with Edward Cole
Headlines, weather, sport, a spot of music and Thought for the Day
Nigel Rees in London
Michael Cooke in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather and sport
by HENRY JAMES , abridged in five episodes by NEVILLE TELLER Read by Anna Massey (1)
' In going on with the record of what was hideous at Bly I not only challenge the most liberal faith - for which I little care; but - and this is another matter - I renew what I myself suffered.'
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
David Barlow , Peter Christie Alan Maryon-Davis and Miles Kington provide a special Christmas entertainment for an audience of patients, doctors, staff and guests of the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot.
Producer IAN FENNER
Frank Muir describes some of the pleasures of life. BBC Manchester
The Wildlife team of three naturalists answer your questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 46; Infant holy (Carols for Choirs 16); Psalm 32; Acts 6. vv 8-15 and 7, vv 55-60 (av); Good King Wenceslas (Carols for Choirs 13).
A Gothic comedy for radio in three parts by Anne Leaton with and What if monsters aren't always fearful, invincible creatures? Suppose they suffer from the same everyday problems afflicting all of us. Three stories explore this theme and present aspects of monsters which would never make the movies ...
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
(Michael Aldridge is in 'Rosmersholm' at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
Johnny Morris talks to an invited audience about some of the pains and pleasures of globe-trotting.
Producer BRIAN PATTEN
Round 1-7: West of England
WELLINGTON SCHOOL, WELLINGTON V
LA RETRAITE HIGH SCHOOL, BRISTOL Questionmaster Tim Gudgin Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Gordon Clough
A Christmas Chapter in the chronicle of our optimistic author starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter
Charlotte Mitchell as his wife The Cousin
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE
Dennis Potter spent his childhood in the Forest of Dean, ; Gloucestershire.
The sounds of childhood Christmas still ring in his ears,, and the images remain as powerful as ever.
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
William Lucas as Alan Scott in Let It Come Down A play for radio by MICHAEL ROBSON with Because Alan Scott , key witness for the prosecution is too conscientious, a murderer goes free and thereafter someone has it in for Scott. Who is that someone?
Directed by JOHN CARDY
The African Queen by c. s. FORESTER, abridged in five parts by NEVILLE TELLER Read by Alec McCowen (1)
An account of one of the strangest, perhaps the most pathetic, forlorn hopes of the First World War. The African Queen, an ancient steam launch, crewed by a spinster missionary and a Cockney mechanic, navigating the Ulanga River in an attempt to destroy the German naval supremacy in Central Africa. Producer ROGER PINE BBC Birmingham
Presented by Gordon Clough
Christmas Special
A seasonal look back at the mirthful and memorable sayings of 1977 with Spike Milligan
Malcolm Muggeridge
Terry Wogan and Anna Ford Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer JOHN LLOYD
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
starring Ronnie Barker
Also featuring Terence Brady and Pauline Yates with GORDON LANGFORD at the piano
The lines were written by CHRIS ALLEN , JOHN GRAHAM , W. W. MAYNE and LESLIE HARRIS , MICHAEL PALIN , MYLES RUDGE and GORDON LANGFORD , ALLAN SCOTT and CHRIS BRYANT , DYLAN thomas and GERALD WILEY Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(First broadcast on Christmas Eve 1971)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
What a Way to Spend Christmas?
BBC correspondents tell of the Christmases they have spent around the world - the joys they've experienced, the tragedies they have covered.
Presented by Gerald Priestland A Radio News production
Locusts by DICK SHARPLES with lyrics by DICK SHARPLES music by IAN GOURLAY
The Nesbitts have arrived - every policeman in Lancashire is thrown into a panic! They're like a plague of locusts - the monthly crime figures rise by nine per cent when they move into a district. The Nesbitts have 'something in mind', the police suspect it. The result - Locusts, an hilarious, irreverent, account of the clash between law and disorder.
Flute/Tenor sax ALAN FAWKES Guitar LES BEAVERS
String bass DAVE LYNANE
Musical director IAN GOURLAY Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
A theological joke for Christmas, written and read by Ian Hawkins. Producer ALEC REID
' I can remember going up town shopping and I thought how normal everything is, and if only they knew what was going on back at our house they'd die of fright! '
Phil Smith tells the story of the strange happenings at a farmhouse in the Lancashire Pennines with the help of some of the people involved... Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
9.59 Weather
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
