News. weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day with BILL ALLCIIIN
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25', 8.25* Sport
7.30. 8 30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.57 Weather; travel
and good company -55 minutes of conversation. with guests from all walks of life, including a special birthday personality interview by Sarah Dunant.
Producer JOHN LAVIS
Same Time. Same Place by H. E. BATES
Read by Sandra Clark
NEM, p 102; Thou, whose almighty word (BBC HB
165); Psalm 118; Luke 24, vv 44-53 (NEB); Eternal light! Eternal light! (bp15)
followed by travel
News, views and advice for consumers
Presenter Jennl Mills
by Ted Willis
A serial in five parts adapted by the author from his novel.
With Annette Crosbie and Richard Pasco
(Richard Pasco is an associate artist of the RSC)
12.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Presenter Sir Robin Day
by the Liberal Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
The American writer. Paul Theroux.
What's in a Namef:
Many women today want to keep their surnames when they marry. KAREN DECO looks into the difficulties they can face.
New Records for Old:
PETER CLAYTON listens to a selection of new records with a familiar ring.
A Traveller In Time (10)
Trade Winds by PETER GIBBS
This autumn Britain imported more manufactured goods than it exported. It's getting easier to deal than to make, and more profitable too. But where does that leave a manager who cares about the people who work for him?
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
Pets
Presenter George MacBeth Readers JILL BALCON RONALD pickup and PETER WICKHAM
Producer ALEC REID
Advent Calendar
Daphne Oxenford reads from Christmas with the Savages by MARY CLIVE
The Sweet Dove Died (3)
Presenter Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
with HARRIET CASS including Financial Report
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge
Irene Thomas and Denis Norden In the Chair
Antonia Fraser
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
Producers TONY SHRYANE and PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Thu last of the present series of weekly
Investigations into the problems of listeners. Presenter Roger Cook
(Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Arts Without Mystery
The Henry James Professor of Letters at New York University, Denis Donoghue, gives the last of six lectures on the place of the arts in modern society.
A Talent for Conviction
' We can't safely assume that reading a great novel will do us some kind of good or activate our moral sense. There is no point in being scandalised by reports that commandants in Auschwitz worked all day at their monstrous jobs and went back to their quarters in the evening to listen to Bach or Mozart. The claims made for the arts, by which they would undertake the duties of priests or otherwise pursue an ethical purpose, are spurious.' (Rptd.- Sun 5.0 pm, R3)
(This lecture appears in THE LISTENER dated 16 Dec)
A 13-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann recounts, with the help of letters, diaries and memoirs, the adventures and reflections of composers abroad. 7: Mozart
1 I've seen four scoundrels hanged here, in the Piazza del Duomo. They hang them here just as they do in Lyons ... ' with Graham Seed as Mozart
Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD
Forty years ago this month,
Sir William Beveridge 's Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services was published. It was an instant bestseller, making Beveridge's name better known than any save Churchill's. The plan which he set out aimed at nothing less than the abolition of Want as a practicable post-war aim.
In this, the first of two programmes,
Gordon Clough traces the origins and subsequent history of today's welfare state.
Contributors include: THE
RT HON SIR HAROLO WILSON , MP, THE RT HON BARBARA CASTLE, LORD YOUNG OF DARTINGTON, LORD
LONGFORD. PROFESSOR BRIAN ABEL-SMITH, PROFESSOR PETER TOWNSEND and PROFESSOR DAVID DONNISON Producer MAGGIE REDFERN (Repeated: Thurs 11.3 am)
A nightly magazine of news, interviews and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Paul Allen
Producer JANE STENNING
John Morgan reporting
Anthony Holden and Anne Gregg present.... entertainment to put the steam back into radio.
A run around the inside track of showbiz, the media, money, books, music, fashion and politics.
Producers JULIAN HALE and DICK GILBERT
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour (3) long wave only
long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
