6.27 Farming Week: a regional view of farming in the week ahead: presented today from the South West by DAVID BUTLER
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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-0 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 below
8.40 Today's Papers
WILFRID THOMAS tells more of his outlandish stories, with the help of the BBC Sound Archives,
Zena Skinner , Gordon Clyde Vivian Stanshall Kenny Everett and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Producer RICHARD GILBERT
NEM p 29; Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30); Psalm 57: Isaiah 38, vv 9-20 (RSV); Crown him with many crowns (BBC HB 124)
played by the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE and sung by the BBC CHORUS conductor JOHN POOLE
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON Producer ANTHONY PHlLPOTT
by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Edited and produced by DAVID DAVIS
Told by Howleson Culff 1: The Tradition and The Occupant of the Room
' With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you: with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.'
(A Ghost Story for Christmas: BBC1, Friday 11.5 pm. See p 21)
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Money - earning, saving and spending it
Getting a Bank Loan to pay off your hire-purchase commitments: PATRICK HUTBEH, City Editor, Sunday Telegraph, discusses the pros and cons.
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], extension 3030, and record your letter)
VHF South West: see column 2
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastlc
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: The Birds' Christmas Tree by E. HERBERT
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND THE KING'S SINGERS
Producer ALAN OWEN
by NOËL COWARD
Today's Afternoon Theatre in the Peggy Ashcroft Festival ‡
The stories behind five of the most famous diamonds in the world: written for radio by MARGARET POTTER
1: The Mountain of Light
The Kohinoor or ' Mountain of Light ' is inevitably linked with the ambitions of men and the love of women. Its history is also black with treachery, greed and murder.
Narrative spoken by Geoffrey Banks who also portrays the various characters assisted by MARAH STOHL Producer TREVOR HILL (from Manchester)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
from the television series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Oak, Mahogany or Walnutt written and adapted by PAT DUNLOP
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer PETER TITHERADGE
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
on behalf of the Liberal Party JOHN PARDOE , MP
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 (Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 pm)
Edgar Lustgarten reconstructs six of the most famous murder trials of this century
5: Return Ticket
'... there was a man. there must have been a man - who'd travelled with Nisbet in the same compartment. For that man - stands to common-sense, to reason - that man and the murderer, they weren't two. they were one.'
Producer ROGER PINE
Pioneers, Oh Pioneers by ROD CONEYBEARE with Diary Entry: 2.15 pm Day 354:
Viewing from window human creature of some kind on Ed's motor-scooter going around in circles on lawn. Wearing loin cloth and belt with knife. Appears to be nude above waist-hair down to waist.... female!
Producer
ROGER PINE
(Blain Fairman is in ' Ambassador' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
The Shipbuilders by GEORGE BLAKE abridged by NAN MACDONALD Read by TOM FLEMING (11) Producer JOHN CARDY
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
