with ROSEMARY FOXCROFT. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7 45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
The Programme with Listener Power.
Three new punters set out to unearth the truth, follow tales with a twist, bare their souls and share a joke with the programme that aims to find answers.
There's intrigue and frustration but never a dull moment when Punters joins forces with reporters Eric Robson and Susan Marling.
Remember, investigations must start somewhere!
Editor MARY PRICE. BBC Bristol 0 If you would like to take part in Punters write (with address and telephone number) to: Punters. BBC Bristol BS8 2LR, or telephone Bristol (0272) [number removed]
Laughter-makers, opinion-formers or satirical observers? They give us the picture, but where do their funny ideas come from?
Frank Whitford meets the personalities behind five well-known signatures and discovers how seriously they I take the art of humour.
4: Posy Simmonds Producer
JUDITH BUMPUS
The life of the bee-eater colony involves close-knit clans, demanding males and selfish babysitters. Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm explore this everyday tale of feathered folk, while Jeremy Cherfas investigates monkey politics. Producer MILES BARTON BBC Bristol
reflecting the concerns of the day. Stereo
Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday)
Sue MacGregor goes to the Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden, to talk with the tenor John Dobson , who has been a member of the company for nearly 30 years.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
A series of 13 talks from first-time broadcasters: new names, new voices - each with a story to tell. 12: Gemma O'Connor - face to face with Maudie: no ordinary meeting.
Presented by John Waite
A comedy in eight episodes by JAN ETHERINGTON and GAVIN PETRIE
7: Negative Vetting
Producer PETER ATKIN. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
Willie Rushton reads King Jolly and the Christmas Cards. Stereo (R)
Jenny Cuffe examines the life and influence of Melanie Klein , the first psychoanalyst to apply Freud's techniques to children.
Five Short Stories by RONALD BLYTHE abridged by DELIA PATON Read by Ronald Pickup
1: And the Green Grass Grew All Around
'Seventeen is the age of longing, and when I was 171 longed to be accepted by Mrs Carron-Wilson more than anything else in the world.'
(Music: Hurlstone's Piano Quartet in E minor)
Presenter Jenni Murray
by NEIL SHENTON.
Sponsorship would seem to be the answer for Martin, a marathon runner of great potential. But Martin does not anticipate the problems and pressures that sponsorship brings ...
Directed by CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester. Stereo
The British Museum reading room is more than just a refuge for the studious and the curious. E. M. Forster visualised it as 'the crucible of inspiration' where all the English novelists could be writing simultaneously. Nigel Forde savours the atmosphere and explores the writer's response to it with David Lodge.
Producer WILL CANTOPHER
(Revised repeat of yesterday programme at 9.45pm)
Presented by Frances Coverdale 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 PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report
Introduced by Brian Gear. Producer LAURIE MASON BBC Bristol
The last edition in the series. Laurie Taylor presents news about radio and its programmes.
Researcher ANDREA GRAHAME Producer KEITH JONES
(Details tomorrow at 11. 00am)
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners presented by Kati Whitaker. Producer MARLENE PEASE
Rimsky-Korsakov's fairy-tale opera Christmas Eve receives its first professional production in Britain this week by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum; and the grisly
Victorian melodrama The Bells is staged in Leicester. Presenter Paul Allen
Producer CAROLINE YOUNG
Tales from the Outback 2: The Bush Undertaker
Presented by Richard Kershaw
Home or Away (R) (e) at 12.30 Holiday Travel: UK Written and narrated byHOPESEALY and at 12.50 Holiday Travel: Germany Written and narrated by DIANA GOODMAN
