REV JOHN CONGDON
with Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, Including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Read by MANNING WILSON (2)
Which birds in a group form a ' charm '7 What is a ' crotchet-tailed puttock '? Do you know a bird that sounds as if it's trying to arouse a young cat? Whether you know the answers to these questions or not, why not join us for a Christmas wildlife quiz?
Introduced by DAVID STREETER Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
(Beast on Christmas Sunday)
Thanks to Peter Pan
Nancy Wise visits the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, which is partly supported by the royalties from J. U. Barries famous play. She talks to patients and their parents, and the staff who look after them.
Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR
BBC home correspondents and reporters
Presented by LAURIE MACMILLAN Producer STEPBEN KANOCZ
NEM, p 17; Behold, the great Creator makes (BBC HB 44); Psalm 33, vv 13-21; Philippians 2, vv 1-11 (NEB); A great and mighty wonder (BBC BB 41)
Week-end Flyer by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL Read by Roger SaowdoB
(Broadcast on Boxing Day)
Big Jake Rides Again by JOHN UNSWORTH
With his big Pools win, Jack Hepplewaithe takes the family away from Oldham on a sentimental journey to the American West, pursuing the memory of Great-Great-Uncle Jake, * the terror of Deadman's Gulch '.
Produced and directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise
...to Dynamic Living
Radio's Advanced Correspondence Course
All you have to do is fill in your name here: take out all the vowels and consonants and make an anagram of what remains to win Lesson 9 - Gain Spiritual Fulfilment the Burkiss Way with instruction from Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris. Alternative prizes: a script by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick or a production by Simon Brett
(Rptd: New Year's Eve 6.15pm)
Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Sir Denys Lasdun , architect of the National Theatre.
2.0-2.2 News
'A Peasant's Biggest Capital Investment '. BETTY SVENDSON plans to give practical help to donkeys abroad.
There'll Always be an England: GORDON SNELL revives, in words and music, the lost art of patriotism.
Sweet Confusion (2)
Story: Dr Susan by ANNE WELLINGTON
Out for the Count by KEN WHITMORE with ' I'm an old campaigner In the sex war. But when a man's advances are coupled with repeated warnings to be careful with my money, when you run after me all night round the Casino, spoiling my pleasure saying " don't spend this. watch your pennies " - and then when we get back to the hotel, try to break down my bedroom door, it's too much. What I can't stand is you being tight-fisted and randy at the same time! '
Produced and directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
In 1967 in the kingdom of Tonga, history was in the making. Two years after Queen Salote's death. her son was to be crowned King Taufa-ahau Tupou IV.
June Knox-Mawer looks back an her visit to the friendly islands of Tonga when she watched the Coronation of the head of the last Polynesian monarchy.
Producer PETER de ROSA
I Capture the Castle 2: The Visitors
Brian Widlake
S.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons in which Clement Freud, Peter Jones, Alfred Marks and Kenneth Williams endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this - or that.
(Repeated: New Year's Eve 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
with Roger Cook and Nick Ross Anywhere bat Next to us
The ratepayers in the West Midlands have a grievance and the travellers, or gypsies, have very few places to go, despite legislation designed to provide official sites throughout the country. This is regarded by many as The Solution to a persistent problem.
But now, eight years on, that problem has not gone away and the gulf between local residents and the itinerant traveller is as wide as ever. ROGER cook (for the travellers) and NICK ross (on behalf of aU local protest) investigate in the West Midlands area, and look at the national implications.
Production assistance
SALLY DIPLOCK. Producer ISABEL JAMES (Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
'Prudes on the Prowl In Leicester Square!'
'Empire Licence Refused' '1894 Sensation'
Tsars might die and Mongolian dynasties collapse but the loss of London's brightest and merriest theatre caused chaos in the capital.
Crowd effects by courtesy of the BA performance arts course of the Middlesex Polytechnic
Robert Fox on life in Milan, the city of St Ambrose and the warring family of the Visconti, whose emblems were the cross and the viper. Now it is Italy's industrial and financial capital, a centre of opera and the world of letters, and the city where Cardinal Montini. now Pope Paul VI , was Archbishop.
' Run on stage, scream with laughter -and drop dead! '
Sir John Gielgwd. in conversation with JOHN MILLER , talks about the problems of acting in television, radio and films.
' In movies they say " here's your leading lady and they pin up a piece of paper and you say your close-up to that! '
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions
Mrs Lirriper 's Legacy by CHARLES DICKENS
Read by BARBARA MITCHELL (2)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
1: Is Democracy an Efficient Form of Government?
This is the topic for tonight's discussion between Sir A. J. Ayer. Professor of Logic at Oxford. and Dr Edward de Bern, exponent of lateral thinking. Producer PAT TAYLOR
preceded by Weather
