The market reports, plus news from the Royal Smithfield Show
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with John Timpson and LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day With FR VINCENT WHELAN
7.9, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
The last in this series presented by Orson Welles
Written by Benny Green
Zanuck, presiding genius of 20th Century-Fox, and last of the movie moguls, was perhaps the most untypical of the breed.
"Zanuck was the most creative of all the Moguls". (Jack Haley Jr)
(Revised repeat)
NEM, p 79; Thy mercy, Lord (BBC HB 482); Canticle 6, pt 2; Isaiah 8, v 22 to 9, v 7 (AV); 0 Lord of heaven and earth and sea (BBC HB 14)
by DICK FRANCIS (12)
'Other people's houses are full of things they've made themselves - awful collages made out of lentils and milk-bottle tops, cushion-covers knitted-up from unravelled hiking socks and rugs! I get my rugs from a shop. A rug shop. I go in, give them money and they give me a rug.'
Victoria Wood dedicates this short talk to the people who hate her flat.
Including JILL TODD and the BBC Shopping Basket. Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Yours Affectionately ... : PAT ROWE collects some family letters.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
Cooking for Christmas: alternatives to that Christmas pudding, suggested by JOHN TOVEY.
Reading Your Letters.
Women and Work (3): MARGARET KORVING and JENNY GLEW discuss a variety of employments and how to change and share a job.
The Ginger Tree (6)
Story: The Flower That Wasn't by LARAINE BAMRAH
As the Sparks Fly Upward ... by BRUCE STEWART
1The"holy"Cutid'Ars is spoken of as stupid - ill-informed - in personal demeanour, shabby and unprepossessing. And this is not by "free " thinkers, but by his fellow clergy i t Yet he is renowned far and wide for the wonders that are said to proceed from him. The prodigies. People queue up to confess to him. and he accommodates them all, however large the number. He soothes away distress, cures ills, and chief among marvels, perhaps. he is attended by strange -phenomena. Yes. There seems ample evidence for this. But as yet.... no explanation.'
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGIILIN BBC Bristol
A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
The Lump by j. A. GLYNN Read by Patrick Brannigan
'As he left the pub the bright afternoon sunshine made Pat screw up his eyes. As he walked leisurely past the shops he adjusted his cap . * the cap, along with the rest of the clothes he wore, was his only luggage during his sudden departure from Liverpool. When those two men had been seen standing outside his digs he didn't even have time to collect his back-pay, he'd jumped on the first train north.'
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
includingFlnancial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world.
(Repeated: Fri 1.40 pm) Written by MARY CUTLER
BBC Birmingham
with Peter Porter
How pleasant it is to have money
The third in a series of six programmes which take their theme from a line of poetry.
Readers Peter Wickham Philip Voss and Mary Elliot-Nelson Producer ALEC REID
or The Town of Titipu
Written by W. S. Gilbert Music by Arthur Sullivan conducted by JACK FORSYTH
Schoolgirls, nobles and guards played by the MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY'S CHOIR orchestra led by ANDREW READ
Technical presentation by JOHN WHITEHALL
Produced and directed by RICHARD WILLCOX
(The Musical Theatre Company broadcasts by permission of Martin Gates and Ken Hill )
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
9.59 Weather
with Anthony Howard
A Cab at the Door
4: Suburban Vicissitudes long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
