Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John TimpsoB and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV DONALD ENGLISH 7 0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
For the next three months, several thousand bird-watchers will be taking on a daunting task - finding out where British birds are in the winter months. Peter France asks
Dr Peter Lack , the organiser of the survey, what it is all about.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Ten programmes about people who are successful against the odds. Nimbus Records
Frank Delaney visits one of the most improbable recording studios in Britain ... in the ballroom of a Georgian house in rural England. Nimbus Records began trading in 1977 and since then have built up a turnover of more than £300,000 a year, at a time when most other companies are in recession.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 54; Come, Holy
Ghost, our hearts inspire (BP 12); Psalm 126:
Isaiah 26, vv 12-21 (av);
0 Holy Ghost, thy people bless (BBC HB 156) long wave only
The Haunted by CYNON BEATON JONES Read by John Darran ' It was then that he noticed the strangeness of her dress, a style and material he could not readily place in any historical context. It was this that gave him the first inkling of others worldliness ...
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Questions on a postcard to: Enquire Within, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
News, views and advice for consumers
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Jenni Mills
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
by the Labour Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
A New Lease of Life: JILL BURRIDGE visited a housing scheme for retired people at Lowestoft.
Keep Fit the Oughton Way!: HELEN PICKLES meets a family who may be Britain's fittest. Winter Garden by BERYL BAINBRIDGE abridged in eight parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by ROBERT LANG (8)
Music: Arnold's Serenade for Small Orchestra
The Woman's Hour Book,
16.50, from booksellers
Sunrise Over Baldness by J. C. WILSHER
Times have changed since Peter and Geoff shared a flat together in the 1960s. So have Geoff and Peter. For one thing they don't have as much hair as they used to. But they still have their friendship. Or do they? Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER
A weekly look at some of the people and the places around the United Kingdom that don't always make the national headlines.
Frank Delaney introduces the magazine programme about the books you read, borrow and buy, both new and old, from classics to comics.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Tell Sally (4)
Presenters Robert Williams 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 BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questionst Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Norman Tozer with how to get the best value for your hard-earned cash.
Written by MARY CUTLER (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Kingsley Amis introduces Spenser's
Epithalamion - a poem to celebrate a wedding. Reader RONALD PICKUP Producer ALEC REID
John Julius Norwich introduces the annual concert of carols and Christmas music direct from Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. with All Hallows Girls' Junior Choir, Speke Chorus-mistress HELEN MCCLORRY
Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra associate leader NICHOLAS WOOD conducted by Edmund Walters Part 1
BBC Manchester
BBC Music Guides for Berlioz and Brahms
Orchestral Music, £1.50 each, from booksellers
The historian pwen
Dudley Edwards recalls his first steps in learning the art of discrimination between a good fact and a good story.
Part 2
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer
CLARE SELERIE-GREY
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
The Orchid Trilogy (8) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
