News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers. Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and BRYAN PLATT
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 LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With CAI EATON
7 t, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Knitting and Wool in this year of the handmade look. style can up grade and transform simple, basic knitting or crochet beyond Lord Cardigan's warmest dreams. ram Dawson and James Walters , consultant knitting and crochet designers have many practical tips to help you get it right; even to doing your own wool spinning and dyeing, if you are not satisfied with today s wide range of textures, thicknesses and colours.
Stitching the programme together Jill Burridge Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 9 0 am
The BBC home correspondents and reporters talk about the stories and the people behind the news.
Producer ELIZABETH SHEEHY
New Every Morning page 93; Blest are the pure in heart (BBC Hymn Book 318); Psalm 90, vv 1-6. 12-17; Isaiah 10, v 33 to 11, V 9 (AV); Rejoice, 0 people, in the mounting years (BBC HB 181)
by IRENE 1IIOMAS 2)
Rinnl Bootsie. Tutti Frutti by JONATHAN GEMS with STUART: Didn't you see him? He was sitting right there. In that seat. Listening to every word we said. That's why I changed the subject. Siddown, please. I've gotta talk to you. He might come back.
BILL: But there wasn't anyone sitting there.
Can there really be aliens living amongst us and indistinguishable from human beings? An evening in the pub at Midhurst reveals the truth. Directed by LIANE AUKIN
Khrushchev once said that if the Russians had shot six prominent writers there would have been no Hungarian revolt. These six programmes. introduced by John Har riott, show how writers have responded to harsh treatment and imprisonment by governments who fear the power of the pen 3: Faiz Ahmad Falz. the people's poet of Pakistan, who was imprisoned in the 50s and now lives in self-imposed exile.
' don't know a worthwhile poet without a .social message.'
Reader Tariq Yunls Research SUE HARRIS
Producer SHIRLEY DU BOULAY
Edward de Bono
' Being negative is highly enjoyable. Much more so than being positive.'
BBC Manchester
Presenters Nancy Wist and Bill Breckon
Cbepstow, Gwent
A Down Your Way calendar for 1980 with pictures of places to be visited next year is available from bookshops, or from BBC Publications, PO Box 234.LondonSE13TH. £2.15 inc postage and packing
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
The Industrial Chrysanthemum squeezed between three world powers. China, the usa, and the USSR. What is the future forecast for Japan?
The Land of the Rising Yen: a report from Honshu by PETER ESTALL and LIZ MARDALL.
And also a Talking Point discussion and other items made in Britain. The Ginger Tree 9)
Story: My Brother Humphrey ... is Silly by KEITH CHATFIELD
by EVELYN WAUGH. Part 3
surviving byZORINA ISHMAIL-BIBBY
Read by Freda Dowie (Rpf)
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
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.
A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Peter Jones
Clement Freud and Peter Cook endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated. Wed 1.40 pm)
Recent revelations about the satellites of Jupiter are comparable with the discoveries of Columbus and Captain Cook. But has planetary exploration brought us any nearer to solving the celestial conundrums? How was the Solar System formed? Is the Earth unique in harbouring life?
Dr Garry Hunt of University College, London, puts these questions to the space pioneers who have made the 1970s the Decade of the Planets.
Producer NEIL PEMBERTON
A programme of special interest to the visually handicapped. Presented by Jane Finnis and Peter White
This edition includes a report on the training facilities and job opportunities for blind people wanting to work as audio-typists.
Producer THENA HESHEL to check on information. ur comment on issues raised, telephone [number removed]after the broadcast, from 8.30 lu 9.30
tustmauishingFeatures by Anthony Smith
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Michael Oliver
Producer ROB WHITE
with Alexander MacLeod
by C. S. FORESTER adapted for radio by VAL GIELGUD starring Nigel Anthony with Terence Skelton
Book 2: Lieutenant Hornblower
Part 3: The Landing
Music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON
Directed by TREVOR HILL
BBC Manchester
A Cab at the Door
7: Literary Skirmishes long trarc only
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends: long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
