Including at 8.27 Racing Bulletin and at 8.45
Pause for Thought f

(Requests, on postcards please, to ' Open House,' BBC, London WIA 4WW)
Including at 10.30
Waggoners' Walk NW

Including at 1.15
Today's Story All in a Day's Work written by marjorie bilbow read by DERYCK guyler 4: Happy is the Bride

Introduced by Sue MacGregor News Comment
Children's Books and Writers: ELISABETH BERESFORD and ELAINE moss on books for Christmas
The Home of the Mounties: TERESA MCGONAGLE reports on a visit to Regina in the Canadian Prairies
Reading your Letters
Full House for Christmas: HONOR WYATT and PRUE GLOVER discuss plans for withstanding the festive siege
IAN MCKELLEN reads Bichu the Jaguar by ALAN CAILLOU (9)

Music and today's Sporting Clue including at 4.15
Waggoners' Walk NW (Repeated: Friday, 10.30 am) and at 4.30 Sports Desk

with the day's news. including classified racing results

Producer ANGELA BOND

The game that turns the pages of showbiz history with Hylda Baker
Patricia Burke. Roger Moffat and Bob Monkhouse
Chairman JACK WATSON
Devised and compiled by DENIS GIFFORD
Producer JOHN DYAS
(Repeated: Fri, 9.50 am. R4)

and the NEW SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN tyre
Scotland's own Lena Martell makes the short trip from her home to the Glasgow studios to enjoy the musical company of BRIAN FAHEY and THE NEW FACES Presented by gerry davis ProducerANDY PARK

As the BBC celebrates 50 years of broadcasting, Alan Dell recalls some of the personalities of the era who found fame when they brought their bands to the microphone.
(Next week: Joe Loss)
(Special BBC Anniversary record release: Dance Bands on the Air, in 2 volumes, REC 139 and 140M, available from record shops, price £1.49 each)

1500m only. VHF joins Radio 1 Peter Latham with music and news. plus Latham's London, and THAMES EIGHT, JUST FOUR Producer MARTIN FISHER
Including Sports Desk at 10.15 and 10.52 to 11.0
Apollo 17: Lift-off The Lunar Module lifts off from the Moon to rejoin the Command Module
(Apollo/Soyuz, when America and Russia mate in space: pp 6-7)

Introduced by Peter Donaldson including between 12.50 and
12.53* Apollo 17: the Re-doeking of the Lunar Module with the mother ship