RICHARD SYMS on Giving Christmas Presents
6.55 Weather; programme news
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
God Rest You Merry Readings and music for Christmas Week by ANDREW CRUICKSHANK and the ST MARTIN SINGERS
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 South-East News
8.15 Today
8.40 Today's Papers
by BRUCE MASON
You can spend weeks preparing for the Great Day but. in as many minutes, one small brother can wreak havoc with your plans.
A short story abridged for radio and read by EUGENE FRASER
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Revised version of Sunday's broadcast)
In 1932 King George V broadcast his first Christmas message to the Empire. The programme which preceded it became an annual event until 1958
JOHN LANE , with the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives and the voices of ALAN BURGESS , HOWARD MARSHALL , and muir MATHIESON, recalls some of the highlights
Produced by DENIS LEWELL
St Thomas
NEM p 87; Jesu. guide our way (BBC HB 144); Psalm 100; John 20, vv 19-29: For all thy saints, O Lord (BBC HB 228)
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by KENNETH ALWYN With LEONARD PEARCEY
Introduced by PETER BARKER
A series of seven programmes arranged for radio by JULIA SMALL
Narrator NEIL FREEMAN
1: Wife to Apollo
With HILDA SCHRODER as Elizabeth of Baden, Empress of Russia
Produced by TREVOR HILL
Kenneth More reads the b.ook bv SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER abridged in six parts by TERENCE LONGDON
6: Into the Broad Atlantic
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. With Roy Plomley
and programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Story: Dolly's Christmas by IRENE SNAPE
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by KENNETH ALWYN
NORWEGIAN BROADCASTING
ORCHESTRA conducted by OIVIND BERGH RAYMOND CHEVREUX AND HIS
ORCHESTRA
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Norwegian and French Radios)
A hundred years ago
J. T. Wood rediscovered the site of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
KATHERINE SIM speaks of the man who, in the face of incredible odds. worked to establish the existence of the Temple,
A comedy by M. J. FARRELL and JOHN PERRY
A family magazine introduced from Nottingham by BOB ALLRED Instant Vintage: DENNIS MC-CARTHY looks at a Derby firm which still builds cars to Edwardian specifications
Is Silence Golden?: MARIELANE DOUGLAS talks to ALAN HILLIER , one of the country's leading specialists on the problem of noise
Nervous Breakdown: ANN LEVER tells just what those words mean to one who has experienced it
The book by DOREEN TOVEY arranged for radio in five parts by HOWARD JONES read by Kathleen Helme 1: Crandma by Gaslight
' This story is about my grand-mother; but for whose influence. as my Aunt Louisa has often remarked. I would probably have been very different.' Produced by DAVID DAVIS
and programme news
Tonight's evening paper of the air with reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard - Sportsdesk - Stop Press: introduced by TIM GUDGIN Produced by the South-East News Unit
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
A panel game controlled(!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo Clement Freud , Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by DAVID HATCH
(Pre-recorded at The Paris. Lower Regent Street. London SW1. Rptd Thurs, 12.25 pm) (Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London; Sheila Hancock is in ' So What About Love? ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
COMBINED CHOIRS OF THE
CITY OF SWANSEA lead the audience in carols we all know and love Their guests:
PHILI.IP WATKINS (treble) THE MOLD ALUN SINGERS conductor Brian Hughes organist NIGEL DAVIES conductor ALUN JOHN
Introduced by JOHN DARRAN from the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
by FRITZ HOCHWALDER translated by KITTY BLACK adapted for radio by ARCHIE CAMPBELL wit Joss Ackland Paris. 1794. Following the Thermidor rising, many of the most bloodthirsty extremists of the Revolution have perished in the Terror. Still the purge goes on - as dog eats dog and denunciation by some unknown enemy threatens the lives of those who have so far survived. and Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
The background to the news and people in the news. followed by Listening Post introduced by ANTHONY BROWN
Had we but World enough, and Time
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
NICOLETTE BERNARD presents the first of four anthologies of delectable verse, prose, and song specially compiled for bedtime listening by KEITH HINDELL
by Anthony Trollope
Book 1: The Ladies Rally Round
Handsome, young, and a widower to boot, Phineas Finn returns to politics after a brief absence in his native Ireland. The drawing rooms and salons of mid-Victorian London are thrown open to him. Duchesses and Countesses adore him. The great Liberal Party has high hopes of him. Who, then, can be against him?
Abridged by Madge Hart
Read by David March
Produced by JOHN CARDY
First of 20 instalments
Christmas Concertos
Manfredini Concerto Grosso in c major. Op 3 No 12
Locatelli Concerto Grosso in F minor. Op 1 No 8
MAINZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by GÜNTHER KEHR gramophone records
