6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the . news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio and John Timpson
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra: and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES )
E Anglia VHF: see Variations, col 5
8.40 Today's Papers
Written and read by JANET HITCIIMAN
I suppose you've come to wish me a happy Christmas,' say Mrs Ringbelow. ' I haren't come to wish you a happy no-thin', you miserable old varmint,' say Liza. ' But du the good Lord call me to him tonight, I don't want you on my conscience.'
(A new morning serial, ' The Lost World' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , begins tomorrow at 8.45)
Ken Sykora , Zena Skinner Gordon Clyde and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Produced by FRANCES DONNELLY and JACK SINGLETON
St Thomas
NEM p 7; Jesus, guide our way (BBC HB 144); Canticle 6, part 1; St John 20, vv 24-30; Immortal, invisible (BBC HB 10)
Introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to some easily remembered music played by the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD with MICHAEL RIPPON (bass)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
1: A Matter of Grave Importance by MICHAEL JUDGE
When you want to get rid of something unpleasant, why not bury it? After all, burning makes such a horrible smell.
Produced by ROGER PINE
First of three morning plays from Northern Ireland
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Money - earning, saving, and spending it
What is a parent worth?: JEANINE MCMULLEN asks children what they're giving their parents for Christmas and how much they're spending.
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
South West VHF; see Variations, col 5
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: Bertha has a busy Christmas by LIANE SMITH : part 1
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND and THE KING'S SINGERS
Produced by ALAN OWEN f
The Mourning Raga
The novel by ELLIS PETERS adapted for radio by BETTY DAVIES
Tales of Paris
Three novelettes by HONORÉ DE BALZAC 3: The Vendetta
Paris, 1815: Fifteen years after Piombo arrives from Corsica in the aftermath of a terrible vendetta, he discovers that his only child has fallen in love with the scion of the hated house of his enemies Second of two episodes read by DUNCAN CARSE
Adapted and produced by BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)
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 by Nicholas Woolley and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Written by ERIC MERRIMAN Knee-to-nose comedy starring Ronnie Corbett
John Hosken presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
on behalf of the Labour Party
A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge
Resident Panel: NAN WINTON TED MOULT, NEIL DURDEN-SMITH v A team representing Weston-super-Mare
Question-master ALUN WILLIAMS Questions set and programme produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS from the Winter Gardens, Weston-super-Mare
A play for Christmas by JAMES FORSYTH with Jane Wenham , Robert Eddlson Anthony Jackson
Henry Stamper '
Emmanuel is about the birth of the child Christ and of the imagined drama of the human occasion of that birth. The author suggests that ' it could never be less than an exciting story, whose subject is birth, its new hopes, and the persecution of new hope.'
The action takes place in the hills around Bethlehem, in the Stable, and in the Palace of Herod in Jerusalem.
Produced by JOHN POWELL
(A BBC Transcription Service production)
The fourth of a series of programmes surveying different aspects of the many changes taking place in the British Theatre.
4: Changes in Production Lindsay Anderson talks to JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR
Produced by CHARLF.S LEFEAUX (The Training of Actors - John Barton and Hugh Cruttwell : 18 January)
The News
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Andrew Faulds - politician and actor
The Labour MP for Smethwick and Opposition Front-bench spokesman for the arts talks to John Tusa about his life as a politician and actor.
A group of four talks
Whisky Galore by COMPTON MACKENZIE
Read by JOHN GRAHAM (8)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
