with Laurie Macmillan
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Derek Cooper in London
with Laurie Macmillan
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Derek Cooper in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
; Editor MIKE CHANEY
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
Radio 4's open line gives you the opportunity to voice your opinions on political issues.
Ring Birmingham [number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.0 am
NEM, p 71; The advent of our King (BBC HB 39); Psalm 97; Isaiah 26, vv 1-12 (rsv); Wake, 0 wake! (BBC HB 40)
The Battery by JACK PHILIP-NICHOLS Read by Victor Carin
' I picked up discarded dry cells out of anyone's dustbin and marked them experiment 85, 86, 87 and so on ... I played the part of the eager young scientist and didn't mind people mistaking me for a budding genius.'
Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland
In the second of two talks, Sir Geoffrey Jackson recalls some adventures in diplomatic self-denial.
Presenter Bill Breckon with your letters
Editor DENNIS LOWER
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
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Gordon Clougta Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Wales by Sue MacGregor Welsh Guest: actress Sian Phillips
2.0-2.2 News
It's Only a Game: j. P. R. WILLIAMS , the Welsh International rugby fullback, gives his personal views and medical opinion on the injuries suffered by rugby players at schoolboy and international level.
Christmas Music: some personal comments by GLYNNE JONES.
BBC Wales
Jamaica Inn by DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Read by DELIA PATON 9)
Story: Secrets by Joan Wyatt
Presenters Auriol Smith and John Bull
Vetchley 900 by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL sir philip: You're tired, Pascoe. Too much desk work.
What you need is a change of scene, a few days in Dorset. simon: Dorset?
SIR PHILIP: West of Hampshire. You'll know it when you get there.
SIMON: Why should I go to Dorset?
SIR PHILIP: Because Vetchley's in Dorset. And Vetchley's been chosen from the Southern Sector short list as our most likely candidate for the National Ethnology Year award ...
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
In the first of three programmes June Knox-Mawer remembers the sights and sounds of the South Sea Islands where she once lived, and the stories and customs of the happy people who populate those tiny dots of land in the Pacific Ocean.
Out of the Silent Planet by c. s. lewis, adapted in ten parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by GEORGE RAISTRICK (10) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Presented by Gordon Clough
Christmas Repast and Present
Anna Ford asks Robert Carrier and Christopher Fielden to relate some seasonal gargantuan regalement of yesteryear, with a comment or two on the more restricted possibilities available today.
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Including Financial Report
with Barry Norman
A programme for people on the move that tries to give you more miles for your money.
With up-to-the-minute news of what to avoid if you are on the move this weekend.
Producer ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard 's selection Producer DAVID EPPS
(Repeated: Saturday 9.10 am)
A spontaneous discussion by Arianna Stassinopoulos
The Rt Hon Edward du Cann , MP Moss Evans
Geoffrey Goodman
Chairman David Jacobs from Birmingham
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.15 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at
10.30 pm) to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer ARNOLD MILLER
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel and the keyboards of Bill McGuffie
Written by ANDY HAMILTON
BARRY PILTON and others. Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
Bob Grant describes one of the pleasures of life. BBC Manchester
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. TRAVEN abridged in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by PETER MARINKER (15) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting on Monday: Annals of the Parish by John Gait )
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
