News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather, and what's new for farmers.
Producer LESLIE COTTINGTON
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day Read by DR FRED MILSON
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 5
Sue MacGregor presents some of the interesting as well as idiosyncratic questions and answers broadcast on Tuesday over the past 12 months. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
NEM. p 5: Little Jesus, sweetly sleep (OBC 87); Psalm 47; Philippians 2. vv 1-11 (AV); In dulci jubilo (OBC 86) long wave only
Tom's Midnight Garden (3)
The-Not-So-Merry-Widow by DOUGLAS SLATER
Seventy-five years ago today The Merry Widow opened at the Theatre an der Wien. The librettist, the theatre manager, even the stage manager were certain they had a failure on their hands. Only the composer and. surprisingly, an influential critic had faith in the piece.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
' We dug a lake seven years ago and now large carp have turned up in it although it is only fed by surface water. How did they get there? '
The Wildlife naturalists pool their knowledge and answer your questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm)
As part of a daily review of major changes in 1980, an examination of the impact of legislation on housing; and a look ahead to the prospects for 1981.
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN Editor DAVID HARDING
with Brian Johnston
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Peter Hobday
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The Birth of a Band: RON ALLDRIDGE meets a new rock band THE FAMOUS FOUR at their first London gig-
Personal Wonders: chosen first by ANDREW SINCLAIR. Reading Your Letters.
Ouch!: CELIA CAULTON investigates a particular kind of teenage knee pain.
A. J. Wentworth , BA (2)
by GEORGE ELIOT (11)
Tony Lewis looks back at sport in 1980 with John Arlott, David Coleman, Henry Cooper and Danny Blanchflower.
Enjoy their after-dinner conversation on subjects like the controversial Olympic Games in Moscow; British success and tragedy in boxing; Wimbledon's greatest Men's Final; football and its future; Rugby League moving south; 100 years of England and Australia at cricket; a grand slam for England at rugby
A Radio Sport and OB production
Paradoxer by DAVID H. WALLACE Read by Jon Glover
Presenter Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A comedy series featuring Thora Hird in The Trouble with Emily with Avis Bunnage Megs Jenkins
Joe Gladwin
Pearl Hackney David Gooderson and Jon Glover
Written by TERRY GREGSON Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
'Repeated on New Year's Day at 12.27 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care-from the research laboratory and operating theatre to the dentist's chair and GP'S surgery.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
A musical portrait of Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) Introduced by Richard Baker with Charles West as Charles Dibdin
Though dubbed ' The British Sailor's Poet Laureate ', sea songs form only a part of Dibdin's immense output. His work, in fact, mirrored almost every aspect of day-to-day life in the England of George III : and achieved a popularity so universal that he might even be called the father of British popular music. Yet today his name is practically unknown. except to historians, and his compositions lie forgotten.
With TIMOTHY BATESON OLIVE GREGG
WILLIAM ROBERTS and SHEILA MATHEWS
CHARLES YOUNG PAUL PHOENIX and the CHARLES YOUNG SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
Devised and written by GERALD FROW
Producer JOHN DYAS
(Charles West is in ' Annie ' at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London; Paul Phoenix broadcasts by permission of St Paul's Cathedral)
by Anthony Smith
This edition looks ahead to the opportunities for travel and holidays at home and abroad in 1981. Is it worth travelling abroad if you can't see? How easy is it to get help on trains or coach journeys in Britain? What facilities do hotels for the blind offer?
Presented by David Scott Blackhall Producer TIIENA HESHEL
' When I first began to write songs, everybody said they're not funny. they re so down and black ". so I went out to perform them and prove they really are funny.'
Dory Previn , composer. lyricist. author and singer talks to Michael Bit lington about her life and work, reflected in the latest part of her autobiography Bopfrotter.
. Producer ROSEMARY HART I
Douglas Stuart reporting
The setting of the legend of the lady of Llyn-y-Fan-Fach is as beautiful and haunting as the Lake King's daughter herself.
Jeanine McMullen looks at the history of the legend and landscape, and talks to the people who live with both, in the magnificent valley at the foot of the Carmarthen fans on the edge of the Brecon Beacons.
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
My Apprenticeships (2)
Paul and Maud Tortelier (cellos). Maria de la Pau (piano), and conductor Van-Pascal Tortelier perform music by Grieg Paganini. Bach and Léon Boellmann: records
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
