6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.6 Regional news, weather and programme news
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio and John Timpson
7.4t Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
and more of Today
(ncluding, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES )
E AngliaVHF: see Variations, col 5
8.4t Today's Papers
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
Religious Service for Primary Schools
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Movement and Music 2 by JAMES DODDING
NEM p 33; See the conqueror mounts in triumph (BBC HB 129); Canticle 12; Acts 22, vv 17-29; The Lord is King (BBC HB 26)
Marsh! 9: Moscow (2)
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian) †
10.45 Nachrichten und Neuigkeiten
Written by STEPHEN KANOCZ (Intermediate German)
11.6 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
(Repeated: Thurs, 9.55 am) †
11.20 The Quiet World
Presented by GARY TAYLOR (Music Club)
11.40 Encounter with Christianity
(Sixth Form series: Religion In its Contemporary Context) (Radiovision)
Derek Cooper presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Home and Family
What is team teaching? RITA DANDO goes to school to find out.
Other topical items, too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA; or phone [number removed], and record your letter)
South West VHF: see Variations, col 5
A panel game controlled (?) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams. Derek Nimmo Clement Freud , Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by SIMON BRETT †
(Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Blackie and Snowball by JOAN E. CASS
Savonarola
Written by DUNCAN TAYLOR Music by PAMELA KENWAY (World History)
2.20 Music Session
Music of Benjamin Britten Cantata: St Nicolas - 2 by CORDON REYNOLDS †
2.40 Italy - Preserving Venice by PETER MUNN (Geography) †
A serial for radio in 12 parts based on the novels of L. P. HARTLEY and adapted by ARCHIE CAMPBELL and 8: The Sixth Heaven
With GINO MELVAZZl, CARLO CURA The Narrator and pianist DAVID DAVIS
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL ‡
A series of plays written by ANTHONY SCOTT VEITCH
Two and Two can make Five
Compiled by BARRY CAMPBELL
7.AbelMagwitch(takenfrom Great Expectations) with John Hollis and Anthony Jacobs
Produced by R. D. SMITH †
A copy of this adaptation (coupled with ' Scrooge ' to be broadcast on 22 December) can be obtained on a long-playing record by sending 30s to BBC Records, London SE99
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening including the latest news, the evening press, what's on tonight. the City. and the people and talking points of the day. Presented bv
William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray Arthur Askey
In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY Special guest Anthea Askey from an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR †
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
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Ring George Scott on [number removed] to put your question in person to the Guest of the evening.
As an experiment, the invitation is being left as near as possible to the date of transmission with an eye on immediate interest.
The name of your Guest will be trailed on Radio 4 on Monday and Tuesday.
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed] (12 lines) will take them from 6.30 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air.
Produced by WALTER WALLICH
with the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader BARRY WILDE conducted by John Samuel Introduced by EMYR JENKINS
The Royal Welsh Male Choir sings to you from the land where fine singing is a tradition. It was founded in 1883 and two years later was accorded the right to use the Royal prefix following a command performance at Windsor Castle before Queen Victoria.
The choir comes from the Rhondda Valley in South Wales, a valley renowned for its male voice choirs. Written and produced by J. ALWYN JONES
The Autobiography of the Unknown Indian Soldier
' Defender of the Poor: I now send your lordship, by the hand of my son. all I can remember of my life during the 48 years I have been in the service of the English nation, in which I have eaten seven severe wounds and received six medals, which I am proud to wear. May prosperity ever attend your footsteps. was born in the village of Tilowee in Oudh, in 1797 ...' with Garard Green as Sitarama Pande
Music for sitar, tabla, and tanpura played on record by NIKHIL BANERJEE , KANAI DUTT , and VIRAM JASANI
Adapted from the book From Sepoy to Subadar and produced by MICHAEL MASON
(A new companion programme, The Long Cool Look of Sitarama Pande : 1 December, Radio 4)
4.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Scruffy bv PAUL GALLICO
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK (2)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
11.36" Closedown
