News, weather, papers, sport
What Britain is getting up to. Introduced by Brian Redhead and Mike Vestey including at
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
by CHARLES DICKENS
(A revised repeat of Saturday's broadcast at 7.30)
NEM. p 58: Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (BBC HB 151); Psalm 150; Luke 11, vv 1-13 (NEB); Father, who on man dost shower (BBC HB 389)
Christmas Roses
Written and read by Edna O'Brien
' Miss Hawkins had always had a soft spot for gardening ... she kept busy in all of the four seasons, busy and bright, and not a month without some blooms. At Christmas was she not proud of her Christmas roses....? .
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
News and information that affects the way you live. Including today the BBC Shopping Basket
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines
Presented by Brian Widlakc
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two: a discussion on a matter of current concern.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Prize-Giving Date ANNE MAC-NAMARA looks at its decline.
Answering Your Questions: replies to some of those received but not aired in recent Tuesday Call programmes. TheRector'sDaughter(8)
Story: Snowy Finds a Job by ELSA BECKETT
by Owen Holder
with Owen Holder, Robert Trotter and Eve Karpf
When Hammond renews a wartime friendship he finds his middle-aged comrade has acquired a young wife. whose behaviour is puzzling to say the least. And what has happened to the Ronnie he used to know?
From gardeners to ghost-hunters: from poets to pop stars: from cantors to crime-writers. Jack de Manio meets them all. Could you be on his list?
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
The Old Wives Tale (4)
Presented by Brian Widlakc
What's On at the Empire? Presented by Peter Pratt
While Gilbert and Sullivan reigned at The Savoy, what other entertainment delighted the late Victorian and Edwardian public?
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme new*
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
Written by BRUNO MILNA
(Repented: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham
A recording of a hearing brought before the London Small Claims Court.
The Small Claims Courts in London and Manchester were established to enable people claiming damages or redress up to a sum of 1350 to meet informally the people against whom they were making their claim in the presence of an arbitrator, by whose decision both parties have agreed to be bound. This week:
The Elusive Dustcart
Producers SUSAN SNAiLUM and PAT TAYLOR
(The recording was made with the permission of the London Small Claims Court)
(Repealed. Friday 10.5 am)
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Game farming in Northumberland and trout farming in Kent as seen by Keith Allan and Richard Burwood: in Herefordshire. Paul Humphreys finds a thriving family-run village shop and in her Oxford-shire village Mollie Harris sees harvesting start: on Scotland's East Coast Eric Simms watches the birds of the Black Isle of Inverness, while on the West Martin Muncaster sails to the island of Jura via the Kvles of Bute and the Crinan Canal. Producer JOHN HASLAM Broadcast on Mon at 11.5 am)
George Target remembers some endearing eccentrics he has met. This week: the man who lived for the day he was born.
Tony Britton presents
Hip Hip Hooray for ... ... Fads and Crazes
A lighthearted review in prose and song of novelties and obsessions that have swept Britain over the past 200 years or so. with Norma Ronald David Ryall and Dudley Stevens
Songs by DOREEN HERMITAGE
SHEILA MATHEWS , PETER REEVES and THE CHARLES YOUNG SINGERS
AND MUSICIANS
Devised and compiled by GERALD FROW
Producer JOHN DYAS
Presenter Jacky Cillott Producer CARROLL MOORE
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world.
Bernard Falk has been off again to meet all kinds of people who have found the secret of happiness in unusual and sometimes eccentric occupations.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Ken Campbell describes one of the pleasures of life.
BBC Manchester
Journey Through a Small Planet (4)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
