News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
S.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV MELVYN MATTHEWS
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by Pauline BUSHNELL
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7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.43* Thought for the Day
8.40' Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
Hand and Machine Knitting
If you have got a large family is it worth investing in a knitting machine? Can commercial patterns be adapted easily? Are there any tips for knitting tidy button-holes? How can you achieve a professional finish? Are geometric designs always best knitted by machine? Pam Dawson, hand knitting and crochet specialist and Anne Smith , machine knitting designer and Journalist, join Sue
MacGregor to answer your questions. Exclusive free knitting pattern illustrated above can be obtained from the address on page 87.
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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A Retreat by GILLIAN NELSON
Read by Susan Tracy
' Stephanie saw two foxes in the garden. They moved without hurry between the bushes, lean and savage, their gingery coats rough, eyes fixed ahead. The glass of her bedroom window was more than a physical barrier. The garden belonged to the foxes and she was as nothing.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester long wave only
NEM, p 17; Jesus. Lord. we look to thee (BBC HB 374); Canticle 3, vv 1-8; Luke 10, v 38 to 11, v 4 (NEB); The wise may bring their learning (BBC HB 370)
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The Drowned Village by BERLIE DOHERTY
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Pat Morris , Chris Mead and Denis Owen tackle questions put by the members of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Naturalists' Trust on their 21st anniversary.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Jenni Mills
Nigel Rees invites John Lahr
Derek Parker
Ned Sherrin and Rosemary Anne Sisson to share their favourite quotations and identify some others.
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics In and behind the headlines
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with Sue MacGregor
Social Workers - Who. What and Why?
Recent publicity about possible cuts In social services led HELEN PICKLES to find out what kind of work they actually do. Fit For Winter:
PAT THORNTON joins some of the many kinds of exercise class available. 3: Aerobics
The Ballad and the Source (12) long wave only
by EMILE ZOLA
The conductor
George Hurst , who lives at Poole in Dorset. reflects on life by the sea.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Next month sees the launch of Channel 4. an event which could affect fundamentally, the profits, programmes and advertising style of commercial television. But where will the additional advertising revenue come from to pay for Channel 4?
Will independent local radio and specialist magazines lose advertising to the expanded commercial television outlets, and if Channel 4 doesn't attract enough advertisers will It be forced to change Its programme policy?
Susannah Simons talks to people In television and advertising about the impact of Channel 4, and not least the effect it will have on our viewing habits.
Producer SUSAN DENNY
Wild Wood (2)
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
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With BRIAN PERKINS
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain
Newent School, Newent v. Worcester College for the Blind, Worcester
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
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(Repeated; Wed 1.40 pm)
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 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 ALISON RICHARDS (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
Claude Cheysson , the French Minister for External Affairs in conversation with Michael Charlton.
Producer DAVID MORTON
The Instruments of Jazz A series of eight programmes
4: The Saxophone with FRANKIE TRUMBAUER COLEMAN HAWKINS , SIDNEY BECHET. JOHNNY HODGES
CHARLIE PARKER , ORNETTE COLEMAN and others
Producer alan owen .
(The fourth of six programmes in the Haven of Refuge series continues next week at 8.50 pm)
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. In this edition
Shirley Gllberry describes how, despite her loss of sight. she helps with remedial teaching In a primary school.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone In queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.3010.0 pm Handbook of aids and services, £2.95 from [address removed]
Includes a review of Tron, the new fantasy film from Wait Disney which marries live action with dazzling computer generated graphics; and reports on the winner of this year's Booker McConnell Prize for Fiction which was announced earlier this evening at a dinner in the Stationer's Hall, London.
Presenter Natalie Wheen
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with Alexander Macleod with voices and opinions from around the world
With the 1982 Motorshow opening later this week Maxwell Boyd chairs the first semi-final of a new motoring contest in which four contestants try to answer a wide selection of questions set by Autocar magazine. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Four Stories by JOHN CHEEVER Read by John Franklyn-Robbins 1: Just One More Time Producer MAURICE LEITCH (John Frankiyn-Robbins is a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report: forecast followed by an Interlude
