6.25 Shipping forecast long wave onlu
Presented by John Timpson With HUGH SYKES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45 Thought for the Day
Popular classics on records presented by Richard Baker
(Revised repeat of Saturday's broadcast at 7.30 pm) long wave only
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long wave only
NEM, p 25; Virgin-born, we bow before thee (BBC HB 240); Psalm 9; Luke 2, vv 22-35, 39 (AV) Jesus, good above all other (BBC HB 72)
The Ice Skater by FRANCES MCNEIL
Read by David Mahlowe Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester long wave only
Brian Johnston recently visited Daventry in Northants.
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
(Rev repeat: Sunday 5.15) long wave onlu
11.40 Announcements long wave onlu
Story: Young Hedgehog and the Squawking Hens by VERA RUSHBROOKE
Presenters JEAN ROGERS and GARY TAYLOR
Written by JEAN ROGERS
Producer BRIAN SCOTT -HUGHES long wave only
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Editor DENNIS LOWER
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
Chips and Children: the world of micro-electronics, and silicon chip technology in particular, might he unfamiliar and worrying to the adult population as yet, but for our children it will be a reality.
On the eve of the World Snuff Championships to be held at Wellington in Somerset, SHEILA HARNETT takes a look at the history of the snuff-taking habit.
Women Rule, OK: this spring, district council elections will take place all over the country. Three West Country women, involved in local politics, discuss the role more women could play in ' grass roots ' government.
Inventors Take Heart: a new magazine just for you has been launched in Bristol.
BBC Bristol
William Makepeace
Thackeray - Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman by MARGARET FORSTER
Read by RICHARD LEECH (9) (Richard Leech is in ' Whose Life is it Anyway? ' at the Savoy Theatre, London) long wave only
A new stereophonic production of Henry Reed's radio version of the novel by Herman Melville
Music by Antony Hopkins
Starring Colin Blakely as Captain Ahab
with Philip Sully as Ishmael and Marius Goring as Father Mapple
Music played by the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra with the BBC Northern Singers conducted by the Composer
(Henry Reed's dramatisation was first broadcast in 1947)
(Repeated next Mon at 7.20 pm; Thurs at 7.30 pm)
(Call Me Ishmael, a feature about Herman Melville: Sunday at 10.15 pm)
Presenters Susannah Simons and Gordon Dough
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with Barry Norman bringing you the stories behind the scenes in the world of travel amd transport. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon at 1.40 pm)
June Knox-Mawer presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer BRIAN COOK
(Repeated. Sat at 10.30am)
A personal portrait
A spontaneous discussion by Lord Kearton Shelagh Roberts Arthur Scargill Michael Winner
Chairman David Jacobs from Milton Keynes
Producer CAROLE STONE PBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat at 1.10pm)
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer CARROLL MOORE
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason , Bill Wallis David Tate. Sheila Steafel and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK , ROGER WODDIS ,
JEREMY BROWNE , BARRY BOWES
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm) Woddis on ... : page 8
Fritz Spiegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat at 11.55am)
Green Mansions (5) long wave only
(long wave only)
II Domestico by JOYCE MERRICK with Jonathan Newth as Tom Amanda Murray as Janet Janet Hargreaves as Pauline and Graham Faulkner as the Service Engineer
When robots do all the domestic chores, housewives will have no problems -or will they? Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Postponed from 22 Dec)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
