with Eugene Fraser
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Eugene Fraser
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
(A shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
NEM, p 93; Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC HB 481); Psalm 11; Isaiah 38, vv 9-20 (RSV); With joy we meditate the grace (BBC HB 134)
Quite a Day by PHYLLIS ANDERSON
Read by John Darran Producer HARRI GWYNN BBC Wales
5: Rugby
The folklore, the legend, the anecdote - with Tony Lewis. Chris Rea and Wilfred Wooller , in conversation with DON MOSEY.
Producer DON MOSEY BBC Manchester
Presenter Sue Cook
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
The Spirit of Christmas: a selection of seasonal music and readings to set the Christmas scene.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
JUNE rose with a Christian .' Woman Of Goodwill.'
Served with Love - 4: some recipes inspired by the world's religions - LIONEL BLUE in a Convent kitchen.
Celestial Terminus by ANTONIA RIDGE
Read by Katherine Parr
Nerys Hughes and Tony Aitken with the children of Margaret Gray Nursery School
Story: The Cat Who Wanted to Sing Carols by JOYCE GLOVER
Jump! by KEN WHITMORE with Freddie Jones and Judy Bennett
' You must listen to me. Civilisation will be destroyed this year and London will be destroyed on Friday unless everybody jumps in the air at the same time.'
Music played by HAMMOND'S SAUCE WORKS BAND conductor GEOFFREY WHITHAM Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
(First broadcast in 1975)
From cantors to crime-writers. Jack de Manio meets them all. Producer MICHELL RAPER
4.0-4.5 News
Diary of a Provincial Lady (4)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Sing a New Song
Marghanita Laski plays some of the lesser-known beautiful Christmas carols.
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
including Financial Report
Written by TESSA DIAMOND
BBC Birmingham
Seasonal music with the Salvation Army, introduced by Ian Wallace BIRMINGHAMCITADEL BAND conductor BRAMWELL WILLIAMS
BIRMINGHAM CITADEL SONGSTERS conductor FREDERICK CROWHURST
Producer IAN FENNER
The Story of the Koh-i-noor Diamond by CHARLOTTE AND DENIS PLIMMER Literally Koh-i-noor means the ' mountain of light '. The words were spoken by the great Persian Emperor, Nadir Shah , when he first saw the huge diamond which had fallen into his hands, and is now among our own Crown Jewels. The story of the diamond is one of violence, greed and blood. It is said that no man who wears it dies a natural death. With the voices Of: MAJOR GENERAL W. D. M. RAE -BURN, Governor of the Tower of London and Keeper of the Jewel House: WILLIAM SUMMERS, The Crown Jeweller; and MR E. A. JOBBINS , Keeper of Minerals and Gem Stones at the Institute of Geological Sciences Narrator Saeed Jaffrey
With WILLIAM FOX , RENU SETNA
MARC ZUBER , GARARD GREEN
INDIRA JOSHI , MARGOT BOYD
NICOLETTE MCKENZIE
JOAN MATHESON , ROD BEACHAM
ROY SPENCER , JONATHAN SCOTT and ZIA MOHYEDDIN
Directed by JOHN SCOTNEY
The first of five prgogrammes in which Geoffrey Best, Professor of History in the School of European Studies. University of Sussex, reflects upon some notable modern attitudes to war and peace.
1: The Classical Opposites Series producer MICHAEL STEPHENS
(First broadcast on Radio 3)
The space adventure film "Star Wars" opens in London next week. In America it has already taken more money at the box office than any other film in history, and won extravagant praise from the critics. Paul Gambaccini meets some of the people behind "Star Wars".
Douglas Stuart reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in last Friday's Any Questionsf Introduced by David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
Annals of The Parish (4)
2: The Birth - a meditation by CANON SIMON BARRINGTON-WARD from a hospital.
BBC Birmingham
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
