Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks
A regional view of farming in the week ahead. BBC Bristol
6.25 Shipping forecast. long wave only.
Presenters John Timpson and Paul Burden.
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV ALEC GlLMORE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Christopher Slade
dusts off treasures from the BBC Sound Archives.
Richard conducts the regular ensemble with guest soloists who will be playing their part in this week's news.
Producer PETER ESTALL
NEM, p 122; There is a land of pure delight (BBC HB 254); Canticle 10; Isaiah 54 vv 1-10 (AV); Let saints on earth (BBC HB 249) long wave only
by Miles Franklin adapted in eight parts by Penelope Farmer
Read by Angela Pleasence
At 16 Sybilla Melvyn longs to get away from the harsh life of Possum Gully in the Australian outback. She dreams of moving among artists and writers instead of drought-stricken cows. Then, in 1895 comes a letter that changes her life.
If a child is at, risk, ambigarity can delay a decision for days of weeks, even months, but not-for a year.
(JUNE THOBURN. social worker)
Children who have lived for years in the limbo of public care are increasingly being noticed and placed for, adoption or with permanent foster parents. But in fresh cases, when a child's future with his family becomes uncertain, how long does he have to wait, in possible danger at home or in a series of temporary placements in care, for firm plans to be made?
Graham Fawcett talks to children and those empowered to protect them, about how to tell when parents fail.
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
Presented by Dannie Abse Readers DOUGLAS LEACH and FRANCES HOROVITZ Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Presenter Jenni Mills Editor DAVID HARDING
A new series of 13 programmes, in which Barry Took opens, and leafs-through, his alphabetical anthology of showbusiness aided and abetted by chief page-turners
Michael McClain and Marie Sutherland.
Today, the letter, 'A' which includes Woody Allen, Arthur Askey and Louis Armstrong, plus the programme's special guest David Attenborough.
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter BrianWidlake
Fri 7.5 pm)
1.55 forecast - long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Sounds Mouthwatering:
MARY BERRY shows how to ice a Christmas cake.
Tito: remembered by sir
FITZROY MACLEAN.
Reading Your Letters.
The Suffolk Punch: the Studbook of East Anglia's heavy horse was founded 100 years ago this year. PAT MCLOUGHLIN Visited Suffcak to talk -to proud owners and breeders.
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Smoke Screen by JOHN LAWSON
Writer Nigel Tranger shares the enjoyment of a favourite walk along the East Lothian sea coast by the Bass Rock and Tantallon Castle.
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Pet Theme by RENÉE TERRY
Read by Peter Craze
Producer MITCH RAPER
Presenters Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
The English- Connection - Genoa toLerici
In the- second of six bicycle trips, Tom Vernon goes to the Ligurian coast of Byron and Shelley where he meets, a prificess and a merchant and discovers the power of the sun- both to generate energy and to attract tourists
Producer JOY HATWOOD
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
The Mendip Demoniack by JOHN FLETCHER
'The convulsive fits,or, as the common fame has it, possessions of my patient George Lukins, take different forms; Sometimes he pretends himself a dog sometimes a wild, fanatic dancer. Sometimes he will run violently into a shallow pond or river. Several times he danced in a large, i cminliey corner large. Chimney corner bavefcfSf ; ^psn burning c'ft»tfc'-.<stfH.toN rees, 1745)
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
BBC Bristol
Earlier this year, four of Britain's leading humorists packed their bags for very different and far flung corners of the world which they were visiting for the first time. Tonight Barry Fantoni leafs through some of his first impressions of the Land of the Free.
Presenter Colin Ford
Producer CLARE SELERlE Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor STAIR OSBORNE
Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer RICHARD ELLIS
by Mrs Oliphant, adapted by I. M Donaldson
Read by Eileen MacCallum
'"The Question is" my aunt said, "if it is a real window with glass in it, or if it is merely painted, or if it once was a window and was built up because of the window tax. And the offener people look at it, the less they are able to say."
BBC Scotland
(long wave only)
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
