with Robert McLeish
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by clive ROSLIN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45 Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
[number removed]
Christmas Cookery
Turkey or goose, pudding or pie? All the excitement and worry of planning for
Christmas is at hand.
Mary Berry and Glyn Christian join
Judith Chalmers with hints, advice and new ideas for festive food.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
Producer ZAREER MASAM
The Tomato Women by FIONA BARR
Read by Nuala Hayes
Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland
from St Paul 's Church, Birminghamon God
All my nope on God is founded (bp 3); Psalm 46 (BBC HB 454); Ephesians 1, w 15-23 (Jb); For the fruits of his creation (bp 18) BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Syren of sullen moods and fading hues,
Yet haply no incapable of joy, Sweet Autumn, I thee hail...!
(JOHN CLARE)
Roger McGough , Susan Jameson and Richard Derrington welcome Autumn-the season of ever-changing colours, moods and activities. Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Birmingham
with Pattie Coldwell
by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
Adapted for radio by the producer Pete Atkin
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner
Today's story The Bad-tempered Ladybird by ERIC CARLE
2.5 History: Long Ago: Pepys's London
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (6)
2.40 Pictures in your Mind (Stories) The Long Dark of the Moon
Presented by Sue MacGregor 'Treble 20, double 18...':
KAREN DECO enters the world of darts, where women players are challenging for the same status as men.
Cluny Brown (5)
Ashley by PHILIP LATHAM In the autumn of 1944 12-year-old Ashley is evacuated from Plymouth, where he has lost his family as a result of the bombing. But new terrors await him on the farm to which he has been sent....
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo
Sixty years ago Methuen published a children's book entitled When We Were Very Young. Together with its sequels, Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, and The House at Pooh Corner, it proved a sensational success, bringing reluctant fame to its author, Alan Milne. For his son, whose childhood games provided the centrepiece of the stories, it brought an unwelcome immortality. Barry Norman talks to
Christopher Robin Milne and friends about the real world of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Research CAROLINE DALY
Producer ROGER MACDONALD
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Behaving Badly (7)
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55
With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.40 pm)
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Are the courts and the trade unions on collision course over the miners' strike? And where do the politicians stand?
Reporter Walter Merricks Producer JOHN DRURY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Reporter Geoff Watts
Lyall Watson explores the natural history of the wind and makes something out of nothing.
Readers BARRY PAINE and SUE CARPENTER
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Professor Alan Gemmell visits the gardens at Newstead Abbey, once the home of Lord Byron and now owned by Nottingham City Council. (Newstead Abbey is on the A60, nine miles north of Nottingham) Producer MURDOCH MCPHERSON BBC Scotland
Presented by Michael Oliver Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Quick Service (7)
Presented by John Hosken on VHFIFM until 11.0
11.0 The Chip Shop Presented by Barry Norman What is happening in the world of computers and does it matter? Producer TREVOR TAYLOR Chipline London [number removed]Liverpool [number removed]Bristol [number removed] Birmingham [number removed] Stereo
followed by an interlude
General Studies
12.30 The Government examined (1)
12.50 Peace Studies
