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A weekly review
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 70-minute world-wide look at the weekend
At 8.0 News and more of Today with Sportsdesk at 8.30; Papers at 8.40'
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Talking Politics
Anthony King asks Lord Butler of Saffron Walden, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, Lord Feather and Lord George-Brown to look back on the events of 1975 and speculate over the challenges which the politicians will face in 1976.
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
ANNA RAEBURN reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by BRYAN MARTIN Narrator SUSAN DENNY
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
ANNE SLOMAN and JEREMY ECCLES
NEM, p 97; The royal banners forward go (BBC HB 91); Psalm 33, vv 1-12; John 1, vv 1-14 (AV): King Jesus hath a garden (Carols for Choirs I 20)
Chaired by Dr Geoff Watts Producer THELMA RUMSEY
(is Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
with Jill Burridge and Andy Price talks to the brothers Pertwee; waves a wand over fairy god-mothers; muses over marginals; and lends an ear to the European papers.
And RICHARD BRIERS reads Q - a Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural by STEPHEN LEACOCK, abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
(Jon Pertwee is in 'Aladdin' at the Richmond Theatre)
The Taxman Cometh A play for radio by SHEILA STEWART with and' Funny I've always wanted to be a drummer They wouldn't let me. They said I had such a good head for figures ... So it was the Inland Revenue for me. I'd be a waste as a drummer, they said. It's too late now, I suppose!...'
Musicians:
HAYDN JACKSON (drums)
HENRY KREIN accordion)
DUNCAN CAMPBELL (trumpet) JOCK CUMMINGS (bones)
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
(Rptd: New Year's Eve 11.30) Preview: page 18
as Radio 3
Gordon Clough
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.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
Bing Crosby chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edition: New Year's Day 9.5 am)
From the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, adapted for radio by John Richmond
With Helen Worth as Mary Lennox, Violet Carson as Mrs Medlock
Mary Lennox was a selfish, spoilt child, who always had her own way with her ayah and the other Indian servants. But cholera strikes. It is then that Mary is sent to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire - a house of dark stairs and secrets.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
Alan Beith ,
Mr Very Rev Alfred Jowett and John Cole in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Evening prayers led by DAVID WINTER
preceded by Weather