A regional view of farming in the week ahead Presented from
Northern Ireland by Ian Harvey
BBC Northern Ireland
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with CANON MICHAEL GLANVILLE SMITH BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with SIMON ROSE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day Editor JUUAN HOLLAND
with David Symonds
meanders down some meaningful cul-de-sacs in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcast on Thursday at 9.30pm)
Famous faces and new voices meet for a not entirely serious talk about subjects that interest them and may surprise you. Producer IAN STRACHAN. Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting
The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance, covering investment. tax, pensions, insurance and a look at some particular money problems sent in by listeners. Address: Money Box, Room 4099. BBC Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW
by Jill Norris
Read by Shirley Dixon
The little girl is off to see Santa Claus in his grotto in the big department store. It's an outing which turns out to be anything but uneventful.
Advent Calendar:
Darkness and Light
New Every Morning, page 102; Thou whose almighty word (BBC HB 185); Lead me Lord
(Wesley) (Anthems for Choirs 1); Genesis 1, 1-5, 14-18;
0 heavenly word, eternal light (BBC HB 37). Stereo
Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners
Presented by P. J. Kavanagh Readers RONALD PICKUP and JILL BALCON
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR
Presented by Pattie Coldwell Editor KEN VASS
The nationwide general knowledge contest for schools The Final
Questionmasters Tim Gudgin and Paddy Feeny Questions set by NIGEL RICHARDSON and DAVID SELF Producer GRAHAM FROST
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.30pm)
Presented by Brian Widlake Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Listening Corner IRENE HANDL reads Grandma and Bopper stories by JANET SORENSEN Today: Grandma and Bopper at Christmas Playgroup Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN (R)
2.0 La parole aux jeunes (French in) 1: Je voudrais savoir Compiled and produced by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE (R)
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Narrative Poetry (1) The Eve of St Agnes and Morte d 'Arthur
Introduced by Heather Couper Piano duets reached a peak of popularity in Victorian times. LYNN TEN KATE investigates the harmony and discord of four hands on one keyboard with RICHARD BAKER and the CANN TWINS.
Ghost Stories by H.G. WELLS
4: The Inexperienced Ghost Editor SANDRA CHALMERS
Philadelphia Moonshine by ROGER DAVENPORT
Stereo
Presented by Gordon Clough and Valerie Singleton
Editor DEREK LEWIS continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55
with CHARLOTTE GREEN including Financial Report
Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Ruth and Edmund Frow share their Manchester home with the 10.000 books of the Working Class Movement Library they have assembled. Sue MacGregor meets the Frows to talk to them about their lives and work and to invite them to reflect a little on both.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
A musical fantasy written and presented by Joe Griffiths It is the Friday before
Christmas. On the 23rd floor of an office block. TD30X, a computer, listens to the sounds of people enjoying themselves at the party below and dreams.... 'I want to be human, not just compute. If only I could commute, then I would be free. To be human. I'd feel alive. If I could be 9 to 5. Then I'd be free....'
And tonight his dreams could come true....
Songs performed by JOE Griffiths PETER KARRIE. MARYANNE MORGAN
DESI ASKEW. ASHA ELFENBEIN
TOM NICHOL. MITCH DALTON
SIMON WEBB. TREVOR NICHOLS
JOHN CHURCH and DAVID GARTH Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Re-broadcast on 28 December) Stereo
A Wreath of Roses by ELIZABETH TAYLOR dramatised by OLWEN WYMARK
A sudden and violent incident at a railway station, at the start of her holiday, shocks and disturbs Camilla and proves to be a memory from which she cannot escape.
With ARNOLD DIAMOND
GARARD GREEN and JAMIE ROBERTS Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Re-broadcast next Sunday) Stereo
Paul Vaughan presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of books, film, plays, broadcasting and exhibitions.
Producer SIMON BROUGHTON Editor THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.30pm)
A Christmas Carol being A Ghost Story for
Christmas by CHARLES DICKENS abridged in eight episodes by DEREK PARKER
Told by Martin Jarvis and Denise Bryer 1: Christmas Eve
Adapted and produced by IAN COTTERELL. Stereo
Presented by Charles Wheeler Editor BLAIR THOMSON
followed by an interlude
