A weekly review of the agricultural scene
Presented by Michael Pickstock Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill

Hope Sealy in conversation with a special guest

Presented by John Humphrys and Jenni Murray
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7 25* Sport with CUFF MORGAN
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 Thoughtfor the Day With ROSEMARY HARTILL , the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent
8.25 The Weeklies with LAN HISLOP of Private Eye Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY

Presented by Cliff Morgan
The fifth and final Test between England and Australia has started in Sydney - will the Ashes stay in England? Back home, the whiff of liniment and giant-killing is in the air as the big clubs join their smaller brothers in the FA Cup Third Round.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON

Presented by Bernard Falk. Susan Marling and Nigel Coombs join the team that makes sense of the world of travel. Including Part 2 of the Breakaway competition
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF (Competition answers, after
17 January, on a postcard please to: Breakaway Competition BBC,LondonW1A4WW)

Ned Sherrin with studio guests, and regular and irregular contributions from the likes of Victoria Mather, Stephen Fry ,
Craig Charles and Robert Elms. Plus the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward
Additional material by WOLFGANG PLOCKER
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY

Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic discuss the state of the 'special relationship' between Britain and the USA.
Chairman Hugo Young Producer MARGARET HILL

Life and politics abroad Producer JULIAN COLES /

Presented by Louise Botting The start of a New Year is a time for resolutions and nowhere more so than in the financial field.
This year sees the launch of the long-awaited Personal Equity Plans (or PEPs) on which the Government is pinning its hopes of widening share ownership.
Meanwhile new safeguards are being introduced to ensure that the Financial Services legislation becomes effective as soon as possible, and the building societies will receive new powers enabling them to offer insurance or personal loans.
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 10.0 am)
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Stereo (Details on Monday at 6.30pm)

Lord Marsh, Jean Rook
Frederic Raphael , Paul Foot

The Rev W. Awdry is one of the most widely read authors for children of modern times. He now lives in retirement from parish work but his stories chronicling life among the engines -- Thomas, Gordon, Henry and friends - are as popular now as they were in 1945 when first published. Brian Sibley meets the man behind those 'really useful engines'. Readings from the Railway Series by ALISON DRAPER
Producer JOHN FORREST. Stereo (R)

In the Venn Country by JOHN HALL
'Ruin is all my tale', says the Narrator. Ruin certainly is the tale of the Venns, who are faced with the loss of their Somerset farm to the bailiffs unless young Rev Ron Vole can come to the rescue....
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo

Peter Evans investigates the latest research developments of the Royal Institute.

Kith and Kin
Jeremy Cherfas looks into the relative problems of how animals and birds recognise their nearest and dearest.

Bill Wallis , David Tate
Jon Glover and Sally Grace

With EUGENE FRASER including Sports Round-up

Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

by William Douglas Home
with Michael Denison as Sir William Boothroyd and Dulcie Gray as Lady Sheila Boothroyd

When the Ministry of Transport decides to build a motorway across the ancestral lands of the Boothroyd family, Lady Sheila declares that the work will commence over her dead body....
(Stereo) (R)

Presented by Richard Baker Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo

SS-GB by LEN DEIGHTON , abridged in 13 parts by NEVILLE TELLER Read by Paul Daneman 2: The Post Mortem
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol

with The Rev Richard Harries Stereo

Letters from the Old World
In 1838 Sarah Rogers Haight was travelling in the Middle East with her husband and friends, seeing strange sights and facing perils and plague. Her letters home were published under the pen name 'A Lady of New York'. Leo Knowles has traced her travels through the two volumes of correspondence. With Narrator Geoffrey Wheeler Producer Gillian HUSH BBC Manchester
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(Details on Friday at 9.45 am)

Stereo (Details on Friday at 12.27pm)

Introduced by Clive Anderson, 'almost live' from the Comedy
Store, Leicester Square, London. Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo

followed by an interlude