with Marjorie Lofthouse Producer JANE WARD
BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

with Jack Hywel-Davies , including Bells on Sunday from St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, Avon. Stereo

Claire Powell breakfasts with Laurence and Florence Woodham , whose dairy and arable farm borders on to the historic town of Battle in Sussex.
Producer SUE SMITH BBC Pebble Mill

with Libby Purves and Trevor Barnes
Producer CHRISTINE MORGAN Editor DAVID COOMES including at

talks, for The Week's Good Cause, about the BBC
Children in Need Appeal.
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by Alistair Cooke

Parish Mass from
St Columba's Church, in the Diocese of Derry. THE COLUMBKILLE LADIES' CHOIR, conducted by SHEILA CARLIN
Organist DECLAN CARLIN Readings (JB): Malachi 3, vv 19-20; 2 Thessalonians 3, vv 7-12; Luke 21, vv5-19 Music of the Mass: 0
Praise ye the Lord (Parry); Sing praise to the Lord
(Haan); Lord we gather at your altar (Pritchard);
Dona' novis pacem (Anon); Lord Jesus Christ
(Appleford); Hymn to
St Columba (Conaghan) Celebrant and Preacher
FR MICHAEL COLLINS BBC Northern Ireland

Omnibus edition
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Directed and edited by RUTH PATTERSON BBC Pebble Mill

with Hugh Prysor-Jones Producer JANE BERESFORD

with Frank Gillard
Stereo

Presenter Gordon Clough Deputy editor ROD LIDDLE Editor ROGER MOSEY

Clay Jones calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips to solve gardening problems sent in by listeners.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

by Patrick Hamilton, dramatised in three parts by Frederick Bradnum
With Steve Pacey as Bob, Annette Badland as Ella, Emily Morgan as Jenny and John Moffatt as Ernest Eccles

(Stereo)
(Broadcast last Friday)

with Laurie Taylor
Researcher JANICE SMITH Producer CHRIS PALING
Stereo

with Michael Rosen. The English novel is moribund, according to critic David Taylor. But how about children's novels? He discusses recent fiction with writer Christina Hardyment.

Dr Tessa Blackstone, Master of Birkbeck College, was still a student when she first visited west Cork in Southern Ireland.
Recently married, poor and pregnant, she trundled round the country lanes in a battered Morris Minor.
Twenty-six years later an unusual coincidence has brought her back, and she finds the isolated beauty of the countryside very little changed.
Producer KATE WHITEHEAD BBC Bristol

Last of six programmes with Phil Smith.
6: Harvest Festival
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

with Chris Dunkley

(Details as Sat 11.30am)

Presented by Julie First and Adrian Moorhouse. This week's birthday guest is Ian Botham. Help Purwell and Dogsbody find the missing will in The Dogsbody Inheritance by LEE PRESSMAN with Elizabeth Estensen and Timothy Spall.
Eleanor Bron narrates episode two of The Snow Queen by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN , adapted by OLWEN WYMARK.
With NIGEL CARRINGTON,
KEN CUMBERLIDGE , LESLEY KAUFMAN ,
MARLENE SIDAWAY , RICHARD ELINC , DAPHNE OXENFORD , NICOLA STAPLETON and RICHARD TATE.
Researcher LIS ROBERTS
Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN BBC Manchester. Stereo

Nigel Forde looks at some of the best children's books published this year, in company with Beverley Mathias and Chris Powling.

The programme which gives you the chance to report on your own stories, with the help of Susan Marling and Max Pearson.

by JOSEPH M.ESPINAS translated by PAMELA WALEY abridged by ELIZABETH BRADBURY.
'Dear Olga, we had never imagined that you might not be "normal" as they call it.' A father writes to his handicapped child. Reader Ray Smith.
Producer CAROLINE RAPHAEL

The last of five programmes with Rosemary Hartill.
5: Till Death Us Do Part Marriage can be a tricky business at the best of times. But when Catholic marries Protestant in a society divided by religion, even the birth of a child raises awkward questions.
Producer EARNEST REA

Presenters Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm

Odysseus has to choose between the enchanted world of the sea-nymph Calypso and life with Penelope on Ithaca. 3: An Olive- Tree Bed
Brian Glover is Homer in a new translation of the Odyssey by OLIVER TAPLIN. Music composed by ELIZABETH PARKER. Stereo

Special Edition
The departmental select committees are 10 years old; Rodney Foster considers their impact on the House of Commons.
In interviews with leading committee figures, observers and critics, he analyses the system's achievements, structure and future.
Producer JAMES LEATON GRAY

In Every Corner Sing The last of a six-part series on the history of hymnody with Derek Wilson.
6: The Modem Explosion From the melodic chants of Taize to rock and pop, modern hymnody is decidedly eclectic in nature. It all began in the 60s, when the new age demanded a new idiom. Reader BRIAN GEAR.
Music performed by the BRISTOL HIGHBURY SINGERS with soloists
MARGARET THOMAS and STEPHEN FOULKES Organist COLIN STUART Music Director JOHN BISHOP
Producer ALISON BOGLE BBC Bristol. Stereo