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
Sue Cook visits a West End restaurant to meet Barry Stephenson: during the day he jointly runs the family machine tool and precision engineering business; twice a week in the evening he sings the sentimental songs of the 30s to the bright young people of the 70s as they dine. With RUSS HENDERSON at the piano and the songs recorded on an original Marconi-Reisz microphone of the period.
Producer JOHN TURTLE
Presented by Moira Stuart
NEM, p 62; Father, we praise thee (BBC HB 405); Psalm 36; Isaiah 11, v 10 to 12, v 2 (RSV); Immortal, invisible, God only wise (BBC BB 10)
Today's author is JOHN WAIN Peter Tuddenham reads
A Message from the Pig-Man
' Probably it was his own fault that everything seemed strange. The Pig-Man, for instance. None of the grown-ups acted as if the Pig-Man was anything to be afraid of.' Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Peter Reynolds reflects on his passion for archaeology.
Presenter Nancy Wise with your letters.
New stories about the characters created by A.J. CRONIN
A Case of Battery by DONALD BULL
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlak *
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Tommy Steele , star of film, stage and television.
2.9-2.2 News
Help on Platform Eight: ANN HEYNO visits a bureau for international travellers.
Christmas Cheers - 3: drinking early or late at Christmas with PAMELA VANDYKE PRICE.
Served with Love - 3: some recipes inspired by the world's religions - LIONEL BLUE in an Islamic kitchen. Jamaica Inn (7)
Story: Ted Goes Shopping by CELIA SMITH
The Real Proud Days by NAN WOODHOUSE
' We came in for the Golden Wedding day of Auntie Matt and Uncle Armitage. Their door was open to the afternoon, and to the people who kept popping in. We wondered who they'd come to see - the party didn't fall till Saturday - and found at last that it was you and me, and were surprised that something still went on that we had left behind so long ago: friendship and old time's sake, and all those things ... '
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester Preview: page 19
from The Queen's Free Chapel of St George, Windsor
Versicles and Responses (Smith); Psalms 73, 74 (Stainer, Medler, Garrett, Corfe): Lessons: 1 Kings 18, vv 17-29; Luke 7, vv 24-28; Canticles (Thomkins: Fifth Service) Anthem: Rorate Coeli (Byrd) Choirmaster
CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON Organist JOHN PORTER
Out of the Silent Planet (8)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Now it can be told: the truth about Gerard de Nerval 's lobster and Dante Gabriel Rosset ti's elephant. W. M. S.'Russell looks at some of the less conventional ways in which famous figures from history have amused themselves. Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme newt VHF Regional news and weather
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by STEVE BRAD-SHAW and DAVID HENSHAW. Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author
Book 2, Chapter 6: The Day Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE
Robert Kee with the last programme in this series about the powers behind the Press
6: Lord Shawcross, Chairman of the Press Council, the body set up to police the newspapers' editorial activities. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham (Revised repeat)
Presenter Tony Palmer Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting
Contestants from eight countries challenge a resident British team
England v Denmark. Round 1 England:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Denmark :
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Seren Serensen , Professor of Music, and former Rector of Aarhus University and Malin Lindgren , a leading Danish woman journalist Question researcher DAVID MACKAY
Producer TREVOR BILL BBC Manchester
(Revised rpt: Tuesday 10.5 am)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (13)
Weather report and forecast followed by an Interlude
