News, weather, paperi and sport
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather
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 BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by WILKIE COLLINS abridged in two parts by ROBBI PENGELLY
Read by Stephen Murray (1)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
8.57 Weather; travel
A breakfast edition with the Archers, but not the Ambridge family.
George Archer , ex-policeman and labourer who hadn't milked a cow until 13 years ago. now has 200 cows on 400 acres in Cheshire. He and his family explain how they did it to Anthony Parkin and Martin Small.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham (Revised repeat)
A magazine edition with news of what's happening to wildlife and the countryside. Introduced by Peter France
Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Father's Day by ANNA FREW
Read by Mary Rlggans
1 There was dad, standing at the door, smiling, rubbing his hands together. " When do you want him home, Sylvia? " No later than seven. And not too much excitement. He does tend to get - well - rather worked up ".'
Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland
NEM, p 50; Earth has many a noble city (BBC
H9 64); Psalm 86; Matthew 2, vv 1-12 (AV); As with gladness (BBC HB 62)
followed by travel
Clement Attlee assessed
I come from a country of hill cricket, where for decades the village players have been great toilers on the slopes, and where lor a wicket, the most we could hope for was some well-trodden sheep-path winding away among the tussocks.
The writer Laurie Lee remembers the cricket he watched as a boy and more recently on the famous ' Hill ' in Sydney, where England are currently doing battle with the old enemy.
News, views and advice for consumers with the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
Written by DEBBIE COOK and WATSON GOULD
Cast for the fortnight:
BBC Birmingham
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Including
A Stairway to Heaven:
Adam's Peak Is one of the most sacred places of pilgrimage in Sri Lanka. KAREN DECO climbed to the summit at sunrise.
Emergency Aid: what would you do In an emergency? Would you run away or try to help? There are courses countrywide designed to help the public, KAREN DECO attends one.
The Magic Apple Tree (7)
Private Property-Keep Off by DAWN LOWE-WATSON
A well-known media man plans to take his girlfriend on a peaceful holiday to an island he owns off the Scottish coast. When they arrive. they find there are squatters and his attitude towards them is far removed from hip TV persona as the gentle, liberal man of the people. But are they really squatters, and who has the right to occupy the Island?
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Twice Nightly and Beyond HENRY LIVINGS muses
Frank Delaney talks to Laurens van der Post
The Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS Bounty (4)
Presenter Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with PAULINE BUSHNELL
Including Financial Report
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm)
Jeremy Stepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
A sacred trilogy
Wordsand music by Berlioz Parti
The Dream of Herod
The Flight dnto Egypt
HALLt CHOIR chorus-master RONALD FROST
HALLt ORCHESTRA leader PAN RON LEE conducted by ANDREW DAVIS
BBC Manchester
(Given on 23 December 1982 in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester)
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Part 2
The Arrival at Sals
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer PHILIP JORDAN
Weather
with Alexander MacLeod
An Ice-Cream War (4) long wave only
long wave only
Journeys in the Lives of Long-Distance Commuters Molly Price-Owen meets a number of people who travel vast distances to and from work.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS (Repeal)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
