Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES BBC Wales
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Hedhead With HUGH SYKES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV ERIC DOYLE
7.6, 8.0 Today's News
Readbyi.auhiemacmillan
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Moira Stuart
continues his search in the BBC Sound Archives, but once again comes to no serious conclusion.
Studio guests join Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl for an unpredictable 55 minutes of argument, humour and some music, all of which is intended to start your week off in fine style.
' When parent birds are feeding their young, how do they know that each is getting its fair share and that the greedy ones aren't always at the front of the queue? ' The team politely take turns in answering your questions. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
NEM, page 79; God is our refuge and our strength (BBC HB 454); Psalm 104, vv 25-36; Isaiah 54, vv 1-10 (AV); 0 food of men wayfaring (BBC HB 209)
A Gentleman of Letter* byLANDPORT CHANCE
Read by Gerald Cross and Jon Gluver
Producer MICH RAPER
The Story of J. M. Barrie and Peter Pan
(Details: Tuesday 8.0 pm)
Story: The Top of the Hill by HERBERT MCKAY
The World of Work
With MARGARET KORVING Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DENNIS LOWER
13: South of England WALLINGFORD SCHOOL, OXFORDSHIRE v North of England
BRINKBURN COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, HARTLEPOOL
Questionmasters TIM CUDGIN, JOHN ANTHONY
Questions set by ROY SMITH
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
(Repeated: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Wldlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Why Am 1 So Small!: JUDY GRAHAM sits in on a clinic for children of retarded growth.
The Poet's Craft: D. J. ENRIGHT in conversation With JUNK KNOX-MAWER .
Another Month Older: MAUREEN STEVENS , in Christmas spirit, saya ' God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen '.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Down The Rabbit Role (4) by WINIFRED LEAR abridged In 12 parts by ANN REES-JONES
Read by ROSEMARY DAVID Editor WTN KNOWLES
Laura and the Angel by BRUCE STEWART
The Squire of Bor Shachor (6)
with Gordon Clough and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
3.50 Shipping forecast (Iong wave only)
5.55 Weather; programme news
New stories about the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
Wise Men Stay Silent by JOHN GRAHAM
Broadcast by arrangement With GRAHAM STEWART
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm) (Andrew Cruickshank is a National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
The Killing of Sister George by FRANK MARCUS
Adapted for radio by BARRY CAMPBELL with Sheila Hancock
Anna Calder-Marshall and Eleanor Bron
' Sister George is much-loved character in a long-running radio serial about life in an English village. But when the show starts losing its audience, the producers decide on drastic measures: they will 'kill off ' one of their leading characters. Sister George is convinced that it will be her....
Directed by GORDON HOUSE
AWorldServiceDrama production
A commemoration of William Hazlitt (1778-1830).
Written and compiled by John Ashe
with John Woodvine as William Hazlitt
Narrator Roger Snowdon
The 'self-tormenting, self-rejoicing life' of the one Coleridge described as 'brow-hanging, shoe-contemplative, strange - and addicted to women.' For all that, one of England's greatest essayists and critics, who was born 200 years ago this year.
Voices of Peter Baldwin, June Barrie, Henry Knowles
BBC Bristol
(June Barrie is a member of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ANNE WINDER
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
A series in six episodes
The horned gods
Leonard Pearcey talks to Ean Begg, Dr Hilda Davidson and Dr Gordon Huelin
(Recorded in Ely Cathedral and London)
(Binaural - the full binaural effect of this programme can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones)
The Enchanted Places by CHRISTOPHER MILNE abridged in ten parts by DORIS KER. Read by David Markham (1)
' So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.'
(The House at Pooh Corner)
The real Christopher Robin recaHs a happy childhood in the 20s and 30s in London and Sussex.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH BBC Plymouth long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
