Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather Producers TIM FINNEY
REBECCA POW. DAVID ADDIS
With THE REV DAVID CHILLINGWORTH Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Jenni Murray
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER JEFFERSON
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. Each week Nick directs your questions and comments to the experts and policy-makers. Producer JENNY DANKS Lines openfrom 8.0 am
Observed Behaviour by DOUG MORGAN
Read by Sion Probert
Tom Watkins has a passion for birds.... of the feathered variety. And when it seems to take the place of his passion for her, his wife Cynthia decides on some decisive action. It is, to say the least, unusual....
Producer HERBERT Williams BBC Wales
New Every Morning, page 42; For all the saints (BBC HB 227); Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt; Romans 5, vv 1-11; Give me the wings of faith (BBC HB 229) Stereo
A Winter in Wales
Presented by Nick Davies
Out of the snows of a high hill winter comes Brigantia, goddess of Imbolc, saint of Candlemas and guardian of a steamy pagan past.
Roger Worsley digs into the Celtic secrets of fertility and gathers, on the path of the Pembroke raven, flowers for an amorous new year. Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
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: My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes by EVE SUTTON. Stereo
2.5 History Long Ago The First Emperor of China by TERRY JAMES China in the third century BC
2.25 Contact Birthday of Muhammad compiled by JILL BURRIDGE (e)
2.40 Listening to Music 1 (11-13) Mozart's Horn Concerto No 3, in E flat (Part 1) with ALAN CIVIL, DEREK TAYLOR and ALAN TYSON Presented by ROBERT PRIZEMAN and HELEN SPEIRS. Stereo (R) (e)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Life on Wheels:
How does a woman who has led a normal, active life cope when finding herself suddenly confined to a wheelchair?
Three women, including the pioneering Lady Masham, talk to Lucy Hannah about how they are coping with this traumatic change in their lives.... Serial:
The Beiderbecke Affair (7)
Flights of Fantasy by DIANE WHITLEY
You can live for so long on your dreams; but as Jean, increasingly absorbed in a fantasy life, finds out, it's a terrible shock when you are forced to square up to reality.
Directed by TIM SUTER. Stereo
Anthony Burton concludes his journey into the past in the footsteps of five literary travellers whose inquiring eyes found excitment in what to 20th-century eyes seems everyday. The Spirit Distilled
Through the Spey Valley with Alfred Barnard in 1887. 'On the night mail from Euston, a gentleman in clerical attire, catching fragments of our conversation on spirits. evidently mistook us for important officers in the Salvation Army....'
Anthony Burton raises a centenary glass to Barnard's account of malt whisky distilling in north-east Scotland -part guidebook, part factory-inspector's report and, above all, part tippler's diary.
Producer SIMON ELMES. Stereo
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad
Reporter Roisin McAuley Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.5 pm)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer JENNY WALKER
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 10.0 am LW)
by JENYTH WORSLEY
Clara Schumann 1819-96. Wife of the composer
Robert Schumann. Mother of eight.
Nurse and emotional support to her husband. Widow at 37. Grandmother of six, all financially dependent upon her. How did the daughter of a little-known piano teacher in Leipzig find time to compose and to become one of the most famous concert pianists in Europe?
MARLENE FLEET (piano)
Producers VANESSA WHITBURN and JILLIAN WHITE
BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo (R)
For people with a visual handicap Presented by Ian Macrae Producer THENA HESHEL
Listeners can phone with enquiries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]Linesopenfrom 8.30to 10.0pm
Presented by Christopher Cook Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
Missing Persons 2: Betrayed. Stereo
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
followed by an interlude
Deutsch fur die Oberstufe
12.30 13: Innsbruck(RV) Compiled and produced by AL WOLFF (R)(e) and at 12.50
14: Nachrichten und Neuigkeiten Compiled and produced by CAROLINE SARLL (e)
