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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0.8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Fifty-five minutes of verbal corybantics. Sometimes. Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH Stereo

from Ross-on-Wye, where the team are guests of the Llangrove and District
Gardening Society, whose members put their questions to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Sinking Hearts and Christmas Cakes byjEANBINNIE
Read by Rosalind Adams
Elizabeth is the sort of mother who does everything right - for her house, for her children, for the school - but not this time. Her husband has booked a holiday on his own....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Advent Calendar: The Root of Hope
NEM, p 50; Of the Father's love begotten (BBC HB 57); God is our hope (Bach); Isaiah 10,v 33 to 11, v 10; Every star shall sing a carol (HHFT 21). Stereo

We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which lie unanswered at the back of our minds. Let Neil Landor , with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out the answers. Questions, on a postcard please, to: Enquire Within. BBC Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA Producer ANDY PARFITT

Presented by John Howard

Three short stories by HUGH WALPOLE dramatised for radio by PETER MELLORS
2: The Talkative Diplomat with and 'My life is being made a misery by the biggest bore even you can have had the misfortune to meet,' says Banting when he asks for the services of Johnson and Chippet to rid their exclusive club of its most excruciatingly tedious member.
He is Sir Marcus Pendyce , CB, mvo, an authority on everything under the sun and, of course, a compulsive talker. After examining the patient 'at close range', Johnson and Chippet prescribe the necessary treatment.
Directed by WALTER ACOSTA

Presented by Sir Robin Day

by the Liberal Party

1.55 Listening Corner RICHARD BRIERS reads An Extra-Special Mealfor the King by DIANA STOW
2.0 Deutsches Magazin 5: Das Wetter compiled by WOLFGANG KEINHORST and at
2.15 6: RadiolFernsehen compiled by DR BRIAN him.
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems The Destructors by GRAHAM GREENE

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Dame Jennifer Jenkins Chairman-elect of the National Trust
Serial: Six Ghost Stories by H. G. WELLS abridged by MADGE HART
Read by David McAlister 1: The Moth
The tablecloth was tapestry and the pattern was in gold, with a small amount of crimson and pale blue upon a greyish ground. At one point the pattern seemed displaced, and there was a vibrating movement. It was a large moth or butterfly, its wings spread in butterfly fashion.
(Music: Bush's Music for Orchestra)

The Winged Lions by ANGUS GRAHAM-CAMPBELL
Marilyn and Julie go with their parents on holiday to Venice.
They are bored until they meet Tom, a young American.
Then everything changes - everything becomes strange....
Directed by DAVID SPENSER (R) Stereo

The Sting of Comfort
Six programmes compiled and presented by Anne Stevenson
4: Living with Animals Readers JOHN CHURCH and BONNIE HURREN
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo

(Revised version of yesterday 's broadcast at 9.45 pm) including The Obituary
Episode 3 by PETER ACKROYD

Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHFFM 5.50-5.55

With PETER DONALDSON including Financial Report

A musical panel game in which John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Programme devised by TONYSHRYANEand EDWARD MASON Producer PETE ATKIN
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm) Stereo

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

Peter Smith reports.
Producer CAROLINE MILLINGTON

Innocence and Design
The last of six talks about the influence of economic ideas on policy by David Henderson. Head of the Economics and Statistics Department in the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
6: Markets, States and Economics 'Those who are influenced by orthodox economic ideas have no pre-assigned place on the political spectrum - left, right or centre. Contrary to what is often supposed, my fictional orthodox colleague Mr MacQuedy , who favours market-oriented economic policies, is not a man of the right. He holds no firm party political allegiance, and in most, if not all, OECD countries he would have to be classed as a floating voter.'
(Re-broadcast on Sunday at 9.35 on R3) (The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in THE LISTENER)

A history of the British teenager 5: A Touch Too Much
'Donny Osmond was my first idol. I used to dream about going to Utah.'
'Football? It's sort of like a war, isn't it? You like to see the other lot get killed.'
'Thirty Rollers fans were taken to hospital after last night's concert.... some with fractured ribs and some with asphyxia.'
'Children are holding sex, drink and drug parties at which they try to contact the dead, a vicar said last night.'
Researcher MICHELLE ROWLAND Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

Way Station by CHRISTOPHER PALING
Stereo

Allan Smith visits five groups of assorted devotees. 3: The Whovians
It may be only a corny TV programme to you, but for many otherwise sensible citizens Doctor Who is a way of life. Producer SUSAN SNALLHAM

Presented by Paul Vaughan Producer RICHARD DUNN
(Rev broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm) including The Obituary
Episode 3 by PETER ACKROYD
(First broadcast in this afternoon 's programme)

The Aloe (3)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

followed by an interlude

12.30 Horizons de France 3a: Marseille/Fos (RV) and at 12.50
3b: Vivre en Bretagne Presenter Yves Aubert Written by MADELEINE LE CUNFF (R)