Producers
LESLIE COTTINGTON and BRYAN PLATT
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVES including at i.45* Prayer for the Day With CANON PETER HALL
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought /or the Day
Cooking for Christmas
Six weeks until Christmas, and many of us will be planning menus for the long Christmas break. There are cakes and puddings to be made, and if you've a freezer you may already be thinking of what you can put in to help ease the work during the festivities. Zena Skinner and Mary Berry are both professional and family cooks with lots of ideas, hints and tips on how to make cooking for Christmas a pleasant chore rather than a last-minute panic, and can help on anything from making marzipan to how to feed ten unexpected guests.
Judith Chalmers Is In the chair
Produced by the Woman's* Hour Unit
Lines open from 8.0 am long wave only
long wave only
The BBC's home correspondents and reporters talk about the stories and the people behind the news. _ Producer ELIZABETH SHEEHY long wave only
New Every Morning, P 1; 0 King enthroned on high (BBC HB 158); Psalm 3; Genesis 16, w 1-11 (AV); God moves in a mysterious way (BBC HB 8)
by JOHN BUCHAN (7) long wave only
long wave only
by Nancy Livingston
Alice is making a train journey from Birmingham to Manchester, but she gets mislaid. Edna waits anxiously as her mother travels all over the country.
(long wave only)
The waves of modern technology are sweeping us towards the turn of the century. What can we make of these new tools which are coming to hand? How will they shape our lives?
Reporter George Luce Producer JOHN EDWARDS long wave only
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Chertsey, Surrey
12.55Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Emergencies: how to cope if you're not trained, 2: Brake Failure, Tyre Bursts and Skidding.
Crowning Glory: modiste MADAME ADELE recalls the days of tulle, feathers and Sowers.
Nothing New under the Sunf: RON ALLDRIDGE challenges some of today's eccentric inventors.
Christmas Pick of the Paperbacks: with JUNE KNOX-MAWER and EDWARD BLISHEN
The Age of Innocence (11) long wave only
Story:
Alexander's Problem by ANNE GIBSON.
by WILKIE COLLINS. Part 5
Ferdie's Night of Magic by CLIVE RICHE
Read by Peter Craze
1 He was a young bloke in dapper gear, a checked sports jacket and smart grey flared trousers. But the funny thing was that he had in his hands three red balls, and these balls kept on appearing and disappearing with baffling regularity around his hands and up his sleeve.'
with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.51 Shipping forecast long wave only
S.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
'twixt
Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and Tim Rice
Lance Percival
Tune Twisters from Steve Race In the chair Roy Plomley
Devised and written by IAN MESSITER Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Thurs 12.27pm)
(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)
A programme of special interest to the visually handicapped.
Presented by David Scott Blackball and Peter White This edition includes a discussion on the attitudes of sighted people to the blind, and introduces a blind man who has decorated his own wedding cake.
Producer THENA HESHEL
To check on information, or comment on issues raised, telephone [number removed]after the broadcast, from 8.30 to 9.30
Handbook (same title), £1.50, by post from BBC Publications, PO Box 234, London [Postcode removed]
6: Britain and Portugal - the Oldest Alliance
In the last of six talks on his Iberian journey this summer, novelist Joseph Hone reflects on the long British association with Portugal: visiting the Anglican cemetery in Lisbon, where all the Imperial merchant adventurers and wine bibbers lie - and going north to Oporto to sample liquid reasons for this cordial alliance.
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Michael Oliver
Producer ANNE WINDER
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
by C. S. FORESTER adapted for radio in 20 instalments by VAL GIELGUD
Book 1: Mr Midshipman Hornblower
Part 4: The Examination for Lieutenant
Location recordings on the I. P. Thorsoe by CHRIS WEBB and DAVID FLEMING WILLIAMS
Directed by TREVOR HILL
BBC Manchester
Nightmare Abbey (7) long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
