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
7.40 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 )
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8.40 Today's Papers
by JAMES HILTON
Read by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS w
Jean Metcalfe introduces questions posed by listeners
What have Dr Who - New Worlds - Major Bloodnok's stomach - in common? A Radiophonics Workshop signature tune.
George Luce finds out how sounds and tunes are conjured out of springs, shampoo bottles and electronic synthesisers.
NEM page 47; He smiles within his cradle (Oxford Book of Carols 84); Psalm 126; John 3, vv 11-21 (AV); A great and mighty wonder (BBC HB 41)
CZECHOSLOVAKIAN ORCHESTRAS and LINHA SINGERS
Music from Czechoslovakia Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
from Mother of Mercy House, Newry, Co Down, N Ireland Celebrant and preacher, FR EDWARD HAMILL
Readings: 1 John 2, vv 12-17; Luke 2, vv 36-40
Music: Mass of St Joseph (Seumas Moore )
Of the Father's love begotten; All the earth proclaim the Lord; Child in a manger; 0 little one sweet; Angels we have heard on high Choir-mistress
SISTER MARY AUGUSTINE
Organist FR SEUMAS MOORE
The action of the Mass described by FR PATRICK MCENROE
Jeanine McMulIen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Today's main feature:
Your Health and Welfare
Common Cold Guinea-Pigs: KAY NASH talks to some of the people who've been paid to catch a cold at the Cold Cure Centre in Salisbury,
Other topical items too and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
VHF South West: see column 5
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
Story: Pussy Simkin 's News by LINDA GREENBURY
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND EILEEN CROXFORD (CellO)
DAVID PARKHOUSE (piano)
The Days of the Wait
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
J. M. BARRIE 'S Peter Pan Read by MARY RIGGANS
4: The Home under the Ground
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. Presented by Nicholas Woolley 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 Aimi Macdonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that
(Repeated: Friday. 1.30 pm)
Gerald Prlestland and Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions/ Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
(Repeated: Friday. 4.0 pm)
If you wish to add your views to any of the subjects discussed in this week's Any Questionst (Friday, 8.30 pm) send them as soon as possible to BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
A year when new alliances were formed but old hatreds intensified: the year when the EEC said Yes to Britain and the UN to China; the year when the IRA brought terror to Northern Ireland and Indian troops entered
Pakistan. Anthony King. Professor of Government at the University of Essex, gives the assessment of a contemporary historian as he looks back on the history of the year with the voices of those who made it.
Producers MICHAEL EMBER and HUGH PURCELL
This Review of 1971 is available as a BBC Record (REB 124) from mid-January
A survey of highlights in the arts in 1971 Introduced by Michael Billington with personal choices from FRANK MARCUS. GEORGE MELLY , and MILTON SHULMAN of outstanding productions in the theatre, cinema and television. Producers ROSEMARY HART and PATRICIA BRENT
You have a new hip fitted; we argue with talking machines; and PAUL VAUGHAN sings as we flash back over four years of newer and newer worlds. Presenter PAUL VAUGHAN Producer LAURIE JOHN
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
DEREK COOPER investigates 4: Social Customs
Kitten with Blue Eyes by JON GODDEN
Read by DENISE BRYER (4)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
