Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
A meditation for the beginning of the new day.
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
takes the chair for 55 minutes of lively and unpredictable conversation with people from all walks of life.
Producer PIPPA BURSTON Stereo
A Real Country Holiday by MARY FREEMAN
Read by Mary Wimbush
Advent Calendar:
Jonah and the Whale
NEM, p 93; God is my strong salvation (BBC HB 453); Advent Prose (EH 735); Jonah 3, w 1-10; My God, how wonderful thou art (BBC HB 12) Stereo
Stereo
Derek Robinson challenges some beliefs we take for granted - and finds that the facts tell a very different story.
This week: The Nativity Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
John Howard reports on topical issues and how they affect you and your family.
If you have any comments for today's programme, phone [number removed]after 11.0 am.
by G. K. Chesterton
Seven stories dramatised by John Scotney
A villain turned detective. A new religion proclaimed from a balcony. And Inspector Bagshaw is baffled... Only Father Brown discovers the murderer.
(Stereo)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
Today's story: Grandma Buys a New Dress
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Nick Lloyd , Editor of The News of the World
Sketches from Diplomatic Life 2: La Valise
See a Friend this Weekend by MALCOLM BRADBURY with and An English don is travelling by train to London. En route, he falls into conversation with a strange and fascinating woman.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo
Parodies
The last of six programmes compiled and presented by Simon Brett
6: Some of My Favourite Parodies
Readers Tm PIGOTT-SMITH DAVID BRIERLEY and ELIZABETH BELL
Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo
The Woman in Black by SUSAN HILL
Abridged in eight episodes Read by ALAN DUDLEY (8) Producer JOHN CARDY
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Moorhead High School, Accrington v. Last week's winner
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)
The last of the series in which case histories from listeners form the basis for investigation into allegations that can include unfairness, injustice, bureaucratic bungling, or even fraud. Presented by Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
Minds, Brains, and Science Last week, John Searle ,
Professor of Philosophy at the University of California,
Berkeley, concluded the 1984 Reith Lectures. In them he attempted to answer many worrisome questions about the nature of Man's relationship to the rest of the universe.
Professor Searle discusses some of the issues raised in the lectures with Professor Colin Blakemore of Oxford
University, Professor Richard Gregory of Bristol University, and Colin McGinn of University College, London. In the Chair Geoff Watts Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
'Minds, Brains, and Science' £5.25 paperback, £8.95 hardback from booksellers
Narrated by David Attenborough
Chest beating, barks and roars may precede the dramatic charge of a silverback, the powerful leader of a family of gorillas. In the company of DIAN FOSSEY and IAN REDMOND, we encounter one of the few surviving groups living in the mountain forests of Rwanda. Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
The final instalment of this lighthearted look at the life and music of Noel Coward.
Presented by Sheridan Morley 13: Noel on Noël
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN (First broadcast on World Service)
Presented by Paul Alien Producer DANIEL DODD
Just Resting (3)
National and international news, background analysis, and comment.
Presented by Charles Wheeler
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
A vous la France! Supplément In an extra programme for the holiday break, A vous la France! goes to Dieppe for the day, in the company of two listeners, to see if the language learnt so far means anything to the French. Presented by YVES AUBERT and PHYLLIS ROOME Script by ALAN WILDING
Students' book, £5.25; three LP records, £4.75 each or turn cassettes, E3.74 each from retailers
followed by an interlude
