6.32 Farming Today
6.50 Ten to Seven
6.55 Weather; programme news
Today's Time gts 7.0, 8.0,9.0 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.
What the Bible Says with PROFESSOR WILLIAM BARCLAY
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
Introduced bv Paul Barnes
To keep you in touch with almost anything that's on, or around, or on the way.
'Not another magazine! ' is a common first reaction. Answer, a magazine for a different time when, it is hoped, most listeners will not be relaxing over a cup of hot anything, but either busy at home or driving cars. A magazine with a recipe that goes: ' take what is going on in television, the theatre, books, films, music, and so on; remember that many people who can'see, read, or hear these works themselves still want to know about them, and that the same people are also interested in much else that is developing in our society. Mix with a light touch, and broadcast live for five Christmas weeks.'
Produced by RICHARD KEEN ROSEMARY HART. COLIN REID
NEM P 58; Sing Alleluia forth (BBC HB 282); Psalm 93; Isaiah 54, vv 1-10: My God, accept my heart this day (BBC HB 356)
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND
JOAN AND VALERIE TRIMBLE
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
by CHARLOTTE BRONTË reader BILLIE WHITELAW 5: Grace Poole
GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days, introduced by JOHN ELLISON. (Extended version Sunday, 11.15 am)
and programme news
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
(Thursday evening's broadcast)
for children under 5
Story: The Friendly House: Getting ready for Christmas by MARGARET GORE
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN STUTTGART LIGHT ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLY MATTES
The cinema programme
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions'
Beatrix Potter lived in the Lake District, became a farmer and sheep breeder. and delighted children young and old with her books.
NORMAN TURNER , Lancashire schoolmaster, writer, and fell walker, tells the story of her life, and of the continuing popularity of her books.
Produced by HAROLD ROGERS
A family magazine introduced from Manchester by BARRY CHAMBERS
Alice in Consumerland: FRANK MELLOR tells the stranger-than-fiction story of what happens to an ordinary housewife the instant she crosses the threshold of her local supermarket
Man Alive!: HARRY HULL , with 14,500 volts of electricity running through him. generates a spark wherever he goes. He tells GERALD HARRISON Of the physical and mental pain of having this power Dear Mr Sinatra ,
I've been faithful to you for a quarter of a century but I think it's time you pulled your socks up! Yours sincerely,
' A middle-aged fan '
Charlie the Knocker-Up: BARBARA MCDONALD tours the grey Salford streets with this old-timer at 4 o'clock on a cold December morning
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Five chapters from a book of straight autobiographical stories by DYLAN THOMAS 2: The Fight and A Visit to Grandpa's
Reader WILLIAM SQUIRE
and programme news
and Radio Newsreel
Tonight's evening paper of the air with reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard - Sportsdosk - Weekend with TOM BOSTOCK -Stop Press: introduced by MICHAEL MEECH
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair JACK LONGLAND
Edgar Lustgarten reconstructs six famous murder trials from the Assize Courts of provincial England
5: The Trial of Leonard Mills Nottingham 1951
Produced by ROGER PINE
HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN MILNER conductor
SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
Part 1: Haydn
Symphony No 83, in G minor (The Hen)
MILLICENT ISHERWOOD , producing Shakespeare with a multiracial cast, first had to answer the question, ' Meess, wot eess a play?'
Part 2: Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz - A Singular Obsession by Michael Ayrton may be obtained price 40s or by post 43s from BBC Publications, London [Postcode removed]
Discoveries, inventions, and news from the world of science and technology
Each week Patrick Moore brings you the people whose achievements are changing your way of life
Produced by the Science Unit
The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by News-stand in which RUTH ADAM analyses how the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street
A journalist from abroad takes a look at GreatBritain this week
The King Must Die by MARY RENAULT read by ALAN BABEL (15)
Mozart Quartet in c major (K 387)
HEUTLING STRING QUARTET Werncr Heutling (violin)
Oswald Gattermann (violin) Erich Bohlscheid (viola) Konrad Haesler (cello) gramophone records