The 'set aside' scheme for cereal land is to be implemented in 1988. Farming Today reports on its practice and problems as seen so far in Kent. Producer REBECCA POW
A meditation for the beginning of a new day
With RONWYN GOODSIR THOMAS BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
With RICHARD QUEST
7.00,8.00 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Brian Perkins
David Moreau attempts once more to come to grips with life. 1: Mystery Tour
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol (R)
Start the New Year in New
York, New York, with Russell and some legendary characters from the Big Apple.
Producer ELAINE BEDELL Stereo
A Question of Money
The second of two programmes devoted to questions on personal finance sent in by listeners.
The Panel Louise Botting Christopher Gilchrist and Philip Hardman
In the Chair Vincent Duggleby
Who Are You? by SIMON CULLETON
Read by Geoffrey Beevers Producer MITCH RAPER
Christ is the world's true light (AMNs 346); Nunc dimittis (Baurgon); I John 1, vvl-7;
2, vv 6-10; Christ is the King (AMNS 345) Stereo
'I love every moment I spend in the big city but my dad heaves a sigh of relief when the train leaves Euston.'
Aled Jones indulges his passion for the bright lights when he visits the Barbican Centre in the heart of the City of London. There's a wonderful selection of musicians, actors and artists to talk to - but will he ever find his way out in time for next week's programme from Wales? Producer LYN HARTMAN BBC Bristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Vernon Scannell Readers MARTIN JARVIS and ROSALINE SHANKS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, BristolBS82LR
gazes into its crystal ball to see how the consumer will fare in 1988. Will you be richer or poorer as a result of major changes like the social security act, the pensions legislation and the introduction of poll tax?
Will you be any safer if plans go ahead to introduce boarding-passes on ferries and smoke-hoods on aircraft? And will it be any easier in 1988 to get your own back on the Arthur Daleys of this world, with the new proposals to regulate the second-hand car trade, and the new law making it easier to sue the manufacturers of dangerous goods?
Presented by Susan Rae John Buckley and John Howard Editor PAT TAYLOR
Write to: You and Yours, BBC, London WIA 4WW
by RAYMOND CHANDLER
Dramatised in three parts by BILL MORRISON with 1: 'I was neat, clean-shaved and sober. I was everything a well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'
Musical research ADRIAN WILLIAMS Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (R)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor MARTIN COX
BILL ODDIE reads The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by JILL TOMLINSON Today's story: Dark Is Exciting Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo
The programme that brings you fun, fantasy, fashion, food and fiction - but where it's always the thought that counts. Presenter Jenni Murray Serial: Fiela's Child by DALENE MATTHEE abridged in 13 episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Sean Barrett (1)
In 1865 Lukas, a 3-year-old white boy, disappears in a South
African forest. Nine years later, a 12-year-old white boy is discovered living with a coloured family. Is he Lukas?
(Music: Lilbum's Aotearoa Overture) Editor CLARE SELERIE-GREY
A Miracle Play by JAMES BRIDIE. Stereo
Waxing Lyrical
The Beatles broke the mould of the separate identities of performer, composer and lyricist. Since then the rise of the songwriter who composes both music and words and gets up on stage to perform them has continued, while the role of the lyricist has become more important in the theatre.
Talking about their craft and the current issues are lyricists Don Black and Tim Rice. and songwriters Billy Bragg and Simon Climie. Chairing the discussion is Mark Steyn.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN (R)
Presented by Gordon dough and Bill Frost
Editor ROGER MOSEY continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
Stereo (Details Thursday at 12.25pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
Food on the Dole Derek Cooper hears from three unemployed familes who are feeding themselves cheaply and well and enjoying the experience of creating good food in their unwanted leisure time. Among them, the Carroll family from London.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (R)
by GUY HUBBERT
A widow, rich and alone, meets and marries an Englishman. They settle down happily in a South Mexican idyll - that is, until her son returns. Spoilt, aggressive and ruthless, he shatters the tranquil peace his mother has found in her autumnal years.
Directed by PETER KING Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)
A year in the life of an English village. In the tenth of 12 monthly talks, Wilfred De'Ath reports on January in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire. BBC Manchester
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON Editor ANNE WINDER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
by Richard Jefferies, abridged in 15 episodes by Donald Bancroft
Read by Michael Williams
Never were the horizons of boyhood so limitless in imagination as the adventures of Mark and Bevis on their wide stretch of water, 'The New Sea', which Jefferies remembered from his own Wiltshire landscape. First published in 1882, the book remains one of the enduring accounts of a country upbringing.
(R)
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor BLAIR THOMSON
Eileen Joyce plays encores by Rachmaninov, Chopin and Dohnanyi.
(Stereo records) (R)
(Tomorrow: Tatiana Nikolaeva )
followed by an interlude
