A meditation for the beginning of a new day with THE REV PHILIP CROWE
BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Presented by Peter Hobday and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Richard Baker presents a selection of words and music on record, reviving old favourites, introducing the less recent releases.
Producer JANE BEVAN
(Revised broadcast of Saturday 's programme at 7.45 pm) Stereo

Colin Semper airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about BBC programmes and policies. Send them to: Feedback, BBC Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Producer SALLY THOMPSON (Re-broadcast on Sunday)

BBC correspondents report from around the world
A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 3.0pm)

by NICK YAPP
Read by Jonathan Cecil
The story of a most unusual bet - how it was made ... who won and how it all ended. Producer MITCH RAPER

Advent Calendar:
Deliverance Dawns
NEM, p 75; The advent of our King (BBC HB 39); People look East (Carols for Choirs 2) Isaiah 51, vv 4-11; Hills of the North rejoice (BBCHB33) Stereo

Carry on Magpie!
Since the new neighbours moved in, there have been such goings-on! Nest-sharing, wife-swapping, egg-stealing!
Michael Clegg presents an everyday story of magpie folk. Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol (R)

Cook Books for Christmas? Derek Cooper is joined by Valerie Wise , Chair of the GLC Women's Committee, and Professor Nicholas Kurti ,
Emeritus Professor of Physics at Oxford University to browse through some of the new food books in search of stimulating ideas and value for money. Producer JOHN FORSYTH
(Re-broadcast next Tuesday)

Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Plop, the Owl (2) by JILL TOMLINSON (R)
2.5 Let's Join In with Soundbox The Christmas Dove by PETER CANWELL
2.25 Listen and Read Radio Thin King (30) by DEREK FARMER (R)
2.40 Listen! Journey through Badlidrempt (10) (R)

Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
From Avengers to Sondheim: HONOR BLACKMAN, an actress of enormous diverse talent, today drops her pantomime mask to be the special guest. Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
Serial: Breath of Life (9)

by D. H. LAWRENCE dramatised in six parts by ROY SPENCER
4: An Arrowfrom the Impatient God
'With spring came trouble, the Saxtons declared they were being bitten off the estate by rabbits. Suddenly, in a fit of despair, the father bought a gun and was out in the first cold morning twilight banging away.'
Pianist MARLENE FLEET
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
Stereo

Stereo

Presented by Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough

With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team take a drive through history, looking back over 100 years of the motor car, in a programme from two of Britain's major motor manufacturers - Austin Rover and Jaguar. And Tom BosweU is at the Toyota factory in Japan. Producer IRENE MALLIS

(Re-broadcast on Monday at 1. 40pm)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer FRAN ACHESON
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 10.30 am) Stereo

Hugo de Burgh explores the mysteries of animals, from squid to grouse, from lemmings to anchovies, which experience extreme variations in their numbers. Lemmings are said to bring about their own decline by hurling themselves off cliffs, but do they? And there is a theory that grouse do actively control the size of their own population. Increasingly man's activities have been the cause of huge crashes, either by over-exploitation or by pollution, although in the case of the disappearing sandmartins, it might just be a change in the weather.
Producer CHRISTOPHER LOWELL BBC Scotland. Stereo

Richard Needham , mp David Penhaligon , mp Joe Ashton , mp and Lynda Rouse , merchant banker tackle the issues raised by the audience in Dymock, Gloucestershire
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.10pm)

Surveys question what we think must be so - which is why we should never make general assumptions. Show more

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast on Sunday at 9.15 am)

Presented by Nigel Andrews Producer SIMON BROUGHTON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Palace of Green Days by FRED URQUHART abridged in ten parts by TREVOR ROYLE
Read by Gwyneth Guthrie (10) Producer MARILYN IMRIE BBC Scotland
(Starting on Monday: The Aloe by Katharine Mansfield )

Presented by Richard Kershaw

with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by RICHARD QUICK
PAUL B. DA VIES . STUART SILVER MARTIN BOOTH. IAN BROWN
JAMES HENDRIE. PETER SINCLAIR STEVE PUNT. DAVID COHEN PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MAYHEWARCHEh
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm) Stereo

followed by an interlude

12.30 Help Yourself to Study Skills 3: Writing (i) Note-taking (ii) Essay Writing and at 12.50
4: Organisation, Revision and Exams