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, 11.0 am 1 0, 6.0, 11.0 pm Big Ben 10.0 pm
7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today presented by JOHN TIMPSON and TIM MATTHEWS Thirty minutes of what Britain is getting up to this morning - and what's happening abroad
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
11-13 - year - olds give their thoughts about God
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today .
Britain at breakfast-time and the news around the world
8.40 Today's Papers
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
BBC Correspondents talk about the news. its background, and the people who make it
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
Religious Service
Saviour teach me day by day (sp 375: Boyce) Story: Light
A Prayer of Dedication
* God, thou art the Father (BBC HPSN 11, Teachers' edition: Penlan)
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Over to You Fighting Talk
Written by JOHN MALONE
St Matthias
NEM p 68; Disposer supreme (BBC HB 226); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; Acts 1, vv 15-26 (NEB); 0 Love, who formedst me to wear (BBC HB 361)
Marsh! 17: In Central Asia Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg (i)
Richard Wagner 's opera adapted by H. F. GARTEN
(Intermediate German)
11.0 Music Workshop Stage 1 Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.30 Kuldip's Dream by MARGERY MORRIS
(Hello! Hello! series)
11.40 Living Without
God MARGHANITA LASKI , DAVID TRIBE, and ANTHONY BRIDGE join in discussion on what it means to live without God '
Chairman LESLIE SMITH
Produced by RALPH ROLLS
(Sixth Form series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)
The cinema programme
(Shortened edition of Sunday's broadcast: Radio 2)
In the chair ANONA WINN
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
for children under 5
Story: Brown Bear buys a Barrow by ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Baker and the Slave Trade
Samuel Baker leads an expedition against slave-traders in the Sudan (1870)
Written by CARRY LYLE (World History)
2.20 Music Session One
First of two programmes by DAVID LORD on Belshazzar's Feast by William Walton
Produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
2.40 France: Hydro-electricity from the Dordogne by ELIZABETH BOWER (Geography)
by JANE AUSTEN dramatised as a 13-part serial with Suzanne Neve as Emma Part 8
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country with a Natural History contribution by ERIC SIMMS Introduced by C. GORDON GLOVER
Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS
Gramophone records of the great Russian pianist and composer introduced by FELIX FELTON
A family magazine introduced by TIM GUDGIN and including: Bond Bombshell: NIGEL MURPHY went to Murren to see what effect the making of the latest James Bond film had on this tiny ski-ing village
A Nice Old Man for a Penny: R. LAURA SKINNER bought One Hardiga: a non-service story of service in Aden
Your letters
Six programmes compiled by JAMES HEWITT on some memorable historical events from the 17th to the 20th century
6: The Last Days of the Russian Imperial Family, 1918
Produced by MARGARET ETALL
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 BOB HOLNESS
on behalf of the Labour Party
by LEO TOLSTOY
A dramatisation in 20 parts from the translation by LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE edited by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Executive producer RONALD MASON with David Buck , Kate Binchy
Martin Jarvis , Stephen Murray Christopher Guinee and Denys Hawthorne as Tolstoy
9: Christmas at Otradnoe adapted by CONSTANCE cox Cast in order of speaking:
Directed by JOHN POWELL
(Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)
(Christopher Guinee is in ' The Magistrate ' at the Cambridge Theatre, London)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conducted by CHARLES GROVES
Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks (arr Baines and Mackerras)
Haydn Symphony No 102, in B flat major (The Miracle)
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma)
Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one-tenth of all deaths in Britain each year, according to the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health and Social Security. Similar calculations in America, Canada, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, and Norway come up with the same figures.
What can we do about these alarming facts? What should we do about them?
Produced by ALAN BURGESS
The background to the news and people in the news. followed by Listening Post in which WALTER TAPLIN introduces letters from today's postbag Send your letters to: Listening Post, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. For very late letters you can ring [number removed], and dictate your message.
Farewell Victoria by T. H. WHITE read by DAVID DAVIS (7)
BALINT VAZSONYI (piano)
Schumann Carnaval , Op 9
