with Noel Edmonds

A Very Happy Old Year to all Swappers! Now's your chance to end the year with a swap and a chat with Noel and his guests. Lines are open at 9.30 - [number removed] - if you're going to telephone, and the first letter of the day will be read as soon as Noel settles into that chair! Will it be yours?

Cheggers, Where Are You?
Here's a clue to Keith Chegwin's Swaporama site. It's a nine-letter place name and five of the letters are in Keith's name. Got it? No? (Then here's another clue. The leftover letters spell Role.)

9.45* Was that a feline I saw passing by? It was! You Taw a Putty Tat! Sylvester is his name!

News Swap with John Craven
It's the last chance this year to file your news story. Get it in fast and you could be Stringer of the Week.

Swap of the Pops
Don't be 'Careless Love' or you'll be up to your neck in Mud! Among the other music you can hear this morning, there are two great numbers from this top favourite group.

10.45* It's Boss Cat and the $100,000 Derby.

Hop on a Bus this morning with the collector of the week. There are 38 buses in the Mark Hill depot at the moment, but to run to schedule, Mark needs another 82. It's a 'fare' chance you can swap with him.

Join in Noel's Top Ten Swap and the Odd Swap with Maggie Philbin and the Star Swap and all the rest of this morning's happenings!

You know our number, here's our address: Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, [address removed].

Introduced by Frank Bough

12.20 Football Focus
Bob Wilson looks at a full fixture day in England and Scotland and produces a wish for the New Year.

12.50; 1.20; 1.50; 2.20 Racing from Newbury
1.0 The Panama Cigar Hurdle Race (Qualifying Race) (2m 100yds)
1.30 The L'Oreal Handicap Hurdle Race (2m 100yds)
2.0 The Mandarin Handicap Steeplechase (3m 2f 82yds)
2.30 The Old Year Handicap Steeplechase (2m 160yds)
Commentators Peter O'Sullevan, Julian Wilson and Richard Pitman

1.10; 1.40; 2.40 International Ski-Jumping from Oberstdorf
The world's top ski-jumpers compete in the first leg of the prestigious Four Hills Championship which takes place on the big Schattenberg Jump in the German Alps.
Commentator David Vine

2.50 Rugby League from Hilton Park, Leigh: Leigh v Hull Kingston Rovers
Leigh, promoted to the First Division last season, are finding life harder now but should provide good opposition to Hull Kingston Rovers, captained by Roger Millward, who have begun the season better than ever before.
Commentator Eddie Waring

3.30; 4.5 Basketball from The National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace: The Philips International Tournament: The Semi-Finals
Host team Crystal Palace Chevrons have invited the 1977 European Champions, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Marathon Oil Kentucky, AAU Champions in 1975 and 1976, plus teams from Canada, Sweden and Belgium.
Commentators Stuart Storey and Miles Aiken

3.50 Cricket: Third Test from Melbourne, Australia: Australia v England
Highlights of the second day's play.
Commentator Jim Laker

4.40 Final Score

Today's timetable:
12.20 Football Focus; 12.50 Racing; 1.10 Ski-Jumping; 1.20 Racing; 1.40 Ski-Jumping; 1.50 Racing; 2.10 Sports Round-up; 2.20 Racing; 2.40 Ski-Jumping; 2.50 Rugby League; 3.30 Basketball; 3.50 Cricket; 4.5 Basketball; 4.40 Final Score
Timings are subject to alteration

Introduced by Howard Williams
Special guest Frank Windsor
Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band
and Len Lowe, Peter Cavanagh, Hilda Fenemore, Mario Renzullo

with Richard Baker
Weatherman

Dear Jimmy Savile, OBE, Please may I... sing with The Three Degrees - read the football results - fly on a Tiger Moth's wing? Jimmy makes these and other dreams come true.

The feature film starring with Oliver Twist is an orphan who, on escaping from the workhouse where he was brought up, encounters the unsavoury world of Fagin's school for pickpockets. Then his true identity comes to light.
Dickens s famous story was turned into a highly-successful stage musical by Lionel Bart , and Carol Reed 's film version won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture of the Year. The memorable musical numbers include 'Food, Glorious Food 'Consider Yourself ', 'You've Got To Pick a Pocket or Two' and ' As Long As He Needs Me '.
Screenplay by VERNON HARRIS Music and lyrics by LIONEL BART
Produced by JOHN WOOLF Directed by CAROL REED Films: pages 16-17

Tough and rough - but likeable and friendly. Two young cops walk a tightrope in the world of crime. starring

with Richard Baker Weather

Join Michael Parkinson and his guests of the week for conversation, entertainment and the occasional surprise.
MUSIC HARRY STONEHAM Director IAN HAMILTON Producer JOHN FISHER