including reports from the Royal Smithfield Show
with Peter Donaldson
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Derek Cooper in London
with Peter Donaldson
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Derek Cooper in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
Dating
Teenagers are courting earlier and reaching physical maturity sooner. In today's ' moral vacuum' young people have set their own standards of behaviour towards the opposite sex. They range from the virtuous to the frankly promiscuous. Moyra Bremner reflects on these new social customs with the parents and their children.; Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM
Presented by Peter Jeffersoa Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY
NEM, p 42; Behold the amazing gift of love (BBC HB 484); Psalm 98; Isaiah 6, vv 1-10 (RSV); Glorious things of thee are spoken (BBC HB 176)
Today's author is
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
William Roberts reads from The Bridal Party abridged by JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFF
' Nothing will ever be the same again,' he said to himself. ' She will never be happy in her marriage and I will never be happy at all any more.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Some of Britain's quarter of a million pigeon fanciers talk about their hobby.
Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Evelyn Barbirolli, oboist and widow of Sir John Barbirolli.
2.0-2.2 News
Any Other Business: a look at some of the more domestic points from Parliament.
Christmas Choice: Delia Smith, cookery writer, chooses her favourite new cookery books
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Read by Delia Paton (2)
Story: Christopher and the Dust Dragon by JENNIFER BAILEY
The BBC Drama Repertory Company in Rendezvous with Death by JOHN TARRANT with Rod Beacham Henry Knowles and Jane Knowles
A woman is found unconscious in a car in Epping Forest - an unlikely suicide? Or a murder victim? Had she or had she not met someone there? And how well did they know each other? Det-Sgt Harris finds too many motives, let alone suspects, to make his investigations just routine.
Directed by MARGARET ETALL
from Winchester College Chapel Responses (Humphrey)
Psalm 37 (Walmisley, Barnby, S. Wesley )
Lessons: Isaiah 5, vv 1-7; Luke 21, vv 20-31
Canticles (Stanford in A)
Anthem: Christe Jesu , Pastor bone (John Taverner )
Hymn: Father most holy (A and M Rev 158)
Organist and Director of Chapel Choir RAYMOND HUMPHREY
Assistant organist JOHN BELCHER BBC Bristol
Out of the Silent Planet by c. S. LEWIS
Read by GEORGE RAISTRICK (3)
The news magazine
Presented by Brian Widlake with PM's reporting team
At My Leisure
Laurens van der Post talks to DEREK PARKER about his interest in African cooking. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the Chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by Steve Bradshaw and David Henshaw
BBC Manchester
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author and Book 2, Chapter 5: The Holiday
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE
Continuing this series of conversations with the powers behind the Press.
5: Sir Denis Hamilton. Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Times Newspapers Ltd
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Presenter Tony Palmer
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Contestants from eight countries challenge a resident British team
England v Italy. Round 1 England:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Italy:
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Professor Luigi Spaventa , economist, on the staff of Rome University and Francisco Russo , journalist and London
Correspondent of L'Espresso Question researcher DAVID MACKAY
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. TRAVEN
Read by PETER MARINKER (8)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
