Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather

With Rosemary Foxcroft

(Stereo)

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With Simon Rose
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by Bryan Martin
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With Charles Colvile
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Why not join the guests in their conversation? Shout at your radio.
(Stereo)

This week the team visits the Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society where local gardeners put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki, Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones

(BBC Manchester)

by Len Deighton
Read by John Westbrook
Two men sit talking far into the night. The older man talks of the brighter future that must come.
But how will he achieve it? And what is the cost?

Advent Calendar The Root of Hope
NEM, p 50; Of the Father love begotten (BBC HB 57); God is our hope (Bach); Isaiah 11, vv 1-10; Every star shall sing a carol (HHFT21) Stereo

We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries that we mean to resolve, but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds. Let Neil Landor, with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out the answers.
Questions, on postcards only, please, to: Enquire Within, [address removed]

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

Adam, crawling up the side of a ravine, has been shot at by Valchek.

(Stereo)
(Harry Towb is a National Theatre Player)

Presented by Sir Robin Day

by the Conservative Party

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Penguins Look After Each Other Stereo
2.0 Education Now GCSE (e)
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Jane Eyre. Stereo (e)

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: the actress Patricia Hodge
Serial: Circles in a Forest (12)

by Norman Collins, dramatised in four parts by Colin Davis

(Stereo)
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)

Six programmes compiled and presented by Kingsley Amis
Readers Martin Jarvis and Paul Gregory

BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
(Martin Jarvis is in 'Woman in Mind' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

The relationship between actor and director is a creative one, giving life to works which only exist on the page. But actors have increasingly questioned what they see as the dominant role of the director. Some of them, including Sheila Hancock and Simon Callow, have swapped the stage for the director's chair. What is the attraction?
Presented by Paul Allen

Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams

(Continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55pm)

with Peter Donaldson 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 Hot Club of London
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27 pm)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Last programme in the series

Peter Smith goes into the world of business to report on the latest initiatives and problems there.

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 9.5 am)

The last of six talks about Law, Justice and Democracy by Lord McCluskey, Scottish High Court Judge, Solicitor-General for Scotland 1974-9

'If, as a result of enacting a Bill of Rights, issues which are now decided in Parliament come to be litigated in the Courts and decided by judges then the cast of mind of the higher judiciary will inevitably become a matter of profound political interest'.

(Re-broadcast next Sunday on Radio 3)
The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in The Listener

For 40 years or more we have been told that buying your own home was the mark of a responsible, reliable citizen, a saver rather than a spender.

Now that more than half of us have done just that, the truth has less of the look of roses round the door. Home owners have become prodigious borrowers: on their slender foundations of bricks and mortar rests a pyramid of credit growing so fast that it spells trouble, not least to the financial managers of the country.

Mary Goldring assesses the consequences of the British dream of a property-owning democracy and looks at the options it leaves us.

(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11.0 am LW)

by Edward Mason.

(Stereo)

Three light hearted talks by the opera singer, Robert Lloyd

'Through playing Boris Godunov I've gained insights into what it's like to be Mikhail Gorbachev...'

Presented by Natalie Wheen

(Rev. re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.35pm)

Presenter Alexander MacLeod

National and international news, background, analysis and comment

followed by an interlude