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 Douglas Cameron
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
by JAMES HILTON Read by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS (5)
Christmas edition
You're female, under 30 and you want to share a flat in London. Mum thinks it'll be a sink of debauchery with no regular meals. Dad's doubtful.
Your friends are envious. It be cool and independent - the stuff magazine fiction is made of Or will it?
JILL TWEEDIE visited the flats of MARTIN, jo and CATHY,three real girls who live in London to find out what it's really like. Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
NEM p 50; See amid the winter's snow (Oxford Book of Carols 190); Canticle 2; Hebrews 10, vv 1-10 (NEB); Angels from the realms of glory (BBC HB 42)
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE and STELLA AND BAMBOS
Music from Town and Country Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
by T.G. Nestor
'£200 he said. I'd put up with a lot of wailing for that.'
(from Northern Ireland)
Jeanine McMullen presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Own Time
Who says it's New Year?
GORDON SNELL finds out about all the New Years celebrated by people living in this country,
VHF South West: see column 2
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
Story: New Year's Eve by ANN ELLIOT
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES
EILEEN CROXFORD (cello)
DAVID PARKHOUSE (piano)
Selected for Friday
Ten Seconds for Thought by GEORGE ARCHBOLD
A signalman's quick decision brings personal tragedy into his own life.
Producer GLYN DEARMAN
J. M. BARRIE 'S Peter Pan
Read by MARY RIGGANS 5: The Man in the Kennel
The news magazine: presented by Nicholas Woolley and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
NANCY wise makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV during 1971 Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by LADY BARNETT, STEVE RACE
ALASTAIR BURNET , GLENDA JACKSON Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Stevenage, Herts
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm)
When Lord Boothby first entered Parliament in 1924 Bald-win was Prime Minister. Since then he has observed ten Prime Ministers at work.
ROBERT MCKENZIE talks to LORD BOOTHBY about his long Parliamentary career and encourages him to reminisce about some of the outstanding figures of 20th-century politics, with the aid of illustrations from BBC Archives
Producer ANNE DUNCAN-JONES
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
DEREK COOPER investigates
5: The Continental Sense of Humour
Kitten with Blue Eyes by JON GODDEN
Read by DENISE BRYER (5)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
Radio 4 welcomes the New Year with the ' Good Morning' Brigade from Today, led by John Timpson, Robert Robinson , Jack de Manio and Douglas Cameron
(Join them again at midnight for First Footing)
from St Comgall's Parish Church, Bangor, Co Down , Northern Ireland conducted by the Rector, THE REV GEORGE MITCHELL Organist BRIAN HUNTER
through the first happenings of 1972 with the Today team
12.10 am Coastal Forecast
