6.32 Farming Today presented by BRYAN PLATT
6.50 Outlook
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
VHF: Regional news, weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN (from Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 60-minute worldwide look at the weekend.
7.50 Travel news and What's on VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.20 TROMPETTO on food; at 8.30* Sportsdesk; at
8.45 Today's Papers
Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad, starting with 9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
ANTHONY KING reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by ROY WILLIAMSON
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with TERENCE LANCASTER
Narrator DAVID WILLMOTT Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning, page 68: My God. my King, thy various praise iBBC Hymn Book 13): Psalm 104, vv 25-36: Genesis 22. vv 1-13 (AV); Come, labour on! (BBC HB 388)
A selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Introduced by PETER JONES
Featuring League football in England and Scotland: Racing; Rugby Union and Rugby League Producer BOB BURROWS
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)
Presenter Jeanine McMullen You and Your Time
Silver Gifts: suggestions for presents for special occasions With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
Questionmasters
JOHN ELLISON and TIM GUDGIN First Round
5: South of England
LANGLEY PARK school, Beckenham v THE COUNTY GIRLS GRAMMAR school. Newbury
Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Denis Healey, up Robin Ray
Rt Hon Edward du Cann, mp Patricia Hayes
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Little Hadham. Hertfordshire.
Listeners' views for use in Any Answersf (next Thursday at
7.30 pm should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Cyril Shaps and Denise Bryer in Hungarian Wheat by JOHN KIRKMORRIS with Nigel Anthony
' ...You are the first to hear the uncut version of the " Saga of Meir Press." I was born in January 1906 in Cracow - part of Poland that was Russian in those days. My father, Herschel. was a Lithuanian who had married a Rhineland German lady from Odessa. Am I confusing you? No? Good In the Present: In the Past:
Producer IAN COTTERELL
Introduced by Judith Chalmers Don'mention teeth to a dentist: PAMELA HOWE
What the European Papers Say An Ancient People: CHRISTINE WILSON has a special relationship with the Vedda tribe in Ceylon
Should we have an inheritance tax?: MARGARET REID
EntertainmentRound-Up: JUDITH CHALMERS takes a look at what is happening in the world of entertainment
ALEXANDER JOHN reads
It Shouldn'Happen to a Vet by JAMES HERRIOT
(Fifth of nine instalments)
(Alexander John is in ' Canterbury Tales' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN
Another adventure of Captain Radio and Passionflower versus Krakov
With NIGEL LAMBERT
PAT KEEN and GARARD GREEN Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
4.5 Time Well Spent Things to do
Things to make Things to collect with Barbara McDonald Producer GILLIAN HUSH
4.30 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The famous book by ROALD DAHL abridged in six episodes by NAOMI LEWIS
Told by Eric Thompson
2: in which the Five Golden Tickets are found
Producer IAN COTTERELL
4.50 Postbag
Your letters ' aired ' Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants. 8: Madrigal for mixed voices The New Age of Elizabeth
Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON under the direction of Joel Hurstfield , Astor Professor of English History at University College, London.
(A series of 26 programmes)
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday, 9.15 am)
A nationwide look at the stories behind the day's sporting headlines
Producer GODFREY DIXEY
Richard Baker introduces a weekly sequence of favourite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
Marius by MARCEL PAGNOL translated from the French and adapted for radio by BARBARA BRAY with Marius andSean Barrett César Norman Shelley
Fanny, Marius and Cesar made up a famous and affectionate film trilogy, written in the 1930s but given the ageless setting of the waterfront at Marseilles.
Marius. son of the expansive cafe proprietor, C6sar, is torn between his love for the pretty girl Fanny and the call of the sea.
Producer Richard WORTLEY
(Repeated: Monday. 3.0 pm) (30 December: CSsar)
A late-evening conversation in Which LUCIENNE HILL. JOHN WAIN and PROFESSOR GORDON PASKE exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)
Evening prayers led by THE REV ELWYN LLOYD WILLIAMS with the NORTH WALES SINGERS conductor JAMES WILLIAMS
A topical view of the cinema featuring the stars, the new films and the people who make them, including Milton Subot sky on Amicus horror films; and Robert Bolt the writer/ director of Lady Caroline Lamb with Sarah Miles , who plays the title role
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
preceded by Weather
11.45 Inshore waters forecast
