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 PETER FIRTH
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
A programme on the life of Vere Foster, Irish educationist and philanthropist by H. L. MORROW
' He was one of the most remarkable men in all Ireland in all history.'
In the fateful year of 1847 Foster, learning of the famine in Ireland, visited the family estates at Ardee, Co Louth. To the consternation of his London friends, he decided to stay. Here began his great work for the ' ignorant and poor.'
Produced by SAM HANNA BELL
There are few places as beautiful and as remote as Applecross in the West Highlands of Scotland. The only access by road is over the Pass of the Cattle: it's a daunting road even in summer, with hairpin bends and gradients of one in four: in winter, snow and ice have kept it closed for as much as six months at a stretch.
Because of this isolation Applecross has preserved a way of life unique on the main-land of Britain. But in lecent years the population has been declining. Now fewer than 300 people live there, most of them middle-aged and elderly. In this radio portrait people who live there talk about the place as it was and as it is today.
Introduced by ALAN HAYDOCK
NEM p 76: Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140); Psalm 67; Isaiah 59, vv 12-21; Lead us, heavenly Father (BBC HB 307)
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by RAYMOND AGOULT with TOMMY REILLY (harmonica) and EDWARD RUBACH (piano) Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
by CHARLOTTE BRONTË reader BILLIE WHITELAW 9: Moor House
A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including
The Changing Fashion in Baby Care: an anthology of baby books
The Christmas Syndrome: DR MICHAEL O'DONNELL takes a look at some seasonal symptoms Produced by THENA HESHEL
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
for children under 5
Story: Winkle and the Christmas Tree by RUTH AINSWORTH
from PAUL MARTIN featuring the ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE BRETT conducted by ADRIAN SUNSHINE
Produced by MADEAU STEWART
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
Dear Miss Hope A radio play by DENNIS WOODFORD. with Irene Handl
Hilary Hope 's agony column is read by thousands and she's never at a loss for a reply to 1 Despondent' of Golders Green. But when trouble lands on her own doorstep she finds it's not quite so easy to know how to deal with it.
Produced by JANE GRAHAM
A study in bilingualism
The advocates claim that it gives two windows on the world; the others say it leads to confused thinking. In Wales there are those who would have everyone monolingual - the Welsh-onlies as well as the English-onlies. But between these two extremes are the ordinary people who live with the actualities of bilingualism from day to day. What is it like living in a bilingual society?
Introduced and produced by MARION GRIFFITH WILLIAMS
A special Christmas edition decorated and illuminated by Moira Lister
Baroness Stocks
Sir Edwin Leather Steve Race
Margo Henderson
THE TEMPLE CHURCH CHOIR with Dr George Thalben-Ball at the organ
Introduced to an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London, by Ken Sykora Produced by ANNE CATCHPOLE and DENNIS LOWER
Mr Midshipman Easy by CAPTAIN MARRYAT read by ANDREW FAULDS abridged and produced by ANTHONY CORNISH
6: Jack attains manhood
In which our hero has further adventures but settles for domesticity.
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 MERYL O'KEEFFE
Written by Edward J. Mason
70th Birthday Concert HALLE ORCHESTRA leader MARTIN MILNER conductor
Sir John Barbirolli
From the Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Part 1
Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings
7.52* Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6, in E minor
(Born ' a few months after the Enigma Variations': ': see p 14)
A collection of tributes to sir JOHN BARBIROLLI from a variety of admirers on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Part 2
Beethoven Symphony No 7, in A major
After the concert, SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI in conversation with DAVID GERVER
The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which ANTHONY BROWN introduces letters from today's postbag
For either the weekday or Sunday editions, send your letters to: Listening Post, BBC, Broadcasting House, London [Postcode removed]. For very late letters you can ring (OD-[number removed], extension 3030, and dictate your message.
The King Must Die by MARY RENAULT read by ALAN BADEL (19)
SUSANNE ROZSA (violin)
JOSEPH WEINGARTEN (piano)
Mozart Sonata in c major (K 296)
Berkeley Sonatina in A major Op 17
