Presented from Wales by Handel Jones
A regional view of farming in the week ahead. BBC Wales
A meditation for the beginning of the new day
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Dilly Barlow
goes into the Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight. Producer HELEN FRY
Unpredictable and lively conversation from the personalities who will be in the news this week. Producer IAN STRACHAN Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Money Box keeps a watching brief on your money problems including pensions, tax, social security and investment in general. Address: Money Box
Room 4058, Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW
You Don't Come the Pickle with the Onion by PETER CHALONER
Read by Fraser Kerr Producer MITCH RAPER
Advent Calendar: The Golden Calf
New Every Morning, page 5; Thou, whose almighty word (BBC hb 185); Lo, God is here
(Anthems for Choirs 1);
Exodus 32, w 1-14; What does the Lord require (BP 98) Stereo
Presented by Charles Tomlinson Readers JILL BALCON and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Pattie Coldwell presents and lends a sympathetic ear to your phone comments and queries on [number removed]Editor KEN VASS
A Tale of Two City Gents by Wally K. Daly starring Donald Hewlett as Charles and Michael Knowles as George
Also featuring Sherrie Hewson and Helena Breck
Theme music by Jim Parker
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner
King Jolly and the Winsome Witch by SARAH MORCOM Read by Willie RUSHTON King Jolly and the Sunny Spell (1) Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.0 La France aujourd'hui French IV
1: Programme varie (1) by ANNE WEST and at 2.15
2: Qu'est-ce qu'on dit? by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems: Hard Times (1)
by CHARLES DICKENS Adapted by ELIZABETH PROUD
With BRIAN RIX, DENYS HAWTHORNE, SANDRA CLARK and HUGH DICKSON
Producer STUART EVANS
Introduced by Liz Mardall Power and Persuasion: SONIA BEESLEY reports on women active on the political front from parish pump to Parliament.
Life's Rich Pageant abridged in eight parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Written and read by ARTHUR MARSHALL (3)
Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Intimations of a Raid by JOHN KIRKMORRIS
Stereo
Vicki Hughes looks back on her adventurous years 2: Elopement
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Cumbria )
The Woman in Black A ghost story by SUSAN HILL abridged in eight episodes and read by Alan Dudley (1)
To sift through the papers of his client, the late
Mrs Drablow , solicitor
Arthur Kipps visits her isolated house out on the marshes. He finds an empty chair that rocks itself, hears the sounds of a pony and trap that do not materialise and sees the Woman in Black.
Producer JOHN CARDY
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
with PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Stereo
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer DEBORAH COHEN
Despite changing fashions in education, one part of primary school life remains - playtime. But how do the classes of 1984 spend their precious minutes of freedom each morning and afternoon?
John Hedges , presenter of BBC Schools Radio's In the News programme, takes a look at modern-day playtime, with the help of children from more than 1,000 schools in the United Kingdom who took part in the In the News playtime survey.
Producer CATHY PACKE
Titus Groan
The first of two plays based on the Gormenghast novels by MERVYN PEAKE
Dramatised for radio by BRIAN SIBLEY with Sting as Steerpike Freddie Jones as The Artist Bernard Hepton as Dr Prunesquallor Judy Parfitt as Irma Prunesquallor
David Warner as Sepulchrave Eleanor Bron as Gertrude Sheila Hancock as Clarice and Cora Jill Lidstone as Fuchsia Cyril Shaps as Flay Robert Eddison as Sourdust Maurice Denham as Barquentine
Stratford Johns as Swelter Hilda Schroder as Nannie Slagg Melinda Walker as Keda Graham Blockey as Rantel and Peter Acre as Braigon
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN. Stereo (Robert Eddison is in 'Phedra' at the Old Vic Theatre, London)
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Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer CARROLL MOORE Editor ROSEMARY HART
Mr Facey Romford's Hounds 11: A Bag Fox Enlarged
Presenter Charles Wheeler
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF!FM until 11.0
Living Through Change The third of four programmes MARGARET KORVING meets AJIT AND ROSHAN MANSUKHANI , a Hindu couple who grew up in India at the time of Partition, then came to Britain where they now pursue professional careers.
followed by an interlude
