With THE REV DR DONALD ENGLISH Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with JEREMY BOWEN
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
The atmosphere can be infectious. Why not consult yourGP?
Producer LAN STRACHAN. Stereo
This week the team travels to Berkshire where members of the Woodley Horticultural Society put their gardening queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki, Daphne Ledward and Geoffrey Smith. Chairman Clay Jones
BBC Manchester
Cassette "Through the Seasons" £7.99, from Gardeners' Question Time, [address removed]. Make cheques/PO's payable to Gardeners' Question Time.
The Legacy by JANET GOLDFINCH
Read by Freda Dowie
Sisters Mavis , Edna and Dodo are sharing out the contents of their aunt's home. What is the value of each item? Who is the shrewdest of them all?
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Advent Calendar
Light Shines in the Darkness nem, p 97; The race that long in darkness pined (BBC HB 496);
Quelle est cette odeur agréable (Carols for Choirs 2)
Isaiah 9, w 2-7; Songs of praise the angels sang (Bp 77) Stereo
Mary O'Hara presents a selection of poetry and prose. Stereo
We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries that we mean to resolve, but which always 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 postcards only, please, to: Enquire Within.
BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producer ANDREW PARFTTT
Reports on topical issues and how they could affect you and your family
Presented by John Howard
by JEFFREY ARCHER dramatised in seven episodes by BRIAN SIBLEY
6: The Louvre, Paris -18 June 1966
Adam has discovered the document inside the Tsar's Icon and realised why both Russia and America are so anxious to have it by 20 June. He has been arrested by the French police.
Other parts played by ANDREW BRANCH . AVRIL CLARKE and GEORGE PARSONS
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN. Stereo (Cyril Shops and Harry Towb are National Theatre Players)
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines
Today's story: King Jolly and the Christmas Pudding Stereo
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Brenda Dean , General Secretary ofSOGAT82 Eight Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 3: Reduced
London Belongs to Me by NORMAN COLLINS
The last of four parts dramatised by colin DAVIS A Cottage in the Country
Directed by ENYD WILLIAMS . Stereo
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)
Minor Victorians
Six programmes compiled and presented by Kingsley Amis
4: Algernon Charles Swinburne Readers ISABEL DEAN. MARTIN JARVIS and PAUL GREGORY
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol. Stereo
(Isabel Dean is in 'Breaking the Code' at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket:
Martin Jarvis is in Woman in Mind' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
Director's Choice
Sir Michael Levey , Director of the National Gallery, is retiring and his last exhibition shows the pick of the pictures he's bought for the nation during the last 13 years. He talks about his personal choice, including works by Rembrandt, Degas and Caravaggio.
Presented by Paul Allen Producer MARY SHARP
(Rev re-broadcast of yesterday 9.45pm)
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
Continuedon VHFIFM5.50-5.55pm
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
An entertainment in words and music designed to help you beat the weather as David Barlow , Peter Christie , Miles Kington and Alan Maryon Davis make the attempt to be reasonably together again with their special guests The Cambridge Buskers. Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 12.27pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
Seven Ten Sunday Morning by KEITH WOOD Stereo
Last of three lighthearted talks by the opera singer, Robert Lloyd
Opera in San Francisco
'Scottish tribalism, the Spanish Inquisition and German minnesingers seem a far cry from cable cars, pom movies and hamburgerjoints.'
An Impression of the writer T.H. White
Compiled and presented by Gillian Thomas from his own words and those of his friends and comments from
RICHARD BARBER. DONALD DEMEREST FRANCOIS GALLIX and TONY WALTON Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo
A version of the Yugoslav 1985 Italia Prize-winning documentary by Djordje Lebovic
A montage of secret notebooks and letters, written and buried in the hope of eventual discovery, by a detachment of prisoners in Auschwitz, who were made to carry the corpses from the gas chambers to the ovens for burning.
English translation by JOHN AND RUZICA WHITE adapted by ISABEL AITKEN
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW. Stereo
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Natalie Wheen presents tonight's edition, which includes interviews, and news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Producer CARROLL MOORE
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at 4. 35pm)
Christmas with the Savages (3)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod National and international news, background, analysis and comment
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
followed by an interlude
