Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer tor the Day With DAVID MILES-BOARD
6.55,7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30*. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35*Yesterday In ParUament
8.57 Weather: travel
Brace yourself for the pre-Christmas rush by Joining Henry Kelly In conversation with specially-selected Christmas turkeys. producer JOHN LAVIS
visits Askbam Bryan College of Agriculture in Yorkshire, where local gardeners put their questions to Bill Sowerbutts, Geoffrey Smith and Clay Jones
Questionmaster Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
by Saki
Read by David March
NEM, p 1; Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30): Psalm 99; Isaiah 51. vv 1-8 (NEB); Lo! he comes with clouds descending (BBC m 35)
followed by travel
Presenter Bill Breckon
by Ken Whitmore
Jim Is keen to help his firm meet their sales targets. But nothing must interrupt the concentration of senior staff in their daily struggle with The Times crossword puzzle.
BBC Manchester
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Including
Guest of the Week: The Director of the NSPCC. Dr Alan Gilmore
Sisters-in-Law: LIBBY FAWBERT talks to women who practise law. 3: The Magistrate
A Traveller in Time by ALISON UTTLEY abridged in 15 parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by JAN CAREY (15)
(Music: Alwyn's Naiades)
A Christmas play by Tony Cassidy
with Jane Knowles as Helen, Geoffrey Beevers as Charles
After working abroad for some years, a young married couple come home on leave for Christmas. They spend a nostalgic day revisiting their old haunts...
BBC Manchester
Desmond Hawkins introduces This Most Tremendous Tale
Readers PAULINE WYNN and douglas LEACH
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Advent Calendar: Christmas past
The Sweet Dove Died by BARBARA PYM abridged In eight parts by HILDA SCHRODER Read by RACHEL HERBERT (8)
Producer MARGARET ETALL
Presenter Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.51 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dllys Powell and Frank Muir challenge
Irene Thomas and Denis Norden In the Chair
Antonia Fraser. Questions compiled by PETER MOORE Producers TONY SHRYANE and PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A series of four programmes 1:Back East
Roger McGough returns to Hull, scene of his student days a quarter of a century ago.
The purpose, to give a poetry reading to today's students, and as It's his birthday he takes time out to meet some fellow writers and to muse on the character of the city where he wrote his first poems.
Producer
JANE MARSHALL
BBC Birmingham
A series of five programmes in which Jessica Mann investigates women crime-writers and why such gentle women are so good at murder.
Agatha Christie is not merely the Queen of Crime but the archetype: retiring, genteel and uniquely successful. To what extent did she establish the tradition? Janet Morgan, A.L. Rowse, Julian Symons, Anthony Sterr and Marghanita Laski investigate the Christie phenomenon.
A 13-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann recounts, with the help of letters, diaries and memoirs, the adventures and reflections of composers abroad. 8:Dvorak
'New York is magnificent. Lovely buildings, beautiful streets ... and everywhere the greatest cleanliness! ' with Alan McClelland as Dvorak
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
It is now 40 years since Sir William Beveridge outlined a comprehensive plan for social insurance. How have the assumptions and principles of his report survived the test of time, and is the welfare state, as some have suggested, in danger of collapse under the weight of demand? In the second of two programmes.
Gordon Clough chairs a discussion at Toynbee Hall in East London, and then puts some of the arguments to The Rt Hon
Norman Fowler , mp, Secretary of State for Social Services. Producer MAGGIE REDFERN (Repeated: Thurs-11.3 am)
A nightly magazine of news, interviews and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter
Rtchard Mayne
Producer JANE STENNING
John Morgan reporting
The last in the present series In which
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
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour (8)
Radio 4's International business report; market trends
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
