News, weather, papers and sport
Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.25 Shipping forecast
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Presenters Libby Purves and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With Phoebe Hesketh
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by Brian Perkins
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
and company, in conversation ranging from controversial to convivial.
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(Broadcast Sun 2.2 pm)
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NEM p 89; O heavenly word (BBC HB 37); Psalm 130; Isaiah 2, vv 6-12, 17-19 (AV); Lift up your heads (BBC HB 34)
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by Guy de Maupassant, translated and adapted by Harry Bell.
Read by David March
'The Prussians - Neither of them had even seen a Prussian, but for months they had been aware of their presence, bringing ruin to France, looting, plundering, murdering and starving the city into submission.
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(Broadcast Sat 7.35 pm)
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News, views and advice for consumers.
(Broadcast Sun 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news
(Broadcast Tues 7.5 pm)
1.55 Shipping forecast
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor including:
Guest of the Week: the actress and comedienne Sheila Steafel
Gadgets galore! Daphne Metland picks her way through the range of electrical implements now available to the cook. 3: Contact Grill
"Journey to Amritsar" (2)
(long wave only)
by Josephine Hacon
Julia and David are two who are having an affair. Julia's husband, Edgar, is one who finds a most effective way of dealing with the matter.
(Gwen Watford is in "Present Laughter" at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
Robert Fox visits four of the great cities of northern Italy to set how much of their past glory lives on today.
The splendours of the House of the Gonzagas amid the farmlands of Virgil's birth.
(Broadcast Sun 10.15 pm)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
(on VHF until 5.55)5.50 Shipping forecast
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
[Starring] Andrew Cruickshank
with Joe Dunlop, Nancy Mitchell, John Kane, Sandra Clark, Crawford Logan, Jenny Lee
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Andrew Cruickshank is a 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, in justice and even fraud.
Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
Six talks by Professor Laurence Martin, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, on armed force in the modern world.
'As we wash our hands, we would doubtless each according to our temperament regard ourselves as leaving the Third World to stew in its own juice or as respecting the inherent dignity and independence of newly created states. While such abstention may be possible and wise in many particular cases, however, it is not practicable as a universal rule'
(Repeated next Sun, R3)
This lecture will appear in The Listener 3 December
is one way of describing Copeland, a rarely-explored part of the Lake District famous for Wast Water, England's deepest lake; Scafell Pikes, the highest mountain; and Calder Hall, the world's first nuclear power station. This sound picture, compiled by
David Miles, takes you to the Egremont Crab Fair and the Biggest Liar competition, teaches you about rum butter, Tatie Pot and Herdwick sheep and allows you to eavesdrop on the thoughts of the celebrated Copeland poet, Norman Nicholson.
Lobbyists say they oil the wheels of democracy by offering information to Westminster and Whitehall. But the essence of their trade is secrecy Does this ever lead lobbyists to bend the rules? Would they still be necessary if MPs could afford qualified research staff? Presenter Alastair Hetherington
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5am)
includes the 50th anniversary retrospective season of Ealing Studios films at the National Film Theatre in London.
Presenter Jeffrey Richard
See Films: page 15
9.59 Weather
John Morgan reporting
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Radio 4's international business report; market trends
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Weather report: forecast fotlowed by an interlude
