6.40 Prayer for the Day MARGARET MARTYN
Introduced by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; 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. English Regions: see column 5
Just Holes In the Ground
After gravel has been extracted from the ground the landscape looks like a battlefield, scarred with a series of large pits. A disaster for wildlife? No, in fact such an area can be turned into a first-class nature reserve.
Today's Radio Nature Trail looks at developments in the Cotswold Water Park.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (BBC Bristol)
Events and sounds of a past year to challenge the memories of Resident team
Isobel Barnett and Terry Wogan and Guests Kenneth Williams and Gordon Clough
Chairman Sheridan Morley
MARGARET HOWARD sets the questions with selected recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Producer MADEAU STEWART
BBC home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories.
Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN Producer TOM READ
nem, p 84; 0 heavenly word, eternal light (BBC HB 37); Canticle 4; Isaiah 32, vv 1.8 (AV); Jesus, Lord of life and glory (BBC HB 291)
If it Moves - Shoot by SEAN LINDLY
Read by Wilfred Pickles
' Sidney Pickering is extremely sorry about the whole thing; whenever he thinks of that Christmas he gets very, very upset. It was admittedly a long time ago-but he should have known better....
A domestic comedy about retirement written by starring
This week: Holiday Capers withjohnbaddeleyasNevand as Kath and Worried Voice; LINDA and special guest
Judith Chalmers as herself
Home to Roost theme by ALEX WELSH, played by HIS BAND
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (BBC Birmingham)
Double Bill from the Cheltenham Festival of Literature
Presenter Jeanine McMullen
I Know My Rights - or Do I?
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12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Nicholas Woolley
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Mickie Most , pop millionaire.
2.0-2.2 News
Cookery Sense - for Christmas: HONOR WYATT and JANET WARREN with ideas for economical fare. Do-It-Yourself Medicine: CHRISTINE DOYLE with advice for a happy, healthy Christmas.
Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments and places to go.
Shake Hands Forever (6)
Story: The Duckpond in Winter by JOYCE MILES
Sandra
A play for radio by JOHN WHITEWOOD with David Wood , Amanda Murray and Clifford Norgate
' Why have you come back? '
Because I wondered how you were.'
Well, this is how I am. Married. A housewife.'
Is it curiosity or something else that makes Laurence look Sandra up after all these years?
Other parts played byGINNETTE tLARKE . MICHAEL COCHRANE. NORMA RONALD and ANTHONY SMEE Producer JOHN CARDY
A selection from the popular Victorian songs upon which Lewis Carroll based his parodies in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, sung in their original settings by PAT WHITMORE , CHARLES YOUNG and the CHARLES YOUNG SINGERS Presented and produced by Charles Chilton
Drawn from Memory by E. H. SHEPARD
Read by AUBREY WOODS
3: Scarlatina Whiteley 's Fire
Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.56 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh
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Have You Posted Early for Christmas?
Ring Derek Cooper to put your questions on our postal and telephone system to the Chairman of the Post Office Corporation. Sir William Ryland. Producer WALTER WALLICH
Call [number removed]from 6.0 pm
with records of Early and Later Loves
The last of six programmes
America and the World Experience
Six talks by Daniel J. Boorstin 6: The Future of Exploration
In his final lecture Dr Boorstin returns to the theme of exploration and discovery that he introduced in his initial talk on the consequences of the unveiling of America, the hitherto unknown ' fourth part of the world.' Looking now at the United States today, he advances his idea of Negative Discovery (the opening up of hitherto unknown areas of knowledge to the explorer), discusses the forces within a technological and democratic society that work to box in the spirit of free inquiry, and examines some ways in which the exploring spirit is being kept alive. i Rptd next Sun on R3 and printed in The Listener dated 18 Dec. The complete set of six issues of The Listener, containing this year's Reith Lectures is available from BBC Publications, . 144/152 Bermondsei; Street, London SEI 3TH, 90p including postage)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer MIRIAM RAPP
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Little Ottleys
Book 2: Tenterhooks (3)
preceded by Weather
