools - though they do not all have such tragic consequences.
And the pupils of Bramhall County High School
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)
as Radio 3
All the day's current affairs, news and comment presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team
David Jason, Bill Wallis, David Tate and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
as he encourages his guests to speak lightly, perhaps with illumination, about some of the week's news they have made or observed. Musical interludes by Peter Skellern and Jeremy Nicholas
Oliver Ford, decorator (By Appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) and garden designer, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Records introduced by Richard Baker
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
West End Winners
Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular with Judy Parfitt, Stephen Murray and Christopher Godwin
Three couples meet on three separate Christmas Eves in their respective kitchens. The result is one of Ayckbourn's funniest plays. There is, however, a sting in the tail.
A classic comedy, the play reveals not only Ayckbourn's wit but also the wicked observations behind his humour.
Adapted, produced and directed by Kay Patrick
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
Ralf Dahrendorf, Rt Hon Edward Heath, MP and Jonathan Steinberg with Brian Redhead.
BBC Manchester
Evening prayers led by Michael Shoesmith
BBC Birmingham
preceded by Weather
