Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day FR VINCENT WHELAN
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 The Unambiguous Yes
BISHOP DAVID SHEPPARD talks about the Christmas promise. English Regions: see column 5
by WILLIAM J. LOCKE
The Adventure of the Fair Patronne (concluded) abridged and read by Aubrey Woods
Christmas Special
This is the season for remembering all those good times - the Christmas baby was born, the time it snowed, the office party, the Christmas spent abroad, the time the dinner burned - the dinner you couldn't afford - and the first time you gave a present.
Frank Muir shares with listeners their favourite Christmas stories.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit Preview: page 18
BBC correspondents through. out the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people,
NEM, p 1; For all thy saints, 0 Lord (BBC HB 228); Psalm 63; John 20, vv 19-29 (av); Lo! he comes with clouds descending (BBC HB 35)
Christmas Week Specials
The Goose who Came to Dinner by DIANA COOPER
Read by Wendy Craig
' On its own, the old pram had always slipped through the gate with an inch to spare. Now, with the crate and that long. inquisitive neck, we were stuck.... '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Canterbury Cathedral
First of three programmes
1: Sir Osbert Lancaster talks about the pleasures of buildings.
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Careers without Olevels: the sixth in our series about people who started their careers without any Olevels is about a stage electrician.
Careers without O-Ieuels, including today's story and 19 others: £1.00 from bookshops.
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Peter Jones , Sheila Hancock and William Rushton try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Rpt: Christmas Day 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer Christmas Anthology: KENNETH WILLIAMS with his own selection of seasonal music and poetry.
2.0 2.2 News
Reading your letters.
At Christmas Play and Make Good Cheer, for Christmas Comes but Once a Year: HELEN PALMER has been reviving the spirit of ' Merrie England.'
Braille for Beginners: in Louis Braille's Memorial Year CELIA THOMSON reports on teaching projects for the blind and the sighted.
Shake Hands Forever by RUTH RENDELL , abridged In ten parts by BA MASON
Read by LAURENCE HARRINGTON (Final instalment)
Story: Sammy and Tabby-cat by ELIZABETH MACDONALD
by JANE AUSTEN. Part 6
Ghost Trilogy 2: Number 13 by M.R. James abridged by Neville Teller
'Three stupid mistakes in 12 hours were too much for a methodical, accurate-minded man, so he turned back to make sure. The next number to 14 was number 12, his own room. There was no number 13 at all!'
Read by Peter Barkworth
The news magazine presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge
Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the Chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
(Rptd: Christmas Day 1.15 pm)
(Rptd: Christmas Eve 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
Berlioz's Trilogy (sung in French) conducted by CHARLES MUNCH Part 1 Herod's Dream as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 The Flight into Egypt Part 3 The Arrival at Sais as Radio 3
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer DAVID PERRY
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Little Ottleys by ADA LEVERSON
Book 2: Tenterhooks
Read by GERALDINE MCEWAN (7)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Small in Action
The second of two talks by Dr Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful.
preceded by Weather
