6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 News
The world this morning: Radio 4s Boxing Day look at Britain this holiday breakfast time, introduced by Michael Aspel
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 News and more of Today
by JAMES HILTON abridged by NEVILLE TELLER Read by Geoffrey Matthews
They fixed their glances on the glittering mountain peak. Sheerly magnificent it looked in the full light of day; and then their gaze turned to a stare, for they could see. far away and approaching them down the slope, a party of men carrying a hooded chair. Producer JOHN CARDY
(First of ten instalments)
In a special Bank Holiday edition Start the Week waves goodbye to 1971.
Ringleader Richard Baker is aided and abetted by Gordon Clyde , Zena Skinner and Ken Sykora. Vivian Stanshall offers another slice of his autobiography in words and music. and Kenny Everett returns to the airwaves with his unique brand of magic and lunacy. Producer RICHARD GILBERT
NEM page 19: To us in Bethlem city (Oxford Book of Carols
112): Psalm 1; John 1. vv 1.14 (av): Jesus is this dark world s light (BBC HB 519)
Peter Donaldson, Joanna Wake and Garard Green with more games, songs, jokes and stories. Also thoughts on hair, sport. time, treasure and things to do. Also a further adventure of Captain Radio. Also in the studio
NIGEL LAMBERT, DAVID BRIERLEY, JOHN BULL and SHIRLEY DIXON Written by ALEXANDER GUYAN Edited and produced by ELIZABETH ORNBO and MICHAEL ROLFE
Introduced by PETER JONES
News and prospects of today's big sporting events featuring: Association Football in England and Scotland; Racing; Rugby Union: Rugby League (Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
David Frost with Roy Plomley
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Frost. Show more
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Christmas edition
Songs from the LP of the famous Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein musical made by the stars of the new London production
[Repeat]
Beyond the Black Stump by NEVIL SHUTE : adapted for radio by STEPHEN GRENFELL with Rosemary Miller Edward Bishop and David Spenser
A young man from the old Frontier of the American West comes to the new Frontier lands of the Australian outback to search for oil ...
Producer BETTY DAVIES
Peter Pan by J. M. BARRIE from the book by ELEANOR GRAHAM Read by Mary Riggans
The story of the boy who didn't want to grow up. and his friendship with the Darling children - Wendy, John and Michael.
1: The Shadow
Producer GORDON EMSLIE (from Glasgow)
Drawing by Edward Arditzone published by Brockhampfon Press
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron, Barbara Mullen as Janet, Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
(For cast see Wed, 12.25)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
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
6: Lady Cook Wanted
' Miss Wilkins, nice, respectable, 30 or 31 ... Miss Wilkins who placed an advertisement in the morning paper ... Miss Wilkins who was found brutally murdered ... just after day-break ... by a lonely road three miles from Bournemouth.' Producer ROGER PINE
ARTHUR W. PINERO'S original comedietta adapted for radio by PHILIP
GARSTON-JONES with Alexa Romanes Michael Harbour
Theatrical folk of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Company:
Non-theatrical folk:
Somewhere in the early 1860s.
Act 1: Mr and Mrs Telfer's lodgings at No 2 Brydon Crescent, Clerkenwell. May
Act 2: At Sir William Gower's house in Cavendish Square. June
Act 3 Again at Brydon Crescent. December
Act 4: On the stage of the Pantheon Theatre a few days later.
Music by MARC WILKINSON based on the song 'Ever of Thee' by FOLEY HALL
Producer JOHN POWELL
Douglas Stuart reporting
In the last week of the year of the big Common Market debate, Derek Cooper takes a look at attitudes of Britain's prospective partners to such mundane things as Money, Language Barrier, Politics, Social Conventions and Humour
Kitten with Blue Eyes by JON GODDEN abridged by MOLLIE HARDWICK Read by Denise Bryer
There it was again, eerie, ghost-like but now almost a recognisable tune. Dance music? Pop music? Someone was playing a radio somewhere inside her house in the middle of the night.
Producer JOHN CARDY
(First of ten instalments)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
