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Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer /or the Day With THE REV ADAM FORD
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
Part 7
Pot Plants
Is the present you were given for Christmas already showing signs of wear and tear? How long can you reasonably expect a plant to go on thriving in a modern, centrally-heated house?
Jock Davidson , an expert on houseplants, joins
Jill Burridge to answer your questions about caring for greenery in your home.
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.
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nem, p 93; Dear Shepherd of thy people (BBC 115 259); Psalm 90. vv 1-6.
12-17; Hebrews 8, vv 1-13 (Rsv); Be with me, Lord (bp 6) long wave only
by John Wood
Read by Graham Roberts
'Into the dark skies of eastern Lincolnshire, the Lancaster bombers disappeared and 13 of them, including "J for Johnny", would not come back.'
BBC Birmingham
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Salient Facts by KARL BARRY
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1 In Thailand I saw massive elephants in tealc forests stepping over rtihris logs, etc and not once did their hind legs touch these obstacles. How could they avoid objects which they can t see directly? '
Malcolm Coe Janet Kear and Stephen Sutton tread stealthily through some more of your natural queries.
Presented by Derek Jones
Producer BRIAN LEITH
BBC Bristol,
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Presenter Jenni Mills
Nigel Rees invites Robert Lacey, Naomi Lewis,
Christopher Matthew and Sir Huw Wheldon to identify quotations, famous and obscure, and to share their favourites. Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news
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Presenter Robin Day
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor, including:
Pick of the Paperbacks: some ideas on spending your Christmas tokens.
A Good Trawl: Jenny BanksS catches up on the state of the wet fish market and why we don't eat more fresh fish.
A Start in Life (10)
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by Henry Fielding.
The last of six parts adapted for radio by Hallam Tennyson.
With Anton Lesser as Tom Jones, Kathryn Hurlbutt as Sophia Western,
Peter Jeffrey as Squire Western, Sarah Badel as Miss Western, Clifford Rose as Squire Allworthy, Charles Gray as Lord Fellamar, Annette Crosbie as Mrs Waters, and Martin Jarvis as Henry Fielding.
In which Tom Jones languishes in prison; Lord Fellamar may yet marry Sophia; Mrs Waters brings Tom succour; Tom's mother is revealed and everything ends happily.
(Martin Jarvis is in "Caught in the Act" at the Garrick Theatre, London)
Six programmes In which Bernard Jackson visits some of the centres of Christianity in Europe. 2: Canterbury
Producer inn* iowklli
The Cult Figure
Casablanca transformed Humphrey Bogart from an actor renowned for gangster roles into a big romantic star with one of the cinema's most enduring images.
Terence Pettigrew looks at Bogart's later years, which included his personal and professional partnership with Lauren Bacall and his Oscar-winning performance in The African Queen. Producer WENDY CLAY
The Rover (7)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VlIF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather: programme news
including Financial Report
Thora Hlrd , Avis Bunnage Megs Jenkins in The Omen with Joe Gladwin , John Graham , Henry Knowles Written by TERRY GREGSON Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)
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What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports
Producer bsboru cohen (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
The strange and amusing story of the first successful attempt by the United States to establish diplomatic ties with the mysterious, inviolate and feudal Imperial Japan in 1853.
Written and presented by Bernard Keeffe with Alan Tilvern as Commodore Matthew T. Perry and David Healey as Townsend Harris, first American Consul in Japan
'The Japanese couldn't see enough of us and our ways. They peered into every nook and cranny, into the muzzles of guns, hauling the ropes, measuring the boats, looking eagerly into the engine room. and constantly making notes and sketches. The Japanese are undoubtedly an intelligent people, and may be made something of in time, but they are just three centuries behind the age in everything.'
(Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)
talking about music ANTONY HOPKINS explores a musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and with records.
Producer Patrick LAMBERT
Do parents still have a choice of schools? Kevin Mulhern reports on the implications for blind children of the new Education Bill.
Presenter Peter White Producer TUENt heshel
Blitui listeners can phone in suggestions and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]8.30 10.0 pm
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer CATHERINE WARING
9.59 Weather
Peter Paterson reporting
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Le tombeau de Coupcrin VLADO PERLEMUTER (piano) gramophone record
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
