Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day With DAVID MILES-BOARD
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
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
If you are 14 and in love, or 19 and totally unattached, if you are 17 and being pressurised into A-levels or have left school and are unemployed, life may be far from simple. If you are the parent of a teenager, you may also be suffering worry, outrage, guilt, even despair.
Dr Christopher Dare is a family therapist at the Bethlem and Maudesley Hospitals, and Professor Tessa Blackstone is at the Institute of Education.
Both will be in the studio with Sue MacGregor to answer your questions.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
The Christmas Ring by JEAN BINNIE
Read by Delia Carrie 'That autumn my imagination ran away with me: everything was bound up with magic.' Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
NEM, p 122; God moves in a mysterious way (BBC HB 8); Psalm 40; John 20, vv 24-31 (av); Happy are they, that love God (BBC HB 274)
followed by travel
Once Upon a Christmas by DAVID FITZSIMMONS
Earth Stars
The story of a quest to find - of all the stars that are on this earth - the brightest star of all.
Written by PAUL THOMAS
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOOLD BBC Bristol
Presenter Bill Breckon
Paula Wilcox as Helen
David Wood as Ben in A Lack of Moral Fibre with Pat Heywood as Mrs Kelly
Tony Millan as Alastair and Bryan Coleman as Blythe and Ros Adams as Britt
I think we should both go on this fibre diet.
Especially with Christmas coming up. We're bound to eat too much then, so we should be in trim beforehand. What do you say?
Written by SIMON BRETT Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Puppets and Plays at
Polka: FRANCES RATCHFORD goes backstage at the Polka Children's Theatre. A Traveller in Time (14)
Gothic Romances by SIMON BRETT with Sarah Badel and Christopher Good
Madeleine Eglantine is a successful writer of Gothic Romances. Mark is her new Editor. They fall in love. Will real life imitate fiction and reveal unexpected Dark Secrets?
Directed by IAN COTTERELL
Advent Calendar
The Real Santa Claus: HUGO VAN RHIJN reports from Holland.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
This is where railway modelling begins and often ends for most people, but some take the interest a great deal further. Anthony Burton meets today's true enthusiasts and manufacturers, and traces the history of one of Britain's most popular hobbies.
(Stereo/Binaural)
(The full binaural effect of this programme can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones)
[Photo caption] The Rev Teddy Boston is one of the many people, from all walks of life, who devote their spare time to a hobby which is as popular with adults as it is with children... Model Railways: 4.10
The Sweet Dove Died (7)
Presenters
Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast Ions wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with Brian Perkins including Financial Report
A general knowledge contest between schools in Great Britain.
South - Seaford Head School, Seaford v. Last Week's Winners
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin, Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pin)
The commonest medical complaint is headache, yet the brain itself cannot directly feel pain. Although we know what can trigger headaches off, we still do not fully understand how they are produced. In our ignorance, sufferers of severe headaches such as migraine can be faced with a bewildering variety of uncertain remedies.
Geoff Watts examines recent research which may help to solve the mystery of how headaches are caused, and presents a guide to the most effective treatments, some neglected and some new.
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
This week, a report by Peter Oppenheimer
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 4.10 pm)
A life in words and music compiled by James Munson
with Sian Phillips as Mathilde Kschessinskaya
Narrator Gary Watson
'I love him with all my heart. I want to take what happiness there is now, even if it lasts for only a short time. I'm not going to think about the future.'
Mathilde Kschessinskaya was one of the greatest Russian ballerinas. In 1890 at the age of 17 she met and fell in love with the future Tsar. Their affair ended inevitably in tragedy. The Tsarevich of course, had to marry a Royal princess. Then came the Revolution: together with his wife and family Nicholas II was murdered, and Kschessinskaya fled to Paris, where eventually she died, in 1971, at the age of 99. This, in her own words, is her extraordinary story.
with Michael Tudor Barnes Clifford Norgate David Timson and Patience Tomlinson
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Peter White
Producer THENA RESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Handbook o/ aids and seitiices, £2.95, from BBC Publications, PO Box 234, London SEl 3TH
A nightly magazine of news, interviews and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer Richard DUNN
with Alexander MacLeod with voices and opinions from around the world
Last year the first ever expedition of British and Chinese botanists and plant hunters visited the mountains of north west Yunnan in China. Their main purpose was to study rhododendrons and to collect seeds and seedlings to replenish the gardens of Britain. Roy Lancaster presents recordings he made on the expedition.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour (7)
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
