Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and MARTIN SMALL
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
S.45' Prayer for the Day With DR FRED MILSON
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
Wildlife Begins at Home
A variety of birds, insects, mammals and reptiles are all around us in our parks and gardens as well as the countryside. How can we best appreciate, observe and encourage them? And with the onset of wintry weather, how can we give them practical help?
Put any questions you may have about wildlife to Mike Everett of The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and naturalist Tony Soper. Judith Chalmers is in the Chair. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
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Dog Watch written and read by Gwyneth Owen
' Your mind's a mess.
You've forgotten how to trust ... We dogs fit into creation, have our place In lt. You don't.' Producer
HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales long wave only
NEM, p 122; My God, how wonderful thou art (BBC HB 12); Psalm 40; Luke 17. vv 20-32 (NEB);
Immortal, invisible, God only wise (BBC HB 10)
followed by travel long wave only
Silence Can Be Expensive by PATRICE CHAPLIN
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Cygnets, shamrocks and colour-blindness in animals - listeners' topics taken up by this week's team of naturalists.
Malcolm Coe , Glyn Jones and Bruce Campbell.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only
Presenter Jenni Mills
Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben in A Complete Break with Pat Heywood as Mrs Kelly
Tony Mlllan as Alastair Stuart Organ as Kevin Miranda Forbes as Maureen and Robert Rietty as the doctor
' Ben's exhausted. He's been working terribly hard recently. They're building up to the launch of a new bedtime drink. And as if that weren't enough, the company's just introduced a computer to cut down their workload ..."
Written by SIMON BRETT Producer PETE ATKIN
(Rptd: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel: programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
by the Labour Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor
Santa's Book List - On Humour:
KATHARINE WHITEHORN and STEPHEN PILE discuss their selection of books with BARBARA MYERS.
Heaven at Your Feett BERNARD JACKSON Visits Jamaica.
The Stepsisters by PAMELA STREET abridged in nine parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY
Read by DIANA OLSSON (9) (Music: Mathias' Wind Quintet) long wave only
by ÉMILE ZOLA, translated by LEONARD TANCOCK
The last of five parts dramatised by DAVID HOPKINS
Tragedy has cut deeply into the miners' community of Le Voreux. Souvarine, however, has a plan to bring the mine owners to their knees. Narrator PAT CONNELL
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(Recordings made at the Mining Museum,
Chatterley Whitfield. and the slate mines at
Ltechwedd and Glodd/a Ganol)
Ray Barron reflects on encounters with four people who tried to make the leap from the Third World to the West.
1: Larby the Tunisian Producer GILLIAN HUSII BBC Manchester
Amelita Galli-Curci . born 100 years ago this week, was once a household name.
John Steane traces the career of this celebrated coloratura soprano and considers how her best-selling recordings have stood the test of time. Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
Sagittarius Rising (2)
with Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
(Details: Thurs 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the op's surgery.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
Reporter Frances Donnelly Producer MIKE CHANEY Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.10 pm)
The Instruments of Jazz The last of eight programmes The Piano: 2
With JAMES P. JOHNSON EARL HINES , ART
TATUM OSCAR PETERSON , THELONIUS MONK and others
Producer ALAN OWEN
California Death by Anthony Smith
This edition includes information about aids and equipment for blind people who also have other handicaps.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]. 8.30-10.0pm Handbook of aids and services, £2.95, from [address removed]
includes reviews of Barchesler Chronicles,
Alan Plater 's serialisation of The Warden and Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope on BBC2 starring Donald Pleasence , Nigel Hawthorne and Geraldine McEwan ; and Diner, written and directed by Barry Levinson , set in Baltimore in 1959. the film follows the fortunes of a group who meet and discuss their lives in the local diner.
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer ANNE WINDER Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
with Alexander Macleod
The former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter , in conversation about issues arising from his Memoirs of his presidency - to be published shortly - with Andrew Neil. Producer
ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
Turtle Diary (7) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
