(Thursday's "Ten to Eight")
Today's Time GTS 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 am 1.0, 6.0, 11.0 pm
Big Ben 10.0 pm
7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time magazine introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
What the Bible Says
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament
Introduced by Paul Barnes
To keep you in touch with almost anything that's on, or around, or on the way
Produced by RICHARD KEEN ROSEMARY HART , COLIN REID
NEM p 80; Alleluia! sing to Jesus (BBC HB 197); Psalm 90, vv 1-12; Isaiah 60, vv 1-15; Jesu, priceless treasure (BBC HB 518)
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND with RIRGITTE GRIMSTAD Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
by CHARLOTTE BRONTfi reader BILLIE WHITELAW
10: Jane! Jane! Jane!
GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days: introduced by JOHN ELLISON
(Extended version, Sunday,
11.15 am)
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Story: "What happened to Father Christmas" by Elizabeth Price Roberts
LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD LEOPOLD conducted by FRANCIS CHAGRIN studio ORCHESTRA OF
SENDER FREIES BERLIN conducted by WERNER ISBRENNER
The cinema programme
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions?
The story of the birth of the Christ Child told in the words of the Gospels, with Carols in the order of the story as sung in the Christian countries and communities of the world.
Carols began as dances, usually around the crib set in the nave of the church. The nave was the place of the people, and they could and did hold all manner of feasts there. The carol, then. is folk in origin, and few true carols were written in England after the 15th century. Germany already had splendid and ancient carols. But the spirit of the carol spread to every country in the world, and this programme includes carols from Fiji, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia. Scandinavia, and the Argentine. Reader of the Gospels HUGH BURDEN
Translations read by PETER WILLIAMS
Written and. produced by FRANCIS DILLON
A family magazine introduced from Wales by HARRY SOAN and including
Grand Order of Water Rats: WYN CALVIN illustrates the history of this famous show-business organisation
Help if you need it: FREDERICK OUGHTON talks to TELERl BEVAN about his work as a vocational counsellor
Oratorio: GAENOR THOMAS talking to members of the Morriston Tabernacle Choir about the Christmas performance of Messiah
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Five chapters from a book of straight autobiographical stories by DYLAN THOMAS
3: Extraordinary Little Cough and Who do you wish was with us?
Reader WILLIAM SQUIRE
and programme news
Tonight's evening paper of the air with reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard - Sportsdesk - Weekend with TOM POSTOCK - Stop Press: introduced by MERYL O'KEEFFE
A panel game from the Midlands devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge ANNE scott-james and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair JACK LONGLAND
Edgar Lustgarten reconstructs six famous murder trials from the Assize Courts of provincial England
6: Merrifield
Blackpool 1953
Produced by ROGER PINE
(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.30 pm)
Christmas Oratorio
Cantatas 1, 2, and 3 NORMA BURROWES (soprano) ALFREDA HODGSON (contralto) PETER PEARS (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) WANDSWORTH SCHOOL CHOIR Director of Music RUSSELL BURGESS Continuo:
ALAN BROWN (organ)
PHILIP LEDGER (harpsichord) KENNETH HEATH (cello)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Associate leaders
KENNETH SILLITO and JOSE-LUIS GARCIA
Conducted by Benjamin Britten From Southwark Cathedral Christians be joyful
8.35* And there were shepherds in the same country
J.5* Hear. King of Angels, though falter our voices
(Britten conducting an Aldeburgh Festival performance of the Christmas Oratorio from Long Melford: next Sunday on BBC2 Colour)
(viola): music by Kreisler. Liszt, and Mendelssohn gramophone record
The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by News-stand in which RUTH ADAM analyses how the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this week
The King Must Die by MARY RENAULT abridged by ERNEST j. BARTON
ALAN BADEL reads the last of 20 instalments
Produced by GEORGE ANGELL (Beginning on Monday: ' Phineas Redux ' by Anthony Trol lope read by David March in 20 instalments)
Brahms Trio in c major, Op 87 ISAAC STERN (violin) LEONARD ROSE (cello)
EUGENE ISTOMIN (piano) gramophone record
