News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead.
Presented from Scotland by ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Scotland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead with Libby Purves
including at 6.45* Prayer for the Day Bishop George Appleton
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by John Marsh
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Christopher Slade
continues his investigations of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
who conducts his regular team as they help to find antidotes to that Monday morning feeling by talking to some of the personalities who will be making the news in the forthcoming week.
Producer JILL FREEMAN
(Broadcast Sat 12.2 pm)
NEM, p 71; On Jordan's bank the Baptists cry (BBC HE 38); Psalm 97; Isaiah 5, vv 13-16, 20-24 (AV); Hark what a sound, and too divine for hearing (BBC HB 32)
by KICK FRANCIS (9)
The smell of freshly ground coffee or the taste of an orange are things that most of us enjoy and take for granted. But for some people the world is a tasteless, smell-less place, and for others it is a nightmare of grossly distorted tastes and odours.
Geoff Watts talks to Dr Robert Henkin and some of his patients at the Center for Molecular Nutrition and Sensory t)isorders In Washington. about the nature of these problems and their possible treatment.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
People in the British Isles and abroad tell of the doings and concerns of their own part of the world - and those they visit.
News, views and advice for consumers, including Job News with MARGARET KORVING , and World of Work with ideas on careers and training. Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Editor DAVID BARDING
HELP! page II
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Home Counties - Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School v. South of England - The Boswells School, Chelmsford
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON cow reporting.
Cooking for Christmas: advice from JOHN TOVEY on advance preparation for the holiday meals.
Public Face, Private PhilOSophy: DR WALTER BOD-MER, Director of The Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories.
Not Just Another Pile of Bricks: BOB PRIZEMAN follows some judges of a national housing estate competition.
The Ginger Tree by OSWALD WYNB
Read by HANNAH GORDON 13) (Hannnh Gordon is in 'Can You Hear Me at the Back? ' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Susie's Washing Line by MALCOLM CARRICK
No Fear or Favour by HENRY CECIL with 'We are all sinners, but I can't think of any information which could be used to blackmail me. And I expect the members of the jury are in the same position. I think you should apologise to them for suggesting that one of them is a scallywag.'
With MICHAEL BURLINGTON and MICHAEL COCHRANE
Directed by HARRY CATLIN (First broadcast in 1975)
Such a Soft Heart
Written and read by Shirley Cooklin
' I found her lying on the path. She was still making that choking sound, and she was trembling violently. I knelt down. and gathered her into my arms. Then suddenly I went quite cold inside. I knew it was too late for any vet.'
Producer MITCH RAPER
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A series of six comedy plays by JILL HYEM and JENNIFER PHILLIPS with Patricia Routledge as Rita Simmons
5: New Leaf
Rita is behaving in a very un-Ritaish fashion. Phoebe and Alistair start to worry. Can it be that Phoebe's endless criticism has pushed her mother too far?
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer NEIL PEMBERTON
by Jennifer Johnston adapted by Denys Hawthorne
with Robert Powell and Jim Norton
'We paid very little attention to the war when it happened first. Belgium and Flanders seemed so far away from us. Our fields were gold and firm under our feet. Autumn began to stroke the evening air with frost... War was on the front pages of the newspapers daily brought from Dublin on the train.'
BBC Northern Ireland
(Harry Towb is a National Theatre player)
A new Bible commentary, and books on religious education and Christian involvement in politics reviewed by Hubert Richards , Peter Watkins and Peter West Presented by Robert Foxorofl
Producer REG KENNEDY
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Paul Vaughan
Producer ROB WHITE
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A Cab at the Door by V.S. PRITCHETT abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Peter Jeffrey 1: The Family
This early autobiography of the renowned writer and critic covers his childhood and youth - moving house 18 times before he was 12, shunted happily from the hurlyburly of Edwardian London to the peace of the countryside in Yorkshire and the company of his rich relations in Ipswich.
His ambitions to become a writer are baulked at every turn by the mockery and prohibitions of his father, till he makes his escape from his background at the age of 20. Producer MARGARET ETALL
(Peter Jeffrey is a National Theatre player)
long wave only
Radio 4s International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
