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 bv 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)
E Anglia VHF: see Variations below
8.40 Today's Papers
by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Bead by MICHAEL KlLGARRIFF (5)
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
Holy Innocents
NEM p 26; The holly and the ivy (Oxford Book of Carols 38); Canticle 5; Matthew 2, vv 13-23: Unto ua a boy is born (OBC 92)
Introduced by Sidney Harrison who invites you to listen to some easily remembered music played bv the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by VILEM TAUSKT
A series of four programmes particularly for children at home from school Programme 1
Including facts, figures, Jokes, songs, guessing games, things to do, things to see: a mini-play starring Captain Rex Radio ; the first episode of a serial. Run for Your Life by DAVID LINE.
Things to do today include making sound effects, ginger beer, and badges.
Script by ALEXANDER GUYAN Presented by MICHAEL SMER and NERYS HUGHES
Produced by ELIZABETH ORNBO (Humbug No 2 on Wednesday)
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
The Sales: how much of a bargain are they? Do they come at the right times? NANCY WISE discusses these questions with DAME ELIZABETH ACKROYD , director of the Consumer Council, and EDWARD MCLEAN , managing director of one of London's biggest department stores.
South West VHF: see Variations, col 2
The News and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by David Jessel
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: Dog Toffee at Christmas time by FLORENCE POOLE
with the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND and VALERIE TRYON (piano) Produced by ALAN OWEN
The Tenth Man by SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The Story of an African Farm bV OLIVE SCHREINER abridged in five parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Eva Haddon
Olive Schreiner died In Cape Town on 10 December 1920. It was this novel (first published in 1883), much of which is autobiographical, which established her name in literature. Sir Charles Dilke even acclaimed it as the greatest novel In the English language. Be that as It may, the tale has a sincerity and realism found only rarely today, and it abounds with humour, sensitivity, and not a little sadness. 1: A Disturber of the Peace
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
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 David Jessel and Steve Race
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
'It's me, Folks! Back home again after my ENSA twir of the lower Amazonian basm - the only place where the audience sit in their pelts and watch the cast perform Oh, Calcutta; In their overcoats.'
Doddy's Daft Half-Hour featuring
PETER GOODWRIGHT and MIKE NEWMAN
PAT COOMBS. TEDDY JOHNSON TALFRYN THOMAS
JO MANNING WILSON
DODDY'S DIDDY ORCHESTRA directed bv GEOFF ALDERSON Devised and written by KEN DODD , DAVID MCKELLAR
GEORGE MOFFAT , NORMAN BEADLE MALCOLM CAMERON
Produced by BOBBY JAYE
John Hosken presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland
Ian Holm (above, top) as Becket David Buck (above) as Henry II and Peter Jeffrey as Foliot, Bishop of London in the play by JEAN ANOUILH adapted for radio by ROGER PINE from the translation by LUCIENNE HILL
1 Sire, crush them now, or In five years'* time there will be two Kings in England, the Archbishop of Canterbury and you. And in ten years' time there will be only one.'
Produced by RONALD MASON
Tomorrow is the 800th anniversary of Becket's martyrdom
The News
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Asia - for us in the West a world of inscrutable orientals, but for ANTHONY LAWRENCE a continent of diverse peoples and ways of living that have fascinated him during 14 years as the BBC's Far East correspondent.
1: The Japanese A group of five talks
Whisky Galore by COMPTON MACKENZIE
Read by JOHN GRAHAM (11)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
11.36" Closedown
