played by Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir gramophone records
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Libby Purves and Hugh Sykes
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.9, 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.38, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Part 8
by Gerald Priestland
A steady trickle of people insist on making the journey from John O'Groats to Land's End by a variety of unlikely means. What do they find when they get there? Is it worth staying on?
Is tourism the passport to development that many countries seem to think? Mike Wooldridge looks at the expanding tourist trade in the Third World. A Radio News production by JOHN ALLEN
NEM. p 25: Love came down at Christmas (BBC HB 53); Psalm 119, pt 8; 2 Timothy 1, vv 1-12 (AV); 0 little town of Bethlehem (BBC HB 56) long wave only
Tom's Midnight Garden (6)
A musical version of the story by OSCAR WILDE with the children of ST BARNABAS and ST PHILIPS C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL, and the LONDON BOY SINGERS, conducted by ALAN DIXON. This production won the International Ondas Prize 1980, awarded in Barcelona last November.
Ian Wallace as the Giant Recitative HILARY WESTERN Soloists NICHOLAS IMISON , LOUISE MARCEL. SARA OLIVIER , ALEXA HARRIS , MELINA CARRIERE , JACOB CUNNINGHAM
Lyrics by PETER RAPSEY Music composed by ALAN DIXON arranged and "conducted by PETER HOPE and DAVID WATTS
Intermezzo for guitar arranged by HECTOR QUINE and played by ERIC HILL Sound TED DE BONO and ROB BAYLY
Producer ALEC REID (Rpn
An occasional series about people who are happy at their work
Today: Joe Ross , furrief Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
The past year has brought a changed emphasis on consumer protection away from legislation towards competition and voluntary codes. Will it work?
Producer LESLIE ROBINSON
by P.G. Wodehouse, adapted in six episodes by Richard Usborne
Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast Jong wave only
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
Winter at the Top; how do the inhabitants of the highest village in England, prepare for the onslaught of winter? HELEN LLOYD has been to Flash in the Peak District to find out.
The ' Stradivarius ' of Mulvern: KARL HEPPLE -WHITE made his first violin because his family could not afford to buy him one. Now his craftsmanship is highly prized. He talks to GWYN RICHARDS about his work. food from a Cold Climate: LILI RAFIQI offers some warming recipes from Kashmir.
BBC Birmingham
A. J. Wenlworth , BA (5)
A play by Gregory Evans based on M.R. James's short story "Casting the Runes".
Embroiled in a public controversy with a black-magic charlatan called Gardini, Montague receives an unexpected apology from the man - an apology which masks a strange and inexorable curse: Montague has been hexed.
BBC Bristol
Eight talks in which a memory is triggered off by a sight, sound, smell, taste or touch.
7: A Square of Sacking and a Lump oj Tin
They are two of Mary Craig 's greatest treasures. What is their significance? How did she acquire them? Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER
Madam Lilian Stiles-Allen began her career as an oratorio and concert singer at the outbreak of the First World War.
In conversation with Tcleri Bevan she recalls some aspects of her work as a singer and as a teacher. (First broadcast on Radio Wales)
The Golden Thread by D. GRAHAM JENKINS Read by John Prior
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Presenters
Susannah Simons and Gordon Clough
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
The world of travel and transport.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Mon 1.40 pm)
Producer JEREMY BIRCHALL (Repeated: Sat 10.45 am)
Alan Howard is an actor with an astonishing theatrical lineage. His great-great grandfather played the gravedigger to Henry Irving 's Hamlet; Leslie Howard was his uncle. Today he's generally acknowledged to be one of the finest actors on the British stage.
Presenter Sonia Beesley Producer RACHEL ATTWELL (Repeated: Sat 4.40 pm)
(Alan Howard is a member of the RSC)
Lord Mancroft. The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley. mp. Jill Knight , mp, Rudy Narayan from Camberley. Surrey Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated; Sat 1.10 pm)
The Ring Goes Ever On
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them - In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
The Lord of the Rings, a trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien, was first published 25 years ago.
This mixture of fantasy and folklore, myth and magic, has attracted criticism as well as a cult following and sold over eight million copies in 18 languages.
Michael Oliver explores The Lord of the Rings with the help of ROBERT GIDDINGS , HUMPHREY CARPENTER, VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM and PROFESSOR T. A. SHIPPEY
Producer JOHN BOUNDY
David Lay reporting
Barry Tuok with Michael McClain and Marie Sutherland.
Today, the letters 'L' and ' M ' which include TOM LEHRER , LAUREL AND HARDY and THE MARX BROTHERS, plus special guest Sheridan Morley. Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE
My Apprenticeships (51
An imaginary sale of the BBC's Sound Archives attracts Alan Hamilton to take time off from The Times Diary to browse through the catalogue and choose the recordings he would most like to own. Producer HELEN FRY
with Dilly Barlow
Radio 4 goes up tempo to start the weekend.
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
