Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

For the terminally-ill cancer patient, the last few months are often acutely miserable and frightening, both for themselves and for their families.
Andrea Adams has been talking to several families in this predicament and exploring the help that is available to keep the family together at home in as normal an environment as possible. Producer MARLENE PEASE and at
9.35 Phone-in: Dr Richard Hillier , joint consultant in charge of the Countess Mountbatten Unit in Southampton, and Sister Pam Debney are in the studio to answer listeners' questions.
Sue MacGregor is in the Chair. Lines are open from 8.0 am and the number to ring is [number removed].
Producers MARLENE PEASE and CHRIS LONGLEY
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Andrew Joynes remembers the landmarks of his childhood in Canada.
Producer JULIAN COLES

Old Bridie of the Roads by TERRY DIXON
Read by Liam O'Callaghan 'Once, when I was much younger, I thought electricity had long since banished our ghosts, that they had slipped away in the shadows of the last candle. Alas, I was wrong, for mine is still with me.' Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland

NEM, p 38; Awake, my soul, and with the sun (BBC HB
403); Psalm 32; II Corinthians 11, vv 16-31; Hail to the Lord's Anointed (BBC HB 457). Stereo

How fast can a hedgehog run? Brian Bertram , Peter Moore and Peter Ferns catch up on some more of your wildlife questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer MEUNDA BARKER BBC Bristol.

Pattie Coldwell with the latest news and advice for consumers.
Phone comments on [number removed]after 11.0 am

by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn.
In which Jim's privacy is invaded, and in which Sir Humphrey pays him the ultimate compliment.
Adapted for radio by the producer Pete Atkin
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm) Stereo

Presenter Sir Robin Day

1.55 Listening Corner Today's Rhymes: Count to Ten and Back Again
2.5 History: Long Ago Edwardian London
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (9)
2.40 Pictures in Your Mind (Stories) The Death of Balder the Bright
2.0-3.0 L W Woman's Hour Introduced by Sue MacGregor Nutty Nosh: with the festive season in mind, ROSE ELLIOT makes suggestions for tasty meatless meals and party nibbles. Bad Company by LIZ CODY abridged in 11 parts by JANET HICKSON Read by DAVID MCALISTER (11) (Music: Vainberg's Trumpet Concerto)

Child in a Dark Wood by ELLEN DRYDEN with and Paris, 1859. Caroline Sheridan Norton, grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan , has won independence from her miserable husband the hard way: by losing custody of her sons. Now grown-up, they are reunited with her. But one is ailing, and Caroline cannot help remembering the death of a third son, many years before....
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Tom Forrest has begun The
Archers omnibus edition with those words for 32 years. Bob Arnold , who has played the part of the jovial gamekeeper since the series started in 1951, talks to Michael Ford about his life away from the bustle of Ambridge and sings some of the songs he learnt from 'the regulars' in his father's Cotswold pub. Producer MICHAEL FORD BBC Birmingham
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Let the People Sing
12: Dunbury Loses Its Temper

Presenters Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

Stereo

(Repeated: Wednesday 1.40 pm) by SIMON FRITH
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

India After
Indira Michael Robinson reports from Delhi and the Indian
States on the Union's chances of holding together after the assassination of Mrs Gandhi. Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wednesday 4.0 pm)

Reporter Geoff Watts
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
(Repeated: Thursday 10.0 am)

Peter France, Peter Moore ,
Chris Mead , Peter Ferns and Margaret Kennedy look at the recently published natural history books you might like to give - or receive - tbur-Christmas.
Producer CAROL JEFFERSON-DAVIES BBC Bristol

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL

Letter from El Barraco
A new series of talks by the BBC's foreign correspondents begins in a village in central Spain, where Jeremy Harris reports on the two-way pull of rural family life in the 1980s. El Barraco , he finds, is one of many Spanish pueblos whose sons and daughters have to travel far and wide in search of work, while their dreams remain rooted in the countryside they leave behind. Series producer ZAREER MASAN1

Presented by Michael Oliver Producer RICHARD DUNN

Some Do Not (12)

11.0 Headlines on VHFIFM until 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

Economics (O-level): Supply and Demand
12.30 3: The Elastic Customers
12.50 4: Changes!