News, weather, papers and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather
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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
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7:30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday In Parliament
8.57 Weather: travel
Margaret Percy confronts producers and management with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and television.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM Please send questions, criticisms or praise about radio or television to: Feedback,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1.A 4WW
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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
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Nude by Agnelli by MARK BOURNE
Read by Robert Rietty long wave only
NEM. p 58; Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty (BBC HB 169); Psalm 150: Luke 22, v 66-23, v 12 (NEB): Be with me,
Lord, where'er I go (BP 6)
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Chairman
Geoffrey Robertson and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London. Motion:
Schools would benefit from a voucher system
Proposer Marjorie Seldon
Opposer Christopher Price , mp
Two advocates each call supporting witnesses to be questioned and cross-questioned: the jury votes at the beginning and end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN long wave only
The ' Four Unalikes To the Chinese, Père David's deer has the neck of a camel, the hooves of a cow, the tail of a donkey and the antlers of a deer.
Presented by Malcolm Coe Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol long wave only
News. views and advice for consumers.
Concluding this week's advice on ante-natal care. Unhappy with your ante-natal clinic? Alternative schemes now being developed by the NHS may provide the answer. Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
(Broadcast Thurs 7.5 pm
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Introduced from Glasgow bv Mary Marquis Special Guest: the Director of Edinburgh Zoo, Dr Roger Wheater. Unemployment, physical handicap and family upsets induce severe psychological problems in some youngsters and they can't always work these out at home. At Tipperlinn House the professionals try to help. CHRISTINE KINNEAR reports MURIEL CLARK Visits
SU GRIERSON at her home in Perthshire, where she recreates and researches the old natural dyes once used in the Highlands.
Producer ELAINE MACLEAN BBC Scotland
A Traveller in Time (2) long wave only
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE (2)
Advent Calendar
Through the fourth window, a glimpse of Christmas cookery of the past, brought to life by Michael Smith.
A series of six programmes
3: Biofeedback
Paul Helney finds out how he can control his own stress level using relaxation and electronic gadgets. Dr liana Glass of the Institute of Psychiatry joins him in the studio.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
Murder Unprompted (5)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gordon Clough
on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news
With LAURIE MACMILLAN Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world including
Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
Tom Boswell tests the Peugcot 505 family estate. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor Rocrn MACDONAI. D
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
A personal portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote, an assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
from The Oxford Union Debating Chamber
Marghanita Laski, John Mortimer, QC, Anthony Quinton and Michael Winner tackle the questions raised by the audience. Chairman David Jacobs Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
includes reviews of the musical South Pacific directed, by Robin Lefevre at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester; and the Radio 4 series Tales from the South China Seas, a mosaic of recorded voices of the last generation survivors of the British Empire, produced by Michael Mason.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer Richard Dunn
John Morgan reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Tate, Bill Wallis 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)
The Years by VIRGINIA WOOLF abridged in 15 parts by JOAN O'CONNOR Read by ALISON FISKE (10)
Producer JEREMY MORTIMER
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Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23* am
Shipping forecast and inshore forecast
