Presenters John Timpson and Peter Hobday with Brian Redhead from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in New Delhi, India
6.30, 7.30, 8.30
News Summary
S.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7.45' Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The Nuclear Debate The Rt Hon
Michael Heseltlne , mp, Secretary of State for Defence. answers your questions. The BBC's Defence Correspondent
Christopher Lee is in the studio, with Sue MacGregor in the Chair. 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.
In the Light of Morning by NORRIE HEARN
Read by Denys Hawthorne Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland
Advent Calendar:
Abraham and Isaac NEM. p 26; Lo, God is here! (BBC HB 264); The truth from above (Oxford Book of Carols 68);
Genesis 22, vv 1-14; To us In Bethlem city (BBC HB 315) long wave only
The Odds Against Corrigan by SHEILA HODGSON
A disused racecourse is an eerie place. For two young people who stroll across it the atmosphere is charged with emotions as different as the reasons for them.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD long wave only
' We had a strange blue tit-like bird in the garden but its cap, wings and back were black and its chest was grey. Is It a dark form evolved to live in industrial areas? '
The naturalists answer your wildlife questions. Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 5.0 pm) long wave only
Paul Heiney with the daily programme aimed at you, the consumer.
Ring [number removed]after 11.0 am with your questions and comments.
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden In the Chair
Michael O'Donnell
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
Producers TONY SHRYANE and PETE ATKIN
Presenter Sir Robin Day and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Sue MacGregor , including Focus on the Nuclear Debate: the talks' defined. What is under negotiation?
A Tiger for Malgudi by R. K. NARAYAN abridged in nine parts by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE
Read by SAM DASTOR (9) (Music: Mayer's Sri Krishna) long wave only
The Wheel of Time by HENRY JAMES dramatised by BETTY DAVIES
A man and a woman meet after a lapse of 30 years and find the relationship of their youth is re-enacted by their children.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
The Impossible Europeans?
Richard Mayne explores and explodes some national cliches.
1: The French - Perfect Foreigners
Producer JULIAN HALE
' It's easier to talk about death than it is to talk openly about step-families ', wrote a step-mother recently.
One in three marriages in Britain today is a re-marriage - in 90 per cent there are children involved. The main focus of social concern and advice tends to be on the children. But what of the five million step-parents? What are their difficulties and anxieties?
Mavis Nicholson talks to some of the experts (sociologists and psychologists) and to the step-parents themselves who speak out intimately and frankly and offer some encouragement to others in a similar situation.
Written by BRENDA MADDOX Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
How Green Was My Valley (12)
with Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
by ANTONY JAY and JONATHAN LYNN in Doing the Honours in which Sir Humphrey is not in any sense reprimanded.
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
Geoff Watts reports
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
Memories of what it was like to go out dancing in the 1930s set to music of the period.
Producer PETER HOARE
Nearly 200 years after the event, the organisers of the 1983 Brighton Festival ordered an inquest Into the death of the composer Mozart. Lawyers were briefed, witnesses subpoenaed and a jury summoned.
Tim Rice took his seat in the public gallery to report the proceedings.
Did Mozart die of natural causes, or was he murdered? And if so, by whom? Barristers:
Michael Hutchinson , QC Anthony Arlldge , qc Christopher Moger
Rosamund Horwood-Smart Witnesses:
William Gutteridge
Lisa Harvey , Simon Eliot Matthew Scott. Catherine Paice , Katie Avey
Research and preparation of briefs FRANCIS CARR and SIMON WHITWORTH based on an idea by SIR IAN HUNTER Produced for radio by MAGGIE REDFERN
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm Handbooks of aids and Publications, [address removed] (send four large saes for a year's supply)
Hans Hotter-Mastersinger A big Wagnerian voice, which is heavy, has its problems adjusting to Lieder, but if a ' forte' is a big apple, then a ' piano ' is not a slice of that apple, but a whole small apple.
In conversation with Michael Oliver , the German bass-baritone
Hans Hotter talks about his career as a leading soloist, opera producer and now a teacher, as well as his meetings with Richard Strauss , the opera producer
Wieland Wagner and the conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
with Alexander MacLeod
The third of six entertainments to help you beat the weather as David Barlow ,
Peter Christie. Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis make the attempt to be reasonably together with their special guests
The Temperance Seven Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE
Sour Sweet by TIMOTHY MO abridged in 12 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by DAVID SUCHET (12) Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
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