with Peter Donaldson
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
with Peter Donaldson
7.52 VHF Regional news, weather
Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, pap-irs and sport
as told to Sue Cook
Take a handful of amateur jazz musicians, an office party, add parents of your children's schoolfriends, a few rehearsals and you have what the clarinettist - cartoonist trog calls ' good cooking jazz ' every Sunday evening at a local North London pub.
Producer JOHN TURTLE
Presented by Moira Stuart Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY
NEM, p 89; Give me the wings of faith to rise (BBC HB 229); Psalm 130; John 20, vv 19-29 (AV); 0 for a faith that will not shrink (BBC HB 310)
Today's author is H. E. BATES Robert Rietty reads
The Goat and the Stars
He treated the goats like friends. It was not until the day before Christmas Eve that he decided to give the goat-kid to the church.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
The last of four programmes in which enthusiasts are given a chance to entertain or indeed convert you to their particular passion in life. Today: Dennis Byers Producer HELEN FRY
Presenter Nancy Wise
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Brian Walker , Director of OXFAM.
2.6-2.2 News
Mary, Sister of Mercy: chris-TABEL KING visits a refuge for homeless women in the East End.
JUNE ROSE with a Hindu ' Woman of Goodwill '.
' They Cannot Afford their Donkey not to be Working 1: over the past year BETTY SVENDSEN has visited several foreign countries on behalf of the International Donkey Protection Trust.
Jamaica Inn by DAPHNE DU MAURIER abridged in 12 parts by DELIA PA TON (12)
(Music: Salzedo's The Witch Boy)
Stories: My Naughty Little Sister and Grandad's Special - Holly by DOROTHY EDWARDS
The Chap that Comes in November by DAVID PARKER
When Bert Boocock dies he finds himself in limbo above the town where he spent his life. With the one love of his life, Annie Bradstreet , he watches a year pass.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
from The Queen's Free Chapel of St George's, Windsor
Versicles and Responses (Jason Smart);
Psalm 106 (Day, Smart, Goss)
Lessons: 2 Samuel 15, vv 17-21; John 11, vv 1-16
Canticles and Antiphons (Watson in E)
Anthem: Blessed City (Bairstow)
Diary of a Provincial Lady (3)
Presented by Brian Widlake
As Bitter as any Gall
Marghanita Laski plays some of the carols which reflect the coming sorrow in the life of the baby whose birth we celebrate at Christmas.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Including Financial Report
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the Chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by STEVE BRAD-SHAW and DAVID HENSHAW. Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
To preserve Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult every year.
(E. B. WHITE)
Bernard Jackson sets out to peel away some of the wrappings to discover the many things that Christmas means to different people. Among those taking part are Don Cupitt
Malcolm Muggeridge
Marghanita Laski. Ronald Eyre and Hubert Richards Producer BRIAN COOK
The Irish singer accompanies herself on the Celtic harp in a selection of Elizabethan songs. Producer MADEAU STEWART
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting
Contestants from eight countries challenge a resident British team
England v Austria Round 1 England: Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich
Austria: Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Dr Hilde Spiel writer, literary critic and novelist and Dr Thomas Lachs
Director of the Vienna Cooperative
Question researcher
DAVID MACKAY
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
Annals of the Parish (3)
1: The Present
A meditation by CANON SIMON BARRINGTON-WARD from a department store
BBC Birmingham
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
