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 below
8.40 Today's Papers
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
An occasional series about people with an unsuspected musical background.
Donald Watt , lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics, was trained as an opera singer. In this programme he talks about the part that music has played in his life and even sings some of it.
Producer ROBERT CRADOCK
NEM p 33; Thy kingdom come! (BBC HB 28); Psalm 20; John 20, vv 19-29 (AV); Lo! he comes with clouds descending (BBC HB 35)
A mid-morning mixture for your enjoyment
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by GRANT HOSSACK MIKE SAMMES SINGERS
Today: Made in Britain
Introduced by EUGENE FRASER Producer BARRY S KNIGHT .
by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Told by HOWIESON CULFF
2: The Deferred Appointment and Accessory Before the Fact
Joan Yorke presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Home and Family
How self-sufficient should your children be? JOAN YORKE , MARGARET HUBBLE and PETER WHELPTON, all parents themselves, air their views,
Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 1
100th edition
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Clement Freud. Peter Jones Aimi Maedonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thurs, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Bimbo's Christmas Party by JOYCE MILES
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conductor KENNETH ALWYM and THE KING'S SINGERS
by CHARLES DICKENS adapted and produced in seven episodes by CHARLES LEFEAUX 5: Cucumbers and Vegetable Marrows
(John Gabriel is in Abelard and Heloise - at Wyndham's Theatre, London)
visits Ashwell in Rutland. Members of the Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of Women's Institutes put questions to:
FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL. Question-master FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Producer KENNETH FORD
Stones of Destiny
The stories behind five of the most famous diamonds in the world: written for radio by MARGARET POTTER
2: The Great Sancy
The Seigneur de Sancv. Ambassador to the Turkish Court, purchased a large almond-shaped diamond in 1570. Its present whereabouts is wrapped in a cloud of mystery and speculation.
Narrative spoken by GEOFFREY BANKS Who also pOrtrays the various characters assisted by MARAH STOHL
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
by RAY COONEY and JOHN CHAPMAN The Cost of Loving starring with Producer DAVID HATCH
(Moira Lister and Terence Alexander are in ' Move Over Mrs Markham ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Wed. 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland and Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
Ring George Scott in this special Sports Edition to put your question in person on Athletics to Dave Bedford. European record-holder over 5,000 and 10,000 metres on Cricket to Alan Davidson , Australian Test all-rounder on Soccer to Derek Dougan. of Wolverhampton Wanderers and Chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will tnke them from 6.0 pm onward, as well as while the programme is on the air. Producer WALTER WALLICH
(Shortened version: Wednesday, 9.35 am)
Combined choirs of the City of Swansea lead the audience in carols we all know and love Organist JOHN FUSSELL Conductor HUW REES
Introduced by DILLWYN OWEN
From the Brangwyn Hall Swansea
Only Connect - on culture and communication by Richard Hoggart A series of six talks
6: A Common Ground
In his concluding lecture. Protfessor Hoggart examines the problem of speaking to each other as individuals, of reaching ' a sense of a meeting between human beings.' within modern centralised mass societies dominated by the mass media. And he argues for the inseparability of his two main groups of assumptions: that it matters to communicate and that we can communicate,
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
The Shipbuilders by GEORGE BLAKE
Read by TOM FLEMING (12)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
