REV RICHARD HARRIES
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
6.50
Travel news. What's on, and Keep Fit With EILEEN FOWLER
6.55 Weather, programme 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
and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; c at 8.35* Today's Papers
by NORMAN FOX
Read by SEAN BARRETT (4)
Friday Call's Honours List
Ring Esther Rantzen to discuss your choice of the man or woman of the year.
Send the name of your nominee, with your telephone number, on a postcard to Friday Call. BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA, or call [number removed]from 8.0 am
The programme that minds the consumer s business and investigates matters that concern you. Presenter Roger Cook Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
New Every Morning, p 89; To us in Bethlem city (BBC nB 315): Psalm 67; St Matthew 2, vv 13-23 (av); Unto us a boy is born! (OBC 92)
Three Shillings by MURIEL G. THOMPSON
Read by Marjorie Dalziel
To Robin his pet rabbits mean more than anything else in the world, or very nearly ... Producer MICHAEL SHAW
with ANNELIESE ROTHENBERGER (soprano)
FRITZ WUNDERLlCH (tenor)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY gramophone records
New Year's Day Concert from Vienna: Tues Radio 3, BBC2
Presenter Nigel Murphy You and the Law
Finder's Keeper's: can you keep that treasure trove to help pay the bills?
In the chair Anona Winn
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12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Who had what? Personalities reveal what they had for Christmas.
2.0 2.2 News
Old Moore's Almanac: DAVID LLOYD investigates a publication which started in the 18th century.
Now Life Begins: JACK WEST-MORELAND talks about the brighter side of retirement. Producer DAVID SHUTE
DAVID MARCH reads Auntie Mame by PATRICK DENNIS (2)
Story: The Girl Who Wanted to be a Boy by THERESA PHILLIPS Presenters AURIOL SMITH and MICHAEL DEACON
Producer MARY HAYDON
Letter from Tangier by BARBARA FOXE with Robert Urquhart as Richard Constance Chapman as Lena
' Why did I envy them? They guessed nothing about me, I was quite sure. I told them tales of my adventures; I could have told them anything, and they would have believed it. Though why did I wish to please them? Why should I have cared? '
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol) t
a piano held pride of place in most people's front parlour. But before the days of the gramophone it was the musical-box, barrel-organ or the more sophisticated piano-roll which carried the popular songs of the day into people's homes.
Kenneth Alwyn , with the help of some of these fascinating Victorian novelties, re-creates a musical evening in those far-off days of long ago. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Martin Jarvis reads
William and the Prize Cat
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland. Questionmasters
JOHN ELLISON and TIM GUDGIN Second Round
9: KIRKCUDBRIGHT ACADEMY, Kirkcudbright v
SALESIAN HIGH SCHOOL, Bootle Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection from BBC Radio and TV reflecting the festive season and recalling highlights of the past year.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Saturday, 10.30 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Richard Crossman , mp Rt Hon Reginald Maudling. mp Lady Barnett, Anthony Quinton Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Charlbury, Oxfordshire (Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon, 11.5 am)
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world, including International Business Report; at 10.25" Market Trends
Goodbye, Mr Chips
Read by MARTIN JARVIS (4)
Introduced by Paul Vaughan Producer ALEC REID. With at
11.0
Week Ending ... DAVID JASON. BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by CHRIS MILLER and JOHN MASON
Producer SIMON BRETT
Year Ending: Sat 10.55 pm, R3
JANE FiNNis. with the help of CYRIL FLETCHER and GYLES BRANDRETH. looks at the historical facts behind the story of Robinson Crusoe and his faithful
Man Friday, which for 200 years has been enjoyed by children in pantomime. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
(Cyril Fletcher is in ' Aladdin ' at the Everyman, Cheltenham)
preceded by Weather
