News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purvcs
6.45* Prayer for the Day With JEAN RICnARDSON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
and company, in conversation ranging from controversial to convivial.
Producer BILL ROGERS
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NEM, p 67; Fill thou my life. Lord my God (BBC HB 271); Psalm 146;
Genesis 26, vv 34-35, 27, v 46 to 28. v 4, 10-14 (RSV); Eternal Light! Eternal Light! (BP 15) long wave only
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
'"The thing to remember is," they said "...the customer is always right. You give him ham and eggs, 'cause that's what he said. When he says that it was bacon and eggs, you just smile and change the order. You don't argue!" If it hadn't been for Helen, I wouldn't have stayed longer than the first week.'
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Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
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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
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Including:
Guest of the Week: Dr Helen Wallis, Map Librarian of the British Library.
Gadgets Galore!: Daphne Metland picks her way through the range of electrical implements now available to the cook. 2: Deep Fat Fryers
The Night She Died: 7
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Going Down with the Slip by KARL BARRY
For years Sam Ginn has just managed to keep his business going, but now the creditors are almost at the works gates.
Something has to be done but all his traditional avenues of escape seem closed ...
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
Francon Hughes talks to Peter O'Neill about his working life in Penrhyn quarry, the largest man. made hole in the world, which overlooks the village of Bethesda in North Wales.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Cassettes of the series are available. Details from Room 231, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (3)
Presenters Peter Ruff and Susannah Simons on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
Andrew Cruickshank in Brothers in Law with Joe Dunlop Nancy Mitchell John Kane
Sandra Clark John Graham
Written by DONALD BULL Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm) (Andrew Cruickshank is a National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
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 Producer JOHN EDWARDS
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.
3: Shadow Over Europe 'A major nuclear war seems more likely to arise, if it ever does, from a local conflict that gets out of hand, than as a bolt from the blue. By far the most important potential arena for such a conflict is Europe, where the interests of the superpowers are most clearly defined and where the most powerful forces in history have been concentrated.'
This lecture will appear in THE LISTENER dated 26 November
1 I always liked using a pair of horses, you got to know them, they knew you. It seemed as if you'd got someone with you.'
An evocation of the days when head-horsemen were the elite of the village and heavy horses were a common sight in the East Anglian countryside.
Collected and compiled by George Ewart Evans Producer JOHN SCOTNEY
Our Very Own Millstones 1 Run it as a commercial concern! ' has become the stock advice of ministers to newly-appointed chairmen of nationalised industries.
But the reality is different: state sector prices push up the cost of living; state sector borrowing makes ministers look like profligate public spenders. Is there a more realistic way of dealing with the managers of these very diverse industries?
Presenter Mary Goldring Producer DAVID MORTON
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
Presenter Mike Storey
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
John Morgan reporting
The Poor Mouth (3) long wave only
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
