Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
6.50-7.0 Regional news. weather and programme news
7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Jack de Manio presents Radio 4's hour-long look at the first weekend of 1972. (8.45: Papers)
8.59 Weather
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
TREVOR SMITH reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by JON CURLE
9.45 Talking Politics
ANTHONY KING takes a look at the office of the British Ombudsman. He examines the case-history of one complainant whose problem was taken to the office by his mp. Narrator DAVID BROOMFIELD Producers KEVIN RUANE
MARTIN COX , ANNE DUNCAN-JONES
New Every Morning p 54: Little Jesus, sweetly sleep (Oxford Book of Carols 87); Psalm 36; Romans 4. vv 8-15 (NEB); 0 little one sweet (obc 109)
10.30 Vient de parattre Vins de France
11.0 Poetry at Large
MICHAEL BAKEWELL investigates the new popularity of poetry and of public readings
2: Instant Communication Producer PEGGY BACON
11.30 Perspective. Panto Time: ADRIAN RENDLE discusses the traditions and conventions of pantomime with ARTHUR ASKEY. RONNIE CORBETT , ALBERT J. KNIGHT , DEREK SALBERG and MARGARET DRABBLE
(Publications: page 60)
Introduced by PETER JONES
News and prospects of today's big spotting events
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
A general knowledge contest Question-masters JOHN ELLISON and TIM GUDGIN
Second Round - 12:
West of England v The Midlands ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE. Ipswich V BISHOP FOX'S GIRLS SCHOOL Taunton
Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
LADY RARNKTT, STEVE RACE
ALASTAIR BURNET , GLENDA JACKSON Chairman DAVID JACOBS from Stevenage, Herts
Daybreak by ARTHUR SCHNITZLER : translated and adapted by THOMAS SCHWALM and HOWARD THOMPSON with David Timson and Helen Fraser The girl. on the bed sleeps with her face buried in the pillow. The man, dressing stealthily with his back to her, buttons his tunic, smooths his hair. The girl mutters in her sleep. Cautiously the man puts a new banknote on the bedside table, carefully moving to one side a glass of water with its single overblown rose.'
Other parts GEOFFREY BEEVERS
JANE KNOWLES , MATTHEW WALTERS Producer COLIN TUCKER
(Doreen Andrew is in Abelard and Heloise' at Wyndham's
Theatre. London)
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
I Know I Ought to, but...: Joyce Grenfell, Bunty James and Edward Mace on the New Year resolutions they won't be making
It All Starts Two Years Beforehand: Sylvia East organises symphony concerts
I'd Like to Meet...: Jane Austen. Millicent Isherwood explains her choice
Writer Talking: Elwyn Jones, author of many episodes of Softly, Softly and Z Cars, talks to Brian Hoey
Behind the Travel Brochures: Lorna Braithwaite and John Carter discuss what to look out for
Beginning The New Year by Arnold Bennett abridged by Doreen Estall read by Lawrence James
presents Frankie Howerd
John Cleese and Graham Stark with their current comedies Up the Chastity Belt
And Now for Something Completely Different
The Magnificent 7 Deadly Sins Introduced by DAVID GEARY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from 1971 Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
In which the Week Ending team review and repeat some of the highlights of the year With NIGEL REES, DAVID JASON, BILL WALLIS, FRANK ABBOTT and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano
Script by PETER SPENCE
Producers DAVID HATCH and SIMON BRETT
5.55 Weather; programme news
Highlights of today's sport in the South and Midlands. Producer GODFREY DIXEY
Cliff Morgan introduces a weekly sequence of favourite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
by Robins Millar
with John Cairney as Ronnie Vexted
It's 1927 and strange things are happening at the home of Major Vexted. His son died in the 1914-18 war. Or did he?
Adapted for radio and produced by Eddie Fraser
(from Glasgow)
A late-evening conversation in which
MARY STOTT , COLIN WELLAND THE MARQUESS OF HERTFORD exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD ' Producer MICHAEL GREEN
The evening office of Compline †
preceded by Weather
Gwen Berryman -, Doris Archer of The Archers, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island. Producer RONALD COOK
(Repeated: Monday, 12.25 pm)
