Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
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The CBI conference continues in Eastbourne and John Timpson and the Today team are there. In London, Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV BARRIE ALLCOTT
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 2
Christmas Cookery
Last year my cake didn't rise in the middle: what went wrong? How long will the turkey take to defrost? Can you suggest an alternative to the traditional meal? The prudent cook is preparing now for the Christmas eat-in. In the studio to offer advice and ideas to help you cope are two expert cooks. Mary Berry and Zena Skinner.
Judith Chalmers is in the Chair
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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NEM, p 89; Have faith in God, my heart (bp 28); Psalm 67; Jeremiah 31, vv 27-34 (av); Who would true valour see (BBC HB 371) long wave only
Diary of a Moorland Winter (2)
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Boot, Boot, Wallop, Wallop, Nut by AL HUNTER
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We read your letters, play your favourite sounds and puzzle you with the mystery sound competition.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
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Presenter Jenni Mills
Have His Carcase by DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Adapted in six episodes by ALISTAIR BEATON
3: A Dutiful Son
Narrator JOHN WESTBROOK Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MaeGregor including during the week a Talking Point discussion, your letters and other topics. Including today
Stops - Starts: a quiz series to test - and improve - your knowledge of your car.
Children's Books and Writers: EDNA O'BRIEN and MICHAEL ROSEN talk about their latest publications. Secret Places by JANICE ELLIOTT , abridged in ten instalments by JANET HICKSON
Read by Fleur Chandler (1) ' The schoolgirl, Patience Mackenzie, was always to remember a day early in the war when an arrestingly different new girl arrived in the class. For Laura Meister was a German refugee....'
(Music: Arnold's Second Flute Concerto)
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by A. J. CRONIN (4)
Colin Semper has been travelling in the steps of St Paul in Turkey. He has sent back four letters. 2: From Ephesus, Scene of a Fracas
A Portrait of Birmingham's Black Citizens
A group of youngsters describe the problems of being born in a country which they feel rejects them. They're also torn between two cultures - one black and one white - and find much of the music, dance and fashion of their country of origin has been adopted by white society as its own. Producer JAN PICKUP
BBC Birmingham
The Moonspinners (7)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
First Round 8: Wales
Tasker Millward School, Haverfordwest v St Joseph's RC Comprehensive School, Port Talbot
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports
Producer JULIAN BROWN
Brian Redhead chairs this debate direct from
Pebble Mill on future job prospects in Britain.
With more people out of work than at any other time since the Depression, are we facing the beginning of a post-industrial society?
Should we be trying to create new jobs or do we need to evolve a totally new attitude to employment?
Speakers include
Roy Evans of the Iron and Steel Trades
Confederation; Sir Hector Laing of United Biscuits; Barry Sherman of ASTMS; Clive Sinclair of Sinclair Research: Professor Adrian Sinfield of Edinburgh University; Mary Stirling Stuart , comprehensive school headmistress; and Sam Toy of the Ford Motor Company.
Producer JANE MARSHALL Editor JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
includes reviews of a new play by Stephen Poliakoff -Favourite Nights at the Lyric Theatre,
Hammersmith; and John Sayles ' film Return of the Secaucus Seven, at the ICA. Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JANE STENNING
with Alexander MacLeod
Last of six programmes
Who are the Masters Nowt Hugo Young concludes by probing the advantages and disadvantages of a radical change in the relationship between civil servants and their political masters.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
How Steeple Slnderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup (7) long wave only
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With the help of gramophone records, the English contralto Mary Jarred looks back over her career. Introduced by Ian Partridge
Producer RONALD cook
Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
