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 6.55 and 7.55
Weather and programme news
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27 and 8.27; 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
by EVELYN WAUGH
Read by HUGH BURDEN (5)
aided by Harriet Crawley , Sheridan Mnrley , Lance Perci val, Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl.
Enjoy a mixture of argument, humour and music as they meet the personalities, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead. Producer HUGH PURCELL
How does a kangaroo get into his mummy's pocket? Is it very fluffy inside?
So writes Elise, one of Wildlife's most regular correspondents, who also tells us: 'I am 4 now!'
Introduced by Derek Jones
Questions to: Wildlife, [address removed]
NEM. p 21; All poor men and humble (OBC 34); Psalm 1; Philippians 2, vv 1-11 (NEB); Angels, from the realms of glory (BBC HB 42)
Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse by MURIEL SPARK
Read by Sheila Mitchell
Their story comes in two versions. his and hers. But they agree that it was a small, round, flattish object, and that it flew ... ' It is not radioactive,' said Miss Pinkerton, ' it is Spode.'
' Don't be so damn silly,' George replied.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Nancy Wise
The Stock Exchange 1975: stockbroker RICHARD BRADSHAW looks at stocks and shares In the coming year.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC. Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA
Roy Plomley's castaway is Punch and Judy man Percy Press. Show more
Percy Press. Punch-and-Judy showman
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
Presenter Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Be .the People You Used to Be: a look at the work of a geriatric day unit.
Old Movies on TV: GORDON GOW looks at the line-up for January.
Birds of a Feather: STANLEY HALL talks of his passion for parrots to BERNARD JACKSON. Mother Knew Best by DOROTHY SCANNELL abridged by FIONA MACPHERSON read by Brenda Bruce
Fifty years ago Dolly Cheg widden and her nine brothers and sisters lived in the East End of London ...
(First of ten instalments. Music: Shostakovich's Bolt)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Little Old Lady by MARJORIE NEWMAN
Book: Listen with Mother Stories, £2 00, from bookshops
by J. B. Priestley
with Joan Plowright and Leslie Sands
As a tribute to J. B. Priestley in the year of his 80th birthday, Radio 4 presents the cast of the recent National Theatre production in a stereophonic radio version of the play he described as one for which he had "a special tenderness like that which some parents feel for a certain child."
Although Eden End was written In 1934 it is set firmly two years before the Great War. The action takes place in the home of an elderly Yorkshire GP, confronted with a complicated, coincidental family reunion at a time when he sees England and himself coming to the end of an era.
Nocturne (arranged for string orchestra): record
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team
S.SO Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud, Peter Jones , Barry Cryer try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Rptd: New Year's Day 12.27)
(Derek Nimmo is in Why Not Stay for Breakfast?' at the Apollo Theatre, London)
(Rptd: New Year's Eve 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Read by Kenneth Williams The book by STELLA GIBBONS abridged in six parts and produced by PAMELA HOWE
4: When the sukebind opens, all the trouble begins
A political cartoon for radio by Lester Powell
with James Villiers, Penelope Keith and Betty Huntley-Wright
Lady Knockholt, bent on travelling the length of the land to promote the sales of her new book, suggests to her disgruntled husband that he sees her old friend Aggie - none other than The Honourable Mrs Joplin - who could help him with a personal problem. But she didn't realise he would be helped in such large measure'
(Repeated: next Sunday 2.30)
(James Villiers is in "The Little Hut" at the Duke of York's Theatre; Penelope Keith In "The Norman Conquests" at the Globe Theatre, London)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Peter France Producer JOHN POWELL
John Tusa reporting
Smokescreen by DICK FRANCIS Read by JACK WATSON (5)
Radio 4s International Business Report; Market Trends
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone has discovered from personal experience that. while cyclists make a positive contribution to London's air. and traffic problems, they are nevertheless made to suffer in return.
preceded by Weather
