C.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
At 7.0 and 8.6 News and more of Today, including Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Ring Birmingham [number removed]and discuss your point of view on the air with George Scott and with other R4 listeners. Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 8.0am
Do they still look forward to it as their parents did? Are the pleasures of anticipation still the same? Christmas 1976. as seen in prospect by children in rural Wales and urban Belfast, in a children's home and a us Army Air Force base and in a Sussex village school. Introduced by Nanette Newman Devised and produced by DON MOSEY BBC Manchester
NEM, p 25: 0 come. 0 come, Immanuel (BBC HB 36): Psalm 119, vv 137-144 (bcp): Isaiah 64, vv 1-9 (av): Wake, 0 wake! for night is flying (BBC HB 40)
The Old Soul by GEOFFREY PERKINS
Read bv Martin Muncaster Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
An illustration of the ways in which punctuation has been used in comedy by STAINLESS STEPHEN, ALLAN SHERMAN , WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE , VICTOR BORGE and others.
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
Mind and Body Edition Presenter Bill Breckon with your letters
Wednesday's broadcast)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Gordon Clough
Introduced from Bristol by Jenni Murray
On the Outside Looking In: how do those from other lands and religions spend their Christmas in this country!
2.0-2.2 News
My Christmas: a personal view from DAPHNE HUBBARD.
Calypso, West Indian and Greek Carols: a selection from composer PAUL NICOLAIDES. BBC Bristol
Bertie's Christmas Eve by SAKI
Read by Ian Carmichael
(Ian Carmichael is in ' Out on a Limb' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
Story: The Story of Christmas by JEAN SUTCLIFFE
Presenters AURIOL SMITH and SEAN BARRETT
Written by RACHAEL BIRLEY Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
in King's College
Chapel, Cambridge upon
Christmas Eve
(Rptd: Christmas Day 3.0 pm R3).
Order of service: page 62
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by LEWIS CARROLL
Read by BERNARD CRIBBINS
Epilogue by ANNE ROSENFELD
S: Alice takes a proper examination to be a Queen, and attends an important feast at which some extraordinary things happen.... Humpty Dumpty looks for Hippopotamus. the Red Queen changes into a kitten and Alice goes back through the looking-glass. 7n a Wonderland they lie.
Dreaming as the days go by.... . Life, what it it but a dreamt
Gordon Clough
5.50 VHF
Regional news and weather
(Wednesday's broadcast)
(Repeated: Boxing Day 2.15 pm)
A short story for Christmas Eve by BENITO PÉREZ GALDÓS, translated by LESTER CLARK and read by Tony Britton
Producer MARGARET ETALL
(New Year's Eve: The Princess and the Urchin)
of the Week
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer DENYS GUEROULT
A spontaneous discussion by Russell Braddon Patricia Hayes Terry Wogan Lord Soper
Chairman David Jacobs from Avon
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Christmas Day 1.15 pm)
Challenge Match
The finalists from this year's contest:
Thomas Dyer (Brain of Britain 1976). Thomas Chivers
Margery Elliott. Andrew Turner meet David Nixon
Eleanor SummerBeld
Tim Rice , Gillian Reynolds in a less-than-serious edition of Radio 4's nationwide general knowledge contest.
Chairman Robert Robinson
Programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN , who, With IAN GILLIES , sets the questions Producer TONY LUKE
(Rptd: Christmas Sun 12.25 pm)
A Christmas anthology written and compiled by Robert Giddings
Introduced by Jeremy Carrad
And when it comes it brings - what? It seems it brings all things to all men. The face of Christmas is many-sided ... ' From John Milton to Dickens and T. H. White, a collection of Seasonal Gems drawn from the wealth of English literature. V/ith the voices of DOUGLAS BLACKWELL. PETER HOWELL PAUL NICHOLSON, MARY WIMBUSK and DAVID YELLAND Produced and directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol (Rptd: Christmas Day 4.40 put)
by Ivan Turgenev, adapted by Peter Fozzard from the translation by Constance Garnett
with Timothy West as the Hussar
'Do you seriously maintain that something supernatural has happened to you? Something inconsistent with the laws of nature...?' and the mild little Hussar launches into his strange tale of a haunting and its consequences.
preceded by Weather
from the Priory Church of Christ the King, Cockfosters, London
Celebrant and Preacher Dom Edmund Jones, OSB
Readings: Isaiah 9, vv 2-7; Titus 2, vv 11-14; Luke 2, vv 1-14
Music:
Procession to the Crib: Once in royal David's city
Entry to the Mass: O come, all ye faithful
The Offertory: Unto us is born; The Sussex Carol
The Communion: While shepherds watched; Torches
Recessional: O little town of Bethlehem
Common of the Mass: A New People's Mass by Dom Gregory Murray
