With ROSEMARY FOXCROFT Stereo
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 CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to get advice, information and insight into your current concerns. John directs your questions and comments to the experts and policy makers.
Lines open from 8.0am
Lost Voices by BERNARD TOMS
Read by Brinley Jenkins Everyone is used to the whoppers told by Jenkins the Liar. But when he comes up with a tale of a ghostly choir, even his mates think he's gone too far....
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Advent Calendar
Human Despair: Divine Hope NEM, p 93; 0 day of God, draw nigh (BBC HB 24); Haste thee, 0 God (Batten); Lamentations 3, vv 1-6, 19-24; My God, how wonderful thou art (BBC HB 12) Stereo
The fourth of five programmes in which Ian Skidmore talks to five people about their lives. Today, Tim Davies , one of the world's finest recorders of insect noises.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
Susan Rae with the latest news and advice for consumers.
A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 6. 30pm)
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The First Chick Stereo
2.0 Education Now The Teacher's Contract (e)
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Jane Eyre (2) Stereo (e)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Rhymes and Reasons: do you start from the end and work backwards? How do you decide the timing? And what comes first - the words or the melody? Dilly Barlow investigates the art of songwriting.
Serial: Circles in a Forest (11)
It's Never too Late byjACKGERSON
George Mathewson is a crusty old school teacher and a confirmed bachelor/divorcee - until he meets Ellen. But his colleagues think she's after his money and her daughter thinks middle-aged people are past it.
Directed by PETER KING Stereo
Presented by Valda Hood
From moulding, casting and tuning to blessing, hanging and ringing, Valda Hood follows the progress of three of a peal of 12 bells from the bell foundry in Whitechapel to their new home in Peterborough Cathedral, and discovers how the bell-ringers fought for several decades to raise the necessary funds and gain permission to hang the new bells.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)
Presented by Robert Williams and Valerie Singleton continuedon VHF/FM5.50-5.55pm
With BRYAN MARTIN
Half an hour of reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
byjIMELDRIDGE 2: Re-deployment
A visitor from County Hall brings news that provokes a mixed reaction from Mr Beeston, and some members of his teaching staff.
Stereo (R)
(Episode 3 next Monday)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Helen Boaden Producer JOHN FORSYTH Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5pm)
What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer JUUAN BROWN
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0 am)
The Needle's Tale
For many centuries, partly buried under Egyptian sands, lay a granite obelisk 69 feet long, weighing almost 200 tons. In
1811 the Ottoman Empire made a gift of this stone to King George III. The 4,000-mile journey to England took, surprisingly, over 70 years.
Robert Booth tells the story of how Cleopatra's Needle came to London.
Producer ANGELA hind
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News, views and information for people with a visual handicap
Presented by Peter White
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed] Lines open from 8.30 to 10pm
Free quarterly bulletin from: In Touch, [address removed] (Send four SAEs, 8 1/2 x 12, for a year's supply)
A chance meeting with Siri, a young teacher, drew Dr Ray Barron into village life in Sri Lanka. In the first of two talks he describes preparations for the New Year festival play.
'For Siri drama has become only one means to a wider end: helping his village to come into the modem world without destroying the values which have served it for centuries.' BBC Manchester (R)
Christopher Cook presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
The Fall of Kelvin Walker 5: Securing the Base
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
