A meditation in words and music on the theme of the Nativity
7.55 Weather; programme news
Christians, awake ...
Jack de Manlo presents Radio 4's breakfast-time look at the Christmas morning scene, featuring FRED STREETER in the garden and TROMPETTO in the kitchen.
8.45-8.5U Christmas Parade With DOUGLAS CAMERON
8.58 Weather
Christians, awake . . .
Greetings from: St John the Baptist, Croydon, Surrey; St Andrew , South Lopham. Nor-folk; St Saviour, Oxton, Birkenhead: St Holyrud, Stirling: St Comgall, Bangor, Co Down; St Nicholas, Grosmont, Monmouthshire: Blessed Mary, Brixham, Devon; Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem
Introduced by ROBERT HUDSON Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
speaks to the Commonwealth
(Also broadcast on Radio 1, 2, 3. Repeated on Radio 4 at 1.0. BBC1 at 3.0; BBC2 at 4.50)
Morning Prayer from
St George 's Church. Stockport conducted by the Vicar CANON WILFRID GARLICK Psalm 19
Lesson: St Luke 2. vv 1.20 ( AV ) Hymns (A and M Rev): Christians, awake! (61): Hark, the herald-angels sing (60); While shepherds watched (62)
Carols (Carols for Choirs): Up! good Christian folk (Book 1, 44 The Infant King (Book 2, 41) Organist ARTHUR ROOKE
Another chance to enjoy the reminiscences of Elsie and Doris Waters as they recall half a century of fun-making from their earliest days up to the present and include an anecdote with brother Jack Warner who also sings!
At the piano Geoffrey Brawn
A Christmas Box at the Players' Theatre
Mr Barry Cryer (who is also Thomas the Cat) introduces a seasonal pantomime.
Robert Reece's 'Original civic burlesque,' first performed 1870, is the story of Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat
also starring Miss Anna Dawson as Dick, Mr Ian Wallace as the Mysterious Mariner
With Miss Josephine Gordon as Rosemary; Mr Peter Reeves as Sir Highbury de Barne; and Mr Tony Bateman as Alderman Callipash; Miss Joan Sterndale Bennett as Mrs Callipash; Mr Deryk Parkin as Muley, the Mariner's attendant; Mr Dudley Stevens as Fitzbaggage, the clerk; Mr Denis Martin as Philpotts, his associate; Mr Erich Vietheer as Binnacle, the sailor
Adapted from Brian Blades's and Denis Martin's stage version by Trafford Whitelock
At the pianoforte Geoffrey Brawn
Lines from my Grandfather Christmas's Forehead
A sequential entertainment for Christmas
A general knowledge contest
Question-masters JOHN ELLISON and TIM GUDGIN
Second Round - 11: N Ireland v South of England
DOWN HIGH SCHOOL, Downpatrick v CARDINAL VAUGHAN SCHOOL, London
Questions set by ROY SMITH
Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
speaks to the Commonwealth followed by News
A spontaneous discussion by LORD BOOTHBY, RUSSELL BRADDON LORD SOPER. ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Maugham the Storyteller
The Fall of Edward Barnard adapted by VAL GIELGUD
Edward Barnard sets out for Tahiti to restore his fortunes, but is seduced by the sun, the beauty, the leisure ...
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
Judith Chalmers introduces a special edition of Weekend Woman's Hour for Christmas Day
Christmas guest: Kenneth More Woman's Hour's Christmas prize-winning poem: read by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Travelling in Style: MARGARET POWELL , JOAN RICE , ARTHUR COATES and AUDREY RUSSELL
About Face: ALISON BRUCE on the cosmetic columnists
A Turkey, a Goose and a Muscovy Duck: their life-span seen by FRANK PEEL, JACQUELINE HICKS , MARVIN KANE
The Burglary by ARNOLD BENNETT abridged by DOREEN ESTALL read by LAWRENCE JAMES
(Kenneth More is in ' Getting On ' at the Queen's. London)
NANCY wise makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
with Peter Reeves John Gower
Pat Whitmore Charles Young Bennv Lee
MUSIC-HALL SINGERS directed by CHARLES YOUNG
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA leader JAMES DAVIS conducted by ALFRED RALSTON Chairman Roy Hudd
Producers CHARLES CHILTON and RICHARD WILLCOX
(Repeated: Sunday, 11.15 am)
(Roy Hudd is in ' Dick Whit tington ' at the Hippodrome. Bristol)
(Hudd and Son: page 5)
5.55 Weather; programme news
Wireless for the Blind by ALVAR LlDELL
The annual opportunitv to provide radio sets for blind people. Donations. preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Alvar Lidell, Wireless for the Blind, [address removed]
David Frost discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.
Roy Plomley's castaway is broadcaster David Frost. Show more
Cliff Morgan introduces a weekly sequence of favourite music chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists
by Val Gielgud: freely based on some short stories by 'Saki'
with Grizelda Hervey, Joan Matheson, Mary Wimbush, Norman Shelley and Christopher Guinee as Clovis.
Many years ago when Romance accompanied the fabled Orient Express its passengers included Spies, King's Messengers, Millionaires and titled ladies of great beauty. Often they had strange tales to tell...
Special wolf effects by Malcolm Clark of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
(Mary Wimbush is in "Butley" at the Criterion, London)
Followed by an interlude
9.58 Weather
A late-eveninc conversation in Which ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY BLOOM MARY WARNOCK and JAMES HEMMING exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV JAMES DEY
All the day's news preceded by Weather
