7.55 Weather, programme news
Christians, awake
in another programme in the series My Kind of Music plays some of his favourite records and explains why they gave him particular pleasure.
(Rptd: Boxing Day, 4.5 pm)
8.55 Christmas Day Parade
Christians, awake ..
Greetings from St Columb's Cathedral, Londonderry: St John the Baptist, Cardiff; St John the Baptist, Chilcompton, Somerset: Holy Trinity, Rothwell, Northants; Liverpool Cathedral: St Leonard-at-the-Hythe, Colchester; St Paul 's Cathedral, Dundee; St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia: Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem.
Introduced by ROBERT HUDSON Producer JOHN HASLAM
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
from Salisbury Cathedral led by the Dean,
VERY REV FENTON MORLEY Preacher, The Bishop
RT REV GEORGE REINDORP
Hymns: 0 come, all ye faithful; While shepherds watched; See amid the winter's snow; Hark! the herald-angels sing
Choir: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; Shepherd's pipe carol (Carols for Choirs. Bk 2) Lessons: from Isaiah 9, I.uke 2 Choirmaster and organisl
RICHARD SEAL. Asst choirmaster and organist MICHAEL SMITH
David Jacobs invites you to join him with:
Ronnie Barker, John Bluthal, Terence Brady, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Pat Coombs, Bing Crosby, Leslie Crowther, Barry Cryer, Ken Dodd, Percy Edwards, Clement Freud, Paul Gallico, Graeme Garden, Deryck Guyler, Sheila Hancock, Roy Hudd, David Jason, Peter Jones, John Junkin, Jo Kendall, Liberace, Humphrey Lyttelton, Bill Mcguffie, Alfred Marks, Spike Milligan, Bob Monkhouse, Patrick Moore, Frank Muir, Richard Murdoch, Chic Murray, Pete Murray, Mitch Murray, Stephen Murray, David Nixon, Bill Oddie, Nicholas Parsons, Ted Ray, Robert Robinson, Norma Ronald, William Rushton, Joan Sanderson, Rosalind Shanks, June Whitfield, Nicol Williamson, Pauline Yates and The King's Singers
Also a special Christmas repeat of Round the Horne (1967) with Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, The Max Harris Group, and Douglas Smith
Produced and written by many people.
Compiled by David Hatch, Bob Oliver Rogers and John Fawcett Wilson
(Nicol Williamson is a member of the RSC)
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth followed by News
(Broadcast on Sunday)
by LEWIS CARROLL : with music composed by STEPHEN HANCOCK Catherine Crutchley as Alice
Alice a childish story take. And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are hvined
In Memory's mystic band
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH
(Ian Richardson is a member of the RSC)
' Through the Looking-Glass ': tonight at 9.15, BBC2.
A Christmas programme in Which FRED LOADS, PROFESSOB ALAN GEMMELL and chairman MICHAEL BARRATT join BILL sowERBUTTS at home and survey the 1973 gardening scene. Producer KENNETH FORD
WALT DISNEY'S latest full-length cartoon: introduced by Roger Miller as Allan-A-Dale, a minstrel rooster
PETER USTINOV as Prince John, a lion of diminished character; TERRY-THOMAS as Sir Hiss, a sneaky snake; BRIAN BEDFORD as Robin Hood , a wily fox; PHIL HARRIS as Little John. a fun-loving bear; ANDY DEVINE as Friar Tuck. a kindly badger; PAT BUTTRAM as The Sheriff, a fat wolf; MONICA EVANS as Maid Marian , a fair vixen; CAROLE SHELLEY as Lady Kluck, a dowager hen
Director WOLFGANG REITHERMAN Adapted for radio by LYN FAIRHURST
Producer JOHN DYAS
Tell Me True
(Details as Thursday, 6.15 pm)
Wireless for the Blind Fund
The annual appeal made this year by RICHARD BAKER.
Donations (crossed po or cheque) to Richard Baker. Wireless for the Blind Fund[address removed]
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland
(Rptd: Thursday, 12.27 pm; and at 7.30 that evening, Mu Word! - It's My Music)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
The story of a music-hall's war effort: 1939-1940
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON including the recorded voices of MAX MILLER and GRACIE FIELDS (Rptd: Boxing Day, 1.45 pm)
by Terence Rattigan with an introductory comment by the author
The living-room at ' Miramar,' a villa in a small seaside town in the South of France, 9 o'clock on a summer's morning.
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
from the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich
(Rptd: Boxing Day, 9.35 am)
preceded by Weather
Roger Fiske on the composer's Scottish tour and the music it gave rise to: with gramophone illustrations.
Producer CHRISTOPHER HOLME
A Christmas Epilogue
Introduced by Arthur Oldham With Michael Lester Cribb (harpsichord and organ) The Edinburgh Quartet and a section of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus
preceded by Weather
