News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
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Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer lor the Day with FR ALBAN MCCOY
7.9, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought lor the Day
and company, In conversation ranging from controversial to convivial.
Producer BILL ROGERS
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NEM. P 38; Come, let us join our cheerful songs (BBC HB 122): Psalm 20: Genesis 18, vv 1-15 (RSV); Now is eternal life (BP 65) long wave onlu
by Jeremy Bruce-Watt
Read by Fraser Kerr
'Everyone in the playground of his school knew what happened if you passed something from your mouth into the mouth of a female. The terrible truth was that something passed with it - and the girl, sooner or later, would have a baby.'
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News. views and advice for consumers, including a look at the effects of the new law to regulate the activities of insurance brokers.
Presenter Jenni Mills
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Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Guest of the Week: the Chairman of British Telecom. Sir George Jefferson , CBE.
Home and Dry: PETER BATEMAN cAsiders the causes ana cures for rising damp, falling damp and condensation. ♦ The Night She Died (2) long wave onlu
The Bitter Peach by JAMES DOUGLAS with Deirdre Donnelly and Derek Halligan
Becoming the stereotype Irish wife is something that Jane, a successful advertising executive, wishes to avoid.
Unfortunately, her husband, while paying lip-service to Jane's aspirations, shows signs of becoming the stereotype Irish husband.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER
BBC Northern Ireland
A further sequence of ribald reflections on life bevond our shores.
This week, in the last of the present series,
Michael Bentine - presents his own authentic guide to Peru.
Cassettes of the series are available. Details from Room 231, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
Wild Strawberries (7)
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Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including
Financial Report
Andrew Cruickshank in Keeping Company with Joe Dunlop
Nancy Mitchell John Kane
Sandra Clark
Alastair Hunter
Written by DONALD BULL Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
It (Andrew Cruickshank isa
National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm)
A weekly investigation into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud.
Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: 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.
2: Plausibility and Horror 'I believe we do not have the luxury of choosing a policy wholly untainted by the nuclear danger. We can only choose between policies that entail different degrees of risk.' (This lecture will appear in THE LISTENER dated 19 November)
Every year the BBC receives hundreds of letters complaining about English usage on the air. In this programme, which was the cause of so much controversy when broadcast earlier this year, David Crystal , Professor of Linguistics at Reading University, looks at the ' Top 20 complaints, and asks why certain usages so often cause irritation, indignation and even fury.
I.etters read by NICHOLAS COURTNEY JUDY FRANKLIN and HAYDN WOOD
Producer ALAN WILDING (Kepeat)
Hard limes for Helmut
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his government are in deep trouble. Growing support for the anti-nuclear movement is shaking their foreign policy.
The country's flagging economic performance has brought dissension within the ruling coalition. The opposition are making big gains in local elections. John Eidinow reports from Germany.
Producer CAROLINE THOMSON (Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
includes a second report from the London Film Festival; and reviews the RSC'S new production in Stratford of All's Well 7'hat Ends Well with-Peggy Ashcroft and Mike Gwilym.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer CARROLL MOORE
John Morgan reporting
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
