Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
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
with this week's collection of conversational curiosities
Producer PIPPA BURSTON. Stereo
Daniel O'Rourke by THOMAS CROKER
Read by Sean Barrett
Advent Calendar: Land of Milk and Honey
NEM, p 79; City of God, how broad and far (BBC HB 173); Jesus Christ the apple tree
(Poston); Numbers 13, vv 1-3, 17-24; Jerusalem the golden (BBC HB 248). Stereo
Derek Robinson challenges some beliefs we take for granted.
This week:
The Guns of Singapore Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Presented by John Howard
If you have any comments for today's programme, phone [number removed]after 11.0 am.
by G. K. CHESTERTON (2)
Stereo
Presented by Sir Robin Day
1.55 Listening Corner
3: King Jolly and the Snow
2.0 La France aujourd'hui French IV
5: Programme varié (2) and at 2.15
6: Qu'avez-vous compris? (Repeats)
2.30 Books. Plays, Poems Hard Times (3)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Katherine Hamnet , promoter of the protest slogan T-shirt, who was recently voted London's Designer of the Year.
Life's Rich Pageant (5)
The Winged Lions by ANGUS GRAHAM-CAMPBELL
Marilyn and Julie go on holiday to Venice with their parents. They are bored until they meet Tom, a young
American. Then everything changes - becomes strange....
Directed by DAVID SPENSER. Stereo
Parodies
Six programmes compiled and presented by Simon Brett 5: Exotic Banalities
Readers tim PIGOTT-SMITH and DAVID BRIERLEY
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
The Woman in Black (3)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50.5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Second Semi-Final 14: West v North (2)
WORLE SCHOOL, WESTON-SUPER-MARE V CITY OF LEEDS SCHOOL
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny
Questions set by PAUL LIVESEY, NIGEL RICHARDSON and PADDY FEENY
Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
Case histories from listeners form the basis of this weekly investigation into allegations which can include unfairness, injustice, bureaucratic bungling or even fraud.
Presented by Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS .
Minds, Brains, and Science Six talks by John Searle, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
6: The Freedom of the Will
'It is tempting to think that, just as we have discovered that large portions of common sense do not adequately represent how the world really works, so we might discover that our conception of ourselves is entirely false. But there are limits on this possibility....'
Professor Searle has attempted to answer some of the questions that concern him most about how we fit into the rest of the universe. In his final lecture, he explores our profound conviction that we act of our own free wills - a conviction that persists in the face of strong evidence to the contrary.
Book (same title) hardback £8.95, paperback £5.25 available from booksellers
A Life of Johnson
'On his death he made a chasm, which not only nothing could fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. No man can be said to put you in mind of Samuel Johnson. '
Scenes, memoirs, notes, and reflections from the mind and times of Dr Samuel Johnson , who died 200 years ago on 13 December 1784 with David Buck as Samuel Johnson Michael Deacon as James Boswell and HELEN ATKINSON WOOD ,
MARGOT BOYD , GEOFFREY COLLINS , HUGH DICKSON , NIGEL GRAHAM , GARARD GREEN, ANTHONY HALL , MICHAEL N. HARBOUR ,
RONALD HERDMAN , NARISSA KNIGHTS, MOIR LESLIE , ELLEN MCINTOSH , DAVID MARCH, MARK ROLLSTON and JANE WENHAM
Researched and compiled from contemporary sources by JOHN WILDERS
Producer JOHN POWELL. Stereo
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Mr Facey Romford's Hounds
13: Mrs Somerville's 'At Home'
Presented by Charles Wheeler
11.0 Headlines on VHF/FM until 11.0
A vous la France!
10: Faisons le point (2) YVES AUBERT and PHYLLIS ROOME introduce a revision programme. With PAULE COLLET
Student's book, £5.25; three LP records. £4.75 each or two cassettes, £3.74 each from retailers
followed by an interlude
