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 8.351 Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations
by J. M. SCOTT
Read by KERRY FRANCIS (I)
My mother now 80 cannot be left to live alone in her flat on the coast. Being a widow with two children to look after, I cannot afford to give up my job in London to go and look after her. I cannot get a job there, and Mother hates living in London. What can I dor
One of the questions posed by listeners to be answered by DR JOHN AGATE , DR WENDY GREEN-GROSS, DR JAMES HEMMING and NICOLAS STACEY
Presented by Jean Metcalfe Producer THENA HESHEL
A few ripples on the subject of water created by MARGARET cox when she dived into the BBC Sound Archives.
Producer MADEAU STEWART
NEM p 41; He smiles within his cradle (obc 84); Psalm 119, part 4; Matthew 2, vv 13-23 (AV); Unto us a boy is born! (obc 92)
LONDON STUDIO STRINGS
Conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE including music by Johann Strauss and Beethoven, and Irish Pen Sketches by Havelock Nelson , with songs from the TAPIOLA HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR of Finland, conductor ERKKI POHJOLA
for the Fourth Day of Christmas from the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Patrick and St Colman, Newry, County Down Celebrant FR MATTHEW O'HARE Preacher FR SEUMAS MOORE
Readings: 1 John 1. v 5, to 2, v 2: Matthew 2, vv 13-18/
Music: In dulci jubilo; Gloria (Palestrina); Sing a new song; Lo, how a rose e'er blooming; Silent night; Ye shepherds Choirmistressso drowsy
ETHEL FITZPATRICK Organist FR SEUMAS MOORE
The action of the Mass described by FR PATRICK MCENROE
Presenter Jeanine McMullen Health and Welfare
'Mummy will be back soon:' PAMELA WILCOX BOWER finds OUt what it's like for a child in hospital.
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: Rachel and the Christmas Roses by ANNE ENGLISH
RADIO BIG BAND conducted by MALCOLM LOCKYER with JULIE DAWN
NIGEL BROOKS SINGERS directed by NIGEL BROOKS
Introduced by BRIAN EMPRINGHAM
The Imaginative Child
A mixture of the skittish, the sceptical and the scurrilous, but never, we hope, the snobbish, the self-righteous or the soporific.
Producers BARBARA CROWTHER MICHELL RAPER
Lady Susan by JANE AUSTEN With CAROLINE JOHN Part 3
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF: Regional news. weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud. Peter Jones and Aimi Macdonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Aimi Macdonald is in ' The Mating Game ' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
A Christmas box of seasonal music sung by the AMBROSIAN SINGERS directed by JOHN MCCARTHY Narrator TONY CHURCH
Devised and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
(Tony Church is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co) (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Richard Baker and Professor Anthony King look back at the year of ... General Amin, President Nixon (and the Chinese), the last of the Goons, strikes, blackouts, inflation mugging, gazumping, bussing, the Freeze, the Descent of Woman, the non-ascent of Everest, and a postman up a tree; pornography, the way to Europe, the worst UK air crash, the tragic Olympics. 70 years of William Walton and 50 years of the BBC.
Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and JOHN TURTLE
(Radio Times 1972 People: P 4)
A review of the arts In 1972
It was a year which offered new plays by John Arden , Alan Ayckbourn , William Douglas Home, John Osborne , Tom Stoppard. Arnold Wesker and Charles Wood.
It was also the year of the film of The Godfather, and the first London stage production of Prokofiev's opera War and Peace and the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.
Michael Billington takes a critical look at some of the events of 1972. with the recorded voices of some of the actors, singers, writers and directors who have appeared in Scan during the past 12 months. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Discoveries. inventions and news from the world of science and technology.
Each week New Worlds brings you the people whose achievements are changing your way of lite. Presenter PAUL VAUGHAN Producer LAURIE JOHN
Douglas Stuart reporting
An examination of some of the world's trouble-spots and their prospects.
The Middle East: by Maurice GENT , the BBC's Cairo correspondent.
Travels with my Aunt by GRAHAM GREENE
Read by TIMOTHY WEST (19)
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11.31 Market Trends
