With DAME CHRISTIAN HOWARD. 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 PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Letters
Write to: Today Letters BBC, London W1A 1AA
with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING. Stereo
Clay Jones digs into the bulging postbag, and calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Sid Robertson to solve gardening problems sent in by listeners.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Fat Susan and the Christmas Turkey by JOHN HUNT
Another chance to hear this much-loved Christmas tale. Read by Dermot Crowley Producer SHEILA FOX (R)
NEM p21; In the bleak mid-winter (Darke); Matthew 1, w 18-25; I see your crib (Beth Hughes, arr John Bernard); Hail to the Lord's anointed (BBC HB 457) Stereo
Invasion of the Mindsnatchers In the United States, more people believe in UFOs than in evolution. Billions of dollars are spent on medically unproven therapies which are marketed as the passport to a 'new age' of exalted existence. CSICOP, a group of scientists which promotes scepticism towards pseudoscience and the paranormal, believes that the USA is entering a 'new dark age'. Peter Evans attended CSICOP's annual conference in Chicago last month to investigate this paradox: how can the most scientifically and technologically advanced society in the world also be duped by warmed-up frauds from the 19th century?
Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN
Presented by John Waite
Last of an eight-part serial by PETER LING and JULIET ACE starring Jane Asher ,
Gayle Hunnicutt , Polly James , Barbara Leigh-Hunt , Margaret Rawlings , Dinah Sheridan ,
Martin Jarvis , Richard Pasco and Dominic Rickhards.
Gina invited herself to Crown House, and resorted to blackmail in an attempt to raise some money. In the crisis that followed, William discovered the truth about his wife's relationship with Paul. Soon afterwards, Alice was seriously injured in a car crash - and Jenny's mother was killed.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
Alvin's Advent Calendar Today: Christmas Tree Stereo
Jenni Murray meets the actor, comic, and master of a thousand impromptu impersonations, John Sessions. Five Short Stories by RONALD BLYTHE
Read by Ronald Pickup 5: The Schism
(Music: Hurlstone's Piano Quartet in E minor)
by PERRY PONTAC. and
Mr Meldrum , with his
'magnificent torso, dark melancholy eyes and full crimson lips throbbing with unspent kisses', seeks from Lady Carsanet a hand in marriage. But which hand? Directedby RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo
George MacBeth concludes his conversation with Liz Lochhead on her life and work. Reader JANETTE FOGGO Producer ALEC REID BBCBristol. Stereo
Last programme in the series. Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Felicity Goodey Producer BRENDAN MCCARTHY Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
Presented by Frances Coverdale and Hugh Sykes
5.00, 5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With BRIAN PERKINS
Half an hour of reports from BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Iain Johnstone hosts the movie quiz show with Dick Vosburgh, Paddie O'Neil, Robin Ray and Frankie Vaughan.
(Stereo) (R)
... recalls yet more intriguing and revealing episodes from his lifetime in show business. A Pantomime
The first of two programmes written and told by Peter Jones. Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo (R)
by STEPHEN SHERIDAN starring in the last of two episodes. Death on the 'Davenport' Everyone on board the SS Davenport loathed Roderick Brush , the string magnate.
He was coarse, brutal, selfish, mean - and murdered!
Perseus Pin, in a ship awash with suspects, must use all his sleuthing skills to find the guilty party.
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
(Details tomorrow at 9. 05am)
In the last programme of the series, Ted Harrison talks to Sister Agnes, daughter of a fitter's mate, who began working-life as a nanny but was soon drawn towards the religious life. Now she lives as a solitary on the remote island of Fetlar in Shetland.
Producer AMANDA HANCOX Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
Deborah Warner 's production of Sophocles' Electra is performed by the RSC; the radio and television planners vie for the Christmas audiences with their Christmas offerings; and Simon Mundy finds out what's alive and cultural in Rotterdam. Presenter Mark Steyn Producer FRANCES BYRNES
(Revised repeat tomorrow at 4.35pm)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (3)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
