Market prices and intelligence, the weatlicr and what's new for farmers. Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.40 Prayer for the Day MARTHA BLOUNT
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
by WILLIAM J. LOCKE
The Adventure of the Kind Mr Smith (concluded) abridged and read by Aubrey Woods
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Youth Employment
Sixty thousand youngsters who left school this year are still out of work. More than half have no qualifications at all. And many live in areas where the unemployment rate is high. Margaret Korving - who has just written a book called Careers without O-levels - and Arthur Downward. Principal Careers Officer for Sefton in Merseyside, will be in the studio
In the Chair Teresa McGonagle Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
NEM, p 122: Infant holy, infant lowly Carols for Choirs I 16); Canticle 10; Matthew 2, vv 13-23 (AV): Unto us a boy is born! (Oxford Book of Carols 92).
A Week of Animal Stories
2: Chorus Girl's Absolutely Final Performance by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
Thoughtless people in front of the cage had tormented the old elephant to the point of fury, and the new young keeper did not understand ... Read by Mary Wimbush
Kirkcudbright. Scotland i Sunday's broadcast)
A series of three programmes
2: Christopher Goteh examines some of the facts and fallacies of tattooing in Under the Skin.
Presenter George Luce
Careers without O-levels: the seventh in our series about people who started their careers without any O-levels, is about a farm student.
Careers without O-levels, including today's story and 19 others: £1.00 from bookshops.
A panel game controlled by Nicholas Parsons in which Derek Nimmo
Clement Freud. Peter Jones and Aimi Macdonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Rptd: New Year's Day 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics Introduced by John Parry
(Monday's broadcast)
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer
The Recorder Revolution: PAUL BARNES with some insights on the man who rescued the recorder from virtual extinction - Arnold Dolmetscb.
2.0-2.2 News
Circus Children: NICK HUGHES meets three youngsters who have to go to 20 schools a year. and still find rime to learn juggling and tight-rope walking.
Reading your letters.
Do-it-Yourself Medicine: CHRISTINE DOYLE stocks the medicine chest.
TONY ROBINSON reads
I Had a Little Nut Tree by Loms BATTYE (2)
Story: Mr Mumpkin 's Move by RAINE BAMRAH
A two-part serial play by HALLAM TENNYSON Part 1: Choice
Wartime William
A selection of RICHMAL CROMP-TON's stories
Read by MARTIN JARVIS
2: William arid the Blackout
The news magazine presented by John Parry with PM's reporting team
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYAKE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge
Anne Scott-James and John Wells in the Chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
'Rptd: New Year's Day 12.27)
(Rptd: New Year's Eve 1.30 pm)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
on behalf of The Conservative Party
Part 1 as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2 as Radio 3
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer JOHN POWELLL
John Tusa reporting
The Little Ottleys
Book 2: Tenterhooks (10)
The second of two programmes in which a top organisational man and a junior colleague assess the value of their roles within the organisation and their attitudes towards each other.
Tonight J0HN HOSKEN talks to Rl Rev John Trlllo , Bishop of Chelmsford. and Rev Colin Travers , Curate and Diocesan Youth Officer for the Archdeaconry of West Ham.
preceded by Weather