News, weather, papers and sport
Presented from the South East by Joe Hull
A regional view of farming in the week ahead
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
6.45* Prayer for the Day with FR ALISTAIR MACLELLAN
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25* 3.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
Part 2
8.57 Weather; travel
Pot Plants
Does your cycl'amen droop? Your African violet fall to flower? Your poinsettla obstinately refuse to produce red leaves? If so. you could try ringing Jock Davidson and Ann Bonar , who are in the studio ready to answer your questions about Indoor plants and how to grow them to their best advantage. Jill Burridge is in the Chair
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
Male Order by PAT BURCHARD
Read by Sonia Woolley How on earth do I assess my priorities when choosing a man? I just don't know where to start.'
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 42: My God, I love thee (BBC HB 276); Psalm 84; John 1, vv 40-51 (AV); 0 happy band of pilgrims (BBC HB 335)
followed by travel
by Philip Mitchell
In this special edition. Wildli/e reads your letters, plays your favourite sounds and puzzles you with the MHStertf Sound competition.
Presented by Derek Jonef Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm)
What's being done to Improve the safety of consumer goods? How can cowboy traders be outlawed? Will there be Sunday trading?
Dr Gerard Vaughan , the Minister for Consumer Affairs, opens another year of programmes by answering some of the questions which listeners have been sending.
Presenter Bill Breckon Editor LESLIE ROBINSON
A radio card game In which Barry Cryer Lorraine Chase and Matthew Kelly are dealt with by Paul Daniels
Cards devised, shuffled and scribbled on by IAN MESSITER
Produced and cut by RICHARD EDIS
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; travel: programme news
Presenter Gordon Clougn
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor The Luttrell Village:
SHEILA SANCHA describes a year in a 14th-century hamlet.
How to Say No: CINDY SELBY looks at some of the decisions facing teenagers - and at how schools help them cope. The Magic Apple Tree (5)
Shared Territory by M. P. NEWMAN
Pauline Austin began her new job determined to achieve something really useful - but she had to overcome opposition from several directions first.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Twice Nightly and Beyond The playwright Henry Livings muses on his experiences as an actor.
or Down the Hat In Search of a Rabbit
Since the auspicious age of 13, playwright
Alan Drury has been fascinated by conjuring and conjurors.
James Carter.
Edwin Hooper. John Salissc and Harold Taylor help him to investigate the Magic Circle. Producers CLARE TAYLOR and MARGARETWINDIIAU
The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty (2)
Presenters Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
A series of ten programmes
Ned Sherrin and his guests in the studio look for entertainment wherevertheycanfind
It. and sometimes discover it in unexpected places.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
(Repeated: Wed 10.30 pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP'S surgery.
Producer JULIAN BROWN (Repeated: Sat 2.35 pm)
In the first of three programmes, John Ebdon offers some more oblique reflections on present-day life In the Greek Islands.
The Spectre of Yalta In February 1945, as Allied armies stood poised to enter Germany, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at Yalta to discuss the arrangements fo: the peace.
Notwithstanding the agreements made, the practical consequence of the Yalta conference was Russian subjugation of Eastern Europe, followed by the enforced separation of East and West which we have come to accept as our only guarantee of peace ana stability. But as the Soviet Union faces recurring and growing upheaval in its Eastern European empire, how much stability can the post-war architecture be said to have produced? Inthefirstoffour programmes charting the story of Soviet domination in Eastern
Europe, Michael Charlton looks at what was agreed at Yalta and why, and examines the events which were ignored at the time, but which are now vital to understanding the developments in Poland and the other countries of Eastern Europe.
Producer DAVID MORTON
For blind people thinking of starting the New Year with some studies, Derek Child has some advice on available opportunities at the Open University.
Presenter Peter White Producer TIIENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm
A nightly magazine of news, interviews and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting. music and exhibitions. Presented by Christopher Bigsby
Producer JANE STENNING
Peter Paterson reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Radio 4's DI programme returns with tips and techniques for the absolute beginner and in this third series deals with some of the more advanced projects. Today's experts:
Tony Wilkins.
David Holloway and John Hart answer your questions before an audience at C. P. Hart and Son's do-it-yourself store in South London.
In the Chair Libby Purves Producer CLIVE RICHE Editor JIM BLACK
(Repeated: Thurs 12.27 pm)
An Ice-Cream War (2) long wave only
long wave only
English Baroque music, including Purcell's Sonata in C for trumpet and strings
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Raymond Leppard
(gramophone records)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
