Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
A weekly review of the agricultural scene
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 60-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave Keep Fit for All the Family with EILEEN FOWLER , or VHF Regional news and weather; 7.55 Weather and programme news At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*
Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad.
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Robert Carvel
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
Anna Raeburn reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by Peter Donaldson Narrator Pauline Bushnell Producers Paddy O'Keeffe, Tom Read and Jeremy Eccles
New Every Morning, page 106; The God of love mv shepherd is (BBC Hymn Book 474); Psalm 95; Isaiah 61, vv 1-11 (AV); Ten thousand times ten thousand (BBC HB 253)
MARGARET HOWARD presents her own selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and Television during the past seven days.
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
Puzzled over questions that don't seem to have answers? Wonder what scientific research is up to? This is your opportunity to talk directly on the telephone to a panel of scientists and discuss your questions on any topic from science, medicine and technology.
Chaired by Professor John Taylor
Producer THELMA RUMSEY
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe. MP Rt Hon James Prior , MP Ann Mallalieu David Frost from Suffolk
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
with Jill Burridge and Andy Price invites GARY WATSON to choose Christmas poems and carols; hears of ' Women Together ' in Ulster; and visits a sheep (arm in Norfolk.
And MICHAEL PERTWEE reads the last of seven instalments of his book Name Dropping abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Nicolette Bernard and Michael Deacon in Friend or Foe?
A play for radio by LALA LLOYD Will the arrival of a French archaeologist help an uneasy marriage? Is the story he tells about the wife true or false?
Producer
JEAN BOWER
(Rptd: Christmas Eve 11.30 am)
as Radio 3
All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Unpredictable table-talk bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense.
Occasional musical intervals by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer FRANCES DONNILLY
Lady Diana Cooper chooses the records she would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
Lady Diana Cooper says: 'I am pleased to find that the repeat of my 1969 Desert Island Discs coincides with a new production of a Coward play. What a joy to listen again to Private Lives and live again, privately, the delights of Noel's first nights, Noel's songs, Noel's wit. The last joke he told me was about his having asked a musical pundit if he'd seen Yehudi lately. "Yehudi who?" answered the dolt. "Yehudi Bankhead" was his reply. Oh I did, and do, so love Noel.'
(Repeated: Monday 12.27pm)
Preview: page 18
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edition: Christmas Day 5.0 pm)
by Noel Coward
Noel Coward wrote that Private Lives was 'conceived in Tokyo, written in Shanghai, and produced in London in September 1930.' The author reported that 'a gratifying number of respectable people queued up at the box office.' They have been doing so ever since.
With Paul Scofield as Elyot Chase, Patricia Routledge as Amanda Prynne and Miriam Margolyes as Sibyl Chase, John Rye as Victor Prynne, Carole Boyd as Louise
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm) Preview: page 18
Paul Theroux
Professor Brian Cox and Marina Vaizey in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Evening prayers in preparation for Christmas led by REV JOHN LANG
preceded by Weather
