6.27 Farming Today presented by ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning 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
7.59 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
Regional VHF: see Variations
Contributed by the BBC'S Foreign News staff
A man and his music remembered by PETER NOBLE and JOHN PALMER Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
NEM p 68; High in the heavens (BBC HB 9): Psalm 148: Isaiah 60. vv 1-15 (RSV): O splendour of God's glory bright (BBC HB 409)
for Christmas
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES including music by Tchaikovsky and Offenbach, and ' Three
Bears ' by Eric Coates , with harp solos and songs from OSIAN ELLIS
JOHN DUNN introduces
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by ROBERT C. O'BRIEN Read by DAVID DAVIS
2: A Powder for Dragon
Presenter Derek Cooper Home and Family
Coping single-handed: JEANINE MCMULLEN talks to a widow about how children react to the death of a parent.
The lazy cook's guide to Christmas catering: AUDREY ELLIS offers ideas.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? (Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA)
VHF South West: see Variations
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud , Peter Jones and Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this \and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Big Fat Rosie's Christmas Present by MARY CALVERT
RADIO BIG BAND leader NIGEL CARTER conducted by MALCOLM LOCKYER INDIA ADAMS with the MARTIN GOLDSTEIN QUARTET
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSCN
Adapted by GABRIEL WOOLF from Scenes of Clerical Life by GEORGE ELIOT with Jill Balcon , Richard Pasco and David March
When the Evangelical minister Edgar Tryan came to Milby in 1830 he incurred the wrath of lawyer Dempster and Dempster's ill-used wife Janet. But husband and wife had very different reasons for opposing Mr Tryan's preaching.
Producer JOHN CARDY
(Richard Pasco is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
Members of Cookham and Cookham Dean Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster STEVE RACE Producer KENNETH FORD
A Christinas Anthology
2: How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar by BRET HARTE Read by Bill Bailey
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news. weather
S.55 Weather, programme news
or Your Favourite Spike
A series of uncorrected mishaps, mistakes and misdeeds perpetrated by Spike Milligan misaligned with JOHN BLUTHAL VILMA HOLLINGBERY
ALAN CLARE AND HIS QUARTET
Guest singer Jeremy Robinson Script by SPIKE MILLIGAN , PETER SPENCE , CHRISTOPHER LANGHAM Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Vilma Hollingbery is in ' The Man Most Likely To ' at the Duke of York's Theatre, London) (Milligan in Winter: Christmas Eve at 9.30 pm BBC2)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to
Hugh Scanlon , President of the Amalgamated Engineering and Foundry Workers Union
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onwards until the end of the programme
Producer WALTER WALLICH
IWAN THOMAS introduces a programme of carols old and new from the famous Tabernacle at Morriston. Swansea, in celebration of its centenary year
MORRISTON TABERNACLE CHOIR chorus-master MYRDDIN EVANS
MORRtSTON ORPHEUS
MALE VOICE CHOIR conductor LYN HARRY
COR YSGOL GYFUN YSTALYFERA conductor VALERIE Williams MANDY VERNON JONES (harp) YR AWR
MORRISTON SALVATION ARMY BAND bandmaster WILLIAM THOMAS HUW TREGELLES WILLIAMS (organ) conducted by Alun John
An edited anthology from public readings at the Poetry Centre YMHA, New York. The poems include:
Robert Graves: Welsh Incident
Anon: Polly Perkins
Edward Thomas: Old Man; The Owl
William Plomer: The Flying Bum
W. B. Yeats: Lapis Lazuli
Henry Reed: Naming of Parts
Edith Sitwell: Still Falls the Rain
John Tusa reporting
Travels with my Aunt by GRAHAM GREENE (12)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
