With THE REV PREB AUSTEN WILLIAMS Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo

visits South Wales, where members of the Gwent Federation of Women's
Institutes put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Downham and Sid Robertson. Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar from The Outcasts of Poker Flat by BRET HARTE
Read by Jon Glover Producer MITCH RAPER

nem, p 97; In the bleak mid-winter (Darke); Wake,
0 wake! (BBC HB 40); Matthew 1, vv 18-25; Ye servants of the Lord (BBC HB 372) Stereo

Behind the Scenes of Crime
Joan Lock talks to members of the Crime Writers' Association and eavesdrops at various events and functions including the Annual Awards Dinner when the prestigious Gold,
Silver and Diamond Daggers are presented.
Among those taking part are Simon Brett , P. D. James Ruth Rendell , Liza Cody
Colin Dexter , Peter Lovesey and June Thomson. Researched and written by JOAN LOCK
Producer ED THOMASON. Stereo

From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure, Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions with advice from experts and help from the BBC Reference Library.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A 4WW

Presented by John Buckley

by JAMES HENDRIE and LAN BROWN
'Why, oh why, oh why does the BBC have to broadcast this sort of puerile rubbish. I am sure that countless other right-thinking orthodontists like myself are hoping that this programme will not be put out next week. I am sending a copy of this to my MP.' Starring
Robert Bathurst , Brenda Blethyn Mike Grady , Jonathan Kydd and special guest Janine Duvitski
Producer DAVID TYLER

Presented by John Sergeant

Alvin's Advent Calendar Today: Star Light, Star Bright Presented by ALVIN STARDUST Stereo

The programme that puts a female perspective on people, politics and places tunes in to The Archers and examines the changing role of the women of Ambridge.
Presenter Jenni Murray Story: Cardboard City

by AL HUNTER
Mince pies and hot chocolate - those were the rewards for carol singing when Bill was a child. And when he and two mates from the pub go carol singing on Christmas Eve for a bet, he finds it difficult to recapture the spirit of Christmas past, even though the snow is lying crisp and deep and even.
With NORMAN BIRD
CAROLINE GRUBER. RICHARD PEARCE and JOAN MATHESON
Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo

So You Want to Be a Poet? The last of six programmes chosen and presented by Wendy Cope
Readers PETER JEFFREY
ELIZABETH PROUD. STEVE HODSON Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBCBristol Stereo

Oh Yes It Is, Oh No It Isn't Scotland is the heartland of traditional robust pantomime, firmly rooted in vaudeville. The audience clamours for time-honoured jokes and local heroes.
Joyce MacMillan reports. Producer MIKE GREENWOOD

Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale continuedon VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With DAVID SYMONDS including Financial Report

The last programme in the series in which Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars. Vivien Leigh
If Vivien Leigh had done nothing but play Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar Named
Desire, and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, her place in cinema history would be secure. It was an incredible achievement that an English girl with her stage background and no power base in Hollywood should make off with two of the greatest roles in American movies - and win Oscars for both performances. Producer WENDY CLAY (R)

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)

Stereo

Boggarts and Hobs, Habetrot and Skillywidden were all characters familiar to writer and folklorist Katharine Briggs.
In this programme, Jeanine McMullen talks to authors. friends and admirers, and leafs through the books and thoughts of a woman who was a bearer of tradition for all who knew her. Producer MARY PRICE BBCBristol

Divisions within the Democrats both current and at Madison Square Garden in 1924, Anthony Kennedy's appointment to the Supreme Court; and Woody Allen's new son Satchel.

The Survival of the Symphony The last of six talks by the composer Alexander Goehr , Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge, about what musicians have done to music.
Stand Up and Be Misunderstood Modernism is not a matter of style - fragmentation, dissonance, free form - but of content; a direct engagement with past masterpieces and present reality. But can modernism be combined with the renewal of the symphony? (Re-broadcaston Sunday on Radio 3) 'The Reith Lectures' are printed weekly in the 'Listener'

FAB
A code word used by Gerry Anderson 's characters, FAB was thought to mean fabulous. His television series, including Thunderbirds, Stingray and Terrahawks, pioneered sci-fi adventure. The programmes remain popular with adults and children alike, and Anderson's own combination of puppet-making and characterisation has given him cult status. Now there is a new project, Space Police, this time combining puppets and humans. Will it be FAB? Gerry Anderson and his colleagues talk about their work to Christopher Cook. Producer RACHEL YORKE

Three Country Stories by H. E BATES , abridged and read by David Neal
Three further short stories in this popular series featuring the local characters of the Bedfordshire countryside which Bates knew and loved so well.
1: The Cowslip Field
Producer CHERRY COOKSON Stereo

Presented by Alexander MacLeod
National and international news, background, analysis and comment

followed by an interlude