6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day TONY JASPER
7.0 pm 9.30
The world this morning introduced by Michael Clayton and John Timpson
6.50
Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk; at 7.35. Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Travel news
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35* Today's Papers
Families from all over Britain talk about their beliefs, feelings, and practice when it comes to religion and learning a way of life.
Introduced by Jan Brookes
Research by JANICE DICKERSON Producer JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH (Birmingham)
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country. Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN Producer TOM READ
New Every Morning, p 50: Creator of the starry height (BBC HB 31): Psalm 89: Isaiah 35, vv 110 (rsv); Father most holy (BBC HB 167)
The She-Wolf by SAKI Read by Hugh Burden
' I wish you would turn me into a wolf, Mr Bilsiter ,' said his hostess. 'A she-wolf, of course.... It would be too confusing to change one's sex as well as one's species at a moment's notice.....
Marghanita Laski discusses with DEREK JONES her interest in wildlife and the French countryside, and chooses some wildlife recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives.
Producer JOHN BURTON (Bristol)
Voices Round a Star
A Meditation for Christmas by MICHAEL FFINCH with music specially composed by FRANCIS SHAW
I have risen and 1 am with you, Not as the World is the peace
I give you
Man whose mastery Now forgets me,
Search the mystery Love besets me:
High was the Joy in the Bethlehem dawn,
High in your heart let a child be born! with the voices of the poet MICHAEL FFINCH and ROSALIND SHANKS
ELIZABETH MORGAN , JULIE HALLAM TIMOTHY BATESON , STEPHEN THORNE and DAVID TIMSON
Producer SHAUN MACLOHGHLIN
(Rosalind Shanks is a National Theatre player)
Presenter Jeanine McMullen Consumer Style
What good ideas are around for that last-minute present? Which are value for money? MOLLY PRICE-OWEN investigates.
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud Peter Jones , Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
(Monday's broadcast
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Joe Loss
2.0-2.2 News
Old Vig - a rosy story: told by ANTONIA RIDGE.
Children without Joy: a report on the increasing number who suffer from depression. SHEILA MITCHELL reads The Passing Star by JEAN STUBBS (13)
Story: The Christmas Ark by SISTER OLGA
The Scented Garden by PAULINE SPENDER with and The last days of this astonishing 19th-century explorer, writer and translator of erotica, as seen through the eyes of his determined wife.
- or going?
An enquiry into the rise, decline and obstinate survival of the Abominable Snowman of Tibet. with the voices of LORD HUNT. SIR EDMUND HILLARY ERIC SHIPTON
SHERPA TENZING NORGAY
NOEL ODELL , DON WHILLANS and other Himalayan travellers Compiled and presented by CHARLES ALLEN
Producer MICHAEL MASON No luck yeti: page 5
The Riddle of the Sands by ERSKINE CHILDERS
Read by NtGEL ANTHONY 8: A Game of Bluff
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
S.S5 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renée Houston, Andree Melly Ginette Spanier , Ann Burdess In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland
Beyond the Fringe - and After The humorous talents of Alan Bennett , Peter Cook , Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore are celebrated by Peter Clayton and illustrated with many comedy extracts from their stage and television shows. Producer StMON BRETT
Cleft Stick by R. D. WINGFIELD
'I -didn'leave mother's until gone 10 o'clock.... as it was late I took the short cut through the woods ... a man attacked me. He' jumped at me from the bushes. He tried to strangle me.'
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
Change Without War
Six talks about the shifting structures of world power by Alastair Buchan , Professor of International Relations, Oxford University.
6: The Search for a New Order In his final lecture in the series PROFESSOR BUCHAN seeks to outline the wholly novel structure of world politics that is emerging, and to distinguish those forms of national power which can and must be balanced from those which must be brought under new forms of international control.
Producer ANTHONY moncrieff
IRepeated next Monday evening on Radio 3 and printed In The Listener dated 20 Dec)
9.29 Weather
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world, including International Business Report with at 10.25' Market Trends
A Long Way to Shiloh by LIONEL DAVIDSON
Read by CYRIL SHAPS (13)
A nightly review of the arts and science. Introduced tonight by Paul Vaughan Producer LOUISE PURSLOW
preceded by Weather
