with Eugene Fraser
English Regions: see column 5
1.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Michael Cooke in Manchester Nigel Rees In London
with Eugene Fraser
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Nigel Rees in London
Michael Cooke in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
Classic stories of the uncanny by AMBROSE BIERCE
Read by ROBERT LANO
2: The Man and the Snake
Care of House Plants
Millions of house plants have found themselves new homes over Christmas, and are by now wondering whether they can look forward to a long and healthy life, or whether they must wither and die after a few short weeks.
Jock Davidson , display organiser of the largest houseplant firm in the country, will be in the studio to give advice on how to share your home happily with your plants. , In the Chair Jill Burridg * Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
NEM, p 21; Angels, from the realms of glory (BBC HB 42); Psalm 15; Romans 4, vv 8-16 (NEB); In the bleak mid-winter (BBC HB 51)
The Tidy Ladies by MICHAEL J. BUTLER
Read by Martin Jarvis
She shot me a quizzical look. ' You appear to be a little large for sweets or biscuits. You must have grown.... boys should never grow up into men.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
The Dreamers by SEAN WALSH
Liam is certain he's for the big break - but the first thousand is always hardest to make. As his friend tells him ' What would we be but for thedreamin?ApairofIrish labourers on a buildin' site '.
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN BBC Northern Ireland
Last year Dougal Haston , one of the world's finest climbers, was killed by an avalanche whilst skiing In the Alps.-Chris Bonington presents an appraisal of the art of mountaineering compiled from the recorded reminiscences and writings of Dougal Haston and dedicated to his memoryi Reader GARY WATSON
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
Presenter Mari Prichard with your letters
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Brian Widlak *
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Holiday Chooseday - 1: DOREEN TAYLOR with a selection of budget holidays in Scotland.
2.8-2.2 News
Daisy and the Rubbish Tip: MARIE CROSSMAN 'Scat loves paper bags.
The Pride and Joy of My Lifer ROSAMUND ESSEX, former Editor of the Church Times, talks to MARY CRAIG about being an unmarried adoptive mother.
Managing Deafness: JEAN FIT-CHEW reports on a course which teaches you to cope with your hearing aid.
Sea Wyf and Biscuit by J. M. SCOTT
Read by JOHN SAMSON (3)
Story: Frisby by RITA POGSON
T; Trials and Tribulations
Mapp and Lucia by b. r. BENSON
Read by AUBREY WOODS (2)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Vienna Bon-bon
Charles Osborne looks back to the dance halls of 19th-century Vienna when the music was provided by small orchestras and a wide variety of composers.
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Including Financial Report
The humorous wireless programme
Lesson 27: Around the World the Burkiss Way
Starring Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris
Written by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK
Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30pm)
A weekly series of poetry programmes
Compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON Introduced by Henry Knowles Readers ELIZABETH BELL and SEAN BARRETT
Including Up at a Villa - Down in the City by Robert Browning Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
as Radio 3
... you should be sent to The Tower ...
1 admire your stand ...
As the colours fade in the tinsel of Silver Jubilee Year, the leading parliamentary advocate of Republicanism takes a back seat as he introduces a selection of letters from his postbag in 1977 - a year which belonged essentially to the institution he loves to hate. The correspondence, caustic and complimentary, reflects the thought of the great British public on the InstitutionofMonarchyand on Mr Hamilton himself. Producer DENNIS LOWER
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer JOHN MILLS
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
In this series of five programmes Anita Morgan meets members of South Wales Societies enjoying themselves in their leisure time. on land, on the water and in the air.
1: The Ferndale Homing Society Producer TELERI BEVAN BBC Wales
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Written and read by John Le Carré (1) abridged for radio in 14 episodes by GAVIN CAMPBELL
' We act it to one another, all this hardness, but we aren't like that really, I mean ... one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold ...'
The topical and terrible story of English agent Alec Leamas , caught up in the monstrous realities of the Cold War. Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
