Producers TIM FINNEY and DYLAN WINTER
With ROSEMARY FOXCROFT. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With ANDY SMITH
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.00am
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery.
Producer JACKIE LUNN
(Extended repeat tomorrow at 8. 15pm)
In the Bleak Midwinter Written and read by Catrin GeraUt.
Producer JANE DAUNCEY BBC Wales
New Every Morning, page 102; On Jordan's bank (BBC HB 38); Romans 8, w 8-14; People, look East (arr Barry Rose ); Awake, awake, fling off the night (AMNS 342) Stereo
by MARCIA KAHAN
Cast for the week:
Directed by DAVID HITCHINSON. Stereo A synopsis of current events in 'Citizens' is on Ceefax page 144
A series of four programmes presented by Andrew Mitchell. 3: Killer in the Canopy
Forest predators are often fine aerial acrobats. The harpy eagle drops through the tropical canopy and plucks a sloth from its inverted perch on the tree. BBC Bristol (R)
Presented by John Waite
A series of eight programmes in which Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars. 7: Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard created on film a wide range of military men and English eccentrics. But despite his status as one of the screen's best character actors, he is fated to be remembered for a romantic role in the film which gave him a lifetime lease on stardom - Brief Encounter. Producer WENDY CLAY
Presented by James Naughtie
Willie Rushton reads King Jolly and the Christmas Tree. Stereo (R)
From pink ponies to Popoids, groovetubes to Ghostbusters - each year the selection of Christmas toys becomes more bewildering. Deborah Jaffe ,
Editor of What Toy? magazine, and actress Lynda Bellingham try out some of the newest, the silliest and the best.
Serial: Sheep's Clothing (9) Presenter Jenni Murray
by DAVID MARSHALL
A woman is trying to sell her house. A conman pretends an interest in buying it. But who is to say that the biter will not be bitten?
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo (R)
with Richard Baker.
This week's guests share an interest in performing on early keyboard instruments: Melvyn Tan as one of this country's leading players and Richard Burnett as the founder-director of the Finchcocks Museum of Keyboard Instruments.
Producer JUDITH ROLES. Stereo
A series of six programmes.
5: Michael Bentine
From losing the ability to speak as a child for 13 years, to seeing with his own eyes the horrors of Belsen at the end of the Second World War, Michael Bentine 's turning points made him determined to spend as much time as he could making people smile.
Interviewer Bel Mooney Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
Stereo (Details Thursday 12.25pm)
Written by SAM JACOBS Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
(Details tomorrow at 4.05pm)
The last of three programmes in which David Walker meets the people with a foot in both public and private sectors.
The Management Consultants Few businesses have grown as fast in recent years as management consulting.
Among their major clients now are local authorities, quangos and the Government itself.
What expertise is being offered . for the money? And, as the accounts pile up, who benefits? Producer JOY HATWOOD
The Rediscovery of Politics The last of six talks by Geoffrey Hosking , on authority, culture and community in the USSR.
The Paradox of Gorbachev 's Reforms
'Here we have a General
Secretary of the Communist
Party who has recognised that, without the rule of law and respect for the individual, the whole of Soviet society, including its economic and military sectors, will continue to decline.'
Producer DAVID MORTON BBC Russian Service
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for visually handicapped people. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between 8.30pm and 10. 15pm. The 'In Touch' handbook, a comprehensive guide to services and equipment for blind people, £5.95 from: [address removed]
Paul Vaughan includes a round-up of new children's and family theatre entertainments. Producer FRANCES BYRNES
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by ALAN SILLITOE abridged in 12 episodes by PETER MACKIE
Read by Terry Molloy (Part 12) Producer PHILIP MARTIN BBC Pebble Mill
with Alexander MacLeod
Home or Away Producer GEOFFREY SHERLOCK Stereo (e) at 12.30 Travel to Work: Tyneside Metro Written and narrated by GEOFFREY SHERLOCK and at 12.50 Lille Metro Written and narrated by TONY STAPLES
