6.22 Farming Today
6.40 Prayer for the Day ROSEMARY WAKELIN
Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 Travel news, What's on and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and programme 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.
A magazine edition of this programme about wildlife and the countryside - although one of this week's subjects, bats, seems to have turned up not only in the countryside but in the centre of London.
Introduced by PETER FRANCS Producer JOHN HARRISON Series producer
DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
(Sundays broadcast)
Clouds of Witness by DOROTHY L. SAYERS : adapted in eight episodes by PETER JONES and TANIA LIEVEN starring Ian Carmlchael as Lord Peter and Peter Jones as Bunter with James Villiers as the Duke of Denver in 6:In a Fog
Producer SIMON BRETT
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country.
Introduced by PETER JEFFERSON ProducerTOM READ
NEM p 71; Hark. the glad sound (BBC HB 490); Canticle 7; Isaiah 59, vv 12-21 (rsv); Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27)
News of the Engagement by ARNOLD BENNETT
Read by Gabriel Woolf
I was all that my mother had. And I had engaged myself to a girl she had never seen. I had kept her in the dark.... I was not too pleased with her information, for I wanted to talk confidentially ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
John Amis concludes his series with memories of ... 12:Musical Summers
In particular, a month in the country with NADIA BOULANGER , WILLIAM GLOCK , VLADO PERLEMUTER , SANDOR VEGH , NEVILLE MARKINER and the AMAREUS quartet. Producer DEREK DRESCHER
The Tradition by CYRIL l.AMPITT
It's the fact we have a trip out together ... every year ... just the three of us ... as makes the tradition.
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
Presenter Jeanine McMullen Yuletide - Consumer Style
GEORGE LUCE looks at ' best buys ' in ways of looking after exhausted mothers, screaming children and disgruntled relatives.
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12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: David Niven
2.8-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
A Robin too many?: JACK OTTER on Christmas card excesses.
A Song from the Valley: ANITA MORGAN follows the progress of a Christmas choral production in a Welsh village. DAVID BUCK reads
The Castle Inn (13) by STANLEY J. WEYMAN
Story: Little Grey Donkey finds a new Friend by BERENICE ROBBINS
Speculator Sport: a modern comedy by 'JAMES FOLLETT
' I'll tell you what. You do the place up as if we were trying to sell it. After all, the only time we've ever had a house worth living in is when we're trying to unload it on someone else.'
Producer MARGARET ETALL
A second chance to hear
Johnny Morris on his out-of-season, island-hopping jaunt round the Mediterranean. 6: Corsica
Series producer BRIAN PATTEN ‡
The Lunatic at Large
Read by NIGEL LAMBERT (3)
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renée Houston
Bettine Le Beau. Rita Merkelis Eleanor Summerfield
In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
ProducerJOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Julian Slade :
Salad Days and after
That's JULIAN SLADE 'S explanation for the success of Salad Days, the small-scale, very English musical which astonished the critics 20 years ago by running for five-and-a-half years in London's West End.
IAN HORSBRUGH selects songs from Salad Days and some of Julian Slade 's other musicals, including Free as Air and Tre. lawny, and talks to the composer about his work. Producer GILLIAN HUSH (Manchester)
One of the John Silence series of Stories of the Supernatural and the Uncanny by Algernon Blackwood adapted for radio by Sheila Hodgson
'We are facing a mental phenomenon: it is aware of your mind as a force, a power - it is not aware of you as a person. All energy is finally controlled by the mind. Grasp this fact: and you hold the universe in your hand.'
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
The New Liberty
Six talks about survival and justiceinachangingworld by Half Dahrendorf , Director of the London School of Economics and a former Commissioner of the EEC.
6: Steps in the Right Direction In his final lecture Professor Dahrendorf discusses some of the measures which, he says, can and must be taken soon to bring about a change from expansion to improvement as the main theme in the development of our society.
A nightly review of books, films. plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Gordon Snell Producer JOHN POWELL
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Cherl by COLETTE
Read by SIOBHAN MCKENNA (11)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather
