including news from the Royal Smithfield Show
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by Brian Redhead
With MARGARET HOWARE Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Popular classics on records presented by Richard Baker
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in. Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
NEM, p 62; Father of peace and God of love (BBC HB 488); Psalm 107, vv 31-42; Isaiah 53, w 7-12 (AV); God is love: let heaven adore BBC he 7)
The Dagger en the Wall written and read by Tom Coyne
'Jenny had heard about the curse. That dagger must never be removed from its position on the wall, or all the saints in Heaven, or the devils from " the other place " would descend on the Radcliffe Arms.'
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Brian Johnston recently visited Wallsend in Tyne and Wear
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
11.40 Announcements
Story: Granny Apple's New Cushions by PAULINE HILL
Presenters JOAN MATHESON and JIMMY THOMASON
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
News and information that affects the way you live.
Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlahe
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
I.SS Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Special guest Kenneth Williams invites you to join him for some ' Parlour Poetry ' from the Victorian era.
Musical Families: The Price Handbell Ringers provide some sounds of the season; and richard CARRINGTON visits the 16 members of the Bevan tamily choar to find out how they celebrate Christmas.
Cinderella's Coach ...: will be drawn across the stage of the Palace Theatre, Plymouth, this year, by four Shetland ponies. DOUGLAS MOUHCE talks to their trainer JULIE YOUNG , about her unusual work.
Women and Snookert : some talented ladies are breaking down the male dominance of this sport. BBC Bristol
Down The Rabbit Hole (3)
A play for radio by David Spenser
Vincent, a failed writer, unexpectedly descends on his successful friends. He tries to turn the clock back and upset the status quo.
(First broadcast in 1974)
As a child of seven, Elspeth Huxley set off for Africa with her pioneer parents to carve out a life in a place called Thika - ' A name on a map where two rivers joined.'
Now in her 70s, she recalls her early years in conversation with JUNE KNOX-MAWER, and looks back on her life as a writer of biographies and African books.
Producer BRIAN COOK
The Squire of Bor Shachor (5)
The news magazine Presented by Gordon dough and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
with Barry Norman bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.44 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer DAVID EPPS
A personal portrait
A spontaneous discussion by Auberon Waugh
Gwyneth Dunwoody , ut Sheridan Morley
Clement Freud. MP
Chairman David Jacobs from Brixham, Devon Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers?, on Thursday at 10.30, to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Richard Cork Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by JOHN LANGDON. GUY JENKIN, BARRY BOWES , RICHARD QUICK, JEREMY BROWNE , ROGER WOODIS
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Repeated: Sot 5 25 pm)
Woddis on ... : page 19
Fritz Spiegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said. BBC Manchester
by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Gilbert Gardiner, abridged for radio in ten parts by Keith Darvill
Read by Claire Bloom
(long wave only)
R4 International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
by Kon Fraser
[Starring] Eric Allan as the Follower
A series of plays for late-night listening.
'I'd known it would happen, but I'd kept hoping something might stop it - he would fall ill, not dangerously, just enough to...'
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
