March: London Calling
Fantasy: The Selfish Giant SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN LANCHBERRY gramophone records
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Peter Mayne
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV DR JOHN NEWTON
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with John Marsh
by JOHN GORDON adapted in five parts by DAVID SELF
Read by Martin Jarvis (1) Producer PETER FOZZARD (Martin Jarvis is in 'Caught in the Act at the Garrick Theatre, London)
' Live ' and lively conversation with guests helping to end the old year and begin the new.
Spokes(in the wheeDman Kenneth Robinson
Producer PETER ESTALL
In this special edition, Money Box visits the Bank of England printing works in Essex, where some eight million notes worth £36-million are produced every day.
Under the guidance of General Manager
Geoff Wheatley and other Bank of England staff, Vincent Duggleby goes on a tour of the works to see how the nation's cash is created from the original designs, through the highspeed security presses, to the final shrink-wrapped bundles - each one worth a small fortune.
Presenter Louise Botting A Financial World Tonight production
NEM p 89; Infant holy, infant lowly (Carols for Choirs Bk 1. 16): Psalm 118, vv 1-14; Matthew 2, vv 13-23 (av); Unto us a boy is born (OBC 92) long wave only
To Keep the Faith by MICHAEL BECKETT
Read by Elizabeth Proud Producer MITCH RAPER
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Robert Gittings
Readers NORMAN RODWAY and ANGELA DOWN
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Requests to:
Poetry Please
BBC Bristol, BS8 2LR
Jenni Mills and Bill Breckon find themselves involved in a lighthearted quiz which will give you the chance to test your knowledge of consumer affairs.
Producer MARLENE PEASE Editor DAVID HARDING
Half-an-hour of short-term happiness with Willie Rushton and guesti Christopher Barr Douglas Blackwell Sally Grace and Jo Manning Wilson Everything you always wanted to know about your schoolchildren but were afraid .. 2
Written by GUY
JENNIN BARRY PILTON , ANDY HAMILTON BARRY BOWES and others Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor , Including during the week some
Talking Point discussions; Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today
Gadgets Galore!: DAPHNE METLAND picks her way through the range of electrical implements now available to the cook - 6: Microwave Ovens.
Curtain Op ... : on the world of arts and entertainment with TONY BARNFIELD.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas ...
The Price of Light by ELLIS PETERS , abridged in two parts by MADGE HART Rend by Geoffrey Beevers (1)
It was a bitter
Christmas, that year of 1135 In the villages surrounding the Abbey of Shrewsbury the people shivered and starved. That same Christmas, Hamo FitzHamon , the brutal lord of two fat manors, gave the abbey two silver candlesticks to save his soul.'
(Music: Vinter's John 0 Gaunt)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Woman's Hour Book.
16.50, from booksellers
The Sword in the Stone by t. B. WHITE
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from BBC newsmen around the world
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
Another chance to hear one of the programmes for which Tom Vernon won the Radio Personality of the Year award.
In this series, he travelled out into the English summer to discover towns in which there is still a holiday flowering of tradition. His first trip was to Helston in Cornwall for The Furry Dance.
Producer JENNY DE YONG
The Fighting Cock by JEAN ANOUILH , translated by LUCIENNE BILL with John Clements as the General Sarah Badel as Aglae Wendy Murray as Sophie James Aubrey as Tarquin Mendigales Michael Aldridge as Baron Henri Belazor Written during the wilderness years of General de Gaulle, The
Fighting Cock of the title is also a general, and he too lives an exiled life in his backwater country house. There. like some
20th-century Don Quixote , he tilts against the windmills of moral corruption and seeks to expose the maggots of decay infesting the fruit of society. Indeed, so obsessed is he with his self-imposed crusade that he fails to notice the dangerous cracks that are threatening the fabric of his superficially serene domesticity.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
There's Something Out There
Aliens, triffids, mad robots, monsters from the Id. Science fiction has long played on man's fear of the unknown in nature, technology, outer space, or even lurking in his own unconscious.
John Baxter boldly goes into the unknown in the company of Kingsley Amis. J. G. Ballard,
Buster Crabbe, Thomas M. Disch, John Fowles and an assortment of mutants, aliens and bug-eyed monsters from film, literature and broadcasting.
Producer Richard DUNN Editor ROSEMARY HART
with Alexander MacLeod Editor KEN GOUDIE
Presented by Peter Evans Discoveries and developments from leading laboratories.
Producer Richard ELLIS
A Cab at the Door by v. S. PRITCHETT abridged by DONALD BANCROFT
Read in four parts by Peter Jeffrey 1: The Family
Producer MARGARET ETALL
A portrait of P. G. Wodehouse to mark the centenary of his birth with Frank Middlcmass as P. G. Wodehouse and Tudor Davies as Bertie Wooster
Other parts read by Geoffrey Banks and Ronald Harvl
Written and presented by Philip Thody Producer
STANLEY WILLIAMSON
BBC Manchester
Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
