including reports from the Royal Smithfield Show
with Eugene Fraser
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Derek Cooper in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Eugene Fraser
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Derek Cooper in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
(A shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
NEM, p 46; O heavenly word, eternal light (BBC HB 37); Psalm 119, part 4; Isaiah 7, vv 1-4, 10 and 16 (rsv); Jesu, thou joy (BBC HB 323)
The Millionaires by TOM COYNE Read by Francis Matthews Producer jane MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
3: Golf
The folklore, the legend, the anecdote - with Hugh Lewis , Hedley Muscroft and Cardew Robinson in conversation with DON MOSEY.
Producer DON MOSEY BBC Manchester
Presenter Sue Cook
Including the BBC Shopping Basket and the Best Buys
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Born Under Sagittarius: JUDI DENCH and BENNY GREEN discuss with NORMAN TOZER the qualities attributed to their birth sign.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Christmas Choice: HONOR WYATT selects some practical books on things to do and how to do them.
Gentle Giants of the Ocean: CHRISTABEL KING investigates the present state of whaling and uses of whale products. With DR RAY GAMBELL Of the International Whaling Commission and BOB HUNTER of the environmental group Greenpeace. Jamaica Inn (3)
Story: Lazy Witch to the Rescue by ELEANOR TIMS
A Call from the Sea by Michael Bangerter and Malcolm Hayes
with Edwina Ray and Judy Bennett
John and Helen are on holiday with their family at a seaside village in Norfolk. Unknown to them, their youngest children are disturbed by violent nightmares - or are the voices they hear something to do with the past?
From gardeners to ghost hunters: from poets to pop stars; from cantors to crime-writers. Jack de Manio meets them all. Could you be on his list? Producer MICHELL RAPER
Out of the Silent Planet (4)
Presented by Brian Widlake
» .. the happy knack of making unexpected and delightful discoveries - applied each Thursday by Fritz Spiegl in his A-Z of Musical Curios J is for jazzing-up
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional News; weather
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
Written by BRUNO MILNA
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham
A weekly investigation into accusations of unfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook
by Michael Oliver
This book my property contains And here's my wages for my pains :
'Tis neither silver, brass nor gold -
Notes is the property 1 hold.
The story of some 18th- and early 19th-century workmen who were ' musicianers ' living in the Valley of Dean, eight miles south of Burnley in Lancashire. Based on the recollections of Moses Heap, who died in 1913, and whose memoirs in manuscript, together with some of the ' larks ' music notebooks, are now in Rawtenstall Public Library. with Leslie Sands as Moses Heap Other parts played by DAVID MAHLOWE and ALAN ROTHWELL The music of the larks transcribed by MICHAEL OLIVER , edited by MICHAEL COE and sung by the WILLIAM BYRD SINGERS, conducted by STEPHEN WILKIN SON. Directed by PATRICIA BRENT (Shortened version of the R3 broadcast)
A perpetual delight ... one of the most joyful things to come out of my radio this year. (DAVID WADE, The Times)
Kangaroos, Cricket and Crises With two days to go before Australia's fourth National Election in five years. Mary Goldring examines the politics and economics of a country whose national resources and material advantages so often appear to be squandered by political and constitutional crises. Why did Malcolm Fraser call the Election? Can Gough Whitlam lead Labour back to power?
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
From Coalport to the iron bridge, the river passes through the most extraordinary district in the world. So Charles Hulbert described the Severn Gorge in Shropshire in 1837. The iron bridge built by Abraham Darby in 1779 has come to be regarded as a symbol of the industrial revolution. Now the area is a museum, winner of the 1977 Museum of the Year Award. Paul Vaughan spent a day at Ironbridge Gorge Museum.
Douglas Stuart reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions! Introduced by David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (9)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
