Presented by AUan Wright featuring an end-of-year interview with the Minister of Agriculture, The Rt Hon Michael Jopling , mp.
Presented by Michael Stewart and Jon Silverman
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JULIAN HOLLAND
with Dilly Barlow
A History of My Early Life by W. H. HUDSON abridged in five parts by JEREMY MORTIMER Read by Ian Holm
1: Earliest Memories
Producer JEREMY MORTIMER
RONALD FRANKAU, MIKE HARDING, FLANDERS AND SWANN, VICTORIA WOOD, GEORGE FORMBY, NOEL COWARD, GRACIE FIELDS, JAKE THACKRAY, BENNY HILL, ARTHUR ASKEY, MAX MILLER, LESLIE SARONY, RICHARD STILGOE, THE BONZOS and CHARLES PENROSE are just some of those likely to turn up, as Jeremy Nicholas takes an affectionate look at 100 years of comic song-writing.
The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton from The Pickwick Papers by CHARLES DICKENS
Read by Charlie Chester Producer MITCH RAPER
New Every Morning, page 5; Hark, the herald angels sing (BBC HB 50); Canticle 9;
I Corinthians 13; In the bleak mid-winter (BBC HB 51) Stereo
Presented by Alan Brownjohn Readers PETER JEFFREY and BONNIE HURREN
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
International Consumer Quiz Teams of consumer broadcasters from the four home countries compete for the title of Champion of the Champions. Round 1:
NORTHERN IRELAND V SCOTLAND Chairman Paul Heiney Producer BILL MORRIS and JOHN WATKINS
by Wally K. Daly
Starring Donald Hewlett as Charles and Michael Knowles as George
also featuring Dilys Laye and Norma Ronald.
Theme music by Jim Parker
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
(Repeated: New Year's Day 6.30 pm)
(Stereo)
Presenter John Harrison
Andrew McAndrew and Grandad's Fiddle by BERNARD MACLAVERTY Storyteller Bill Paterson
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Woman's Hour reflects.... and refracts.... and takes a sideways, backwards glance at the sounds and thoughts of 1984. Flush by VIRGINIA WOOLF abridged in six episodes by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by Penelope Keith (1)
'Everything is the proper stuff of fiction', said Virginia Woolf, and proved it with this life of Flush, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel.
(Music: Poulenc's Aubade) Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
The Happiest Women by M. J. READ with
Marjorie Dennis has been a much-neglected writer. She lives quietly with a budgerigar called Ottoline. But when after many years, she suddenly publishes a book, she finds herself part of a strange and passionate triangle.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER. Stereo
Join the slimming club of the year, where we concentrate on balanced, healthy eating.
Presented by David Ponting
Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol
Just So Stories by RUDYARD KIPLING
Read by David Davis
1: The Elephant's Child
Kipling told these amazing and funny tales first of all to his own children, who always asked that they were told 'just so', without any changes - hence their name.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Presenters Gordon Clough and Carole West continued on VHFjFM 5.50-5.55
With CLIVE ROSLIN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Repeated: New Year's Day 1.40 pm)
(Details: Thursday 9.5 am) Stereo
Presented by Colin Tudge
What is happening in science? A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories. Producer ALISON RICHARDS
Miss Julie by AUGUST STRINDBERG translated by MICHAEL MEYER with Janet Maw as Miss Julie David Rintoul as John and Terry Cavers as Kiisty A new production of this intense study of a woman's sexuality related to her social position at the turn of the century, placed in a Scottish context.
Directed by JAMES RUNCIE BBC Scotland
(Repeated: next Sunday) Stereo
Paul Vaughan presents a revue of reviews, news, interviews and music from the past year's programmes.
Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN Editor BRIAN BARFIELD
Empire of the Sun by J. G. BALLARD abridged in 15 episodes by JOHN SCOTNEY
Read by Kenneth Haigh (1) In the horrifying and often bizarre world of his Shanghai internment camp, 11-year-old Jim is a cool and unsentimental observer of the adults around him. Unlike most of them he discovers within himself a ruthless instinct for survival.
This highly acclaimed novel was short-listed for the 1984 Booker/McConnell Prize and has been hailed as 'the great British novel about the last war'.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
National and international news, background analysis and comment.
Presented by Richard Kershaw
11.0 Headlines
with Roy Plomley
Stereo
A meditation on the passing of time by The Rt Rev
John Taylor , Bishop of Winchester. BBC Bristol. Stereo
followed by an interlude