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 am 1.0, 6.0, 11.0 pm Big Ben 10.0 pm
7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time magazine introduced by JACK de MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
The Hell and Heaven of Family Life by OLIVE HOPPER
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
An occasional series on aspects of child care 2: Homosexuality in Schoolchildren
Is this a normal part of growing up? Are these tendencies inherited? Can psychiatry help? LESLIE SMITH reports
Produced by BARBARA CROWTHER
played by the ROME SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
NEM p 72; Father of heaven (BBC HB 290); Canticle 3; Isaiah 58, vv 1-8; Lord, pour thy Spirit from on high (BBC HB 224)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN with EDWARD RURACH and ROBERT DOCKER (two pianos) Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
by CHARLOTTE BRONTE reader BILLIE WHITELAW
8: Mr Rochester 's Story
B. HARVEY WOOD , who was Representative of the British Council in Rome, recollects with affection some ordinary and extraordinary Romans
Thornliebank
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN House in London
and programme news
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Story: Penny, Tuppence and Joey go to Christmas Tree Hill by MARY WALKER
with DAVID FRANKLIN including a selection from the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by TERENCE LOVETT
Produced by SHEILA ANDERSON
The Golden Afternoon by JOANNA RICHARDSON
An essay in literary detection Which was written for the centenary of Alice in Wonderland; with recollections by miss ETHEL HATCH , who was a child friend of Lewis Carroll in the 1880s.
Readers FRASER KERR
PETER BARTLETT , STEPHEN JACK
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
SYMPHONIC POPS ORCHESTRA
from Winchester Cathedral
Introit: The night is far spent (Ley)
Responses (Ferial)
Psalm 89 (Walmisley, Hoieells, Surplice)
Lessons: Isaiah 41; Revelation 20 Canticles (Blow in G)
Anthem: Laetentur coeli (Byrd) Master of Music ALWYN SURPLICE Sub-Organist CLEMENT MCWILLIAM
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Survivors with songs to remember: ELIZABETH FRANCIS meets a group of Polish singers and musicians and hears some of the songs they sang in Nazi concentration camps during the last war
Homespun Yarns: DR PHYLLIS BENTLEY tells JAMES MELLEN about her West Riding novels and her love of the Brontes Memories of an Edwardian Christmas: JAMES NORBURY talks to JACK SINGLETON
A Sound of Trumpets by ALLAN CAMPBELL MCLEAN abridged in five parts by RAYMOND WARD
Read by JOHN SHEDDEN
'If I had seen a ghost, I was in good company. So had Ailean Mor, and I was not blind of an eye like him. I had only caught a glimpse of the " ghost " right enough, but I knew fine what I had seen.'
2: The Bearded Stranger
Produced by GORDON EMSLIE
and programme news
and Radio Newsreel
Tonight's evening paper of the air with reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard - Sportsdesk - Stop Press: introduced by MERYL OKEEFFE
with
Records for You
DOUGLAS WHITTAKER (flute)
ANNON LEE SILVER (soprano) JOYCE jarvis (contralto) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) JOHN NOBLE (baritone) BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader, HUGH BEAN conducted bv SZYMON GOLDBERG who is also the soloist in the concerto
Part 1
Violin Concerto in A minor
8.18* Cantata No 105: Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht
(Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to Ticket Unit, BBC, Broadcasting House, London, [Postcode removed], enclosing SAE)
. Wally Herbert talks to MAGNUS MAGNUSSON about his 2,000-mile walk with three companions and 34 huskies on floating ice across the North Pole
Part 2
Suite No 2, in B minor, for flute and string orchestra
(Bach's Christmas Oratorio-cantatas 1, 2, and 3 - conducted by Benjamin Britten , from Southwark: Friday, 8.0 pm)
and an armful of records
Produced by PETER CHISWELL who writes:
One thing about Ted Ray - you always get value for money. When we suggested that he should do a record programme featuring stars of Music-Hall and Variety, back came a list of at least 50 top-liners he'd actually worked with himself. ' Of course this isn'all,' said Ted. ' There was Gertie Gitana who gave me my first chance in review, and Gerald Gardiner , and ...' ' The programme is barely half an hour,' we said. 'Lead me to the record library,' said Ted. We offered a mild word of caution: ' some of the discs are old 78s and they don'bounce.' Ted grinned. If I know anything,' he said, ' vour lot will be asking for another of these programmes and you'll need the other sides. So I shan'bust 'em ... '
The News
The background to the news and people in the news. followed by Listening Post introduced by ANTHONY BROWN
The King Must Die by MARY RENAULT read by ALAN BADEL (18)
CLIFFORD HARKER (organ)
Bach Chorale Preludes: Liebster Jesu. wir sind hier (s 633); Christus, der uns selig macht (s 620)
Rheinberger Sonata No 4, in A minor from Bristol Cathedral
