News, weather, papers and sport
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
Presented from Scotland by Allan Wright BBC Scotland
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day With MARK WILLIAMSON
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast 70 8.0 Today's News
Read by CHRISTOPHER SLADE 7 25*, 8.25* Sport
7 30 8 30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Harriet Cass
goes into the BBC Sound
Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight. producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Fri 11.45 pm)
8.57 Weather: travel
who invites you to meet some of the names who are hitting the headlines this week.
Kenneth Robinson adds his own particular brand of humour.
Producer JENNY DANKS
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Rats by M. R. JAMES
Read by Richard Hurndall Producer MITCH RAPER long wave only
kem, p 118; Thy kingdom come! (BBC HB 28);
Psalm 46; Luke 17, yv
11-19 (NEB); When all thy mercies, 0 my God (BBC HB22)
Prayerbook, New Every Morning, £2.00 from booksellers
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Brian Johnston visits
Newton Stewart , a small market town in an area known as ' The Quiet Country ' in Galloway, south west Scotland.
Producer ANTHONY SMITII BBC Bristol
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Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners. by Dannie Abse
Prfsented by Dannie Abse Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and HUGH BURDEN
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol long wave only
News, views and advice for consumers
Pre-enter Jennl Mills Editor JOHN GETGOOD
The Five Red Herrings by DOROTHY L. SAYERS
The last of eight episodes adapted by CHRIS MILLER starring
Producer SIMON BRETT
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake with views and topics in and behind the headlines
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor will include during the week some Talking Point discussions, Your Letters and other topics. Among these today:
Santa's Book List - On Gardening: PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL and CYRIL FLETCHER discuss their personal selection of books for Christmas presents with BARBARA MYERS.
Women for Westminster: SONIA BEESLEY continues her series about women who have recently been selected as prospective Parliamentary Candidates.
(3) Susan Thomas - Liberal/SDP Alliance (Mole Valley)
The Stepsisters (8) Editor WYN KNOWLES tong wave only
The Woman's Hour Book, £6.50 from booksellers
Fahrenheit 451 by RAY BRADBURY
Theatre critic, Joyce McMillan , shares the pleasure of a favourite walk in the hills of Renfrewshire near the Firth of Clyde.
Sagittarius Rising abridged in ten parts from his autobiography and read by Cecil Lewis (1) Author, critic and director Cecil Lewis , was, with Lord Reith, a founder member of the BBC. In those early years he organised the first public symphony concert and the first broadcasts of Shakespeare and Shaw. In the First World War he served in the Royal Flying Corps.
Sagittarius Rising is a description of those years when a schoolboy became a veteran in a completely new kind of warfare.
A BBC World Service production
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Paul Burden on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
With PAULINE BUSHNELL
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including Financial Report
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised rpt of 9.5 am)
No Ordinary Light by HALLAM TENNYSON with Sam Dastor as Mahatma Gandhi
' The light has gone out of our lives. The light has gone out, I said, and yet I was wrong, for the light that has shone in this country was no ordinary light.' (NEHRU)
Script consultant PATRICK QUINN
Directed by DAVID SPENSER (Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
Every year on the Monday following his installation, the new
Lord Mayor of London gives a banquet in honour of his predecessor.
John Hosken describes the scene in the Guildhall. London, before the new Lord Mayor proposes a toast to Her Majesty's Ministers.
The Prime Minister, The Rt Hon
Margaret Thatcher , mp, replies with what is traditionally a major speech on the country's position in international affairs.
with Alexander Macleod Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
Turtle Diary (6) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
