6.32 Farming Today market trends, news, weather
6.50 Ten to Seven
6.55 Weather; programme news
Today's Time
GTS 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 11.0 am
1.0, 6.0, 11.0 pm
10.0 pm
7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today introduced by JACK DE manio
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
Four Days that Changed the World
Readings from The Living New Testament by Gerald Harper
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
. 8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
Religious Service
0 little town of Bethlehem (sp 79: Forest Green)
Story: A Christmas Story A Christmas Prayer
Once in Royal David's City (sp 368: Irby)
STUTTGART STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Decimal Currency
Britain changes to decimal currency in February 1971. How different will it be?
JAMES HAWTHORNE explains. (Mathematics series)
9.55 Movement and Music 1
NEM p 102; 0 what their joy and their glory must be (BBC HB 252); Psalm 40: Isaiah 42, w 1-9; Give me the wings of faith to rise (BBC HB 229)
Das Deutsche Theater Heute Written by STEPHEN KANOCZ (German for Sixth Forms)
10.50 Music Workshop 2
Follow up: the children of two listening schools make music-and say how they do it written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Time and Tune
Introduced by JOHN CAMBURN
Journey to the Lands of the Midnight Sun
10: Grand Concert, with memories of the Voyage written by JOHN EDWARDS Edited and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Life of the Cavemen by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY FOSTER Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Man series)
11.40 Isle of Harris by ALEX HUNTER (Geography)
A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including
Read All About It?: NORMAN TOZER reports on a quest for medical information
Specialist in the Studio: a gynaecologist answers listeners' questions on the menopause Produced by THENA HESHEL
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
for children under 5
Story: Bertha and the Lonely Lighthouse by LIANE SMITH
Christmas Radiovision
Paintings, mosaic, and stained-glass; poems by Kathleen Raine , Richard Crashaw , Ted Hughes , William Dunbar ; medieval carols. Arranged and produced by JOAN GRIFFITHS. (Living Language)
2.20 Poetry Corner Christmas Carol
for combs, cardboard, paper, and pins
(From the BBC Sound Archives)
Trade Unions and You
Written by JEFFREY SEGAL Produced by RITA.UDALL
(Looking Ahead: The World of Work)
Information and encouragement for women at home whose domestic responsibilities leave them with time for other work
Presented by CAROLINE NICHOLSON and MICHAEL SMEE
Produced by EVELYN GIBBS
A new comedy for radio by JANET howorth
The first woman mp to take her seat at
Westminster. She entered Parliament
50 years ago in 1010 and represented Plymouth (Sutton Division) until 1944.
This programme gives something of her history and her achievements, together with an account of the impression she made on her contemporaries. Written by FRANCIS DILLON Produced by JACK AMOS
A family magazine introduced by TIM GUDGIN and including:
Lady Allen of Hurtwood talks to JOHN ELLISON about the turning-points in her life
' The Past of Pastimes PATRICK SMITH , BBC Rome correspondent, reviews a recent book by Vernon Bartlett
In Deepest Italy: by LESLIE GARDINER. 1: Highway of the Flocks
Book for Cooks: ZENA SKINNER suggests some cookery books for Christmas presents and meets the author of The Margaret Fulton Cook Book Your letters
by CAPTAIN MARRYAT read by ANDREW FAULDS abridged and produced by ANTHONY CORNISH
4: Jack Takes Command
In which, with Mesty's help, Jack secures rich prize.
and programme news
Tonight's evening paper of the air with reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard - Sportsdesk - Stop Press: introduced by BOB HOLNESS
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
Introduced by PAT WILLIAMS including
MARGARET LANE on Charles Dickens as revealed in the latest volume of his collected letters (1840-1841), edited by Madeline House and Graham Storey
ROBERT GITTINGS reviews a new biography of Emma, Lady Hamilton by Mollie Hardwick
JONATHAN RABAN on recent fiction including Murder in Mount Holly by Paul Theroux and other new books
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
from the Royal Festival Hall, London
JANET BAKER (mezzo-soprano) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader RODNEY FRIEND conductor BERNARD HAITINK
Part 1: Haydn
Symphony No 102, in B flat major (The Miracle)
FRANK DICKENS , once a racing cyclist, came into cartooning more or less by accident. The only begetter 'of the Evening Standard's ' Bristow ' strip, he is now something of a cult figure.
He talks to WILFRED DE'ATH about his work and its consequences for him.
Part 2: Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which WALTER TAPLIN introduces letters from today's postbag
The King Must Die by MARY RENAULT read by ALAN BADEL (9)
DAVID BOLLARD (piano)
Mozart Fantasia in c minor (K 396) Liszt Les cloches de Geneve
(Premiere année de pelerinage); Marche funèbre; Sursum corda (Troisieme année de pelerinage)
