8.27 Farming Week: presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
(Europe Farm Facts, a set of 15 cards containing information on the Common Agricultural Policy which comes into force next February, 75p: see p 114)
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
6.50 Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler VHF: Regional news, weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk; at 7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Travel news
VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35* Today's Papers
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
Regional VHF: see Variations
sings ' Wassail, wassail' all over the BBC Sound Archives. Regional VHF. see Variations
Lance Percival , Linda Blandford Fritz Spiegl , Zena Skinner and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
NEM p 64; 0 thou in all thy might so far (BBC HB 312); Psalm 119, part 1; Isaiah 59, vv 12-21 (RSV); Rejoice today (BBC HB 281)
for Christmas
BBC Midland Light Orchestra, leader James Davis, conducted by Michael Moores, including music by John Ireland and Meyerbeer, and the Christmas Overture by Coleridge-Taylor, with harp solos and songs from Osian Ellis
John Dunn introduces morning programmes for the holidays. This week David Davis reads
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by ROBERT c. O'BRIEN (winner of the Newbery Medal in America this year): abridged in five parts by HOWARD JONES 1: The Sickness of Timothy Frisby
Mrs Frisby, a mouse, is a widow. Her neighbours are rats, but they are no ordinary rats. And it turns out that her late husband was no ordinary mouse ...
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Derek Cooper presents this edition of the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Work and Money
Common Man in the Common Market: on the eve of Britain's entry into Europe, the Common Market takes a bow at Woburn Abbey and TIM MATTHEWS looks at what it has in store for us.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Story: The Christmas Bulldozer by CHRISTINE THOMPSON
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by GEORGE FRENCH with JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN Producer BARRY KNIGHT
Eyes of the Buddha
A Christmas Anthology
Four tales of Christmas: each reflects a different approach to the festive season, ranging in place and time from the Sacramento Valley in the Gold Rush to the cut-glass life of Eaton Square society in the 1930s. 1: The Christmas Card by JAMES BRIDIE
Read by William Fox
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening: presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
From the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron Barbara Mullen as Janet Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay Charity, Dr Finlay written by ROBERT HOLMES from a story by ARTHUR SWINSON adapted by PAT DUNLOP
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
1939-1945
The last of five programmes from an award-winning series, first broadcast in 1969, dramatising crucial events in the War at Sea.
5: Bismarck - part 2
The sinking of the battleship
Narrated by Michael Flanders With ERIC FRANCIS and WILFRID CARTER. MICHAEL DEACON JOHN GABRIEL ,MICHAEL SPICE FREDERICK TREVES
Naval Historical Adviser
LT CMDR PETER KEMP. OBE. RN (Ret) Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES
Johnny Morris follows the course of this great river from its source in the Swiss Alps to the North Sea at Rotterdam. Last of four programmes Producer BRIAN PATTEN
Another Part of the Forest by LILLIAN HELLMAN adapted for radio by PETER WATTS with The play is set in Alabama tn 1880, and tells the story of the Hubbard family twenty years before The Little Foxes, which was broadcast last week.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
Travels with my Aunt by GRAHAM GREENE abridged in 20 parts by GEOFFREY M.MATTHEWS
Read by TIMOTHY WEST (11)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
