News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With JEAN RICHARDSON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Building Your Own Home Most people yearn to live in the home they dream about custom-designed and built to suit every need In a time of high mortgage interest rates, more and more people are tempted to acquire that dream house by building it themselves. At what point does the planning start? How much will it cost? From where can the materials be obtained? What about building regulations? How much of the wort needs to be done by professionals? How long will it take and will it all be worth it when the last brick is laid?
In the studio to answer all your questions and to offer advice on building your own home will be two self-build experts, Murray Armor and Colin Wadsworth In the Chair
Teresa McGonagle Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Editor PADDY OKEEFFE
NEM, p 62; Father of peace (BBC HB 488);
Psalm 36; Genesis 24, w 63-67 and 25, vv 20-26 (rsv); Rise, my soul, adore thy Maker (bp 74) long wave only
The Kleptomaniac by GENEVIEVE MUINZER Read by Trudy Kelly
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
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An Empty Glass by GEORGE PARSONS Mozart, hock and sparkling conversation-it's a joyful farewell party thrown by a dead man. But there are those willing to drink his wine and defame his memory.
With JOHN LIVESEY
Directed by JOHN CARDY long wave only
' Why did a small brown mouse climb up a flower stem. nip off the flower-head and take it into the undergrowth? ' Pat Morris. Fred Slater and Peter Ferns answer more of your Wildlife questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
Presenter Bill Breckon
Have His Carcase by DOROTHY L. SAYERS
The last of six episodes adapted by ALISTAIR BEATON withand
All a Question of Time
Narrator JOHN WESTBROOK Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Robin Day
by the Labour Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor. including
Give a Dog a Bad Name: RON ALLDRIDGE reassesses some animal reputations. 3: The Pig
Games People Play: 1: Bridge -
BARBARA ORCHARD unravels some of the mysteries of that most difficult of card games. The Night She Died (6) long wave only
by SHERIDAN LEFANU (2)
Anthony Lawrence , whose home is in Hong Kong, has just been back to
Britain for the first time in four years. He found things have changed in ways he hadn't expected. Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Stephen Spender and Charles Causley talk to MICHAEL DEAN about poetry, poets, and the pains and pleasures of those who attempt to paint the colour of the wind '.
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2)
Presenters Peter Ruff and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain Second Round 11: London
ARCHBISHOP TENNISON'S SCHOOL, Kennington v South
COWES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, Cowes, IoW
Questionmasters TIM GUDGIN and PADDY FEENY Questions set by PAUL LIVESEY , NIGEL RICHARDSON and PADDY FEENY Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP'S surgery.
Producer RICHARD ELLIS (Repeated. Sat 3.0 pm)
Presented by Brian Thompson
Marina Dennis meets a man who spotted the first walrus seen in Shetland for 100 years: and Bob Danvers Walker explores the bottom of Loch Linnhe in an oil company's diving bell. Other contributors KEITH ALLAN
ROBERT POWELL
MARTIN MUNCASTER and TOM SALMON
Producer DON MOSEY BBC Manchester
talking about music Each week, ANTONY HOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
In this edition, Margaret Ford suggests some
Christmas presents that might be welcomed by blind people.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Blind listeners can phone in suggestions and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]8.30-10.0 pm Free quarterly bulletins summarising information broadcast, available from Room 816, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ROSEMARY HART
David Sells reporting and voices and opinions from around the world
A series of six programmes
3: The Dog Who Laughed Another helping of the mad-cap sitcom starring
Tom Mennard and Anthea Askey with and special guest appearance of Candice Barker
Written by ROB GRANT and DOUG NAYLOR
Producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester
The Poor Mouth (2) long wave only
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
