visits Essex. Allan Wright begins his tour at the giant
Ford-New Holland tractor plant at Basildon and then meets up with his guide to Essex, farmer Phil Cottis.
Produced by the AGRICULTURAL UNIT BBC Pebble Mill
with Hope Sealy
Presented by Peter Hobday and John Humphrys
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.25* Sport with CHARLES COL VILE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING
Cliff Morgan kicks off the sporting talk this morning with Rugby Union's Five Nations Championship: FRANCE v
ENGLAND and IRELAND V SCOTLAND. Producer GORDON TURNBULL
Presented by Bernard Falk.
With reporter Susan Marling and travel expert Nigel Coombs Producer HELEN ROBSON
with Ned Sherrin and the likes of Craig Charles Carol Thatcher , Emma Freud and Jonathan Ross. Plus Victor Lewis Smith 's Look at Life Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON Producers
LAN GARDHOUSE, CATHIE MAHONEY and JANET ARKWRIGHT
with Peter Jenkins , Associate Editor of the Independent. Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
Producer HOWARD ROGERS
(Details on Monday at 10. 00am)
by DAVE COHEN and PETE SINCLAIR Willie Rushton presents a loyal toast to the traditions that made Britain what it is today. 2: Holidays
Wherever they've travelled, whatever they've seen, the home-coming holidaymaker returns to greet you with the oldest expression in the phrase book....Never again.
With Steven Frost , Garard Green Paula Hannis , Jonathan Kydd and Sarah Thomas
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo
The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke
QC, MP
The Rt Hon Gerald Kaufman mp Tariq Ali , Sue Slipman
with Kevin Mulheam and guests
Producer SUSAN DENNY
by MIKE WALKER Nicaragua : Four people meet and decide to make a journey into the heart of the country, but they happen upon a group of trigger-nervous Contras and their nightmare begins.
Music composed and played by david CHILTON and NICK RUSSELL-PA VIER
Technical presentation by DAVID GREENWOOD
Assisted by WILFREDO ACOSTA and BARBARA EVANS
Directed by PETER KING. Stereo
Shakespearean actor Emrys James talks about the art of cracking centuries-old gags, and the time he was known as 'Emrys Daily Herald!'
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS
A satirical view of the week's news with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sally Grace and Royce Mills.
With CLIVE ROSUN including Sports Round-up
Omnibus edition
Left Holding the Baby by LEIGH JACKSON
Directed by A. J. QUINN. Stereo
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
Lady in the Way by BRUCE STEWART with When Jane's husband is found dead in a motel room in the Blue Mountains, she has no one in Australia to befriend her. The inquest concludes that Alan committed suicide, but Jane is convinced that it was murder.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo
with Richard Baker
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
led by Frank Topping. Stereo
Tobacco Battered
The impact of tobacco on 17th-century English society. Compiled and presented by Larry Harrison , medical sociologist.
'Jackson has died suddenly and, being opened, it was judged by the surgeons that it was from the smoke of tobacco, which he took insatiably.' 1601 'In tobacco there is nothing which is not medicine. It cures asthma. It heals an old cough. It stops migraine. It is a help against arthritis, gout and the stone in the bladder.' 1614 'It is like Elias's cloud in the Bible, which was no bigger than a man's hand, that hath suddenly covered the face of the earth.' 1658 With John Baddeley
John Church , Paul Gregory and Manning Wilson
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS. Stereo
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The 15th Duke of Hamilton (and 12th of Brandon),
Scotland's premier peer, has been a jet pilot and instructor, motor racing and test driver, engineer and inventor.
Apart from his hereditary chores, he is at present developing all-terrain vehicles which can scale rocks, climb mountains and take to the water.
Margaret Howard rode in one with him.
Producer GRAHAM TAYAR
The Strange Tale of the House of Big Fun by CHARLES DICKENS adapted in 238 parts by PAUL MERTON and JOHN irwin Episode 35
Little Dobbkin , the charity boy, is spending Christmas with the Jollybubs in rural Cheshire, as Quigly the evil swindler pays a visit on Mrs Swillgravy at her rooms in Scrapps Inn Yard. But what is the mysterious secret lying in the dusty safe of Messrs Phibbs , Grunty and Squabbcrumm... ? and With additional material by the cast and various songs by MR HAWKS
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo
Another round of the improvisation show with audience participation. This week, regulars Stephen Fry and John Sessions are joined by Jimmy Mulville and Nonny Williams , as they are catapulted into a series of improv games including,
'Authors', 'Every Other Line' and 'Improvising a Rap'.
Chairman Clive Anderson tries vainly to control things.
More fun than the majority of gerbi ...
RODENT EXCHANGE AND MART
Devised and compiled by MARK LEVESON with the producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo
followed by an interlude
