Market prices and intelligence. the weather, and what's new for farmers.
Producer LESLIE COTTINGTON
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Priestland
6.55 Weather; programme news
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
7.55 Weather; programme news
At the start of this New Year Tony Lewis introduces his magazine programme of sport.
This week featuring
Football: FA Cup day. The stories behind the third-round ties and some of the personalities.
Cricket: HENRY BLOFELD reports from Sydney at close-of-play on the second day of the First Test between AUSTRALIA and INDIA.
Plus the rest of the sport at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and OB production
with Clive Jacobs
Including NIGEL COOMBS with the latest news on the travel and holiday scene. ERIC TOBlTT with leisure ideas for the coming week, and a look at what's worth watching on ' the box '.
Producers GEOFF DOBSON and JENNY MARSHALL
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Including at 9.0-9.5 News
Michael Watts reviews the weekly magazines.
Producer WALTER WALLICH
Anthony King talks to Social Services Secretary. The Rt Hon Patrick Jen. kin, HP.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning, p 42; 0 Jesu so meek (BBC HB 529); Psalm 84; Luke 1, vv 46 55 (AV); Of the Father's love begotten (BBC HB 57)
Presenter Louise Botting
A Financial World Tonight production
Part 2 - an irreverent look back at 1980, in which Alan Coren
Simon Hoggart and Valerie Grove challenge Richard Ingrams John Wells and Gillian Reynolds
Chairman Barry Took Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Mon 7.20 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Lord Mancroft, The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley , mp, Jill Knight , mp, Rudy Narayan from Camberley, Surrey
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
by GEORGE EI.IOT dramatised in 12 parts by HALLAM TENNYSON with Elizabeth Bell Steven Pacey Russell Dlxon David Collings
Judith Arthy and Dorothea believes that Will Ladislaw loves Rosamond and Lydgate faces disgrace and dishonour. 12: Sunrise
Technical presentation CHRIS WEBB and DAVID FLEMING-WILLIAMS Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
The BBC television production of All's Welt That Ends Weil is on BBC2 tomorrow evening.
Sebastian Shaw , whose first Stratford engagement was in 1926, introduces the play with his own reminiscences of Shakespearean traditions and his views about this bitter-sweet comedy.
' Much of the plot of All's Well is frankly incredible, but the characters are so marvellously observed and their interweaving so intriguing that you will, I believe, willingly suspend your disbelief.'
Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS
by ALANNA KNIGHT with Brian Cox as Robert Louis Stevenson An account of Stevenson's journey across America, taken from his letters and journal. In pursuit of Fanny Osbourne , he undertook in August 1879 the rigours of many days spent in an emigrant train from New York to San Francisco. This was to lead to marriage with Fanny, which ended 14 years later, in the South Seas.
With LOLLY COCKERELL
ANTHONY HYDE, SEAN ARNOLD and JOHN CHURCH
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN
Gaston Thorn , the new President of the European Commission.
A series of six programmes. 1: Who Needs an Alternative?
Despite the innovation in drugs and surgery we have seen this century. unorthodox therapies are becoming more popular. Their practitioners claim that they offer an effective alternative. But have these claims ever been scientifically examined?
Robert Eagle investigates. Producer JANE WOOD
The Oxford Revue present Radio Active, their very own local radio station broadcasting to you wherever you are in the country. If you like Tony Blackburn and co. then you won't like this.
[Starring] Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Philip Pope, Karen Rasmussen
(Rev rpt)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
The team look back over the past year's news.
(Rev rpt of New Year's Eve's broadcast)
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
Ice by MAX WILLIAMS
A girl dies, apparently of natural causes but in slightly odd circumstances, at a factory. It's a story for the local paper and an investigation for the local police. Both tackle her death as a matter of routine and both find there are things that don't tie up ...
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
A two-part programme
Winner of the ' best radio feature' in the 1980 Society of Authors/Pye Awards to Radio.
1: In May 1940 the first German offensive in the West succeeded beyond ali expectations. In a matter of days the bulk of the British expeditionary force was failing back on the Channel beaches of northern France. The epic of Dunkirk had begun.
We heard all kinds of voices. Scots and Scouse and southern, saying how they saw it and what it was like to be there in the battle, on the road, on the beach, on the boats and on arrival. It was when we nearly lost the war, though not everyone knew it at the time, and in this programme we were taken to the heart of it.
(DAILY TELEGRAPH)
Narrator Frank Windsor Additional interviews
CONRAD NICHOLSON
A prayer for the New Year by Paul Cobley
Introduced by Jeanine McMullen
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
Folk music of the world with Jeremy Siepmann gramophone records
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
