Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather
A meditation for the beginning of a new day
Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON ROSE
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Road Transport
Should there be stricter measures on drink and driving? Is enough being done to ensure coach safety? Are motorway links ruining the countryside? Put your point of view to Lynda Chalker , MP, Minister of State for Transport.
In the Chair Jenni Murray
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am
Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's worldwide team of foreign correspondents
Valuables by NAN WOODHOUSE
Read by Lesley Nicol
'They were a bit of fun, jumble sales. One of Mavis's few bits of fun. You never knew what you might find when you got in there rummaging. It was like Christmas, when the doors opened and you hurried inside.'
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Advent Calendar: Human Despair, Divine Hope
NEM, p 93; 0 Lord our God. arise (BBC HB 25); Haste thee, 0 God
(batten); Lamentations 3, vv 1-6, 19-24; My God, how wonderful thou art (BBC HB 12) Stereo
In the last of six programmes reflecting life from cradle to grave in the mill towns of northeast Lancashire, Phil Smith listens to experiences of death and departure.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Pattie Coldwell with the latest news and advice for consumers
Browsing through the Sound Archives, Michael discovers that they have ways of making you talk at the BBC. If you are a costermonger, they write your answers; if you are a duke, they confront you with a dustman; but if you are Brian Johnston or Peter Ustinov , they light the blue paper and retire. Producer HELEN FRY
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner RICHARD BRIERS reads The Night the King Could not Sleep by DIANA STOW
2.0 Deutsches Magazin 3: Mein Heim/Zimmer Compiled by DONALD RICHARDS and at 2.15
4: Was ich gem mache Compiled by DR BRIAN HILL
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. LAWRENCE
Introduced by Sue MacGregor To mark International Human Rights Day, DEBORAH PUGH talks to Palestinian women involved in development about the problems they face in their work in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Serial: Breath of Life by ANN ARMSTRONG , abridged in 11 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Margaret Tyzack (11) (Music: Reinecke's Undine)
The Human Chord by SHEILA HODGSON based on the novel by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
'In the beginning was the word' ... and the sound. But when the eccentric Reverend Philip Skale discovers the means to harness the strange power of that sound, the little Welsh rectory becomes a place of nightmare, terror.... and danger!
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo
Cook Booksfor 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.
(Revised version of yesterday 's broadcast at 9.45pm) including The Obituary
Episode 2 by ANTONIA byatt
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With LAURIE MACMILLAN including Financial Report
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Stuart Simon Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Danger: Men at Work!
Geoff Watts assesses the state of occupational health care
The Great Canadian Novel 3: A Sense of Place
Margaret Horsfield talks to successful writer Alice Munro , relative newcomer
Bill Valgardson , and 'the great grandad of them all', W.O. Mitchell, whose novel
Who Has Seen the Wind, published in 1947, has become a Canadian classic.
Readers BLAIN FAIRMAN and ADEEN FOGLE
Producer VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap Presented by Ian MacRae Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Lines open 8.30-10.0pm
A series of six combative talks in which the novelist Howard Jacobson vents his spleen. 3: Horatios not Hamlets
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Revised broadcast tomorrow at 4.45 pm) including The Obituary
Episode 2 by ANTONIA BYATT (First broadcast this afternoon at 4.30pm)
The Aloe (2)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Horizons de France
2: La vie quotidienne (R) Presented by GREGOIRE CAREL
