News, weather, papers and sport
visits the capital's agricultural event of the year, the Royal Smithfield Show in the heart of London.
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With Cherida Campion
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by Peter Donaldson
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
and good company - 55 minutes of conversation with guests from an walks of life, including a special birthday
Personality interview by Sarah Dunant.
Producer JOHN LAVIS
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Ken Ford invites Bill Sowerbutts Geoffrey Smith and Daphne Ledwwrd to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
BBC Manchester
Questions, on a postcard only please,to:
Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX
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A House in Sicily by NEIL MCCALLUM
Read by Martin Jarvis Producer MITCH RAPER (Martin Jarvis is a National Theatre player)
NEM. 75; 0 Holy Ghost, thy people bless (BBC HB 156); Psalm 112;
Luke 23 vv44-56 (NEB); The Lord will come, and not be slow (BBC HB 479)
followed by travel long wave only
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News, Views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon
by Ted Willis
A serial in five parts adapted by the author from his novel.
With Annette Crosbie and Richard Pasco
Mark Ritchie receives an unexpected visitor - and then another - and then another.
(Richard Pasco is an associate artist of the RSC)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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with Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Sir John Tooley, General Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Sisters-in-Law: who are the people in our legal system? Libby Fawbert talks to women who practice law, make judgments or give advice to those who need it. 2: The Barrister.
A Traveller In Time (5)
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Peacock Feathers by DAVID CAMPTON and As part of a school project Fleur adopts a 'senior citizen '. The trouble is that Mr Hughes lives in a fantasy world and prefers to think of himself as a diplomatic. distinguished' top executive and Directed by IAN COTTERELL (Richard Pasco is an associate artist of the RSC)
Six A presented by H. Colin Davis
6: All This and Heaven Too. Readers DAVID DAVIS and ROSALIND SHANKS
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Advent Calendar
Emlyn Williams reads from A Child's Christmas by DYLAN THOMAS
Reporter Michael Robinson Producer JOHN DRURY Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
Murder Unprompted (8)
Presenter Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Irene Thomas and Denis Norden In the Chair
Antonia Fraser Questions compiled by PETER MOORE Producers
TONY SHRYANE , PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A series of weekly investigations into the problems of listeners, which can include being the victims of unfair dealings, sharp practice, injustice and even fraud. Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Arts Without Mystery
The Henry James Professor of Letters at New York University, Denis Donoghue, gives the fifth of six lectures on the place of the arts in modern society.
The Anxious Object
'The arts most popular these days are those which provide the most direct access to their experiences. The question of the relative value of the experiences doesn't seem to be raised: it Is as if what people want of any experience is chiefly Its immediacy, and would settle for experiences which have that quality and nothing much else.'
(Rptd: Sun 5.0 pm, R3) (This lecture appears in THE LISTENER dated 9 December)
A 13-part series in which Jeremv Siepmann recounts, with the help of letters, diaries and memoirs, the adventures and reflections of composers abroad. 6: Mendelssohn
' No national music for me: In Wales a harper sits in the hall at every inn playing so-called national melodies. That is to say. Infamous, vulgar, out of tune trash! This music is altogether beyond conception ... ' with Kenneth Shanley as Mendelssohn Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
Community Spirit The children of the Pacific have grown up in societies that were forged when people were poor and struggling. and the priorities were food and strong leadership. Liberal values and pressure for change are producing social strains and discontent as the countries mature and become richer. In the last programme of the series, Mary Goldring looks at the priorities of the next generation and whether the emergence of a genuine Pacific community is going to be one of them.
Producer TOM READ
(Rptd: Thurs 11.3 am)
includes reviews of Asterix and the Great
Divide by Ken Campbell at the Unicorn Children's Theatre, London; and The Memoirs of Leonid Pasternak , a friend of Tolstoy who was chosen to illustrate his works. Presenter Paul Allen
Producer JANE STENNING
John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Anthony Holden and Anne Gregg present ... entertainment to put the steam back into radio.
A run around the inside track of showbiz, the media, money, books, music, fashion and politics.
Producers JULIAN HALE and DICK GILBERT
The Years (13) long wave only
Radio 4's international business report; market trends. long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
12.15-12.23' am Shipping forecast; inshore forecast
