A meditation for the beginning of a new day with THE REV PHILIP CROWE BBC Birmingham Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

with Richard Baker
(Revised broadcast of Saturday 's programme at 7.45pm) Stereo

Colin Semper airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about BBC programmes and policies. Send them to : Feedback: BBC Broadcasting House London W1A 4WW
Producer SALLY THOMPSON (Re-broadcast on Sunday)

BBC correspondents report from around the world. Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

The Wonderful Tune by THOMAS CROKER
Read by Sean Barrett
Maurice Connor is the finest piper in the whole of Ireland, but in this famous traditional story he finds himself piping for some very strange dancers! Producer MITCH RAPER

Advent Calendar:
The Light of the Nations nem, p 114; Jesus shall reign
(BBC HB 460); Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC HB 519);
Isaiah 60, w 1-6; Ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 372) Stereo

The Ubiquitous Woodlouse Move a log, lift an old box or peel back some bark and you will find woodlice. They even turn up in houses, and yet most people have a soft spot for these fascinating creatures.
Presented by Stephen Sutton BBCBristol

Derek Cooper hosts a feature edition sampling Christmas fare at home and abroad. And there are the latest dispatches from the front line of the turkey war. Producer JOHN FORSYTH
(Re-broadcast next Tuesday)

Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner IRENE HANDL reads Grandma Goes to a Party by JANET SORENSEN (R) Z.0 French IV A propos (3)
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems Modern Poetry (2) PHILIP LARKIN and ROBERT FROST

Introduced from Manchester by Judy Merry who meets PAULINE DANIELS , club comedienne. It all began one night when her singing voice failed and she decided to tell a few jokes....
Homoeopathy - is it feeling better? SUE TALBOT visits the unique Manchester Clinic founded 125 years ago. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Serial: A Careful Man (2)

by D. H. LAWRENCE dramatised in six parts by ROY SPENCER
6: The Dominant Motif of Suffering
September 1902: George is now married to Meg and they have twins. Although now a successful landlord, he misses the farm and finds himself restless and discontented.
Pianist MARLENE FLEET
Directed-by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
Stereo

The true story of the ear-splitting, frog-swallowing, pitchfork-chewing, poaching man about Market Drayton -
Derek Podmore. Nailed together by CHRIS ELDON LEE and MARY FOX (who got him to croak).
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Shropshire)

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons
continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport and examine the implications for you, the customer. Producer IRENE MALUS

(Re-broadcast on Monday at 1. 40pm)

Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 10.30am) Stereo

Britain's longest serving
Parliamentarian. Lord Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head , in conversation with Tom Brown Producer GEOFFREY CAMERON
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Lord Soper
The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley , mp Jeffrey Archer and Rosemary Brown , business woman/journalist tackle the issues raised by the audience in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol

Mafia family head killed in daylight shooting, confirming prejudice about crime and New York's Italian-Americans. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Presented by Michael Billington
Producer KATHRYN PORTER

A Christmas Carol
5: The Cratchits' Christmas Stereo

with Alexander MacLeod

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by RICHARD QUICK
PAUL B. DAVIES. STUART SILVER MARTIN BOOTH . IAN BROWN
JAMES HENDRIE. PETE SINCLAIR STEVE PUNT . DAVID COHEN PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MA YHEWARCHER
Stereo

followed by an interlude