News. weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson with HUGH SYKES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With JEAN RICHARDSON
7.0, 8.4 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30. 8.36 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
plus Angela Rippon as an inquisitive hostess of well-known guests on their birthdays, and other familiar names playing unfamiliar roles in the new live miscellany of reassuring entertainment. disturbing oddities, and stimulating arguments.
From Glasgow. Fran Morrison: from Cardiff. Gerry Monte; and from Dublin. Frank Delaney investigate and tell stranger than fiction real-life stories.
Live musical interlude! and punctuations by THE BOWI.ES BROTHERS
A Start and Stop the Week team production
NEM, p 93; 0 greatly blessed the people are (BBC HB 469); Psalm 11; Isaiah 57, vv 15-21 (av); Rejoice, 0 people, in the mounting years (BBC HB 181)
Mandala by GUY LOVE
Read by Patrick Malahide ' George Omi - here am I, a teacher of the sciences, employed to educate for the modern world, and you talk to me of mandalas. Superstitious pictures of ignorant priests! Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Story: Little Monster and the Space-Ship by ANGELA PICKERING
News and information that affects the way you live.
Including today:
The BBC Shopping Basket Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
' New Wat'e Woman ' Quiz: three victorious contestants from the first round meet to match their minds in the second round.
Christmas Timetable: a countdown on what to cook, when and how, with MARY BERRY and JANET WARREN and GAIL DUFF 'S ideas for stuffings for turkey, chicken and goose.
A New Term in a New Town: DAVID HAWKSWORTH talks to a student who's been at university since September.
Down The Rabbit Hole (7)
Live from the House of Commons
The Dartist by ANDREW LYNCH
' We had our liver Mid onions. The baby was asleep. I sat in my chair and Brenda in hers and it frightened me to realise how boring we had become. My mind drifted back to the old days when I was taking money from suckers, but now there was another dartist in town and I couldn't help wondering what he was like ... '
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
The Squire of Bor Sbachor (9)
The news magazine Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
Written by ALAN BOWER (Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
Light Verse
The seventh of 13 programmes in which Kingsley Amis introduces poems from The New Oxford Book of Light Verse The poems are by: W. S. GILBERT , THOMAS HARDY and RUDYARD KIPLING Readers HEATHER BELL
DAVID BRIERLEY andKINGSLEY AMIS Producer ALEC REID
(Repeated: Sat 11.20 am)
A concert recorded in Orchestra Hall. Chicago, and conducted by the orchestra's Music Director Sir Georg Solti with Alicia de Larrocha (piano) Part 1
Mendelssohn Overture; Scherzo: Nocturne: Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dreamt
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27, in B flat major (K 595)
J. W. Lambert invites you to join him once again for a few tall stories culled from the BBC Sound Archives and the pages of literature.
Part 2 Debussy
Prelude a lapres-midi d'un faune: Three symphonic sketches: La Mer
( Chicago SO Association recording)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The Enchanted Places (4) long trace only
Radio 4s International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report: forecast followed hy an interlude
