Presented from Wales by Gerry Monte.
(BBC Wales)
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Libby Purves
6.45 Prayer for the Day With The Rt Rev Michael Hare-Duke
7.0, 8,9 Today's News Read by John Marsh
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Eugene Fraser
by Herman Melville.
Read in three parts by David March
"In answer to my advertisement, a motionless young man one morning stood upon my office threshold. I can see that figure now, pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn. It was Bartleby - of all that race of scriveners - the strangest I ever saw, or heard of".'
and personalities who will be making the news in the week ahead.
NEM, p 50; Child in the manger (BBC HB 45); Psalm 89; John 3, vv 11-21 (AV); Angels, from the realms of glory (BBC HB 42): long wave only
by Celia Dale.
Read by Sheila Mitchell
by Barry Carman.
In its early years the BBC persuaded many of the most famous men and women of the time to speak at the microphone. H.G. Wells was the conspicuous exception. For the BBC and its programmes he had nothing but contempt. But in 1929, his attitude changed and for the next ten years, he was a regular and stimulating broadcaster. With Cyril Shaps as H.G. Wells.
Narrator David Graham.
(Revised repeat)
Some poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Dannie Abse
Readers Frances Horovitz and Douglas Leach
(BBC Bristol)
Requests: Poetry Please!, [address removed]
News, views and advice for consumers.
Presenter Bill Breckon
Barry Took opens, and leafs through his alphabetical anthology of show-business aided and abetted by chief page-turners Michael McClain and Marie Sutherland.
Today the letters ' 'N' and ' O ' which include ANTHONY NEWLEY , MIKE NICHOLS and LAURENCE OLIVIER , plus the programme's special guest Ned Sherrin.
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake with voices and topics in and behind the headlines.
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Tokens: spent on new books by Katherine and Rosalind Ereira, Sue Arnold and Alan Coren.
Forthcoming Attractions: Gordon Gow previews films on BBCtv during the next fortnight.
A Weekend Away - and Learn at the Same Time: Susan Marling looks at the wealth of short residential courses in everything from pottery to musical comedy.
A. J. Wentworth, BA (6)
by Max Williams
An occasional series about people who are happy at their work: Jim Ball, driving instructor
(BBC Birmingham)
by Michael Innes, abridged in ten parts by Neville Teller.
Read by Nicholas Courtney
This year Christmas with Basil Roper at Belrive Priory looks like being even more extraordinary than usual. And it's certainly fortuitous that his mysterious guest, 'Mr X', turns out to be a detective. For one of the preludes to dinner is murder!
Presenters Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
In the fifth of six bicycle trips, Tom Vernon goes to Umbria, where he hears of religion in Italy from a parish priest, of the future of Italian industry from a steel-maker, and of the production of wine from an Englishman establishing his own vineyard.
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
by William Trevor
with Anna Calder-Marshall as Matilda, Celia Johnson as Mrs Ashburton
Challacombe Manor in Dorset before the war, occupied by Mrs Ashburton, comes to exercise a peculiar hold over the young Matilda, with consequences to affect her the rest of her life.
BBC Bristol
Which side does the Good Fairy enter from? What panto character is always last to take a bow? Which panto is rarely performed because, like Macbeth, it's said to bring bad luck?
Michael Billington discovers the answers to these and other questions in conversation with John Morley, who has written over 100 pantomime scripts for most of this country's leading pantomime artists and borrows heavily from the traditions and gags of the past in order to entertain audiences of today.
Douglas Stuart reporting
Presented bv Peter Evans What is happening in science?
Producer RICHARD ELLIS
Lord Jim by JOSEPH CONRAD abridged in 15 parts by KEITH DARVILL
Read by Joss Ackland (1) ' Afterwards, when his keen perception of the Intolerable drove him away for good from sea ports and white men, even into the virgin forest, the Malays of the jungle village, where he had elected to conceal his deplorable faculty, added a word to the monosyllable of his incognito. They called him Tuan Jim : as one might say - Lord Jim.'
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only
long wave only
Stranss Oboe Concerto played by RAY STILL and the CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor SIR GEORG SOLTI at a public concert in Chicago
(Recording from Radio WFMT)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
