including news from the Royal smithtield Show
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day The Rev Richard Harries
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by John Marsh
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Unload your query on to Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
Questions, on a postcard, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London WlA 4WW
Producer ANTHONY SARGENT
nem, p 84; Come, let us to the Lord our God (BBC HB 487); Canticle 4; Isaiah 10 vv 5-7, 12-15, 24-25 and 33 (AV); Praise my soul (BBC HB 15)
by DICK FRANCIS abridged and produced in 13 parts by MICHAEL BOWEN Read by JAMES BOLAM (13) BBC Bristol
Jim Flegg turns his ear towards the remoter parts of wintry Britain to consider one of the most evocative sounds of nature - the calls of the wild swans. BBC Bristol
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Manchester by Marjorie Lofthouse Love in Old Age: a poetical view of mature marriages and late love affairs by MARGARET maison. It's Like Having a Prison Sentence ... : there's a stigma associated with past illness which is often impossible to shake off. PAM REED has been investigating.
Shower Power: SUE pap-WORTH takes a lighthearted look at the day her plumber installed a shower.
Cooking for Christmas: JOHN TOVEY rounds off his week of advice, and includes how to have a day off.
BBC Manchester
The Ginger Tree (7)
Story: Aunt Aggie Makes a Clootie Dumpling by DORRITH M. SIM Presenters
PATRICIA GALLIMORE and MICHAEL DEACON
Written by MOIRA MILLER Producer MARY HAYDON
In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency by PENELOPE GILLIATT with Constance Cummings and Ian Land
When her grandson runs away from school in America, Kate decides to give him an unconventional educational lesson by taking him to some of Europe's greatest cities.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
Yachtsman Val Howells from Pembrokeshire talks to Gerry Monte describing his recent 30,000-mile voyage, alone, around the world - a voyage in which he says he was in his poorest-ever mental, emotional and physical state, almost broken, both spiritually and financially, by the strain of building two ocean-going yachts in which he and his son competed in the solo race across the Atlantic.
For Val that race ended after three days, but when he sailed back from his round-the-world trip, three years after setting out, he claims he came back a different man.
In this conversation he describes losing his rudder half-way across the Atlantic, cruising the magic islands of the Pacific, and whaling in an open boat off the Azores and all the time sailing to find himself. BBC Wales
4.40 Announcements
The Preacher and the Prophet by PHYLLIS ANDERSON
Read by John Darran
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
5.58 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
Richard Hudson-Evans brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mori 1.40 pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
Sir Michael Redgrave gives the first talk introducing this winter's season of Shakespeare's plays on BBC2
Henry IV, Part 1
' think one of the driving forces of this play is that Shakespeare takes both sides - that of Prince Hal and that of Hotspur - and by taking both sides he's able to show how ephemeral political loyalties can be and were.'
Series producer ALAN WILDING iNext Friday: Anthony Quayle on Henry IV, Part 2; Part 1 is shown on BBC2 on Sunday)
Lord Soper Jean Rook
Dafydd Elis Thomas , up and Christopher Booker tackle the issues raised by the audience in Dale, Dyfed.
Chairman David,Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? on Thursday at 4.15, to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed]
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer CLARE SELERJE
Sheridan Morley 's Films: page 29
9.59 Weather
with Alexander MacLeod
with Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel Chris Emmett and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JERKIN ,JOHN LAT GDON , ROGER WOODIS RICHARD QUICK, JEREMY 8ROWNE and ANDY WILSON
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Woddis On ... : page 20
A Cab at the Door
5: The Ipswich Connection long wave only
long wave only
by Maureen Donegan
[Starring] Joan Matheson as Miss Harriet Booth
with Ronald Baddiley as Mr Pickard
Harriet: I like plain food, not like next door.
Mr. Pickard: Yes, I know. I've had to stock ghee and poppy heads and goodness knows what.
Harriet: It's all changed, Mr Pickard.
Miss Harriet Booth is just too old and set in her ways to change now - however hard her new neighbours try to be her friends. Tragically, she will never understand the extent of their goodwill.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
