Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and BRYAN PLATT

A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Priestland
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A weekly review of the agricultural scene
Producer ALLAN wricht BBC Aberdeen

Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
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Take a different look at the world of sport as Tony Lewis introduces this magazine programme that features the off-beat and the humorous as well as the up-to-date news at home and abroad. A Radio Sports Unit production

from routine with Barry Norman and an assembled multitude of personalities, experts and intrepid reporters who suggest ways and means of spending your leisure hours with advice on where to go. things to do and news of entertainment that simply shouldn't be missed.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD
For information sheets send a large sae to Breakaway, BBC, Portland Place, London [Postcode removed]

Bill Grundy reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER wallich

50th Anniversary Edition Matthew Coady presents the world's longest running political programme. Just as they have done for half a century, mps discuss the events of the past week in Westminster. Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG (The Odd Couple - Parliament and the BBC: Tuesday 7.20 pm)
Peter Brookes ' view: p 102 Book The BBC Guide to Parliament, 14.50, from bookshops

NEM, p 79; We come unto our fathers' God (BBC HB 255); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; John 6, vv 25-35 (RSV); 0 food of men wayfaring (BBC hb 209)

with Margaret Howard

A year ago a new Pope, John Paul II, was installed. Since then he has impressed many millions with his pleas for peace. But others have taken issue with his stern moral pronouncements. Some have even labelled him a ' medievalist '. The BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland , and correspondents overseas, assess the impact of the new Pope on ordinary Roman Catholics throughout the world.
A Radio News production by BOB DORAN

Presented by Louise Botting
Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money - whether it concerns a mortgage or an insurance policy, an investment bond or a bank loan, a tax dispute or a social security squabble.

(A Financial World Tonight production)

(Repeated: Mon 10.5 am)
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The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrains Douglas Stuart
Compiled by ALAN NIXON and the producer DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)
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William Waldegrave, MP, Jane Reed, John Ebdon and Ann Mallalieu
Chairman David Jacobs
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 4.15, to Any Answers?, BBC, [address removed]
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In this magazine edition: horns, swords and saws-what use are these appendages? Is the mink such a threat to our wildlife? How to make your own toad reserve; and the mystery wildlife sound competition" Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN Harrison BBC Bristol

The Peacock Screamed One Morning by R. C. SCRIVEN
Directed by CHARLES LEFEAUX
(Charles Lefeaux , the distinguished radio drama producer, died earlier this year. In tribute to his memory, this afternoon's play is a repeat of one of his outstanding productions of the work of the poet R. C. Scriven - in which the author describes his early life.)
(First broadcast in 1970

for disabled listeners
Presenter Marilyn Alan Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone in: Mon 2.0-4.0 pm [number removed]. ext 2531
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting Houxe, London WIA 4WW Producer JANE WOOD Editor MARLENE PEASE

Five programmes, presented by Peter Russell
5: Is not Life More Than Foodr
In recent years the growing interest in meditation generally has led to a revival of meditation in the church. Peter Russell discusses this with The Rev Peter Dewey. Father William Johnston. Dr Martin Israel and Dr Una Kroll , and asks whether there are similarities between Christian and Eastern meditation techniques^ Producer SUSAN PATON
Book (same title), il.75, available from 29 November from bookshops

Today: Fields and the people who till them
Presenter Frank Lincoln Reader John Darran

Boyd Neel talks about a work for strings specially written for his orchestra in 1937 - Benjamin Brit ten's Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
Producer PATRICK lambeat gramophone records
(Repeated: Tues 8.30 pm)

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis David Tate. Sheila Steafel and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO
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in conversation with his guests. Musical interlude by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on record: the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)

by Helen J. Wilson

On 10 March 1879 the Great Laxey Mining Company issued a new Code of Regulations to its miners, requiring them to extend their working week of 621 hours by a further six hours and an extra shift on Saturdays. No extra money was offered. The stage was set for a bitter dispute....
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Mon 3.15 pm)
(Paul Webster is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Michael Billington replays and reflects on the movies, music, books, television, radio. plays and personalities from the nightly review of the arts - Kaleidoscope. Editor ROSEMARY HART

Evening meditation with music, led by fr jim SKELLY BBC Northern Ireland

thirty minutes of entertainment for an autumn evening.
Music and merriment provided by DAVID barlow , PETER CHRISTIE , ALAN MARYON-DAVIS and MILES KiNGTON -with their special guests this week: The Philip Jones Bras* Ensemble
Producer DANNY greenstohi

A series of plays for late-night listening.
At dawn, when the noise of the pop festival has died down, Sophie sneaks out of the house to talk to her owl and meets a witch-like stranger.
Directed by KAY jamieson BBC Manchester

Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude