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 John Timpson and Robert Robinson
7.46 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 )
8.40 Today's Papers
by JAMES HILTON
Read by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS (2)
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
Jean Metcalfe is one of those for whom snow and Christmas have a special magic. This is reflected in her selection of poetry, prose and music.
NEM page 41; Unto us a boy is born! (Oxford Book of Carols 92); Psalm 85; Matthew 2, w 13-23 (av); Of the Father's love begotten (BBC HB 57)
starring
Arthur Askey , Richard Murdoch with Wallas Eaton , Anthea Askey in a light-hearted journey down Memory Lane back to that flat in Broadcasting House where Band Waggon was born. Music from the JACK EMBLOW QUARTET
Script by MOLLIE MILLEST Additional material by ARTHUR ASKEY and RICHARD MURDOCH
Producer PETER TITHERADGE
Richard Attenborough
Jeanine McMullen presents a special post-holiday edition of the Radio 4 programme that tackles topics of direct concern to you, including:
A visit to an adventure play-ground for disabled children Is untidiness incurable? No room for Noddy and You and Your Sewage
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Aimi Macdonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that
(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 Robert Williams
Story: The Christmas Ark by SISTER OLGA , CSJB
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by ERIC WETHERELL EILEEN CROXFORD (cello) DAVID PARKHOUSE (piano) Producer ALAN OWEN †
by CHARLES DICKENS adapted and produced in seven episodes by CHARLES LEFEAUX
6: A Bridegroom and his Friend
visits Lewisham in London.
J. M. BARRIE 'S Peter Pan Read by MARY RIGGANS
2: Second to the Right and Straight On till Morning
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
'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and Richard Murdoch , David Nixon Tuno twisters from STEVE RACE In the chair ROY PLOMLEY Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer PETER TITHERADGE
(Repeated: Wed. 1.30 pm)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
Ring Robin Day to put your question on Slimming in person to Professor Arnold Bender , Professor of Nutrition, London University, and Mrs Bernice Weston , Founder and Director of ' Weight Watchers.'
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 linos) will take 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)
An enquiry by Roger Fiske into the 19th-century mania for basing music'on the poems and novels of Sir Walter Scott. The composers include Schubert. Donizetti. Berlioz and Bizet. With and JANE KNOWLES , KERRY FRANCIS LESLIE HERITAGE, JOHN SAMSON DAVID VALLA
Producer CHRISTOPHER HOLME
John Ebdon , Director of the London Planetarium. looks at the stars through the eyes of poets, writers and musicians to whom they have given inspiration.
Producer HELEN FRY
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
DEREK COOPER investigates 2: The Tower of Babel
Kitten with Blue Eyes by JON GODDEN
Read by DENISE BRYER (2)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
