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 ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham

(Broadcast at 6.50 am'

with Norman Tozer
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Today presented live amid the hustle and bustle of Heathrow Airport, where Tony Lewis is preparing to jet off to
Australia to cover the three-way Test series between England Australia and the West Indies,
Also. news from Down
Under as CHRlSTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS reports on the tour so far and the current games in Hobart and Brisbane. Plus the rest of the sporting action.
A Radio Sport and OB production

(Broadcast at 7.40 am

from routine with Barrv Norman
Santa Claus in his grotto is under scrutiny in this week's Breakaway. Is a visit to Santa worth th time and energy do your children enjoy it? Is the visit value for money? BARRY NORMAN guides you through the country's grottoes,
Action man
Richard Vaughan is on guard when he consumer test fencing as a new hobby,
Also in the programme. television and film pit views, and a critical look at what's happening in the world of leisure.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALB

Tom Vernon reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH

parliamentariansdiscuss the week's business with Matthew Coady
ProducerJOSHUA ROZENBERG

NEM,p62:Father,we praise thee (BBC HB 405):
Psalm 107, v v 31-42; 1
John 2. vv 12-17 (RSV);
The God of Abraham praise (BBC HB 283. long wave only

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes.
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BBC Correspondents with reports from around 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 banl; loan, a tax dispute or a social security squabble - MoneH Box gets the answers from the people in the know.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.5 am)
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A show scripted by new writers for
Peter Wheeler David Casey
Carole Hayman Geoffrey Banks and Marlene Sidaway
Producers JAMES CASEY and RON MCDONNELL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm'
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The Rt Hon Lord George-Brown. Esther Rantzen Patrick Hutber and Tom Jackson from Southampton
Chairman David Jacobs
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The special edition with topics suggested by you - the listener. We read your letters, play your favourite sounds, and puzzle you with the mystery sound competition. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed]

by Arthur Schnitzler, translated and adapted by Thomas Schwalm and Howard Thompson with David Timson and Helen Fraser

Set in the early 1900s, Vienna, young Lieutenant Kasda learns, is a city in which love, honour, even life itself, is to be counted out in coin.

(First broadcast on New Year's Day 1972)

A practical and topical magazine for and with disabled listeners. Presented by Marilyn Alan
Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Monday 2.0-4.0pm
[number removed]. Ext 2531
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Producer JANE WOOD
Editor MARLENE I'EASE

Six programmes about some major religious thinkers of the mid-20th century, introduced by Vernon Sproxton with Sir John Barnes and The Very Rev Dr Eric Heaton , Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.
4: Charles Raven
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS

with Peter Porter
You now have seen love's corpse-light shine
The second of six programmes which take their theme from a line of poetry.
Readers Peter Wickham and Mary Elliot-Nelson Producer ALEC REID

Roger Nichols talks about one of Ravel's most evocative scores - L'enfant et les sortileges - an opera with libretto by COLETTE depicting the enchanted world of childhood.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT gramophone records

with Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel Chris Emmett and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO (Broadcast Fri 10.35 pm
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and his guests in conversation inspired by amusing or bemusing episodes of the week.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
(Robert Robinson presents the winners of The National Poetry Competition 1979: Friday 10.30 BBC2)

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

Alibi for a Judge
A comedy by FELICITY DOUGLAS and HENRY CECIL With BASIL DAWSON From the book by HENRY CECIL with Andrew Cruickshank as Mr Justice Carstairs Amanda Grinling as Lesley Burford and Aubrey Woods as Thomas Empton , QC
An attractive young woman enlists the cooperation of the elderly judge who had convicted her husband of robbery in an attempt to prove his innocence. It is not certain, however, how innocent her motives arc in all this.... and members of the Central Criminal Court
Adapted for radio and directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
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Sheridan Morley introduces a selection from the nightly review of the arts - Kaleidoscope.
Editor ROSEMARY HART
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Evening prayers led by THE REV JOHN LANG

Tony Davis , Mick Groves , Cliff Hall and Hugh Jones with John McCormick (bass), sing some songs and tell the odd story, with a few friends. Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON

The Hospital Visitor bv FRANK MARCUS
'You worry too much. About little things. If you go on like this. you'll make yourself ill
'Don't say that. I may be nervous or unsure at times, but I shouldn't like to finish up in a . in a hospital.'
But who is the patient and who is the visitor?
Directed by IAN COTTERELL

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