Farming, food and countryside news. market trends and weather
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Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
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7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*. 8.25' Sport
7 30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day 835* Yesterday in Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
Margaret Percy confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and television. please scnd questions, criticisms or praise to: Feedback,
BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM (Repeated: Sun 6.15 pm) long wave only
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BBC correspondents from around the world cast a collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: Sat 4.2 pm) long wave only
The Careful Wife by GUY DE MAUPASSANT translated by HARRY BELL Read by David March long wave only
nem, p 9: For the beauty of the earth (BBC HB 272); Psalm 8; Luke 19. vv 1-10 (NEB); Christ is our corner-stone (BBC HB 258)
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In which current and controversial issues are put on trial before chairman
Geoffrey Robertston and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London.
Motion: Professional football has failed ils fans Proposer:
Clement Freud , mp
Opposer: Peter Swales
Two advocates each call supporting witnesses; the jury votes at the beginning and end of the trial.
Producer NAGGIE REDFERN long wave only
The Acacia tree is home to ants and weaver birds and food for elephants and giraffes. For Malcolm Coe it is a lasting image of Africa.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced by Jenni Murray from Bristol
Guest: Sheila Quinn ,
President of The Royal College of Nursing.
Santa's Booklist - on DIY: TONY WILLIAMS and CHRISTINE BRADY diSCUSS their selection with BARBARA MYERS.
Producer SARAH Pitt The Hidden Face (3) long wave only
Knowing the Score Written for radio by ALMA CULLEN
Lois sings in a select girls' choir: Graeme is a better flute player than his parents realise. From vastly different family backgrounds two young people meet and learn a little bit more about themselves.
SENIOR CHOIR OF ST
MARGARET'S GIRLS' SCHOOL Directed by MARILYN IRILAND
BBC Scotland (First broadcast on R Scotland)
F.AY BARRON reflects on encounters with four people who tried to make the leap from the Third World to the West.
4: Sir; the Sri Lankan
What is Stresst
In the first of six programmes on stress.
Paul lleiney finds out how high his score is in the Under Pressure stress quiz. and learns to relax by post. He is joined in the studio by Dr liana Glass of the Institute of Psychiatry.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
Sagittarius Rising (5)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
With CHRISTOPHER SLADE including Financial Report
with Cllvc Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
Tom Boswell tests the Toyota Celica Supra.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
with Richard Stanely Producer SIMON ELMES
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
Professor Ralf Dahrendorf has been Director of the London School of Economics for almost a decade; before that he was a successful politician in West
Germany and an EEC Commissioner in Brussels. He talks to Ted Harrison about his succession of identities.
Producer KAREN HENDERSON
from Doncaster A panel of guests tackles the questions raised by the audience. Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated; Sat 1.10 pm)
includes reviews of After the Lions. a new play by Ronald Harwood starring Dorothy Tutin as the actress Sarah Bernhardt. at the Royal Exchange Theatre. Manchester; Show Business, an exhibition of costumes, designs, props, posters and programmes from David Garrick to David Bowie , staged by the Theatre Museum at the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington; and Iron Eyes Cody: My Life as a Hollywood fndian, the reminiscences of a Cherokee Indian from his early roles in silent films to modern epic westerns. Presenter
Sheridan Morley Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
John Morgan reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason David Tate and Tracey Ullman
Written by JAMES HENDRIE JOHN REVELL , ANDREA SOLOMONS, IAN BROWN ROY apps and others Producer JAN RAVENS
(Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Turtle Diary by RUSSELL HOBAN abridged in ten parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Readers PETER JEFFREY and ANN MORRISH (10)
Producer MARGARET ETALL long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
