9.32 Farming Today presented by BRYAN PLATT
(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)
6.50 Outlook
Reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
VHF: Regional news, weather
1.55 Weather, programme news
7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Producer ANTHONY PARKIN (from Birmingham)
7.40 Today 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 TROMPETTO on food; at 8.30* Sportsdesk; at
8.45 Today's Papers
Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad, starting with 9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
Contributed by the BBC's Foreign News staff
9.30 The Weekly World
ANDREW SINCLAIR reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by BRIAN EMPRINGHAM
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Narrator MARTIN MUNCASTER Producers BERNARD TATE
MARTIN COX , PADDY O'KEEFFE
NEM p80; Wake, 0 wake! (BBC HB 40); Psalm 11; Isaiah 64, vv 1-9 (rsv); 0 come, 0 come, Immanuel (BBC HB 36)
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research JEAN STROUD
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
11.30 Announcements
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
Featuring League football in England and Scotland; Racing; Rugby Union and Rugby League Producer BOB BURROWS
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm. On Boxing Day there'll be more Sport on 2, including soccer, racing from Kempton Park and, from Twickenham, the All Blacks match against Combined Services)
Jeanine McMullen presents this edition of the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. You and Your Time
Christmas Games: a look at family entertainment old and new.
Presents for anybody: some seasonable suggestions for satisfaction.
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
COUNTY GIRLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL, NEWBURY, V
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE SCHOOL, BALLYMENA, N IRELAND
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 Baroness Stocks
The Bishop of Crediton Frank Gillard Kenneth More
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Somerset
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley adapted for radio by Malcolm Hazell
with Hugh Dickson as Victor Frankenstein, Trevor Martin as the Daemon
'I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the World.' (Mary Shelley: preface to 1831 edition)
Time: end of the 18th century.
(from Bristol)
Introduced by Judith Chalmers Christmas guest: Rolf Harris
What the European papers say. Bring on the Dancing Boys! BRIAN GEAR meets some promising lads at old tyme and ballet classes
Snowflakes and Ski-doos: Christmas in Canada, described by members of the TORONTO MENDELSSOHN CHOIR, with carols
A Wedding Man is Nicer Than Cats Miss by RACHEL scott abridged by olive SHAPLEY Read by BARBARA YOUNG
John Dunn introduces a Christmas edition of the Saturday show for young listeners. Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN Captain Radio, Passionflower, and the man you love to hate, in Christmas Krakov with NIGEL LAMBERT
PAT KEEN and GARARD GREEN Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
4.5 The Wizard of Oz dramatised by ALFRED BRADLEY from the novel by L. FRANK BAUM
Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman and the Cowardly Lion set off along the yellow brick road to find the Wonderful Wizard who can give them their hearts' desires.
Music by TREVOR HOLROYD Producer ALFRED BRADLEY
(Wendy Padbury is in ' Peter Pan ' at the London Coliseum; John Blythe in ' Mother Goose' at the Theatre Royal, Windsor) Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain. based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants. 13: ArcadiaT
The British countryside before the Industrial Revolution.
Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON under the direction of Joan Thirsk. Reader in Economic History. Oxford.
(A series of 26 programmes)
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
by ALISTAIR COOKE
The stories behind the day's sporting headlines
Richard Baker introduces a weekly sequence of favourite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
(And Christmas Eve, 11.15 am)
Northanger Abbey by JANE AUSTEN arranged as a play by CONSTANCE cox and adapted for radio by SEAN MACLOUGHLIN
The year is 1808: and the action passes between Mrs Allen's lodgings in Bath and a Hall at Northanger Abbey.
ANNA BERENSKA plays the square piano of the period
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
(' Lady Susan ' begins in Story Time: Boxing Day, 4.30 pm)
A late-evening conversation in Which PROFESSOR JOHN COHEN , STANLEY COLLIER and JIM HOGAN exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)
Evening Prayers conducted by FR PATRICK MCENROE
THE ST GABRIEL SINGERS conductor KENNEDY RYAN
A topical view of the cinema featuring the stars, the new films and the people who make them: including Robert Neame 's The Poseidon Adventure and George C. Scott in Precinct 45. Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by MARJORIE BILBOW Producer BOBBY JAYE
preceded by Weather
11.45 Inshore waters forecast
