Presented by Peter Hobday and Michael Stewart
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Mike Chaney airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about the BBC, its programmes and policies.
Producer JANET THOMAS

The Omen by ALPHONSE DAUDET translated by HARRY BELL Read by Garard Green

NEM, p 9; God of grace and God of Glory (BBC HB 391); Psalm 23; II Corinthians 4, w 1-12; 0 thou not made with hands (BBC HB 180). Stereo

Mike Stoddart finds out that beauty is skin deep after all. Producer MEUNDA BARKER BBC Bristol

Presenter Pattie Coldwell

Presenter Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Sing a Song of Cooking
2.5 Let's Join In Soundbox with The Retired Wizard by JEAN MCKENZIE
2.25 Sounds, Words and Movement The Miser's Christmas (1) Presenters JILL shilling and PAUL BURA
2.40 Listen! Journey Through Badlidrempt (7)

Introduced from Bristol by Sandi Marshall
The Two Minutes Silence: a report on the origins and the observation of this 75-year-old tradition
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN. BBC Bristol Bad Company (4)

The Nightrunners of Bengal Part 1

with Richard Mayne 3: The Italians: spaghetti-westerners
Producer Julian HALE

Marghanita Laski looks at the brief life of James Elroy
Flecker, who was born 100 years ago this month, and introduces her choice of his poetry.
Readers PAUL WEBSTER and PETER WHEELER
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester. Stereo

Let the People Sing
5: So This is Dunbury

Presenters Gordon dough and Robert Williams continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs , with help from ALANAH MARTIN , TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS . Producer IRENE MALLIS
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

with Margaret Howard Producer DAVID HEYCOCK

Nigel Rees examines the way the newspapers have behaved this week.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN

Inez McComack , regional organiser, National Union of Public Employees;
Donald Trelford , Editor, The
Observer; Johnny Apple, Chief London Correspondent, New York Times; and Patrick Moore from Northern Ireland Chairman John Timpson
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol

The achievements of George Gallup, inventor of the Gallup poll, a method of measuring public opinion, and responsible for revolutionary change in the democratic process.

by Alistair Cooke

with Michael Billington Producer KEVIN JACKSON

Some Do Not (5)

Presented by Richard Kershaw

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate
Sally Grace and Rory Bremner Written by IAN BROWN , RICHARD QUICK, PAUL B. DAVIES , MARTIN BOOTH, PETE SINCLAIR , STUART SILVER, DAVID COHEN , PETER HICKEY , JEREMY HARDY and others
Producer PAUL SPENCER

followed by an interlude

Radio History (14-16) Working-class Movements of the 19th Century
12.30 The Unskilled Workers by ELYSE DODGSON
12.50 Socialism and the Rise of the Labour Party by MURDOCH RODGERS