featuring the Royal Smithfield Show in London
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
China
What is life like in the People's Republic of China? Dr Jung Chang , a Chinese woman now living in London, and The Guardian's China expert, John Gittings , join Sue MacGregor to answer your questions.
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit Lines open from 8.0 am
Producer ZAREER MASANI
A Nice Change by JIM c. wilson Read by Paul Young Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland
Advent Calendar: Noah
NEM, p 71; Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27); Cantate
Domino (Anthems for Choirs 1); Genesis 9, w 8-19; Hills of the north, rejoice (BBC HB 33) Stereo
A special edition with subjects suggested by you, the listener. Reading your letters, playing your favourite sounds and giving you a chance to win the Mystery Sound competition.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
(Stereo)
Presenter Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner
Adelaide's Naughty Granny 2: Spring Cleaning
2.0 Education Now Phone In [number removed] What are We Paying for?
LIBBY PURVES talks to JOHN Tomlinson, Director of Education, Cheshire
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems: Julius Caesar (2)
Presented by Sue MacGregor Don't put your daughter on the stage.... ?
VALDA HOOD finds out about the job her daughter took as a stripper in a London revue theatre.
A Room with a View (10)
The Dragon Box by UNA FLETT with Maureen Beattie as Marian
'What I really want to show you is my lacquer box. My dad brought it back specially for me, from Burma. It's red, with gold dragons breathing curly flames all over it. I bet you've never seen anything like it - I never had.'
This was a gem of a piece
(THE GLASGOW HERALD)
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC Scotland Stereo
In 1946 'Sentimental journey' was one of the tunes played daily on the radio and in the dance halls, but for 70,000 young British girls that song had a special significance. They heard it on the ships taking them on a journey of a lifetime to join their GI husbands in America.
Jean Metcalfe remembers that amazing time with the help of GIs and their brides. Producer ANNE BROWN BBC Birmingham
Laugh with Lardner 2: Ex Parte
Read by Peter Whitman
Presenters Valerie Singleton and Robert Williams
With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.40 pm)
Reporter Stuart Simon Producer JOHN DRURY Editor BRIAN WALKER
(Repeated: Wednesday 4.0 pm)
Reporter Geoff Watts
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
(Repeated: Thursday 10.0 am)
Monster of the Rain Forest
Are there dinosaurs, alive and well, stalking the impenetrable swamp-jungles of the Congo
Basin? Roy Mackal , University of Chicago, and Marcellin Agnagna , Zoological Park of Brazzaville, tell of their encounters with the mokele-mbembe, perhaps a relict species of giant reptiles that have survived the 63 million years since the 'time of great dyings'. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Presenter Ian MacRae Producer THENA HESHEL
3: Letter from Beirut
The BBC's Middle East correspondent, Gerald Butt, reflects on the 'heart of Lebanon', as one author described the Lebanese family in the late 1950s. He finds that ten years of continuous bloodshed, with thousands of men killed or kidnapped, have left women to cope as head of the household, increased divorces and separations, and bred a generation of children who tend to reject all authority, including that of their parents.
Series producer ZAREER MASANI
Presented by Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN POWELL
Mr Facey Romford's Hounds 7: Mr and Mrs Watkins
Presenter Charles Wheeler
11.0 Headlines on VHFIFM until 11.0
The Chip Shop Presented by Barry Norman What is happening in the world of computers and does it matter? Producer TREVOR TAYLOR Chipline: London [number removed]Liverpool [number removed]Bristol [number removed] Birmingham [number removed] Stereo
followed by an interlude
