Farming Today's very own correspondents show-previewing the people likely to feature in the industry during 1989.
Producer TIM FINNEY
A meditation for the beginning of the day with KATHLEEN RICHARDSON. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and Jennie Bond
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.00,8.00 Today's News
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With DAVID MERCER
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 2 (R)
Your opportunity to discuss a topic of the moment with Nick and his guests.
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 8.00am
While human medicine steals the front page, advances in animal medicine rate barely footnote. Yet, as Geoff Watts discovers at the School of Veterinary Science at Liverpool
University, the latest research into problems such as arthritis in dogs, infection in pigs and stress in cattle has profound implications for animals and humans alike.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
Old Soldiers by ALEX FERGUSON Read by Peter Wheeler Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
New Every Morning, page 50; Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137); The New
Year Carol (Britten); Isaiah 60, w 1-6; Jesus shall reign (BBC HB 460) Stereo
by Christopher Reason
(Stereo)
A series of five programmes. Writer Alun Richards left
Wales to spend a year in Japan. He found it a fascinating but baffling experience. 1: The Tokyo Horrors
Producer JANE DAUNCEY. BBC Wales
Presented by John Howard
A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the Chair Steve Race.
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
John Dowie reads The First Chick. Stereo (R)
Jenni Murray meets the actress Imelda Staunton. Serial: The Skin Chairs (2)
by PETER JOHNSON
Dunwoody's descent was swift, awful and dramatic.
And so were the repercussions.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Stereo
The English Chamber Orchestra is one of the most admired and recorded ensembles in the world. Co-founder, principal viola and prime motivator Quintin Ballardie and long-serving principal oboe Neil Black reflect on the pleasures and pains of the orchestra's achievements.
Producer NIGEL WILKINSON. Stereo
Reporters David Clayton and Neil Walker link up with BBC
Local Radio stations around the country to investigate
'enterprise archaeology.' Financial Ruins
Why a man with half an amphitheatre in Chester expects to make a fortune.... selling the American television rights for a dig in Hull.... and big-prize archaeology in Cirencester.
Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
Presented by Robert Williams and Bill Frost
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PMLetters; 5.31 City News continuedon FM 5.50-5.55
including Financial Report
2: Wild Horses by JON BEER with When Alan announces to the staffroom his plans to further his career, old Frank is moved to recount the awful tale of Alan's predecessor, whose vaulting ambition o'er leapt itself, with horrible consequences.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo (R)
(Details tomorrow at 4.05pm)
A series of seven programmes. Violinist Kyung Wha Chung talks to June Knox-Mawer about her upbringing in Korea, where she was captivated by music in the teashop, and her subsequent life in the West. She also introduces her recordings of Elgar's Salut d'amour,
Saint-Saens's Havanaise and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Dutoit. Producer DEREK DRESCHER. Stereo
In a series of six programmes, David Bean travels in the footsteps of George Borrow , who in 1837 began the uphill and dangerous task of selling Protestant Bibles in Catholic Spain. 1: Madrid
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)
Make Things Bigger, Brighter or Bolder
One in 18 people over 75 has a visual handicap, which makes it difficult for them to cope with everyday situations, from making cups of tea to telling the time or playing cards.
Peter White introduces ideas which can overcome some of these problems.
ProducerTHENA HESHEL
Questions and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between 8.30pm and 10.15pm. 'Learning to Live with It an In Touch guide to macular degeneration, is available from: [address removed]
Joan Plowright and Billie Whitelaw star in the new
British film The Dressmaker, set in wartime Liverpool in 1944 and based on an original story by Beryl Bainbridge : and Christopher Cook visits the National Theatre Studio. Producer FIONA MCLEAN
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (12)
with Alexander MacLeod
A four-part beginners' guide to counselling, therapy and analysis presented by Dr Tony Lake 1: Who Talks?
Producer FRAN ACHESON (R) revised
