with Peter Jefferson
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather

Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester

with Peter Jefferson
7.52 VHF Regional news. weather

Brian Redhead in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport

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Ring Birmingham [number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Seott and with other R4 listeners.
Producers JENNY DE YONG and JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.4 am

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NEM. p 34: Come, let us join (BBC m 122); Psalm 57; Hebrews 9, vv 13-26 (NEB); Christ. above all (BBC m 121)

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My Dog is Money by MICHAEL SPINDLER
Read by J. O. Roberts Producer HARRl GWYNN BBC Wales

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An occasional series in which Tony Van den Bergh looks at recent developments in medicine. 1: Breast Cancer
With an ever-increasing incidence of a disease that already kills more than 13,000 a year, doctors are concentrating their efforts on finding ways to achieve earlier discovery and diagnosis. This morning the specialists talk about their latest schemes to encourage women in do-it-yourself checks. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

News and information that affects the way you live, Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon

Devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Introduced by Gordon Clough

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Introduced from Glasgaw by Mary Marquis
Far From the Madding Crowd: travel agents MARGARET HOOK and MARJORIE DEWARdiscuss exclusive holidays at home and abroad.
2.1-2.2 News
New Lanark: an 18th-century model village is rebuilt for the year 2000.
Thank You: in the spirit of seasonal thanksgiving, LIZ MC-NEILL TAYLOR pays tribute to two people to whom she owes a particular debt of gratitude. BBC Scotland
Sea-Wyf and Biscuit by J. M. SCOTT , abridged In ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL Read by JOHN SAMSON (10) (Music: Searle's Aubade)

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Story: Big Fat Rosie's Snowman by MARY CALVERT
Presenters ALISON MCMORLAND and SAM KELLY
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer JENYTH WORSLEY

Maureen Upman in Delivery by VALERIE WINDSOR SARAH: I don't want to die. nurse: Of course you're not going to die. You're having a baby, that's all ... oh, I do wish these mothers would organise themselves a bit better.
Directed by LIANE AUXIN

Compiled and written by H. Colin Davis

Thomas Hardy's first wife Emma died in November 1912 following a violent quarrel with her husband. Her death elicited from Hardy, at 72, an astonishing outburst of poetry recalling the brief happiness of their courtship. This programme commemorates the 50th anniversary of Thomas Hardy's death. with and Narrator Richard Bebb
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Mapp and Lucia by E. F. BENSON abridged and read by AUBREY WOODS (10)
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

Presented by Gordon Clough

Highgate Cemetery
Christopher Matthew Invites Sir John Betjeman to describe its grandiose Gothic design and remember some notable occupants.
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather

with Barry Norman
A programme for people on the move that tries to give you more miles for your money. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)

Margaret Howard 's selection Producer BRIAN COOK
(Repeated: Saturday 9.10 am)

A spontaneous discussion by Ann Mallalieu , Russell Braddon Louis Allen. William Hague Chairman David Jacobs from Hull
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.15 pm)

Presenter Tony Palmer Producer ARNOLD MILLER

Douglas Stuart reporting

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel and the keyboards of Bill McGuffie
Written by ANDY HAMILTON , BARRY PILTON and others.
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)

Alan Sillltoe describes one ef the pleasures of life. BBC Manchester

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (9)

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude