Presented live from the Royal Smithfield Show. London by Joe Hull
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
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 Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Kate Moon
goes into the BBC Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight.
(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 brand of humour.
Producer JENNY DANKS
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The Story-Teller by SAKI Read by David March Producer MITCH RAPER
NEM, p 67; Rejoice! the Lord is King (BBC HB
128); Psalm 146: Luke 23. vv 13-31 (NEB); Come, let us join our cheerful songs (BBC hb 122)
followed by travel long wave only
Brian Johnston visits Maybole, Ayrshire
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Presented by P. J. Kavanagh
Readers PETER JEFFREY and FRANCES HOROVITZ Producer BRIAN patten BBC Bristol
Holiday Horrors
This summer millions of British customers booked foreign holidays. The vast majority enjoyed the break they'd paid for but despite the efforts of travel agents and tour operators, a worrying number of holidays still went wrong. Why? How do complaints get dealt with? What are your rights in dealing with holiday problems? Bill Breckon reports Editor JOHN GETGOOD
Travel
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of the subject, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from FRANKIE HOWERD , ROWAN ATKINSON , TOM LEIIRER
KENNETH WILLIAMS , PADDY ROBERTS and BOB NEWHART No better physic for a melancholy man than change of air and variety of places (ROBERT BURTON) Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN iRpt)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlakc
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor will include during the week some Talking Point discussions. Your Letters and other topics.
Edible Gifts: CLAIRE clifton and MARTINA nicolls give the first of their daily demonstrations this week on how to make beautiful and tasty presents for Christmas.
Drinks for the Party
Season: a discussion on some wines, cocktails and non-alcoholic beverages.
A Traveller in Time by ALISON UTTLEY abridged by DOREEN ESTALL in 15 instalments
Read by JAN CAREY (3) Editor WYN KNOWLES long wave only
The Floating Republic by PAUL BRYERS
The second in a series of six programmes on the facts and fallacies of dieting.
Chocolate that tastes like sawdust and peppermint cordial that tastes like water. David Ponting does some experimental eating and finds out how sweetness and smell effect our taste-buds. Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Murder Unprompted (6)
Presenters
Valerie Singleton and Gordon Clough on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
(Repeated- Tues 1.40 pm)
(Revised rpt of 9.5 am)
by Graham Reid
with Maggie Shevlin and John Hewitt
Joe Moore left Belfast for the Merchant Navy when he was in his teens. Fourteen years later a chance reunion in a London pub with his childhood sweetheart seems just a fortunate coincidence to Joe. It is, though what neither he nor the other customers in that busy pub realise is that it will be, literally, a matter of life and death.
BBC Northern Ireland
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)
The World's Greatest Theatre
The Theatre Royal. Covent Garden, opened its doors on 7 December 1732 not with an opera or a ballet, but with a performance of Congreve's comedy The Way of the World.
Now, 250 years later, and known as the Royal
Opera House, Michael Oliver examines its reputation and its heritage of music, drama and dance in the light of a new production of Handel's opera Semele and the world premiere of Rudolph Nureyev 's ballet The Tempest, while Michael Billington goes behind the great red and gold curtain and plunges into the seemingly chaotic intricacies of the backstage world where the nightly miracle of turning fantasy into fact is somehow achieved. Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART
(A live relay of Semele on R3 next Sat, 7.0 pm)
with Alexander MacLeod Editor ken GOUDIE
Presented by Peter Evans A weekly review of discoveries and developments.
Producer JULIAN BROWN
The Years (11) long wave only
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Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
12.15-12.23' am
Shipping forecast and inshore forecast
