RICHARD syms on Heroes
6.55 Weather; programme news TodaysTimeGTS7.0,8.0,9.0am
1.0, 6.0, 11.0 pm Big Ben 10.0 pm
7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight Heroes
Talk by GEOFFREY BARNARD
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
read by JILL BALCON (5)
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Reports from Britain and overseas
(Revised version of Sunday's broadcast)
Traditionally each New Year's Eve people the world over link hands and sing ' Auld lang syne,' perhaps the best known of all the songs of Robert Burns.
This programme tells the story of how Burns came to write it - rejecting first one version, then another; and in fact finding a tune for it very different from the one we know today. Written by DAVID DAICHES Narrated by BRIAN HAINES with ROBIN HALL and JIMMIE MACGREGOR and HENRY STAMPER as Robert Burns
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
NEM p 1; To us in Bethlehem city (BBC HB 315); Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child (Oxford Book of Carols 22); Luke 1, vv 24-38; While shepherds watched (BBC HB 61)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND
ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE BRETT conducted by JAMES LOCKHART With BELLE GONZALEZ
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
4: The Dear Empress Eugenie of France
Narrator NEIL FREEMAN With HILDA SCHRODER
COLIN EDWYNN , JOHN LINSTRUM
A serial in five parts by Alan Rees based on the story of Mary Lindell , OBE - Comtesse de Milleville - and the search for her youngest son who disappeared from Paris during the war. Read by Susan Fleetwood.
(Susan Fleetwood is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
Tommy Steele with Roy Plomley
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
for children under 5
Story; Little Grey Donkey Helps Father Christmas by BERENICE ROBBINS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor MARCUS DODS
RADIO ORCHESTRA OF MUNICH conducted by WILLY MATTES
RADIO ORCHESTRA OF BADEN-BADEN conducted by EMMERICH SMOLA with JOSEF CHUCHRO (cello)
(Recordings made available by courtesy of S-W German Radio)
BARBARA GUNN remembers Charlie, who lived in Malawi and turned out to be a wattled-crane.
from the novel by NIGEL BALCHIN
A family magazine introduced from Scotland by HOWARD LOCKHART
A Bird on the Wing: KENNETH SMITH visits the Island of South Harris to meet DR ANGUS MACKINNON and his unusual companion - a tame buzzard
Food for Thought: DONALD MACLEOD reflects on the increasing volume of ' Billy and Bessie Bunters ' who take advantage of second helpings at school meals
Singing for their Supper: husband-and-wife singing team TEDDY JOHNSON and PEARL CARR give voice to their thoughts on appearing for a festive season in Scotland
The book by DOREEN TOVEY arranged for radio in five instalments by HOWARD JONES read by KATHLEEN HELME
2: Grandma and the Missing Petticoats
' All Grandma's family had been brought up in petticoats. Even my father had worn them to the age of 6. Louisa wore them. Grandma wore them. And I wore them, too, until ... ' Produced by DAVID DAVIS
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 MICHAEL MEECH
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
A panel game controlled(!) bv Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo Clement Freud , Miriam Karlin try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thursday. 12.25 pm) (Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
Introduced by Jack Brymer played by the BBCCONCERTORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by WILLI ROSKOVSKY BBC CHORUS including
Schonherr Austrian Peasant Dances
Schubert Ballet Music: Rosamunde
Johann Strauss Overture: The Gypsy Baron
NIKOLAI GOGOL'S comedy freely adapted by HENRY LIVINGS ' Gentlemen, I've a piece of very unpleasant news for us all. The Royal Commission on Local Government Practice is sending an Inspector here.'
John Alexander St ohn
Lestocq-Granville, Assistant
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
The background to the news and people in the news. followed by Listening Post introduced by ANTHONY BROWN
REDVERS GARSIDE , a native of Durham with strong family ties in the pits. talks about the miners' struggles for improvements between the wars and the relevance of their hopes then to the unrest in the industry today,
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Book 1: The Ladies Rally Round read by DAVID MARCH (6)
Bach
WURTTEMBERG CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by JÖRG FAERBER
Btandenburg Concerto No 2, in F major
HELMUT SCHNEIDEWIND
HARTMUT STREBEL (recorder) WILLY SCHNELL (oboe)
SUSANNE LAUTENBACHER (violin)
Brandenburg Concerto No 4, in G major
HARTMUT STREBEL (recorder) GERHARD BRAUN (recorder)
SUSANNE LAUTENBACHER (Violin) gramophone records
