Prices, practical farming, politics and the countryside. Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with the Rev Peter Read. Stereo
with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer 0 NOMINATIONS: for the Man/Woman of the Year, by Friday 21 December, to:
Today, BBC, London WIA IA4
Two programmes in which Ted Allbeury , thriller writer and former intelligence officer, reflects on spies and spying, with the help of the BBC Sound
Archives.
2: The Famous Five
Producer Mark Savage. Stereo
with Melvyn Bragg and guests...
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance. With Louise Botting and Vincent Duggleby.
Members of the Jury by Lesley Grant-Adamson Although she had sat on many juries, Miss Claverly knew the coroner would never let her be foreman. She plots a terrible revenge. Read by Auriol Smith. Producer Matthew Walters
Introduced by Shirley Scott , with the choir of Blue Coat Church of England School, Coventry.
Zion Hears the Watchmen's Voices (Bach); Psalm 107, vv 1-5, 13-16; Isaiah 60, vv 1-5, 17-20; Holy Is the True Light (Harris); Hark, What a Sound (H and P 236). Stereo
Simon Rae introduces your Christmas poetry requests, with readers Emma Fielding and Nick Chilvers.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo
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Poetry Pleasel, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by John Howard Editor Ken Vass
The last of three semi-finals in the general knowledge music competition.
Chairman Ned Sherrin. Producer Diane Messias Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie Editor Roger Mosey
introduced by Jenni Murray. Serial:
Billy Bayswater by Nigel Watts.
The fourth of seven episodes read by Trevor Nichols.
Abridged by Doreen Estall Editor Clare Selerie-Grey
An adaptation of Ngaio Marsh's whodunnit, featuring detective Roderick Alleyn.
Jonathan Royal is a man rich enough to indulge his somewhat extravagant sense of the theatrical. But when he hits on the bizarre idea of throwing a weekend party with guests who have good reasons to loathe one another, his malicious comedy quickly turns to tragedy.
Dramatised by Alan Downer
(Stereo) (R)
Paul Vaughan tries to avoid any books with Christmas in the title; children's playwright David Wood turns his young audiences green with his latest play, Save the Human; and Tony Jaques reports on the latest developments in arts sponsorship.
Producer Mike Greenwood Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes Editor Kevin Marsh
and Financial Report
Stereo
with Derek Cooper
Nativity
A fable for Christmas by Nigel Williams.
Sam and Jenny find a baby abandoned close to a canal in the city. Beside him is a message in Hebrew. Ahead of them is a struggle to find meaning in the message, and the right to call the child their own.
Director Marilyn Imrie. Stereo
Wladislaw Piasecki sells newspapers at a Surrey station these days. As a young man in Poland 50 years ago, a brush with the Gestapo led him on a turbulent journey via
Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy to Britain.
Producers Andy Piasecki and Piers Plowright Stereo
Stereo
with Roger White. Stereo
with Robin Lustig
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
In My Wildest Dreams The autobiography of Leslie Thomas.
The third of 12 episodes < read by Hywel Bennett. Abridged by John Scotney Producer Peter King (R)
The second of two programmes featuring songs on parents and children, adults and childhood.
Performers:
Tim Brown , Janice Cramer , Robert Cushman and Brenda Longman. Piano Colin Sell.
With Alan Grahame and Brian Brocklehurst. Producer
Jonathan James-Moore . Stereo (R)
