6.27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 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 ) VHF East Anglia: see belvw
8.40 Today's Papers
Religious Service for Primary Schools
Christmas is for caring
DENNIS and MAUREEN, who are professional pickpockets, describe how they go about their work.
(BBC Sound Archives recording)
9.35 Religion: How and Why
Listeners from a comprehensive school in Leek, Staffordshire give their reactions to this new series through their own creative work.
9.55 Movement and Music I for the 5-to-6-year-olds by PENNY WHITTAM
NEM p 76; 0 Love, who formedst me to wear (BBC HB 3611; Psalm 67: Isaiah 2, vv 1-15 (RSV); Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140)
10.30 La France Aujourd'hui 10: Réponses a nos auditeurs
Answers to questions sent in by listeners
10.45 Horizons de France
10 Ce trimestre en France
A news quiz written by CATHERINE GRAHAM
(Fifth-year French) ‡
11.0 Time and Tune
The Magic Music Shop - 10 Written and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Man
10: Life of the cavemen by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrator BARRY FOSTER
Producer DAVID LYTTLE
11.40 Geography
Teesside: industrial giant of the North East. by KENNETH WARREN
John Edmunds presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
Twins: double the trouble or double the joy? MARGARET HOWARD gets the views of parents and children,
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 1
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Ant, Ladybird and Spider by DENISE SHELDON
Living Language
Sir Gawain and The Green Knight adapted from the medieval poem by MARGARET J. MILLER 2 †
2.30 Unos minutos nada m&s
10: El aprendiz de ladrfin - (ii) Written by ROBERT P. CLARKE
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Learning about Life 10: On Your Own
Arranged and introduced by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
Time to Go Home by IVOR WILSON
But precisely whatt
A magazine of a sort, which takes a quizzical, indulgent and sometimes ferocious glance at the British way of life - while we still have one
A Gull on the Root by DEREK TANGYE
Read by ALAN GIBSON (4)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Clement Freud , Peter Jones Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Chris Underwood presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questionst Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD f
(Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
With the help of the old Minute Book dating from 1875, Henry Livings tries to convey something of the atmosphere and history of the Band in the Yorkshire village where he lives.
Music selected by DEREK BROADBENT
Producer ALFRED BRADLEY
A weekly survey of the arts Introduced by Michael Billington
This edition includes:
Nicholas and Alexandra: RONALD EYRE and RICHARD RODNEY BEN NETT discuss the epic film about the destruction of the Romanov dynasty
William Hogarth at the Tate Gallery: JONATHAN MILLER visits this major exhibition of the artist's work
The Balcony: FRANK MARCUS reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Genet's play at the Aldwych Theatre, London
Producers ROSEMARY HART and ALAN HAYDOCK
PAUL VAUGHAN introduces the people who are changing our way of life through their research, discoveries and inventions.
Producer MICHAEL R. BRIGHT
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Yuki by RONALD KIRKBRIDE
Read by GARY WATSON (9;
All the day's news preceded by Weather
