Music selected by Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo

visits David Kelsey in Kent

7.10 Today's Papers

The Rt Hon Michael Jopling , mp, Minister of Agriculture, faces his annual grilling from the Farming Unit. Liz Rigbey looks back over some milestones in the agricultural year. Producer ALLAN WRIGHT

A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent
Rosemary Hartill

Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.

8.10 Today's Papers

The antidote to panel games Stereo (R)

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas takes a seasonal look at the countryside at this time of year. He accompanies a country vet on his rounds, visits a smokery in Oxfordshire and goes bird-watching on gravel pits at
Thrapston, Northamptonshire. Eric Halsall from BBCtv's One Man and His Dog talks about sheep-dogs on a farm near his home in the Pennines. Producer HELEN GILL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11. 15 pm)

Andrew Joynes remembers a Saxon town in the Sussex Weald - and a man who taught history in parables. (R)

Margaret Howard says her final 'goodbye now' to 1985 with the highlights from her listening year.
Producer FRAN ACHESON
Stereo (Re-broadcast tomorrow at 8.0)

6: Homeward Bound
For three years Amyas Leigh and his dwindling band of seafarers have lived, fought and survived in the South American jungles, until one brilliant coup enables them to gain the treasure they need to return home.... Stereo (R)

Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings, investment, mortgages, insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life.
Details from: Money Box, Room 4099. BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 10.0am)

The last part of the final battle. Chairman Barry Took cringes as Private Eye editor
Richard Ingrams , his deputy Ian Hislop , and Angela Gordon clash with Punch editor Alan Coren , his deputy David Taylor , and Janet Street-Porter , to decide which team knows more about the news of the year. Today the conflict is resolved. Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer
HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo (Re-broadcast at 11.0pm)

What are your sporting memories of the past 12 months? Becker's Wimbledon? Cram's world records? England's Ashes? McGuigan's big fight? Tragedies at Bradford and Brussels? As 1985 draws to a close an audience puts questions on sporting issues to Ron Atkinson ,
Manager. Manchester United FC David Gower, Captain, England Cricket team
Ron Pickering , Athletics coach and commentator
Ken Jones of the Sunday Mirror and Chairman Ian Wooldridge of the Daily Mail
Producers PETER GRIFFITHS and GORDON TURNBULL
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 11. 0 am)

An anthology of prose, poetry and music, devised and performed by Peggy Ashcroft and Martin Best, including the works of Keats, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll , Edward Lear and Queen Elizabeth I. Directed by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo
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The conversion of the Mappin terraces into a slice of North
American tundra is just one of the ambitious projects announced by the London Zoo earlier this year. For the first time in its history, the Zoo has received extended financial aid from the Government and plans are now being drawn up to take it into the next century.
Colin Tudge finds out what this will mean for the staff, the visitors and most important, the animals.
Producer MILES BARTON (R)

A musical fantasy written and presented by Joe Griffiths It is the Friday before
Christmas. On the 23rd floor of an office block, TD30X, a computer listens to the sounds of people enjoying themselves at the party below and dreams.... 'I want to be human, not just compute. If only I could commute, then I would be free. To be human. I'd feel alive. If I could be nine to five. Then I'd be free....'
And tonight, his dreams could come true ...
Songs performed by JOE GRIFFITHS PETER KARRIE , MARYANNE MORGAN DESI ASKEW , ASHA ELFENBEIN TOM NICHOL , MITCH DALTON
SIMON WEBB , TREVOR NICHOLS
JOHN CHURCH and DAVID GARTH Producer GEOFF DEEHAN Stereo (R)

The Maverick King
Orson was a genius and he paid the price for it. (PETER BOGDANOVICH , director and critic)
The career of Orson Welles , who died earlier this year, was a mixture of brilliance and disappointment. Nigel Andrews talks to friends and colleagues about one of the cinema's most legendary figures.
Contributors include PETER
BOGDANOVICH. RICHARD FLEISCHER
JOHN HOUSEMAN. HENRY JAGLOM
JANET LEIGH. HENRY MANCINI and DENNIS WEAVER
Research by BARBRA PASKIN Producer CARROLL MOORE

An opportunity to hear the clues again.
(Seepage 39 at 7.50amfordetails)

A Brief History of the Pig in Wales
There are three requisites for a happy life, landladies in Aberystwyth used to tell each other: 'daytrippers, students, and a pig for the bad times.' A swinish romp through the ages with Gareth Lewis Christine Pritchard Dyfan Roberts Wyn Williams and pig lovers of West Wales
Pig lovers recorded by HANDEL JONES and singing pigs by MIKE WOOLMANS at the Radiophonic Workshop Written and directed by ANGELA WILLIAMS
BBC Wales (R) Revised

12: 'Right. We're all here because we're being forced out of business by them flaming Fosdykes.'
Other parts played by CHRISTOPHER BARR
JOHN DOUGALL. SALLY GRACE
MICK MALONEY and NICK REVELL (R)

with LAURIE MACMILLAN including Sports Round-up

6: See You in London
An attempt was made to shoot Paul Temple as he and Steve were out on a sleigh ride. Later, when they were on their way to visit Julia Carrington , they found a man almost buried in the snow - it was Vince Langham , who had been stabbed. (R)

Written and compiled by HENRY DONALD
'When meeting young men for the first time, I looked at eyes and mouth. Edwin's promised well....'
'I wrote to Willa Anderson in the beginning of 1919, asking her if we could meet again. We met in the following spring and fell in love.'
Muir described his marriage to Willa Anderson as the most fortunate event of his life. This is the story of that marriage. Narrator John Shedden Producer PATRICK RAYNER Stereo
(First broadcast on BBC Scotland)

Richard Baker presents a selection of words and music on record.
Producer JANE BEVAN Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast Friday at 9.5)

by Alan Ayckbourn adapted for radio by Richard Wigmore
Christmas is a time when family and friends get together to celebrate the festive season. But the celebrations don't always go quite as planned. It's bad form, for instance, for a hostess to try and seduce her sister's boyfriend. And elderly uncles, who once worked for a security firm, should definitely be discouraged from going around with razor-sharp throwing knives under their trouser legs and loaded shotguns in their pockets. Who knows what might happen?
(First broadcast on BBC World Service) Stereo (Re-broadcast on Monday 3pm) ('Kaleidoscope' on Alan Ayckbourn tomorrow at 4.30pm)
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Love came down at Christmas (BBC HB 53); Holy is the true light (Harris); Matthew 2, w 13-23; Unto us is born a son (carols FOR CHOIRS 1 No 43) Stereo

Rumpelstiltskin
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As the brandy butter settles gently over the Brussels sprouts, Brian Johnston casts a jaundiced eye over the business of Christmas, with the help of Aunty Brenda Blethyn , Great Uncle Jon Glover and that young Robert Harley from next door (batteries not included).
Written by LAN BROWN , JAMES HENDRIE STEVE PUNT and PAUL B. DAVIES Producer DAVID TYLER Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Friday at 12.27)

followed by an interlude