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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 Heroes
Talk by WILLIAM PURCELL
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
read by JILL BALCON (7)
The weekly series reflecting wildlife and its position in today's ever-changing world presented by DEREK JONES
An occasional series on aspects of child care
4:Leisure with a Purpose
When children are not in school what do they do with their time? Take part-time jobs? Help at home? Pursue hobbies? Should parents or State schools organise more for leisure time?
LESLIE SMITH investigates
Produced by BARBARA CROWTHER
VAN LYNN ORCHESTRA
NEM p 7; Sing. 0 sing, this blessed morn (BBC HB 59); 0 little one sweet (Oxford Book of Carols 108); Luke 2. vv 8-21; 0 little town of Bethlehem (BBC HB 56)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by MARCUS DODS with ROBIN HALL and JIMMIE MACGREGOR
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
5: The Wanderer
Empress Elizabeth of Austria Narrator NEIL FREEMAN with DORIS GAMBELL
VALERIE SKARDON , BRIAN TRUEMAN
Another episode in ' The Experiences of a Consulting Engineer '
GORDON GLEGG 'S job isn' meant to be hilarious, but if people insist on grinding together linseed oil, wood shavings, coke, and lead shot.....
On the eve of their centenary year, FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the BRCS National Training Centre, Barnett Hill , near Guildford, Surrey
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Story: Willy Mouse Gets Ready for the Winter by ALISON JEZARD
with DAVID FRANKLIN including a selection from the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conducted by TERENCE LOVETT
Produced by SHEILA ANDERSON
by SEAN LINDEY
1 I have a terrible conviction the gnomes were a mistake. The thing here is box hedges - yes, yes, box hedges. Cut in the shape of hens.'
Produced by ROGER PINE
Ricordanza (Transcendental Studies)
Concert Study: Gnomenreigen Study in E major (La Chasse) EGON PETRI (piano): record
from Quarr Abbey, Ryde,
Isle of Wight
Celebrant, the Abbot of Quarr, THE RT REV AELRED SILLEM , OSB Preacher
DOM FREDERICK HOCKEY, OSB
Deus in adiutorium i Plainsong) Psalms 109, 112, 121, 126 Reading: John 1, vv 1-18 Sermon
Jesu Redemptor Omnium Magnificat
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Organist DOM ALDHELM DEAN, OSB Choirmaster '
BROTHER CUTHBERT JOHNSON , OSB
Steve Race presents some of the people who have amused, angered, and amazed listeners during the passing year.
Produced by MICHAEL GILLIAM
by ALLAN CAMPBELL MCLEAN abridged in five parts by RAYMOND WARD read by JOHN SHEDDEN 4: Escape to the Hills
' The police will be hunting the pair of us before another day is past. Alasdair and me will need to take to the heather before this night is done.'
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 MICHAEL MEECH
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
with Records for You
ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) PETER LLOYD (flute) JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Part 1
Bach Suite No 2, in B minor, for flute and string orchestra
8.20* Brahms Rhapsody for contralto, men's chorus, and orchestra
A glance at
Dorothy Wordsworth by WENDY MONK
Readers JAN EDWARDS PETER WILLIAMS
Produced by ELWYN EVANS
Part 2: Schubert
Symphony No 9, in c major
followed by The World in 1969 For the first time in history men reach another world. New leaders in America, France, and Germany. But still the wars continue in Vietnam and Biafra, and we have the new tragedy of Northern Ireland. It was all captured by BBC microphones.
Narrated by DEREK COOPER
A Current Affairs production by JOHN MURRAY and ANNE DUNCAN-JONES -
(This programme will be issued as a gramophone record by BBC Radio Enterprises on 27 January 1970)
(The Sixties: pages 101-106)
Phineas Redux by ANTHONY TROI. LOPE
Book 1: The Ladies Rally Round read by DAVID MARCH (8)
Dvorak Piano Trio. Op 90 (Dumky): LONDON CZECH TRIO
A service of Thanksgiving and Dedication
Led by THE REV d. R. THOMAS Hymns sung by the NORTH WALES SINGERS conductor JAMES WILLIAMS
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