Presented by John Timpson 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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Cuckoldry among the reedbeds is one of the discoveries that Peter France makes when he probes the private life of the reedwarbler. He also finds that the saddest Christmas carols should be sung for our migrating robins, and he recounts the third episode of the more cheerful adventures of badger 1360.
Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBC Bristol
Danger: Men at Work!
How safe is work? Despite strong pressure to provide more occupational health services in Britain, we still lag behind the rest of the developed world in attending to the well-being of our workers. Geoff Watts assesses the state of occupational health care by talking to the doctors who deal with everything from the hazards of working on production lines to the problems of burnt-out executives. Producer JULIAN BROWN
False Alarm byNESTATUOMEY Read by Margaret D'Arcy
'When Miss Simpson's house was burgled and she only a few yards away down the garden building a bonfire, she was badly shaken. Living alone as she did she had always thought she would be protected by her terrier Judy whom she rated a good watchdog. But Judy hadn't even barked. Miss Simpson couldn't get over it.' Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland
reflecting the issues of the day, introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
Five areas of life to which most people never give much thought. But if you don't fall within the norm in these areas, life can be fraught with difficulties.
2: Margaret Horsfield shares the thoughts of the un-rhythmic. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family
Presented by John Howard For Fact Sheet No 50, write to: You and Yours, BBC, Room 726 Broadcasting House London W1A 1AA
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner RICHARD BRIERS reads The King Who Wanted to Make his Own Music by DIANA STOW
2.0 Deutsches Magazin 7: Was ich mit meinem Geld mache Compiled by WOLFGANG KEINHORST and at 2.15 8: Essen Compiled by ROB quirk
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Late Night on Watling Street by BILL NAUGHTON and Indian Camp by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Not a paradise of equality?: why do boys denigrate their girl school-mates? JENNY LACEY has been looking at the sometimes strained relationships in school. Serial: Six Ghost Stories by H. G. WELLS
2: The Story of the Late MrElvesham
The Nuremberg Egg by Roger Davenport.
A casual photograph taken outside a London theatre leads reporter Patrick Weaver towards a possible scoop. To his surprise, his investigations take him back 40 years and threaten the career of a famous actress and the future of her relatives.
Stereo
Hunter Davies in company with the writer Gilbert Adair , goes underground with the original Alice at the British Musuem; ventures among the lost tribes of John Boorman 's Emerald
Forest with Robert Holdstock ; and on the way, discusses some strong points with Sir Roy Strong.
Producer JOHN POWELL
(Revised version of yesterday 's broadcast at 9.45 pm) including The Obituary Episode 4 by BERYL BAINBRIDGE
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Introduced by John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS82LR
Ian Fleming 's collection of first editions.
In this week's programme,
Dr Bill Bynum and The Rt Hon Sir Patrick Nairne join Heather Brigstocke , High Mistress of St Paul 's Girls' School. London, to discuss Edwin Chadwick 's Report on the Sanitary
Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain
Senes devised by HOWARD THOMAS Producer MAGGIE REDFERN
A series of six programmes on modern Spain presented by Robert Graham.
5: The Cultural Revolution The material benefits of Franco's economic boom were never matched by relaxation of social controls. But with democracy came an explosion of cultural freedom, and Spaniards became more aware of the outside world. Robert Graham analyses the transition and explains how change was inevitable as a free press began to form public opinion, censorship was relaxed and the role of the Church, the traditional guardian of values, became eroded.
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE
Much to his surprise - and to the surprise of everyone else in the arts world - Richard Luce was appointed Minister for the Arts in the last government reshuffle. The BBC Arts
Correspondent, John Parry , talks to the former Minister of State at the Foreign Office, about the new direction his career has taken.
Producer DAVID POWELL
Presented by John Mills Producer MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence and enquiries to: BBC. Broadcasting House London W1A 4WW
Presented by Christopher Bigsby Producer ANNE HINDS
(Re-broadcast in a revised version tomorrow at 4.30pm)
Plus The Obituary. Episode 4 by BERYL BAINBRIDGE
(First broadcast this afternoon at 4.35pm)
The Aloe (4)
Presented by Richard Kershaw
followed by an interlude
Horizons de France
4a: Restonsfrancais -si I 'onpeut! and at 12.50
4b: Les Tsiganes et leur musique (R)
