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 Manlo and John Timpson
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 below
8.40 Today's Papers
by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Read by MICHAEL KILGARRIFF (6) T
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News Staff
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
Robert Morley presents his personal choice of poetry and prose and gives the provenance of his selection: before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX (Robert Morley is in ' How the Other Half Loves at the Lyric Theatre, London)
NEM p 29; In dulcl Jubilo (Oxford Book of Carols 86); Canticle 8; Colossians 1, vv 1-14 (NEB); 0 little one sweet (OBC 109)
Introduced by Sidney Harrison BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by TERENCE LOVETT
from the chapel of Our Mother of Mercy Home, Kilmorey Street, Newry, Co Down Celebrant and preacher FR MATTHEW O'HARE
Readings: 1 John 2, vv 3-11; Luke 2. vv 22-35
Music: Of the father's heart begotten: Glory be to God on bigh; 0 little hands of Bethlehem; Child in a manger; Ye thepherds so drowsy Choirmis tress
SISTER MARY AUGUSTINE
Organist FR SEUMAS MOORE
The action of the Mass described by FR PATRICK MCENROE
Nancy Wise presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature: Your Home and Family
Where can the parents of a teenager go for careers advice? MAUREEN O'CONNOR visits a youth employment office and a careers teacher and looks at what commercial organisations have to offer.
Other topical items, too, and a selection from your letters In What's On Your Mind? South West VHF: see col
A panel game controlled (?) by Nicholas Parsons
In which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud and Katharine Whitehorn try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in 'Charlie Girl' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
12.55 Weather, Information and news for your area
The News and voices and topics In and behind the headline* introduced by David Jessel
Story: Alison -and a Kitten called Velvet by MARY WALKER
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by ALUN JOHN and VALERIE TRYON (piano)
by GEORGE ELIOT adapted as a serial for radio in 12 parts by HOWARD AGO with Angela Pleasence , Martin Jarvis Megs Jenkins and Anthony Bate 1: Days in the Sun
Yorkshireman - Security Officer
A series of plays written by ANTHONY SCOTT VEITCH featuring with and Unstable Elements
A quantity of ' weeping ' dynamite disappears just after Frank Pybus has seen that it's condemned-and just after he's had a blazing row with Councillor Burrows, Chairman of the local Works Committee. Why? And where is it now?
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Time in Lincolnshire
from Dickens
Twelve programmes featuring lome of the less famous, but certainly not less interesting characters from Dickens.
Compiled by BARRY CAMPBELL
12:WilkinsMicawber(taken from David Copperfield ) with Norman Shelley and Anthony Jacobs
Produced by R. D. SMITH
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening
Presented by David Jessel and Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray
Tommy Trinder , Cyril Fletcher In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY
Special guest Kenneth Connor from an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed. 1.30 pm)
John Hosken presenting world news and views
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Ring George Scott to put your question in person to
Sir Stanley Rous, President of FIFA (the International Federation of Football Associations) and Chairman of the Central Council of Physical Recreation 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
A year of cyclones, hijacks, political kidnaps, and assassination attempts - and a British General Election.
ANTHONY KING , Professor of Government at the University of Essex, gives the assessment of a contemporary historian and looks back with the voices of President YAHYA KHAN of Pakistan, Prime Minister PIERRE TRUDEAU of Canada, the late IAIN MACLEOD , and many others ranging from Britain's Prime Minister and the General Secretary Of the TUC to TONY JACKLIN , GERMAINE GREER , and LEILA KHALED.
Produced by ELIZABETH SMITH
The Great Flu Pandemic Few winters pass without an Influenza epidemic, usually of a fairly mild kind. But what exactly is ' the flu '? And what gave rise to the worldwide outbreak of 1918-19, which caused a greater loss of life than all the battles of the First World War?
Narrator WILFRED HARRISON Readers DAVID MAHLOWE
ANTONY BODEN , RONALD HARVI Written by ARTHUR SWINSON Produced bv
STANLEY WILLIAMSON f
The News
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
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.
2: The Thais
Whisky Galore by COMPTON MACKENZIE
Read by JOHN GRAHAM (12)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
