Producers LESLIE COTTINGTON and BRYAN PLATT
with Harriet Cass
English Regions: see column 5
C.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Harriet Cass
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather* papers and sport
medium only from 9.40 Cooking for Christmas
If you would like tips from the experts - new ways with traditional favourites, easy menus for the unexpected guests, and dishes you can make in advance - put your questions to Zena Skinner and Robert Carrier.
In the Chair Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
medium onlu
medium only
Bernard Falk , connoisseur of the unusual, reports on a countrywide search for people who find fulfilment in unlikely, not to say eccentric, occupations and interests.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
NEM, p 122; Our Father's home (BBC HB 233); Psalm 40; Wisdom of Solomon 5, w 1-10, 13-16 (RSV); For all the saints (BBC HB 227)
medium only
Got a Ciggy? by PAT GARROD Read by Sandra Clark
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
medium only
medium only
A serial in six episodes by ROBERT BARR
5: Aladdin's Cave
In which we find the golden treasure house has been opened and all is gold to the touch.
Producer JOHN BROWELL
medium only
Presented by Mari Prichard
Roy Plomley's castaway is dancer Wayne Sleep. Show more
(Sat's broadcast: shortened)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF (exc London and SE)
Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widtake
medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor I Believe In ... Hinduism: PAUL BARNES with some of the followers of this major world faith.
2.0-2.2 News
Good an' Cheap - 2: ideas for Christmas from this month's newly published magazines, reviewed by GILLIAN STRICKLAND. Owls in the Bathroom: KEN JACKSON talks to CLIFF CHRISTIE about some of the injured birds he looks after.
Our Hermit: LIZ TAYLOR cham pions a local eccentric.
Jalna by MAZO DE LA ROCHE (4)
medium only
Story: What Happened to Red Fox by VERA RUSHBROOKR
by PHYLLIS BENTLEY 4: The Die is -Cast
Still She Wished for Company (2)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Waxing Lyrical
Peter Clayton has more words about words in popular song, especially those of some famous song-writing partnerships.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Including Financial Report
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Norman to Alan Coren. Richard Ingrams Clement Freud , mp and Barry Fantoni
Newsreader BRYAN MARTIN
Compiled and produced by JOHN LLOYD and DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
A weekly series of poetry programmes
Compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON Introduced by Henry Knowles Readers ELIZABETH BELL and GAVIN CAMPBELL and featuring Dylan Thomas 's Fernhill.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Part 1: as Radio 3
as Radio 3
Part 2: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
In Hong Kong Louis Allen goes East to report from the Festival of Asian Arts where Noh Theatre, Nepalese Dances and Cantonese Opera are performed amid the sky-scrapers, sampans and junks of Hong Kong Harbour. Producer CHRIS SWANN
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Introduced by Amanda Theunissen 5: Private Lives
● Today we talked about the shameful pleasure of reading other people's diaries.'
John Julius Norwich. Gillian Reynolds and Steve Race put it on record and leave it to posterity. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (2)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
