Presented from Scotland by ROY GREGOR
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV DERRICK GREEVES
The world this morning, what Britain's getting up to, plus the news from anywhere on earth, introduced by John Timpson and Gillian Reynolds. 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 ANTHONY ARMSTRONG Read in five parts by Ian Carmichael
1 : Winter Sporting
I I have noticed a pair of crutches in the hall of the hotel. The porter ten's me there are others, but they are in use. It appears one can hire them. I am not looking forward to my first ski-ing tomorrow.' Producer JOHN CARDY
aided by Sheridan Morley, Mavis Nicholson, Lance Percival, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl
Enjoy a mixture of argument, humour and music as they meet the personalities, preview the popular arts and discuss a theme of the week ahead.
Sheridan Morley's Preview: page 19
The secret of the bee that can choose the sex of its young; the wildlife sound competition; readings from the postbag; and what to look out for in the coming month.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
nem, p 58; A little child there is yborn (Oxford Book of Carols 118); Canticle 1, vv 1-15; Luke 1, vv 39-55 (RSV); In the bleak mid-winter (BBC HB 51)
Boxes, Little Boxes ... by Pat Burchard
Read by June Barrie
'Now wait, all of you,' said Stephanie, ' while I fetch the syllabub. I made it myself and it's absolutely delicious.' And that's when it happened. Just a quick shifting of the floor and back again. We stopped talking. The chandelier began to swing ...
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pin)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Lyn Macdonald The World of Work
MARGARET KORVING Studies the job market and looks at new opportunities.
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Julia Foster. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Jonathan Dimbleby Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced by June Knox -Mawer The Cost of a Call: imaginary telephone conversations in which NORMA ROLAND is challenged by JOHN HOLLIS.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Winter Vegetables - 1: HELEN TULLBERG suggests ways with leeks.
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON gow reporting
TONY ROBINSON reads
I Had a Little Nut Tret by LOUIS BATTYE (6)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Bath Time for Ben by SHEILA M. ATTER
Listen with Mother Stories: £2.60 from bookshops
The Lucas Testament A play for radio by MICHAEL ROBSON
(Saturday broadcast)
The Luck of the Vails by E. F. BENSON abridged for radio In ten parts by RAYMOND RAIKES
Read by Norman Shelley
A thriller of the year 1900 which tells the story of a bejewelled golden goblet, a family heirloom known as ' The Luck of the Vails,' with a legend engraved upon it which seems to carry the threat of a curse by fire, frost and rain, 1: The Coming of the Luck Producer JEAN BOWER
The news magazine: presented by Jonathan Dimbleby with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.58 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
'twixt
Katharine Whitehorn Eleanor Summerfield and Tim Rice , David Nixon
Tune-twisters from Steve Race In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Twenty-five Years of The Archers, 60p, from bookshops
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Henry Longhurst discusses with DEREK JONES the way in which he combines his love of golf with an enthusiasm for natural history, and illustrates it with wildlife recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer JOHN BURTON BBC Bristol
In The Cage by HENRY JAMES dramatised for radio by D. G. BRIDSON with Julie Hallam as the Girl
Martin Jarvis as Capt Everard ' You really are thankful for the wire grille sometimes.... After all, it's there to keep all the other people out, you know. You can take just as much of them as you need, in my work. But often - you'd be surprised just how interesting that can be.'
Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Presenter Jacky Gillott
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNI
The Little Ottleys by ADA LEVERSON
Book 2: Tenterhooks
Read by GERALDINE MCEWAN (14)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Book, How Money Works, 40p from bookshops
The first of four programmes which examine some aspects of the paranormal in the light of current scientific knowledge.
Tonight Jane Finnis looks at The Brain -Machinery of the Mindf with the aid of Tony Buzan Professor Mark Hansel Renée Haynes and Professor John Taylor Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
preceded by Weather
