With MOTHER FRANCES DOMINICA Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Chris Lowe
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with PETER DAY
7 00, 8.00 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS 7 25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8 35* Yesterday in Parliament 8,50* Your Letters
by Anthony Smith
BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
Vikings by FIONA BARR
Read by Linda Wray Producer CHRIS SPURR BBC Northern Ireland
NEM, p 46; Child in the manger (BBC HB 45); 0 little one sweet (Bach); Luke 1, vv 39-56; Lo! He comes with clouds descending (BBCHB35) Stereo
The children's book programme presented by Penelope Lively. How do you write successfully for children? What are publishers and agents looking for? And what are the most common mistakes? Tony Bradman and John Rowe Townsend discuss their experiences with literary agent Gina Pollinger. Producer SALLY FELDMAN
John Howard with the latest news and advice for consumers. For information about this week's 's programme, write for Factsheet No 49: [address removed]Please send sae
Derek Cooper tackles the farmer, the manufacturer, the politician, the scientist, the caterer and the customer in his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)
Presented by Brian Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Listening Corner WILLIE RUSHTON reads King Jolly and the Christmas Presents Stereo (R)
2.00 GCSE Religious Studies Belief and Worship (e) Patterns of Language at 2.30
9: Put It in Writing Compiled by PROFESSOR DAVID CRYSTAL (R) (e) and at 2.45
10: Parlez-vous Italiano, bitte? Compiled by GILLIAN DONMALL (R)(e)
from Birmingham
What do women want?
If Freud had listened every afternoon he might have known the answer.
Presenter Marjorie Lofthouse BBC Pebble Mill
by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1) Stereo
Larry Harris talks to well-known people about what was going on at the time of their birth.
3: Sir John Egan
(born 7 November 1939)
When the boss of Jaguar was bom, the war was two months old and German U-boats were attacking British merchant ships in the Atlantic.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Bill Frost continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS
Half an hour of reports from
BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the worlds of travel and transport and examine the implications for you the customer. Producer IRENE MALLIS
(Re-broadcast next Monday)
Written by GILLIAN RICHMOND Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer NIGEL ACHESON Stereo
The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins Tony Blair , MP
Richard Cottrell , MEP
Rosalind Gilmore , business consultant tackle issues raised by an audience in Hemyock, Devon
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
Edward Pearce casts a critical eye over this week's newspapers. Producer SAM COLLYNS
by Alistair Cooke
Traditional Heirs Parti
What's happened to traditional music in Britain since Cecil Sharp roved out in the early years of this century? Is there any left? And if so, hasn't it been sanitised to death? In a two-part programme
Andy Kershaw hunts down what has survived in remote and not-so-remote parts of Britain.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
Jackdaw Cake (5) Stereo
Presented by Richard Kershaw
A satirical view of the week's news with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by Richard Quick, Steve Punt, Mike Coleman, Alison Renshaw, Pete Sinclair, Kevin Mandry, Ged Parsons, Bill Matthews, Max Handley, Mark Burton, John O'Farrell, Robert Linford, Les Peters Rowley, Peter Hickey and others
(Stereo)
followed by an interlude