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6.25 Shipping forecast long wave onlu

Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
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

Peter O'Toole worked first as an apprentice journalist in Yorkshire but it was not long before he took up acting. Among the many films he has made, Lawrence of Arabia is still perhaps the best known.
In conversation with Roy Plomley, he chooses the eight records he would take to the mythical island.

(Peter O'Toole is in Man and Superman at the Theatre Royal, London)

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 WIA 4WW
(Repeated: Sun 6.15 pm)

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)

Mrs Webster by NOEL BLAKISTON
Read by Margot Boyd

nem, p 110; Father hear the prayer we offer (BBC hb 352): Psalm 138: Isaiah 5 1-10 (Rsv); O thou who earnest from above (BBC hb 362)

followed by travel

The last in the present series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Chairman
Geoffrey Robertson and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House. London. Motion:
Intensive farming /or animals is unnecessary
Proposed by John Douglass Opposed by Ncvile Wallace 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

Going Frogging
Take a torch into the African night, follow the sounds of the deep. deep song - and suddenly, you will be surrounded by the squeaks and cheeps and big-voiced croaks of a night-time party.
Malcolm Coe , he would afrogginggo.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Bill Breckon

12.55 Weather: travel: programme news

Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Songs of the Season:
Victorian ... wartime ... 1950s ... each era had its own popular
Christmas songs. Richard GRAVES dusts down the parlour piano and unearths the sentiment of past generations.
Countryside Cinema: TOM ARCHER reports on the once great network of rural cinemas which brought glamour to the smallest village - now sadly in decline.
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
A Traveller in Time (12)

by ANTHONY TROLLOPE adapted for radio in seven parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
4: Martin Kelly 's Courtship In which Anty Lynch Is wooed cautiously by Martin Kelly and pursued vigorously by her brother. Directed by PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
(Derek Jacobi is a member of the RSC)

Advent Calendar
The Late Arrivals: an untraditional ghost story by KENNETH HILL
Read by Brian Southwood

A series of sixprogrammes
5:Stress Management
Paul Heiney joins a group of businessmen learning to control their stress. and finds out what role drugs can play in treatment. He is joined in the studio by Dr liana Glass of the Institute of Psychiatry
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

The Sweet Dove Died (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 BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

with Clive Jacobs bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days Producer DILLY BARLOW
(Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)

A personal portrait in conversation, recollection ,,nd anecdote.

Brian Rix
Baroness Phillips
General Sir John Hackett and Dr Anthony Clare tackle the questions raised by the audience from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Chairman David Jacobs

(BBC Bristol)
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which forced foreign automobile manufacturers to build their models for export to America in America, with American parts and labour.

by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am) Book, Alistair Cooke's America, hardback £12 00, paperback £7.75 from booksellers

Lord Olivier talks to
MICHAEL BILLJNGTON about his long friendship and working career with Sir Kalph Richardson , who celebrates his 80th birthday thu weekend.
Producer y
ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather

John Morgan reporting with voices and opinions from around the world

An irreverently critical took back at the week's news with David Tate , Jonathan Pryce 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)

Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour 15)

Radio 4's international business report long wave only

long wave only

continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion. i Broadcast Mon 8.43 am; long wave only

Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude