including reports from the Royal Smithfield Show
Producers LESLIE COTTINGTON and KEN POLLOCK
with John Hedges
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Derek Cooper in London
with John Hedges
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Derek Cooper in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
Learn and Remember
If you're studying you may be finding it difficult to organise, concentrate on, understand, digest, remember or reproduce what you're learning.
For help with improving your study techniques and memory, put your questions to Tony Buzan , author of Use Your Head and to Dr Audrey Wisbey. educationist and training adviser to the Industrial Society. In the Chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0
nem, p 38; Christ, whose glory fills the skies (BBC HB 137); Psalm 24; Isaiah 5, vv 13-16, 20-24 (RSV); Hills of the north, rejoice (BBC HB 33)
The Elephant by RODERICK J. GRANT Read by Sam Kelly
Red Wine by TANITH LEE
Presenter Mari Prichard with your letters
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Grace Bumbry. Show more
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
12.55 (medium only) Weather and programme news
VHF (exc London and SE) Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
I Believe in ... Islam: Paul Barnes with some of the followers of this major world faith.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Daisy and the Fridge: Marie Crossman's kitten has already lost two of its nine lives!
Christmas Choice: Jill Burridge reviews some gardening books.
Old and Cold: Anne Macnamara investigates hypothermia.
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier abridged and read in 12 parts by Delia Paton (1)
When Mary Yellan arrives at Jamaica Inn, she finds her Aunt Patience sadly changed. The laughing, pretty woman has become a terrified, timid mouse; her husband, the land-lord of the inn, is drunken and violent. Looking at them, Mary recalls the words of the coach-driver who brought her from Helston: 'Jamaica's got a bad name. Respectable folk don't go there any more!' (Music: Salzedo's The Witch Boy)
Story: Little Train Loses his Flowers by ROSALIND FOX
by CHARLES DICKENS , dramatised in 12 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL and CONSTANCE cox and ' Shall we tell the lamentations that ensued when Miss Rachael found herself deserted by the faithless Jingle? Shall we extract Mr Pickwick 's masterly description of that heart-rending scene? His notebook, blotted with the tears of sympathising humanity, lies open before us. But. no! we will be resolute! We will not wring the public bosom, with the delineation of such suffering! '
But the unhappy Tracy Tup-, man could not escape his share of suffering.
3: Eatanswill with HEATHER BELL
MICHAEL GOLDIE , BRENDA RAYS and HENRY KNOWLES
Musicians JOHN DONALDSON and MICHAEL LAIRD
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Elizabeth Spriggs is a National Theatre player)
Out of the Silent Planet (2)
Presented by Brian Widlake
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 comedy programme that's a blot on civilisation.
Lesson 23: Son of the Burkiss Way starring Jo Kendall
Nigel Rees , Chris Emmett
Fred Harris. Written by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK Producer JOHN lloyd
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
Compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON Introduced by Henry Knowles Reader GAVIN CAMPBELL and featuring The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Fitzgerald Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
Presenter Michael Billington Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting
The Wonder Show, starring
John Cleese , Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden. David Hatch Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie With THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Producers BOB OLIVER ROGERS and DAVID HATCH
(First broadcast in 1973)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. TRAVEN (7)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
