C.22 Farming Today This week:
GARTH COOPER and ROBIN HICKS
C.40 Prayer for the Day REV WILF WILKINSON
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.
by EVELYN WAUGH
Read by HUGH BURDEN (6)
Woman's Place
On the eve of International Women's Year, Tuesday Call invites the views of listeners on the place of women in society, Is the role of housewife and mother becoming devalued? Can women only achieve their aims by exploiting their femininity, or have they an obligation to compete on equal terms with men? Is a woman's first duty to her children, her husband or herself?
Discuss your point of view with Dr Una Krolland Germalne Greer.
In the chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
NEM p 38; Child in the manger (BBC HB 45); Psalm 24; Luke 1. vv 46-55 (NEB); On Christmas night all Christians sing (obc 24)
Imogen by JOHN TARRANT Read by Duncan Carse
Imogen's cockpit was empty, the main hatch was half open ... it was a curious place to choose for an anchorage - and where the devil was the owner? Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Brian Johnston recently visited Muirkirk, Ayrshire.
Producer RICHARD BURWOOB %
A final excursion at the piano by SIDNEY HARRISON Romance
Presenter Nancy Wise
Releasing Your Tensions: In medieval times people used to get rid of their frustrations by a three-week midwinter binge. Should we today follow suit?
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Body and Soul
Written by ALLAN PRIOR adapted by PAT DUNLOP
The doctors try to help an unemployed patient whose surprising behaviour demands unusual treatment
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Gordon Clough
Presenter Sue MacGregor
A Very Special Year: some personal reasons why '74 is a year to remember,
2.0-2.2 News
Where the wind blows and there's peat on the fire: VERONICA WATTS talks about life in the Falkland Islands.
Value Judgment: a subjective view of contemporary society from MARGHANITA LASKI. Answer and Comment, Mother Knew Best by DOROTHY SCANNELL read by BRENDA BRUCE (2)
Story: Spider on the Toffee Papers by JOYCE WILLIAMS
Adapted for radio in four parts by TERENCE COOPER from the novel by ALEXANDRE DUMAS THE YOUNGER with Gary Bond and Sarah Badel Part 1
visits Shropshire
Periodically Michael Barratt invites the experts to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. Questions (postcards, please) should be sent to Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX
Book, Gardeners' Question Time 3, 40p from bookshops
Round the Bend by NEVIL SHUTE abridgedforradioInnine parts by DONALD BANCROFT Read by Edward Kelsey 1: Getting Started
Connie came from Penang, his father was Chinese and his mother a Russian ... he collected churches like another boy might collect cigarette cards or matchbox covers...
He was a darned good friend to me, right from the first. Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
The news magazine: presented by Gordon Clough and PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
5.55 Weather, programme news
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Mulr challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Rptd: New Year's Day 1.30pm)
John Tid marsh presenting world news and views
on behalf of the Conservative Party
Road Safety
The Christmas holiday season is a peak period for road accidents. In the first six months of 1974, more than 3,000 people were killed on our roads and more than 37.000 seriously injured. What can we do to reduce this slaughter?
Ring George Scott to put your points and questions on road accidents and how to prevent them to Paul Halle , Head of Road Safety Division of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
To promote a maximum flow of questions, [number removed](16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm until the end of the programme
A portrait with music by DAVID WHEELER
(SAMUEL CHOTZINOFF , critic and music director of NBC) Narrated by Basil Moss with Andrew Sachs as Toseanini and the voices of DAVID GRAHAM , SEAN ARNOLD
STEPHEN THORNE. JONATHAN BURN CARL FORGIONE and POWELL JONES Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer TOM VERNON
John Tusa reporting
Smokescreen by DICK. FRANCIS Bead by JACK WATSON (6)
A personal collection from the year's crop of the sublime and/ or ridiculous, revealed in informal conversation with Dennis Barker. Dr Edward de Bono , Benny Green and their special guests.
Musical ideas and comments by PETER SKELLERN with NOTTINGHAM FESTIVAL
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
preceded by Weather
Ring in the New
As the tattered old year dies. REV CHRISTOPHER PILKINGTON , Vicar of St Stephen's, Bristol. takes a few of our fears and hopes into the New Year - with the help of the ST STEPHEN'S SINGERS. under the direction of their organist and choirmaster GARY DESMOND.
Join his champagne party to see in the New Year: enjoy the fun and games and meet his guests with predictions for the year ahead.
Producer HUGH PURCELL
