ROBERT EDDISON reads the Birth narrative from the Gospel According to St Luke
and Weather
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks on the humour of the subject. and the voices of ALAN BENNETT PETER COOK and DUDLEY MOORE
BOB NEWHART , JOYCE GRENFELL INSTANT SUNSHINE
JERRY STILLER and ANNE MEARA MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Boxing Day 1.30 pm)
0 come, all ye faithful
ROBERT HUDSON introduces Christmas morning greetings from the bells of St Peter and St Paul , Ormskirk,
Lancashire; St Mary's, Coity, Mid-Glamorgan; St Stephen's, Bristol; St Edmund 's, Kessingland, Suffolk; Christ Church, Lurgan, Co Armagh; The Church of The Holy Rude. Stirling; St Mary's, Luton; the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem. Producer JOHN HASLAM
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
from St Anne 's Cathedral, Belfast, conducted by the Dean, VERY REV SAMUEL B. CROOKS
Preacher: RT REV
ARTHUR H. BUTLER , Bishop of Connor
Master of the Music JONATHAN GREGORY
Sub-organist EDWIN GRAY
Readings: Isaiah t, vv 2-7; Luke 2, vv 8-16
Hymns: 0 come, all ye faithful; While shepherds watched their flocks; Ding dong! merrily on high; Away in a manger
Anthem: The Shepherds' Cradle Song. BBC N Ireland
An Invitation to celebrate Christmas morning in the company of Woody Allen, Alan Bennett, Michael Bentine, Dad's Army, Windsor Davies, Les Dawson, The Goons, Tony Hancock, Hinge and Bracket, Kenneth Horne, The King's Singers, Morecambe and Wise and many others
David Jacobs introduces a seasonal selection of widely varied entertainment, including a special Christmas edition of Steptoe and Son, starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett
With Douglas Blackwell and Nicolette McKenzie
Written and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
Compiled and produced by Bobby Jaye and Geoffrey Perkins
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings,
The Grand Babylon Hotel by ARNOLD BENNETT dramatised by BARRY CAMPBELL with Peter Vaughan, Angela Pleasence, Simon Cadell and Philip Bond
Murder, love affairs, international intrigues and high finance are the ingredients that go to make up this story which its author describes as being ' a lark Theodore Racksole buys the most famous hotel in the world on a whim. stung by the head waiter's disapproval of his American ways. and lives to doubt the wisdom of his impulse. with ALISON FRAZER , DOUGLAS BLACKWELL WILLIAM EEDLE , LESLIE HERITAGE Produced and directed by JANE MORGAN
Billy Mayerl plays his own music: Marigold: The Jazx Master; Hollyhock gramophone record
Charlie Cairoli, the clown, chooses the records he would take to a desert island, and discusses them with Roy Plomley.
(Rptd: Boxing Day 12.27 pm)
RICHARD BAKER makes the annual appeal for the Wireless for the Blind Fund
Donations to: Richard Baker , [address removed](no stamp required) or any branch of [text removed]
A festive look back over the year through the eyes of the Week Ending... team, David Jason, Bill Wallis, Chris Emmett, David Tate
With the music and keyboards of Bill McGuffie
Special Christmas cracker Gay Soper
Written by Colin Bostock-Smith, Alastair Beaton and others
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.0 pm)
A special seasonal story about the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with A Sentimental Tale by DONALD BULL
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer EDWARD TAYWR
(Repeated: Tuesday 9.5 am)
Roy Plomley's castaway is clown Charlie Cairoli. Show more
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 6.5 am)
by Daphne du Maurier
adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
Flora Robson , Richard Pasco and Jane Asher
The haunting story of a young and ingenuous girl who married the wealthy and romantic Maxim de Winter and found herself at grips with the ghost of the beautiful Rebecca, former mistress of the fabled Manderley.
A true story of Christmas with Annette Crosbie as Violet Pulford
Narrator Noel Johnson
A few days before Christmas 1928 the British Legation in Afghanistan came under heavy fire. Rebel tribesmen had launched an attack on the capital. Kabul. For several days the lives of those in the Legation were in danger. There were real fears of a massacre Early on 23 December a single RAF Vickers Victoria troop transport which had already flown 2,800 miles from its base in Iraq set off on the final lap to attempt a rescue....
This account of the first-ever civilian airlift is based on the book Wtngs over Kabul by ANNE BAKER and AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR RONALD IVELAW-CHAPMAN and on the unpublished diary of VIOLET PULFORD. Written and produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
Sir John Gielgud and Rosalind Shanks read poems by WILLIAM BLAKE and h. colin DAVIS , with music contributed by the BBC SINGERS The sequence compiled by H. COLIN DAVIS
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
preceded by Weather
