Presented from Wales by Gaina Morgan BBC Wales
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with CANON MICHAEL GLANVILLE-SMITH BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With SIMON ROSE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Susan Rae
goes into the Sound Archives to contemplate current affairs and future events with the benefit of hindsight. Producer HELEN FRY
Fifty-five minutes of lively conversation between some of the personalities in this week's news.
Producer IAN STRACHAN Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money. Whether it is a mortgage or an insurance policy, an investment bond or a bank loan, a tax dispute or a social security squabble, Money Box gets the answers from the people in the know.
Details from: Money Box, Room 4099, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 4WW
The Green Sweater by ROBERT B. MAWHINNEY
Read by Mary Wimbush
The sweater is hanging on the clothes line when Jan returns home. Gradually it becomes a symbol.... a turning-point for all her future life.
Producer MITCH RAPER
Advent Calendar:
God's Promise is Our Hope New Every Morning, page 9; Judge eternal throned in splendour (BBC HB 393);
Advent Prose (Richard Lloyd ); Genesis 6, w 11-22; The Lord will come (BBC HB 479). Stereo New Every Morning, £2.25 from booksellers
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners Presented by Kevin Crossley-Holland Readers BARBARA JEFFORD and ANDREW SACHS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC. Bristol BS82LR
Pattie Coldwell presents the only national radio programme for consumers. Editor KEN VASS
The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools Second Semi-final
14: Midlands v Wales
Pilgrim Upper School, Bedford v Oakdale Comprehensive School, Blackwood, Gwent Questionmasters
Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny Questions set by NIGEL RICHARDSON and DAVID SELF Producer GRAHAM FROST
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner
Richard Briers reads King Fuss-a-lot Looks for Hobby by Diana Stow
Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
2.0 Deutsches Magazin 1: Popmusik
and at 2.15 2: Schule
Compiled by DONALD RICHARDS
Producer AL WOLFF
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
Adapted by Peter Fozzard
Producer Colin Smith
(Stereo)
Introduced by Jean Metcalf
The Happiest Day: SARA PARKER continues her exploration of wedding customs at the marriage of a Hindu couple - NITA and SUNILKUMAR in east London. Serial: Breath of Life (10) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Himalaya by JONATHAN NEALE
Stereo
(Revised version of last Friday's broadcast)
Plus The Obituary - a game of literary consequences.
Kaleidoscope asked five authors to write a ghost story by relay and you can hear the result of their team effort over the next five days.
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHF/FM5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
'I'm a Northerner and I like being a Northerner and I'm not ashamed of it anymore. I think perhaps coming away to work has helped me enormously because at the beginning, I was very afraid. If I got beyond the Cleveland Hills I expected to fall to bits!' Sue McGregor talks to Denise Robertson , writer and television agony aunt Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer MILES BARTON
by Elisabeth Bond
with Janette Beverley as Lily and Paul Copley as Colin
An 'older man' runs away with a young girl. The case looks bad: abduction, perhaps sexual abuse. But the truth is complicated.
One way to learn how to do it, perhaps, is to look at some of the things to avoid. Mitch Raper , a Morning Story producer, looks at some of the scripts which didn't quite make it - with the help of Elizabeth Proud and David March.
Presented by Robert Hewison Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
(Revised broadcast tomorrow at
4.30pm)
Including The Obituary Episode 1
(First broadcast this afternoon at4.30pm)
The Aloe by KATHERINE MANSFIELD abridged in five parts by VIVIEN CREEGOR
Read by Kika Markham (1)
A day in the life of the Burnell family in their new home deep in the New Zealand countryside. Producer MAURICE LEITCH
0 HEAR THIS! page 25
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
12.30 Microtechnology Eight Legs Can Be Better Than Three and at 12.50 Sensing Change (RV) (R)
