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
7.50 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
Regional VHF: see Variations
Kenneth Robinson
Kenny Everett , Vivian Stanshall and, this week, LADY JUNE and MILES KINGTON in a midweek medley of music, humour and comment.
Producer RICHARD GILBERT
NEM p 72; 0 day of God, draw nigh (BBC HB 24); Canticle 4: Isaiah 61, vv 1-11 (rsv): A safe stronghold (BBC HB 297)
for Christmas
BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by GEORGE FRENCH including the Children's Overture by Roger Quilter and music by Grieg and Bizet, 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 3: The Maze
Presenter Derek Cooper Consumer Style
Freezers: eat better cheaper ... or merely a gimmick? LUCILLE HALL finds out about home freezers.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
Charity, Dr Finlay
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Three Jolly Sailormen by URSULA HOURIHANE
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by MICHAEL MOORES and THE SOUND OF HORNS directed by JOHN PIGNtGUY
Introduced by STUART FORSYTH
The Threat of the Ilnado by DAVID HOPKINS
Martin Edwards 's friend Dave Wiltshire committed suicide-or did he? In an effort to discover the truth Martin's inquiries take him to a primitive village in Spain, and there, like Dave, he discovers the threat of the Ilnado ... with Michael Spice
Martin Edwards
Producer KAY PATRICK
Sir Harry Brittain, who will be 99 on Christmas Eve, recalls a few of his friends from over the years, including Mark Twain, Marchese Guglielmo Marconi and Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Introduced by Harold Rogers
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.50 am)
A Christmas Anthology 3: Turkey and Ham
Written by LYNN DOYLE : adapted for radio by STEWART PARKER Read by J. J. Murphy
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcaslle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news. weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send are discussed this week by Renée Houston. Beryl Reid
Margaret Powell , Zena Skinner In the chair Anona Winn Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
Gerald Priestland presenting
; world news and views
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
Variety Artists Home, Twickenham
Cruise of the Curlew by John Tarrant
Missing on trip from Anglesey to Northern Ireland: fast little sloop called Curlew with one-man crew. Foul play cannot be ruled out.
Producer John Cardy
Ronald Harwood presents a special seasonal edition in which he invites four guests: Penelope Mortimer
Michael Elliott , Denis Norden and Tom Stoppard to discuss books that they would like to give or receive as Christmas presents. Producer ROSEMARY HART
A well-known professional broadcaster talks about something in the recent news which has caught his attention. Tonight's speaker: Gerald Priestland
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Travels with my Aunt by GRAHAM GREENE
Read by TIMOTHY WEST (13)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
