MOST REV GEORGE 0. SIMMS, Archbishop of Armagh
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The world on New Year's morning: Britain's - and Denmark's - first year in Europe.
Introduced from Copenhagen by Robert Robinson , with Douglas Cameron in London.
6.50 medium wave onlu
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
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
Read by SEAN BARRETT (6)
"The Fleet is all lit up" (Tommy Woodrooffe); "I'm worried about poor Jim" (Mrs Dale's Diary); "England has won the Cup!" (Football commentator): "They said 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken' - some chicken, some neck" (Winston Churchill)
Will those be among the recordings played from the BBC Archives at your request?
Steve Race will be in the studio to talk to you about your memories.
Woman's Hour Unit
Pre-recorded requests on [number removed]
New Every Morning, p 71: In dulci jubilo (obc 86); Psalm 145, vv 13-21; Romans 4, vv 8-16 (AV); He smiles within his cradle (obc 84)
The Stable Door by FRANK HEADLAND
Read by Robert Rietty
' She agreed to marry him on two conditions....
Braemar, Aberdeenshire
Recordings of Grade Fields from the BBC Sound" Archives
Presenter Nancy Wise Home and Family
Warmth without Fuel
(Details as Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
in another programme in the series My Kind of Music plays some of his favourite records and explains why they give him particular pleasure.
Alistair Cooke 's America: 15.00
Stories: Penry the Parrot by ROSEMARY KENT , and Auntie Bet's Bird Table by JILL ROWE
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Dickens's London: Fri, 11.5 am
Huckleberry Finn
Read by BOB SHERMAN
2: The Floating House
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team.
5.55 Weather, programme news
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair Steve Race
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael
At a time when your daily papers are brimming with advertisements for the January sales and tempting suggestions for your summer holidays, ring Robin Day to put your questions on Advertising to Angus Ross , President of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and Chairman of Ogilvy Benson and Mather, one of the biggest and most prestigious firms in the field.
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 6.0 pm onward
The story of Queen Victoria. her life and the great events of her time, in 13 episodes with Peggy Ashcroft as Victoria 8: The Lonely Queen by THEA HOLME
Ballad arranged by CHARLES CHILTON , sung by CHARLES YOUNG accompanied by ANNA BERENSKA Producer NESTA PAIN
(Repeated: Friday, 3.5 pm)
(Peggy Ashcroft is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)
9.29 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
by Robert Flaherty
Before winning international acclaim as a film-maker (Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Aran, Louisiana Story), ROBERTY FLAHERTY made several expeditions as an explorer among the Eskimos in the Far North of Canada
This is a shortened version of a true story he broadcast in 1950, the year before he died t
Introduced by Peter France Producer RICHARD GILBERT
What are the long-term prospects for the various fuels which power our society? A series of four talks
1: Britain's Black Gold
GEORGE LUCE looks at the future of coal with Derek Ezra , Chairman of the National Coal Board.
Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
preceded by Weather
