A Christmas reading by DAME FLORA ROBSON
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Moods and characters to give a seasonable start to the day
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
9.5 Sunday Papers
on Christmas Eve from St Michael 's Parish Church. Camberley: conducted by the Vicar. THE REV PAUL BARBER , assisted by THE REV GRAHAM THEOBALD
Hymns: It came upon the midnight clear (A and M Rev 66); 0 little town (A and M Rev 65): The first Nowell (obc 27)
Lesson: Luke 2..vv 1-14 (NEB) Te Deum
Choirmaster BRIAN SCHOLLAR Organist PAUL WREN
Richard Baker introduces a sequence of music for Christmas Eve chosen from records made by some of the world's great artists.
A selection from some of the recordings of the wartime radio programme from the BBC Sound Archives. Taking part:
DR C. E. M. JOAD , JULIAN HUXLEY COMMANDER A. B. CAMPBELL MALCOLM SARGENT
COMMANDER R. T. GOULD PHILIP GUEDALLA
HAROLD NICOISON. , BARBARA WARD Questionmaster
DONALD MCCULLOUGH
Edited by DENYS GUEROULT
12.55 Weather, programme news
Review of the Year
A survey of the main events of 1972 ... the voices and sounds that have made news during the year: presented by William Hardcastle with the help of LADY ANTONIA FRASER PAUL JOHNSON and PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE Editor ANDREW BOYLE
Producers ROBIN MALCOLM HOWARD ROGERS
(Radio Times 1972 People: p 4)
STEVE RACE invites FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS, ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
Is it true...
in King's College Chapel, Cambridge, upon Christmas Eve (Order of Service: see Christmas Day, 1.15 pm. Radio 3) (Singing Joy ... : pages 6-7)
Audrey Russell introduces a collection of personal accounts of strange experiences of ghosts, hauntings. dreams and premonitions.
Compiled by JOHN WHITEHEAD Producer ROY HAYWARD
A special Christmas edition with contributions from blind listeners of all ages. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer THENA HESHEL
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited
The Variety Artists Benevolent Fund Home, Twickenham
(Extended version: Wed. 7.30)
5.55 Weather, programme news
Christmas Eve at the Players' Theatre
Rumbustious Victorian Music-Hall with popular favourites in party mood introduced by that mirthful Master of Ceremonies John Hewer
SHEILA BERNETTE, ANNA DAWSON, ROBIN HUNTER, DENIS MARTIN
SHEILA MATHEWS, STELLA MORAY, JOAN STERNDALE BENNETT and special guests Ian Wallace and Hugh Paddick
At the piano PETER GREENWELL Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair, Jack Longland
Andrew Cruickshank introduces Christmas hymns and carols sung by the young people of school and college choirs. Producer STEWART CROSS
ALAN CIVIL (horn)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader SYDNEY HUMPHREYS conducted by ANDREW DAVIS Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Mozart Horn Concerto No 4, in E flat major. (K 495)
Strauss Suite: Der Rosenkavalier
A Christmas Garland devised and presented by David Davis So now is come our joyfull'st feast
Let every man be folly:
Each room with ivy leaves Is dressed,
And every post with holly with the voices of ROSALIND SHANKS and GABRIEL WOOLF
Producer RICHARD IMISON
(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.0 pm)
J. B. Priestley , A. J. Alan James Stephens who created a climate of compulsive listening
Presented by Frank Phillips in recorded classics of broadcasting
Producer MADEAU STEWART
(The Hosts of Christmas 1922-1972: pages 100-110)
God with us
Reader Stuart Hibberd
(An extended version of a Christmas Epilogue broadcast by Stuart Hibberd in 1936)
11.4 Weather
Alan Keith with some records
from the Roman Catholic Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Billericay, Essex Celebrant FR GEOFFREY PYE assisted by FR MICHAEL WATERS
Readings: Isaiah 9, vv 1-7; Titus 2. vv 11-14; Luke 2, vv 1-14 Music 0 come. all ye faithful; Hodie Christus natus est (Britten): Make we joy now in this fest (Walton); Hark! the herald angels sing; Billericay People's Mass
Choirmasters ARTHUR SPARKS and BERNARD ANTRAM
Organist WILLIAM SMITH s.
The action of the Mass described by FR PATRICK MCENROE
1.15 Inshore waters forecast
