News and weather
Friday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
A weekly review of the agricultural scene Produced by Anthony Parkin
Repeated: Wednesdau, 12.25 p.m. (Midland and West only)
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
and Programme News
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the news. its background, and the people who make it
from the BBC Sound Archives
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by ANTHONY KING
Parliamentarians scrutinise the week's work at Westminster and discuss what is making an impact on the world of politics IAN WALLER takes the chair
Introduced by ROY HAY featuring items of news, views, replies to listeners' queries, and topical advice to help the amateur gardener Produced by John Greenslade
New Every Morning, page 87
Creator of the starry height
(BBC H.B. 31)
Psalm 16
Isaiah 64, vv. 1-9
Wake, 0 wake! (BBC H.B. 40)
A series of forty lessons for beginners or near beginners
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A series of twenty-one programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. A-level examination in English, planned in association with a National Extension College correspondence course.
12:Victorian PoetryLast Monday's broadcast (Study)
A course of fifteen lessons in spoken Mandarin for those who followed Introduction to Chinese or who already have some knowledge of the language.
Programme 12 Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A Christmas Quiz
Test your knowledge of motoring matters against the experts who provide,the questions and answers:
HARRY HEYWOOD , Editor of Practical Motorist
CHARLES BRANDRETH , a lawyer specialising in motoring law
JOHN MILES, ex-police instructor and manager of the High Performance Course
BILL HARTLEY is in the chair together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions Produced by Jim Pestridge
Listen at leisure to selected star items from the week's editions of radio's famous breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by DOUGLAS BROWN
and Programme News
Dame Gladys Cooper discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island.
(Dame Gladys Cooper is in 'Let's All Go Down The Strand' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)
Safari to Scotland by Anton Delmar with Barbara Cavan and Joyce Carpenter
It is some years since Miriam Prendergast accompanied her late husband on safari. She cannot resist the chance to relieve the tedium of the Streatham hotel where she lives by taking a chance on a job which may lead to adventure. Produced by KEITH WILLIAMS
Joyce Carpenter is in ' Give a Dog a Bone ' at the Westminster Theatre. London
A Saturday supplement to Woman's Hour Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
The job of acting: ROBERT STEPHENS was a recent Guest of the Week on Woman's Hour
Christmas presents you'll want to keep: DORA TAYLOR reviews inexpensive cookery books
Bear with me: PETER BULL admits to a passion for Teddy bears
It's lovely being alone: CAROLINE RAMSDEN on solitude
A Christmas Anthology of words and music: chosen and presented by IRENE THOMAS
VITTORIO EMANUELE (violin) SOCIETA CORELLI gramophone records
and Programme News
Produced by Godfrey Dixey
Or Is your mistletoe really necessary?
A comedy anthology featuring:
Hancock's Half-Hour, The Men from the Ministry, Take It From Here, The Clitheroe Kid, Round the Horne, My Word!
Introduced by Tim Brinton
David Franklin introduces a special edition of Gala Concert Hall
ELIZABETH FRETWELL (soprano) KENNETH MACDONALD (tenor) RAIMUND HERINCX (baritone)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor. MARCUS DOBS
Produced by Gareth Walters
From the Camden Theatre. London
Including music from Aida (Verdi). Carmen (Bizet), and Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
Elizabeth Fretwell broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company; Kenneth Macdonald by permission of the Gen. Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Arthur W. Pinero 's original comedietta
Trelawny of the ' Wells ' with Alexa Romanes
Michael Harbour and the BBC Drama Repertory Company Period: Somewhere In the early
1860s.
THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY:
Theatrical folk of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Company:
Music by Marc Wilkinson based on the song Ever of Thee by FOLEY HALL Produced by JOHN POWELL
See page 6
BRIAN REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical with MITZI CUNLIFFE sculptor
DR. PATRICK NUTTTGENS
Director of the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York
RONALD
Marshall Director of the Stone Gallery. Newcastle upon Tyne
Evening Prayers conducted by THE Rev. C. V. SPROXTON
Schubert
Song-cycle: Winterreise sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) with Jorg Demus (piano) Part I
Gute Nacht: Die Wetterfahne: Gefror'neTriinen;Erstarrung;Der Lindenbaum: Wasserflut; Auf dem Flusse: HUckblick
Recording from this year's Salzburg Festival: made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio
Part 2: tomorrow at 11.2 p.m.
