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
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
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Photography
How do you avoid those holiday-snap disasters? What makes a good photograph? Do you have to spend a fortune to get special effects?
President of the Royal
Photographic Society, Heather Angel , and Lord Lichfield join Judith Chalmers to answer your questions.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
Producer ZAREER MASANI
Ordeal by Prayers by ALEXANDER IRVINE
Read by Patrick Brannigan 'Peter was my pet pigeon.
While Peter was a novelty in our poor mud-cabin he was welcome to room and board, but not being house-broken the novelty soon wore off.' Producer KATHRYN PORTER BBC Northern Ireland
Advent Calendar:
The Ten Commandments
NEM, p 1; God's law is perfect (BBC HB 456); Advent
Responsory (Carols for Choirs 2); Deuteronomy 5, vv 1-21;
0 come, 0 come, Immanuel (BBC HB 36). Stereo
'The wasps were busy in our garage until I hung some garlic alongside their nest.
From the next day on, there was not a wasp to be seen. Why did they go?'
Just one of the listeners' queries designed to make the team's eyes water.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Pattie Coldwell with the latest news and advice for consumers. Phone comments on [number removed]after 11.0 am
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 Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm) Stereo
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner
2: King Jolly and the Cold Spell
2.0 La France aujourd'hui (French IV)
3: Qu'est-ce qu'on va manger? by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE and at 2.15 4: On se dibrouille bien by FIONA CLARKE
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Hard Times (2)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Flamenco in Fulham: ALLAN SMITH joins Flamenco lessons which warm the citizens of Fulham on cold winter evenings.
Life's Rich Pageant (4)
Father Figure by DAWN LOWE-WATSON
A well-known ballerina temporarily retires from dancing to have a baby. She and her husband are horrified when a newspaper publishes a librarian's claim that he is the father of her expected child.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON . Stereo
- A Study in Priestly Power In the recent past, priests in Ireland were figures of power expecting unquestioning obedience.
This year, Peter de Rosa visited the Merriman Summer School in Co Clare, where scholars and writers discussed with him the changing face of the one-time Big Man. Producer JAMES SKELLY BBC Northern Ireland
The Woman in Black (2)
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHFjFM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Stereo
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
BBC Manchester
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care -from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
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4: Letter from Maragoli The BBC's East Africa Correspondent,
Mike Wooldridge , rubs shoulders with the people of the most densely populated district in Kenya, the country with the fastest-growing population in the world. He finds that the pressure on land has driven many people to the cities in search of jobs. But their obligation to help those back home continues and often extends beyond the family to the tribe.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Mr Facey Romford's Hounds 12: Tarring Neville
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
The Chip Shop Presented by Barry Norman What is happening in the world of computers and does it matter? A weekly look at the new technology and its impact, all served up in a way everyone will understand. Producer TREVOR TAYLOR Chipline London [number removed]Liverpool [number removed]Bristol [number removed] Birmingham [number removed] Stereo
followed by an interlude
