Producers LESLIE COTTINGTON and BRYAN PLATT

with Susan Denny
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather

Michael Cooke in Manchester Nigel Rees in London

with Susan Denny
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather

Nigel Rees in London
Michael Cooke in Manchester
8.35 News headlines.: weather, papers and sport

Read by JOYCE GRENFELL (12)

medium only from 9.40 Horse Sense
How do you choose a child's pony and what does it cost to keep? Can you learn to ride in middle age and how do you select a good riding school? Is a riding holiday a good way to begin and how should you prepare for it?
Whatever your interest In horses - whether as present or potential owner, regular or holiday rider, or enthusiastic armchair spectator, put your questions to Michael Clayton , Editor of Horse and Hound, and the international showjumper Judy Crago.
In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

medium only

medium only
Bernard Falk reports on a countrywide search for people who find fulfilment in unlikely, not to say eccentric, occupations and interests.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON

NEM, p 54; Ye servants (BBC HB 372); Psalm 48; Mark 14, vv 47-65 (RSV); 0 thou not made (BBC HB 180)

medium only
Finders Keepers? Written and read by Stephen F. Goodyear

medium only

medium only
A serial in six episodes by ROBERT BARR starring Bernard Hepton as Galbraith, with Richard Davies as Evans Garard Green as Finch Robert Gillespie as McDowall and Michael Kilgarriff as Chief Inspector
Collins Kevork Malikyan as Andreas Clive Merrison as Tully David Ryall as Thorn 4:Gold Medalin which the runners are all lined up and the race for gold is on. Producer JOHN BROWELL (Rptd: Wednesday 10.30 pm)

medium only

Presented by Mari Prichard

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer and broadcaster Claire Rayner. Show more

(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF (exc London and SE)
Regional news and weather

Introduced by Brian Widlake

medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Kate Adie
Ear Piercing: trigger-happy piercing has led to a lobe of trouble. MOLLY PRICE-OWEN investigates.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Cakes and Puddings: DELTA SMITH and JANET WARREN Offer tips and new ideas on the traditional Christmas fare.
I Grew up on the East Coast: MALVINE SOUTHGATE.
A Breath of Border Air (5).

medium only
Story: Wriggly Worm is Taken for a Ride by EUGENIE M. SUMMERFIELD

3: The Republic in Danger

Forfeit by DICK FRANCIS (7)

Presented by Brian Widlake

Waxing Lyrical
Peter Clayton has more words about words in popular song, especially those of some famous song-writing partnerships,-Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Including Financial Report

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Norman to Alan Coren Linda Christmas
Clement Freud. mp and Auberon Waugh
Newsreader BRYAN MARTIN
Compiled and produced by DANNY GREENSTONE and JOHN LLOYD
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27pm)

(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30pm)

Compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON Introduced by Henry Knowles Reader GAVIN CAMPBELL and featuring Verses on the Death of Dr Swift
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Part 1: as Radio 3

as Radio 3

Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude

Presented by Michael Oliver Producer ALAN NIXON

Douglas Stuart reporting

with Amanda Theunissen
4: The Blast oj War Blows in our Ears
Michael Glover , John Hale and Derek Robinson survey the literary light brigade charging into the best-seller lists, and ponder the uncanny fascination of war books.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

Jill by PHILIP LARKIN (7)

David Middleton looks at some of the 'sensational' attractions provided by the fairgrounds of England, from the first Big Wheel of 1728 to the Switchbacks and Chair-O-Planes of today.

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude