David Addis listens to farming records. Followed by a five-day weather forecast for farmers and growers.
Producer DAVID ADDIS
A meditation for the beginning of the new day with KATHLEEN RICHARDSCON , Chairman of the West Yorkshire District of the Methodist Church.
Readings from Psalms. BBC North East. Stereo
A selection of music. Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Jennie Bond
7.30,8.30 News Summary 7 00, 8.00 Today's News
7.25*, 8.25* Sport with JOHN RAWUNG
7.45* Thought for the Day
with Peter Donaldson
by MARY CLIVE abridged in five parts by DIANA TURNER
Read by Phyllida Nash (1)
Because Evelyn's parents have to be away from home over
Christmas, she is packed off to spend the festive season at an Edwardian house party, given by old Lady Tamerlane, whose grandchildren - the Savages - are to be present, too!
Producer GRAHAM GAULD (R)
Jeremy Nicholas continues his celebration of the early years of children's record request programmes by looking at the period from 1956-62.
With contributions from Derek McCulloch ('Uncle Mac') and his family, Mandy Miller,
Peter Brough and Archie Andrews, as well as artists like the Playmates, Eve Boswell, Michael Holliday, Ping Ping and Al Verlane, Brian Hyland, Tommy Steele,
Reginald Gardiner, Alma Cogan and Danny Kaye.
A Question of Money
More questions on personal finance sent in by listeners. (For panel see New Year s Eve at 12 noon)
The Writer and Her Public by ELIZABETH RUSSELL TAYLOR. Read by Ann Morrish Producer SHEILA FOX
God of Gods, we sound his praises; Isaiah 49, vv 1-13; Let all mortal flesh keep silence; Wele cawsom y Meseia. BBC Wales
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall - you've read the book, now meet the characters. Spike Milligan musters the ageing troops of D-Battery for a nostalgic return to war-weary Bexhill-on-Sea, birthplace of the Goons.
BBC Bristol
Presented by Norman MacCaig. Readers HENRY STAMPER and DIANA OLSSON.
Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC Bristol. Stereo
Requests to: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS82LR
The only daily consumer programme on network radio. Presented by John Howard Editor KEN VASS
If you are concerned about health, education, housing or financial matters, or if you are the victim of incompetent or unhelpful traders or authorities, write to: You and Yours, BBC London W1A 1AA
Gordon Clough and Louis Allen - linked by the miracle which is wireless - preside over a further programme of cerebral callisthenics and aerobics for the frontal lobes ...
Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge Brian Thompson and Michael Schmidt. Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
Presented by James Naughtie Editor MARTIN COX
John Dowie reads It Is Cold by JILL TOMLINSON Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN Stereo (R)
Jenni Murray and guests invite you to start the New Year with the programme that puts a female perspective on politics, places and people.
Serial: The Skin Chairs by BARBARA COMYNS abridged in ten episodes by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE.
Read by Susie Brann (1)
In the 1920s, 10-year-old Frances is sent to stay with horsey relations in Leicestershire - the Lawrences. While she is there, her father dies, which is to have considerable impact on the family's life-style.
(Music: Richardson's Roundelay) Editor CLARE SELERIE GREY
The sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner, dramatised by David Wade
A weird and marvellously evocative tale of Celtic mysteries, elves, spirits and strange presences....
BBC Manchester
(Stereo)
Night Beat
It's early evening and the A and R night shift is about to begin. The men and women whose job is to find the pop stars of the future - the Artists and Repertoire - set off on their journey to clubland.
David Roper goes with them. Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN (R)
Presented by Bill Frost and Rory MacLean
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
As a special Bank Holiday service, you can phone in your views between
9.30and11.00amon[number removed].
5.31 Sports Round-Up Editor ROGER MOSEY continued on FM 5.50-5.55
Stereo
recalls yet more intriguing and revealing episodes from his lifetime in show business. The Rich Brothers
Written and told by Peter Jones Producer PETE ATKIN (R)
by Tony Bilbow, based on the novel Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis.
With Robert Stephens as Sir Roy Vandervane and Christopher Timothy as Douglas Yandell
with Michael Dean as himself
'As you get older you'll find that absolutely straight-down-the-middle sex doesn't strike you in quite the way it did.'
Sir Roy's pursuit of something more stimulating wreaks havoc in his own and everyone else's life in this comic observation of the late 1960s.
with
(Stereo)
Shock Horror
'Disturbing' is a mild description of David Cronenberg 's films; mutant births in The Brood were followed by exploding heads in Scanners and the transformation of man into insect in The Fly.
Nigel Andrews finds out what's in the mind of the mild-mannered
Cronenberg as his latest film, Dead Ringers starring Jeremy Irons , is about to be launched on the British public - certificate 18.
Producer ANTHONY DENSELOW Editor RICHARD BANNERMAN
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by THOMAS HARDY abridged in 20 episodes by DONALD BANCROFT.
Read by Kenneth Haig (11) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Presented by Richard Kershaw Editor MARGARET BUDY
A family celebration in the words and music of the Goossens and Laurence families. Stereo
