News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers
LESLIE COTTINGHAM and MARTIN SMALL
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Presenters Libby Purves and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV FRANCIS PALMER
7.0, 8.9 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
returns to educe entertainment and edification from guests ordinary and extraordinary.
Producer BILL ROGERS
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NEM, p 5; God who spoke in the beginning (up 24);
Psalm 19, vv 1-11; Genesis 7, vv 12-17 and 8, vv 6-12 (rsv); Rejoice today with one accord (BBC HB 281) long wave only
Azaleas for Sale written and read by Angela Huth
' " We're keeping body and soul together,"
Isabella said. " Skin of our teeth. Economising like crazy - just the odd nip of gin to keep ourselves going! " '
Producer MITCH RAPER
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News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
by the Conservative Party
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week: the composer and conductor Carl Davis
Dear Father Christmas: LAYE ANDREW and SALLT TARRANT WILLIS SUggCSt some craft books.
Nothing to Aim for: JOHN MAYS tells JILL BURRIDGE that's how retirement seemed to him. Secret Places (7) long wave only
Deadline by WILLIAM SMETHURST
Terry, a young graduate reporter on a local paper, seizes the opportunity to work on a big Manchester daily, leaving his less successful colleagues behind him. He's what they call ' a high-flyer '. But can his wings carry him high enough?
Music composed and played by STEPHEN HANCOCK Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
A further sequence of ribald reflections on life beyond our shores.
This week Richard Boston uncorks some vintage memories of Sweden.
Wild Strawberries (2)
Presenters Peter Ruff and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
Andrew Cruickshank in Our Miss Campbell with Joe Dunlop
Nancy Mitchell , John Kane , Sandra Clark Crawford Logan Barbara Home
Written by DONALD BULL Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
(Details: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Two-Edged Sword
Six talks by Professor Laurence Martin, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, on armed force in the modern world.
1: If you knows of a better 'ole
'Important though it is to avoid nuclear war, that is not the only purpose of a national security policy and it is possible to design strategies that offer a fair prospect of avoiding both nuclear war and many other unfavourable outcomes to international conflict - not falling for instance, under the dominant influence of Soviet power.'
(Repeated: next Sun, R3)
The 1914-18 war has been recalled mainly in the writings and reminiscences of the men who fought in France. But women too shared the suffering, the heartbreak and the loss.
This programme attempts to put the record straight, with readings from Scars Upon My
Heart, a new anthology of women's poetry and verse of the First World War, and from Vera Brittain 's recently published war diary, Chronicle of Youth.
Readers ELIZABETH BELL ANNETTE CROSBIE ANNE NARVET
Researched by ANNE HARVEY Producer
ANNE HOWELLS
The Rt Hon
Denis Healey , ch, mp. Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Shadow
Foreign Secretary in conversation with Mary Goldring.
Producer DAVID MORTON
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Includes reviews of Wilfred and Eileen, starring
Christopher Guard and Judi Bowker a four-part serial on BBC1; and two films released this week:
Wolfen, starring
Albert Finney and An American Werewolf in London starring Jenny Agutter.
Presenter Jeffrey Richards Producer JANE STENNING
John Morgan reporting
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
