6.27 Farming Today presented by ROBIN HICKS
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
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
(Shortened version of Wednesday's broadcast)
NEM p 29; Give me the wings of faith (BBC HB 229); Canticle 8; John 20, vv 19-29 (Av): Brief life is here our portion (BBC HB 241)
for Christmas
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE including music by Geoffrey Bush and Ernest Tomlinson and the Serenade in E minor by Eigar, 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 4: Captured
Presenter Jeanine McMullen Health and Welfare
It's not that funny! FRANCES BERTHELSEN finds out about gout. Christmas drinks for diabetics and slimmers: NIGEL PULLEN advises.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Piggy and the Old Lady by A. M. BRAZIER
RADIO BIG BAND leader NIGEL CARTER conducted by MALCOLM LOCKYER THE PATTERSONS
Introduced by BRIAN EMPRINGRAM
Cruise of the Curlew
A mixture of the skittish, the sceptical and the scurrilous, but never, we hope, the snobbish, the self-righteous or the soporific.
Producer MICHELL RAPER
A Christmas Anthology
4: Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage by ANTHONY TROLLOPE abridged in two parts by RONALD RUSSELL
Read by Eva Haddon
This charming, little-known Christmas story is typical Trollope - clergymen, young lovers and the country gentry all seen with an eye of kindly irony.
Part 1 (Part 2: Friday, 4.30 pm)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather; programme news
Gerald Prieslland presenting world news and views
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion heard in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD
Write to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Beethoven's only opera began life as a three-act work called Leonora. He wrote four overtures for it, in nine years rewrote and revised it many times; and finally reconstructed it in two acts as Fidelio.
Written by MICHAEL KENNEDY Narrated by BRIAN TRUEMAN Producer GILLIAN HUSH (from Manchester)
A look at Christmas entertainment with Christopher Cook including:
Two Charlie Chaplins for the price of one in a revival of The Great Dictator in which he plays Hynkel. dictator of Tomania, and a Jewish barber. Two musical movies: Man of La Mancha starring Peter O'Toole as Don Quixote; The
Pied Piper starring Donovan
. DANIEL FARSON looks at drag and pantomime in another film. Our Miss Fred with Danny La Rue, and Babes in the Wood at the London Palladium with Edward Woodward and Derek Nimmo.
Producer PATRICIA BRENT
(Chaplin Revue on BBCtv: next Saturday, 6.0 pm BBC1. The clown of the century: pp 16-17)
What's happening in science and technology?
PAUL VAUHAN rounds up the important, the interesting and the off-beat in a weekly look into the world of the future. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Travels with my Aunt by GRAHAM GREENE
Read by TIMOTHY WEST (14)
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
