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 THOMPETTO on food: at 8.30* Sportsdesk; at
8.45 Today's Papers
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
HONOR BALFOUR reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by MARTIN MUNCASTER
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ROBERT CARVEL
Narrator ROBERT SUTTON Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE
New Every Morning p 7: Disposer supreme (BBC Hymn Book 226): Psalm 65; Isaiah 40. vv 18-31 (rsv); I to the hills (BBC H8 459)
NANCY wise makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
11.30 Announcements
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 Nigel Murphy You and Your Time
Let the People Sing: DAVID BEL-LAN looks at the growing popularity of amateur choirs.
Spending Wisely: how much is spent on food? Is this spent to the best advantage? DEREK COOPER investigates.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland. Questionmasters: JOHN ELLISON and TIM GUDGIN
First Round. 7: N Ireland
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE SCHOOL, Ballymena v ST PATRICK'S HIGH SCHOOL, Maghera
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 Lord Mancroft, Mary Goldring Lord Soper. Peter Hain Chairman David Jacobs from Cleeve Hill. Glos
Listeners' views should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
A comedy for radio by Andrew Sachs
It would be lovely to discover that a portrait hanging from your wall was by Leonardo da Vinci ... wouldn't it?
Introduced by Judith Chalmers What the European papers say. Family Footsteps: JENNIFER BATE. who is an organist like her father, talks to ANNE CATCHPOLE
Finding the Right Job: EVELYN PAYNE was recently made redundant
Who were you with last night?: ANN HEYNE finds out about escort agencies
What's New for the Home: ALICE HOPE reports
ALEXANDER JOHN reads
It Shouldn'Happen to a Vet by JAMES HERRIOT
(Seventh 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 Archfiend Krakov meets Captain Radio and Passionflower yet again.
With NIGEL LAMBERT
PAT KEEN and GARARD GREEN Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
4.5 Animals Unlimited
Introduced by PHIL DRABBLE
Would you. like to know why the camel has a hump (no. it's not to store water); find out how best to feed wild birds; meet an ancestor of the Loch Ness Monster; hear a slug eating its breakfast? Listen today. Producer DILYS BREESE
4.30 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The book by ROALD DAHL abridged in six episodes by NAOMI LEWIS
Told by ERIC THOMPSON
4: In which we visit the Chocolate Room and Augustus Gloop goes up the pipe
Producer IAN COTTERELL
4.50 Books for Christmas
BRIAN ALDERSON , Children's Books Editor, The Times, and PEGGY HEEKS. Schools Librarian, Berkshire, discuss what's new in books. (More books for you in Now Read On: Wed. 9.0 pm) Producer ELIZABETH SMITH Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants.
10: The Holy War. Roundheads and Cavaliers - and Everyman. Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Christopher Hill , Master of Balliol College, Oxford
(A series of 26 programmes)
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF ( except London and SE): Regional news, weather
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Sunday, 9.15 am)
A nationwide look at the stories behind the day's sporting head-tines. Producer GODFREY DIXEY
Richard Baker introduces a weekly sequence of favourite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
Before the Party
A Comedy of Expediency by RODNEY ACKLAND based on a short story by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM with Eva Haddon, Joan Matheson and Norman Claridge
The action of the play passes in Laura's bedroom in the Skinners' house in Surrey.
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
A late-evening conversation in which C. H. ROLPH , JOHN SELWYN CUMMER. MP. and DR HUGH FREEMAN exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)
The Litany sung to the music of Thomas Tallis
A topical view of the cinema featuring the stars, the new films and the people who make them: including a behind-the-scenes took at .Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with Dudley Moore, Michael Crawford, Flora Robson, director William Sterling and a musical preview Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE
preceded by Weather
11.45 Inshore waters forecast
