Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Rosemary Hartlll
6.55 Weather; travel; programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
This week follows a businessman and a stockbreeder to The
Royal Smithfield Show in London. with LESLIE COTTINGTON and GWYN RICHARDS Producer
GWYN RICHARDS BBC
Birmingham
Norman Tozer with how to get the best from your hard-earned cash.
7.55 Weather: travel; programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
Presented by Gerald Williams England's cricketers are midway through their quest to retain the Ashes and TONY LEWIS reports from Adelaide at the end of the second day of the Third Test.
A look forward to the Second Round of the FA Cup. the day when a win can lead to an attractive fixture against a First
Division side in the next round.
Producer DAVE GORDON
8.57 Weather: travel
Bernard Falk with Radio 4's travel and leisure programme, assesses the impact of video games on the Christmas stocking: what's on over Christmas with SUSAN MARLING : the best television programmes to see from PATRICK STODDART ; and travel advice from IAN LYON. Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Michael White takes a look at the weekly magazines.
Producer SHARON BANOFF
with Robert Carvel
Producer MARGARET BUDY
New Every Morning. page 89; At the name of Jesus (BBC HB 120); Psalm 118; Joshua 1. vv 1-9 (GNB); Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140)
Radio and tv extracts with Margaret Howard
Presenter Louise Botting Personal savings, tax. mortgages, insurance. socialsecurityandthe financial problems ot everyday life.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)
The last seven days put by Barry Took to the panel which includes Richard Ingrams
Valerie Grove , Alan Coren Written and compiled by JOHN LANGtON and DANNY GREENSTONE Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Sir John Greenborough Professor Laurie Taylor Detta O'Calhaln and David Alton , MP
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Can You Hear Me. Mother? by JEANNE PEAStY
Stephen feels that his parents are ignoring im. His mother Is intent on forging ahead In local politics. his father is absorbed by his fight to rise in the firm. Stephen, in an effort to attract their attention creates a problem for them both.
Directed bv KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 11.3 am)
Geoff Watts reports
A magazine edition
A ten-part adventure serial by JAMES FOLLETT
Having destroyed Android Surgeon General Kraken. the crew of the starship Challenger are heading towards Novita Six - the solar system to which they believe their home planet Earth has been transported. 9: Earth
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN
BBC correspondents cast a collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families with countrywide news and views.
Presenter John Mills
Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address : BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Tel: [number removed]
Fourth of five programmes Dr Martin Bax of St
Mary's Hospital Medical
School. London, examines the process by which humans acquire language. Over the Threshold Putting together sentences that other people will understand means obeying complex grammatical rules. How do 2- and 3-year-olds set about the task of combining words in an orderly fashion?
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
An irreverently critical look back at the week.
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only .
5.55 Weather: travel: programme news
With BRIAN PERKINS
Including Sports Round-up
with actor Peter O'Toole.
(Details: Friday 9.5 am)
Amiably competifive conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. mixing the well-loved with the less familiar, and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.3 am)
Uncertain Angel bv PETER WHALLEY
When Eddie Philips met Angel Dickson he was just a lapsed classical clarinettist fronting his own jazz band in the kind of small Manchester club you'd forget, even if you didn't have reason to. She gave him reason to remember everything ...
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)
The tradition of funeral wailing survives in Asia. Africa and South America and only just survives on the Celtic fringes of the British Isles.
Kevin Crossley-Holland examines the way in which these ritualistic songs provide ' a tearless crying-out against Death and Time and the grief of the World ', with illustrations from many countries and cultures. Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
Six programmes
Themes and variations from the lives of the British in South-East Asia in the days of the Empire, in the words of those who were there. 4: The Men Who Would Be Kings
' In 1925 1 was posted to Perak to relieve
Humphrey Berkeley. I was received by Berkeley. who was dressed, as he always was, in Malay costume. He used to drive himself in an English landau and pair ... when he showed me round and we came to tho courthouse he said. " Here we dispense justice but not law ".' Narrator Garard Green Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Compiled by CHARLES ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON
Frances Gumley leads a meditation for late evening
followed by an interlude
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
