Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With CANON GEORGE AUSTIN Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With JEREMY BOWEN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Fifty-five minutes of conversation from the unusual to the unbelievable. Producer LAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Clay Jones and his team of Dr Stefan Buczacki , Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith answer listeners' queries sent in by post and give their choice of gardening gifts and books for Christmas.
Questions, on postcards only please, to: [address removed]
Cassette. 'Through the Seasons', £7.99 from: Gardeners ' Question Time, PO Box 40. Manchester M60 1FR.
Cheques/postal orders should be made payable to: Gardeners' Question Time
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
Teenager Billy Riley is the bad boy of Miz Taylor's neck of the woods. He's also the bane of Uncle Shorty's life.
Advent Calendar
The Promised Deliverer
NEM, p 106; Hail to the Lord's anointed (BBC HB 457); Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (Poston);
Isaiah 42, w 1-9; The Lord will come (BBC HB 479). Stereo
The last of five programmes A World of Toys
Bob Symes dips into the biggest toy convention of the year and talks to the comic addicts, the teddy-bear buffs, the golfomaniacs and the big spenders who gather to talk toys and ogle at the delights of spare legs, missing limbs and fiddling clowns.
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
0 INFO: page 101
Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family
Presented by John Howard
by Jeffrey Archer, dramatised in seven episodes by Brian Sibley
with Michael York as Adam Scott, Simon Ward as Alexander Romanov and Tom Chadbon as Lawrence Pemberton
Heidi has been killed. Adam, being sought by the Swiss police, takes refuge in St Peter's Cathedral.
(Stereo)
(Harry Towb is a National Theatre Player)
Presented by Sir Robin Day with news and topics in and behind the headlines
by the Labour Party
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Crusts. Stereo
2.5 Looking at Nature The Holly and the Ivy (RV) Ideas for nature projects to contribute to your Christmas celebrations. (R) (e)
2.20 Let's Make a Story! 10: The Toy Factory Storyteller PAULINE Collins Written by RON JAMES. Stereo (e)
2.30 Pictures in Your Mind (Poetry) Stories in the Stars by LIBBY HOUSTON (R) (e)
2.40 Using Unemployment A series for YTS students and school and college leavers Presented by CHRIS SERLE With RUTH SILVER and DR ROBERT SHARPE
10: It's Up to You (R) (e) For tutor's notes sendsae to: Using Unemployment, BBC School Radio.LondonW1A4WW
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
The Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors Marmaduke Hussey
Serial: Circles in a Forest (7)
London Belongs to Me by NORMAN COLLINS , dramatised in four parts by COLIN DAVIS
2: The Crime on the Common
Directed by ENYD Williams . Stereo
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)
Minor Victorians
Six programmes compiled and presented by Kingsley Amis 2: Charles Kingsley
Readers MARTIN JARVIS
[SABEL DEAN and PAUL GREGORY Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
(Martin Jarvis is in Woman in Mind' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
(Rev re-broadcast of yesterday at
. 9.4Spm)
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
with CUVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
An entertainment in words and music designed to help you beat the weather as David Barlow , Peter Christie , Miles Kington and Alan Maryon Davis make the attempt to be reasonably together again.
With their special guests
The Fine Arts Brass Ensemble Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Peter Smith reports on the usual and the unusual, the successful and the not-so-successful in all areas of business activity.
Producer GUDRUN DAUBOR
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am L W)
Six talks about
Law, Justice and Democracy by Lord McCluskey
Scottish High Court Judge,
Solicitor-General for Scotland 1974-9
5: An Enormous Power
'It would be a bold man who would argue that the Bills of Rights, applied or contemplated in democratic societies whose common law is comparable to ours, can succeed in preserving the fundamental rights of citizens in those countries more effectively than does the ordinary law, as applied in the United Kingdom.'
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on Radio 3) (Lecture 6. 'Lions Under the Throne' next Wednesday on Radio 4)
The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in THE LISTENER
Baker's Score
The Education Secretary's proposal for 20 Inner-city Technology Colleges won rapturous applause at the Conservative Party Conference but criticism from some local authorities, teaching unions and many educationists.
Industry has long decried the shortage of scientists and technicians coming out of our schools, but will the Baker scheme answer industry's needs and what will be the implications for state secondary education as a whole?
Presented by David Wheeler Producer CAROLINE ANSTEY
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11.0am LW)
Three Score and Ten, Sir by JESSIE KESSON. Stereo
Three lighthearted talks by the opera singer, Robert Lloyd 1: Bewitched, Bothered or Bewildered?
' "So your Faust takes place in a gentlemen's latrine?" I said....'
Monet Well Spent?
John Jacob reports on the Gare d'Orsay, transformed into a museum of the years 1848 to 1914 and housing Impressionist and post-Impressionist painting, sculpture and Art Nouveau, which opens next week in Paris. Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)
The Fall of Kelvin Walker A fable of the 60s by ALASDAIR GRAY , abridged by the author in eight parts Reader Bill Paterson
1: The Discovery of London Producer STEWART CONN BBC Scotland
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Theatre History
12.30 Restoration Theatre (RV) Written and narrated by LAN spiby Producer DAN GARRETT. Stereo (R) (e)
12.50 A Mirror on Manners A Background to Restoration Theatre. Compiled and produced by w ARRILL GRINDROD. Stereo (e)
