A took at some fascinating machinery and memorabilia in agricultural museums. Producer DAVID ADDIS

With The Rev Trevor Hubbard
(Stereo)

Presented by John Humphrys and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8,00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day

Part 2

Lines of Communication
'It's been wonderfully peaceful. Or it would have been if I nadn t felt so guilty all the time. Stereo (R)

In the Kent resort of Margate
Doris Pargeter looks back on 25 years of being a mum to the men no one wanted ...
A heartening and humorous tale told by Gordon Cooper. Producer JILL MARSHALL BBC Bristol (R)

2: A Tradition of Sympathy On the surgical ward is a gentleman who has undergone an amputation. In the intensive care unit lies a patient, apparently unconscious, her breathing taken over by machine. Both must be treated as people, not just as medical problems.
Stereo (R) revised

2: Fallen Comrades

Of the Father's love begotten (BBC HB 57); Luke 2, vv 21-32;
Love came down at Christmas (BBC HB 53); Angels from the realms of glory (BBC HB 42) Stereo

Happy New Year? (1) by ALAN CLEWS. Stereo

'Gong' is a Javanese word; and 'gamelan' is a traditional Indonesian orchestra, consisting mostly of gongs, metallophones and drums.
Ever since Debussy heard it in 1889, gamelan music has inspired many Western composers, both classical and popular. When Alec Roth first heard it as a music student at Durham he was so taken with the sound that he travelled to Java to study it. Now he is the Gamelan Programme Director at the South Bank Centre in London where, in a glass-walled room overlooking the Thames, he passes on his skill to school children, composers, rock musicians - anyone who falls under the garnelan spell. David Foil invites you to remove your shoes, discard any Western musical preconceptions and join him on the course for adult beginners. Producer NIGEL ACHESON. Stereo

A Greengrocer's in Fulham run by Ken West

A comedy in six parts by RAY COONEY and JOHN GRAHAM
Cast for the week:
1: The Play Music by BBC RADlOPHONIC WORKSHOP
Producer JONATHAN JAMES MOORE Stereo

Presented by Nick Worrall

The Snow Queen Storyteller HANNAH GORDON 2: Gerda Searches for Kai Stereo

If Oedipus had been a regular listener, he would have known what his mother was really interested in. Presenter Jenni Murray Story: Perpetual Spinach

5: Christmas and a Wedding Stereo

Lesson 40: Avoid Like the Plague
(Stereo) (R)

Kaleidoscope shakes itself up and takes a lighthearted look at the arts with Paul Allen. Producer JOHN GOUDIE

Presented by Bill Frost

Max Reinhardt , the publisher, in conversation with Sally Hardcastle
Producer DAVID POWELL

With CLIVE ROSLIN
Reports from the BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report

by Dodie Smith

(Stereo)
(Part 5 tomorrow at 6.15pm)

Episode 3

(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)

In the fourth of six programmes offering an intimate view of working life in Lancashire, Phil Smith listens to the experiences of the Cleaners.

by Freeman Wills Crofts, adapted by Alan Downer
With Edward de Souza as Inspector French and Jonathan Tafler as Detective Constable Tanner

On the night of 15 September, Starvel House burnt to the ground and its three inmates perished in the flames. An inquest brought in a verdict of accidental death, but Inspector French thinks differently!
(Stereo)
(Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey, tomorrow at 7.45pm)

2: Lisa della Casa
Stereo (R) (Tomorrow: Birgit Nilsson )

Shazam! Not Just Kids' Stuff To George Orwell they were
'penny dreadfuls', offering little beyond 'bully worship and the cult of violence'. Yet how have comic books and cartoon characters endured to become so inextricably intertwined with the nation's culture, language and art? And why should they provide such a fertile ground of imagery and inspiration for poets, novelists and film-makers?
Jeffery Richards reports. Producer WILL CANTOPHER (R)

The Story of My Life (2)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod

Myra Hess plays piano music by Bach, Beethoven and Schumann. Records (R)

4: The Foxglove Man
In which Mr and Mrs Driver tell little Emma not to be frightened by the old Welsh lady who lives down the lane....
Stereo

followed by an interlude