6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio and John Timpson
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West introduced by DEREK JONES ) E Anglia VHF: see below
8.40 Today's Papers
by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Read by MICHAEL KILGARRIFF (3)
A personal anthology of prose and poetry chosen and read before an invited audience by MRS MARY WILSON. She is joined in the studio by RUPERT DAVIES who reads some of Mrs Wilson 's selections for her.
Produced by RICHARD GILBERT (Repeated: Sunday, 10.10 pm) (Mary Wilson - on learning to conceal a thin skin: page 5)
Christmas Edition
'twixt ISOBEL BARNETT
ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD and RICHARD MURDOCH , DAVID NIXON
Tune-twisters from STEVE RACE In the chair ROY PLOMLEY Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE (Repeated: Friday, 2.15 pm)
NEM p 15; 0 little town of Bethlehem (Oxford Book of -Carols 138); Canticle 3; St Luke 2, vv 8-20; When Christ was born of Mary free (OBC 178)
Introduced by Sidney Harrison BBC N IRELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HERRMANN IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
the story of Christmas at Dingley Dell from The Pickwick Papers by CHARLES DICKENS
Music arranged by ALAN BOUSTEAD. Adapted and produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Nancy Wise invites you to share our Christmas pudding edition including ' As I See It by the 5-to-10-year-olds.
GORDON SNELL looks at Christmas in a health hydro.
Other seasonable items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind? South West VHF: see col 2
A panel game 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 (Repeated: Monday, 7.30 pm)
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
The News and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
The story of Christmas by JEAN SUTCLIFFE
The Bolt Hole by LANGTON SMITH with Nora Nicholson
Dorothy Lane and Margot Boyd The three Hamshaw sisters come to live in a remote house on the edge of Dartmoor. It is to be a quiet peaceful life, but once you take in one ' uninvited guest ' things can start to snowball ...
Produced by GLYN DEARMAN
in King's College Chapel Cambridge upon Christmas Eve Director of Music
DAVID WILLCOCKS IAN HARE (organ)
(A stereophonic recording can be heard on Christmas morning at 9.35, Radio 3 - for Order of Service, see page 54. The head chorister's choice of Desert Island Discs: Saturday at 7.0 pm. Radio 4. ' Christmas at school - but there are compensations ': page 4)
Trumpet Voluntary in D
ADOLF SCHERBAUM (trumpet) WILHELM KRUMBACH (organ) gramophone record
Salute to Adventurers by JOHN BUCHAN : adapted for radio by LINDA POLAN with An adventure story set in 17thcentury Virginia.
3: The Protection of the Colony
Produced bv JAMES DUCKETT (from Birmingham)
(Miriam Margolyes is in ' Fiddler on the Roof ' at the King's Theatre, Glasgow)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening.
Including the latest news, the evening press. what's on tonight. and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
Christmas Edition
ANONA WINN, JOY ADAMSON, NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest, and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair. Produced by BOBBY JAYE
Frank Muir plays some of his favourite records and explains why they give him particular pleasure (RepeatEd: 1 Jan, 9.5 am. Tomorrow,10.30 am: Denis Norden )
A radio play by Mollie Hardwick from the novel 'Lovel the Widower by W. M. Thackeray
"You could not surely think seriously of a poor girl like me, with so many family ties?" In fact, Elizabeth Prior is pursued by no small number of admirers.
Pianist David Davis
Produced by David H. Godfrey
(Leonard Fenton is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
The News
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
Osbert Lancaster-humorist and painter
The creator of Maudie Littlehampton talks to DEREK COOPER about his life as humorist and artist.
Produced by SUSAN ERLBECK
Whisky Galore by COMPTON MACKENZIE
Read by JOHN GRAHAM (9)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
A programme of music for Christmas Eve gramophone records
from St Joseph's Home for the Aged, Liverpool
Principal Celebrant and Preacher
BISHOP AUGUSTINE HARRIS
Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool
Concelebrants FR JAMES CARTER and FR JOHN THOMPSON
Readings: Isaiah 9, vv 1-7; Titus 2, vv 11-14: Luke 2, vv 1-14 The old people, in the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor, are joined by schoolgirls from La Sagesse Convent and a section of the Archdiocesan Choral Society, Liverpool, directed by RAYMOND GUINEE Choirmistress SISTER ISABEL Organist SISTER SUZANNE
The action of the Mass described by FR JOHN STAPLETON
