A service of music and meditation led by THE REV EDDIE NEALE
Music: God has been gracious (Psalm Praise 47); The Virgin Mary had a baby boy; The darkness turns to dawn
(HFTC 68); Lord, you were rich (HFTC 63); You are the king of glory (Mission Praise); 0 prince of peace (HFTC 89); Let all mortal flesh keep silence (HFTC 61) Reading: Isaiah 9, w 2,6-7 Director of Music
NOEL TREDINNlCK Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Jenni Murray
7.0,8.0 News
Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.20* Business News
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.30 News Summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
Presented by Bernard Cribbins
8.31* The Lobster Mobster (3)
8.41* Fungus the Bogeyman (3)
8.46* The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (3). Stereo
'I found Desert Island Discs easier because the choice of music seems not to be quite as vast as the choice of words.' Irene Thomas , assisted by Martin Jarvis , presents a selection of her favourite poetry and prose.
Producer ROBIN HICKS BBC Bristol. Stereo
3: Margaret Horsfield shares the thoughts of the don't-know-left-from-rights.
Is the peaceful Dorset village of Sherborne really a hotbed of anarchists and revolutionaries? Can you imagine what it's like to dance naked in front of an audience of several thousand pensioners? Does that legendary fount of all wisdom, the man on the top deck of the Clapham omnibus, really exist?
The answers to these and many other vital questions can be found in Nigel Farrell 's two-part search of the extraordinary side of ordinary British life.
Any resemblance to material first broadcast on Radio 4's Loose Ends is coincidental!
(Part 2 tomorrow at 10.0am)
Episode 33: 'One more roll of bandages Fosdyke - or should I call you Ramadatsun I - and you're done.' Stereo
The story of Johann Sebastian Bach and his two wives - consecutive, not concurrent - inevitably takes in several other branches of the Bach clan. Fritz Spiegl investigates.
by JANE AUSTEN dramatised in three parts by MICHELENE WANDOR
1: Old Friends and New Meetings It is 1814 in the village of Uppercross in Somersetshire and Sir Walter Elliot of KeUynch Hall has long since given up any hope of his daughter making a favourable marriage. But Anne did fall in love, eight years ago, with Frederick Wentworth , a young man with no fortune and no family connections. She was persuaded to give him up and he has not forgiven her. Stereo
(For cast see page 139)
2: The Classic Soil
A portrait by Joan Littlewood of social conditions in Manchester, based on Engels s book The Condition of the Working Class in 1844. Narrator G.B. Smith Producer OLIVE SHAPLEY (First broadcast in 1939)
Stereo
Presented by Nick Worrall
1.55-2.0
Listening CornerThe Snow Queen
3: The Robber Girl and the Reindeer. Stereo
Variations on the life and music of Giacomo Puccini
The first of two programmes Music Without Words with and With PAULINE LETTS
RONALD HERDMAN , TIM REYNOLDS. EDWARD DE SOUZA, GWEN CHERRELL and MANNING WILSON
Compiled and translated by MICHAEL OLIVER
A model of its kind.... took us straight to the heart of Puccini 's work.
(THE INDEPENDENT)
Unalloyed pleasure, an exemplary programme (THE LISTENER) Technical presentation
NICK RUSSELL-PAVIER , MARK CALLUM Directed by JOHN POWELL Stereo (R) revised
(Part 2 tomorrow at 2.0pm)
What Every Woman Knows byJ.M. BARRIE adapted by STEWART CONN
'Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.' +
Directed by MARILYN IMRIE BBC Scotland. Stereo (R)
Let's Hear it Again
Peter France selects some highlights from the past year. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Presented by Susannah Simons
Episode 34: 'Milady, all I want is a few quid to buy me a new udder-scraper.' Stereo
Another opportunity to hear the clues
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
Johnny Morris recalls his childhood in Wales.
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
3: Mr Yamada Does His Duty
Trent's Last Case by E.C Bentley adapted by Alan Downer with Martin Jarvis as Philip Trent.
Sigsbee Manderson was renowned and hated throughout the financial world. One day he's found murdered. Trent is put on the case, a case that will prove to be his last, and one he certainly won't forget.
Stereo
(Martin Jarvis is in 'Woman in Mind' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
Stereo
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford was founded in the 19th century on revolutionary principles by General Pitt Rivers. It has been described as 'nothing but a heap of old junk'. A new wing was opened recently to house some of its musical instruments.
Annie AUsebrook discovers that the museum is a vibrant, living place. Researcher TINA PEPLER With
Producer ALEC REID BBCBristol. Stereo
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road by GRAHAM GREENE
Joss Ackland reads a tale in which a cinema attracts an unexpected clientele.
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
A quarterly report on the world of employment.
Brian Redhead reports from
Hong Kong and also brings up-to-date news of what has been happening here in Britain over the past three months. Consultant JOHN ATKINSON Researcher STEPHEN SACKUR
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE (R)
led by THE REV NOEL PROCTOR ,
Senior Chaplain at Strangeways Prison, Manchester BBC Manchester. Stereo
followed by an interlude
