6.22 Farming Week: presented from the North by KEN FORD
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV JOHN JACKSON
The world this morning: what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam Including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER ; Weather and prog news at 6.55 and 7.55. At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35* and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. Thought for the Day, a book of selections, 40p, from bookshops
of ... Lord Boothby
Some amusing, entertaining and perhaps more serious moments taken from his many broadcasts kept in the BBC Sound Archives,
Aided by Harriet Crawley , Sheridan Morley , Lance Perci val, Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Spiegl and other Monday morning regulars, he takes a lively look round and meets surprise guests for whom this week promises to be special. Producer HUGH PURCELL
Can your dog recognise the family car? Many listeners tell us their dog can. Hints, too, about looking at trees in winter, what to do about the bats in your belfry, and another wildlife sound competition. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
NEM,p71;Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30); Psalm 145, vv 13-21; Isaiah 40, vv 1-11 (RSV); Hills of the north, rejoice (BBC HB 33)
A Pal of Charlie's by w. MONTAGU EVERITT
Read by Peter Tuddenham
So I said: of course; any pal of Charlie's was a pal of mine, and could I give him a hand with his things? Jimmy said: Thanks all the same, but he'd only got a couple of cases, and, as they contained ' Something Rather Special,' he had given his Solemn Word not to let them out of his hands.
(Details as Saturday, 1.15 pm) 1
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Nigel Murphy
The Other Side of the Counter We hear a great deal about the consumer's legal rights. but where does the retailer turn for help? TED HARRISON investigates.
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Oliver Reed. Show more
Oliver Reed, actor
12.55 Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor
Places for People: a look at the work of the Town and Country Planning Association.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Wanted - Happy Christmas Volunteers! 1: MIKE HARTLEY-BREWER goes Christmas shopping with the disabled of Birmingham.
Old Movies on TV: GORDON cow looks at the line-up for December.
Diagram in Cobalt: DIANA GRAVES had this treatment for cancer.
DAVID BUCK reads The Castle Inn by STANLEY J. WEYMAN abridged by DOREEN ESTALL
Sir George Soane stepped down from his carriage to meet an unknown girl. Hoping for romance he found himself commanded to fight a duel!
(First of 15 instalments. Music: Glazunov's Raymonda)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: How Bertha Got Her Name by LIANE SMITH
Book: Listen with Mother Stories, L2.00; More stories about Bertha in Bertha the Tanker, 20p, from bookshops
The Murder of Walter Ralegh
Fatu-Hiva - Back to Nature 6: Exodus
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons with Kenneth Williams Clement Freud
Peter Jones , Alfred Marks Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Rptd: Wednesday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
Julius Caesar by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Music specially composed by DEREK OLDFIELD with Nigel Stock
Anthony Bate, Peter Jeffrey Julian Glover , Martin Jarvis Dudley Foster , Jane Wenham
Servant to Caesar.LEWIS STRINGER Producer MARTIN JENKINS
(Shortened version of the production broadcast in R3, 1972) Anthony Bate was a superb Brutus, Nigel Stock was Caesar revealed, and the thunderstorm has never sounded more convincing. (GUARDIAN)
A nightly review of books, films. plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer SARA DUNANT
John Tusa reporting
In the Money (11)
preceded by Weather
