Presented from the South West by Robin Hicks Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
A meditation for the beginning of the new day.
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JUUAN HOLLAND
A look ahead with Edward Cole
Ian Skidmore meanders down some meaningful cul-de-sacs in the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Thursday 9.30pm)
Today's guests appear before an audience at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East in London which celebrates its centenary today.
Producer IAN STRACHAN.
(Free tickets can be collected from the theatre box office) Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance, covering mvestment, tax, pensions and insurance, and a look at some particular money problems sent in by listeners. Address: Money Box,
Room 4058, Broadcasting House, London WlA 4WW
Alice Buchan and the Christmas Spirit by FRED URQUHART
Read by Fraser Ken -Producer MITCH RAPER
Advent Calendar:
David Plays for Saul
New Every Morning, page 50;
Angel-voices, ever singing (BBC HB 256); Little David play on yo' harp (Spiritual); I Samuel 16, w 14-23; All my hope on God is founded (BBC HB 299) Stereo
Brian Johnston visits the village of Hawkhurst in Kent, where they still tell tales of 18th-century smuggling and particularly of the Hawkhurst Gang.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners Presented by Charles Tomlinson Readers JILL BALCON and ANTHONY HYDE
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
The only national radio programme for consumers.
Pattie Coldwell presents and lends a sympathetic ear to your phone comments and queries on [number removed]
A Tale of Two City Gents by Wally K. Daly and also featuring this week
Peter Cellier, Jennifer Croxton, John Kane, Roland Macleod and Henry Stamper
Theme music by Jim Parker
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
(Repeated: Tuesday 6.30 pm)
(Stereo)
Presenter Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
IRENE HANDL reads Grandma and Bopper stories by JANET SORENSEN
1: Grandma and Bopper at Christmas Playgroup Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN
Introduced by Liz Mardall No Flowers Please, We're
British: why don't we lavish our homes with colourful floral displays or make presents of flowers more often? Why do the British hesitate on the florist's threshold? LYN TEN KATE has been finding out.
Life's Rich Pageant abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN in eight parts
Written and read by ARTHUR MARSHALL (8)
(Music: Mayerl's Honky Tonk)
Ride a Red Pony by ANGELA SEWELL
Vicki Hughes looks back on her adventurous years.
3: Cumbria to Canada
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Cumbria )
The Woman in Black (6)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton continued on VHFjFM 5.50-5.55
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Evans
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer JULIAN BROWN
The BBCtv production of Much Ado About Nothing will be shown on Saturday.
Kenneth Haigh , who played Benedick in 1976, presents a personal view of the play. Two weeks into the run the actors were saying, 'we're in one of the best, funniest comedies ever written'.
Producer MICHEL PETHERAM
Gormenghast
The second of two plays based on the Titus Groan novels by MERVYN PEAKE
Dramatised for radio by BRIAN SIBLEY with Schoolmasters:
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Stereo
Night Out in Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk, the eighth largest city in the USSR, is set in the middle of Siberia, 1,600 miles east of Moscow. It is an industrial centre, houses a science academy and has a flourishing culture.
Known as a pioneer of jazz in the USSR, the city also boasts a huge opera house, six theatres and numerous palaces of culture. But what do they offer the local citizen?
John Elsom reports from
Novosibirsk on its theatre, literature, music and art and finds out what the local citizen can do on a Friday night.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN Editor ROSEMARY HART
Leo McKern reads the first of eight extracts from his recently published autobiography Just Resting Abridged by DEREK PARKER Producer IAN COTTERELL
Presenter Alexander MacLeod National and international news, background, analysis and comment.
11.0 Headlines
Editor BLAIR THOMSON on VHF/FM until 11.0
Living Through Change In the last of four programmes MARGARET KORVING talks to STANLEY GRAHAM from Lancashire - ex-shopkeeper, farmer, lorry-driver and mill engineer. At 46 he took a history degree to pursue his enthusiasm for industrial heritage at a professional level. Series producer GORDON HUTCHINGS
followed by an interlude
