Presented from the North by KEN FORD
BBC Manchester
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead with HUGH SYKES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV ERIC DOYLE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.36, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
A look ahead with Moira Stuart
reflects on life in and out of the Sound Archives.
and Mavis Nicholson , Bernard Falk , Kenneth Robinson. who will be among those helping to find antidotes to that Monday morning feeling. Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
NEM, p 106; Shepherd divine, our wants relieve (BBC HB 348); Psalm 95; Isaiah 59, vv 12-21 (av); The Lord my pasture shall prepare (BBC HB 477)
Dedders and Deodars by IRIS MACFARLANE
Read by Irene Sutcliffe
On Christmas Eve. Radio 4 will broadcast live for the 50th time the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Michael Till , Dean of King's College, and Philip Ledger. Director of Music, with the help of past and present members of the College and the Choir, trace the growth of an international reputation and recall the men who have built it. Producer JOHN HASLAM
(Repeated: Tues 8.0 pnO
Story: The Busybody Bird by RUTH C. PAINE
The World of Work with MARGARET KORVINO Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Second Semi-final
(Details: Thurs 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlake Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast Ions ware only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Here We Go A-Carolling - 1: Once in Royal Davids City.
Making for the Moon: the American astro-women are six months into their training. They tell PAT ROWE why the earth wasn't spacious enough.
Spana: NINA HOSALI talks about the Society for the Protection of Animals in North Africa and her mother Kate who founded the charity 55 years ago. lt't Magic: TONY BARNFIELD explores performers' views on applause.
Down The Rabbit Hole (t) Editor WYN KNOWLES
When the Snow Lay Round About by JAMES FORSYTH
The Thirty-Nine Steps by JOHN BUCHAN abridged in five parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
Read by Frank Duncan 1: The Man who Died
Published in 1915, this was the first of the famous Richard Hannay adventures. Hannay, a mining engineer returning to the Old Country In the fateful summer of 1914. is finding life in London very dull - until a mysterious American calls at his flat with an extraordinary story.... Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
with Gordon Clough
and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
New stories about the characters created by A. J CRONIN
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm) (Andrew Cruickshank is a National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Tues 1.40 pm)
by Hugh Whitemore
Glenda Jackson as Stevie with Mona Washbourne as the 'Dragon Aunt'
"I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning."
Those lines from one of Stevie Smith's most famous poems sum up something of the mixture of sadness and gaiety which ran all through the life of this extraordinary and brilliant woman.
Featuring Peter Egan at The Boyfriend, David March as The Friend and Hugh Dickson who tells the story.
(A World Service drama production)
A musical version of the shepherd boy versus ' a great big. very big whopper of a fellow ' story. Performed by children from
ST BARNABAS and ST PHILIP C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL, conductor ALAN DIXON ; and the LONDON BOYS SINGERS, conductor GORDON ROW-LAND-ADAMS. assisted by Isla St Clair - Recitative Ignatius Temba - Goliath The part of David is played by Andrew Knight Lyrics PETER RAPSEY Music ALAN DIXON
Arranged by JOHN LEWIE who also conducted musicians of the ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Producer
ALEC REID
Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer ALAN NIXON
Anthony Howard reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBOHN1
A series in six episodes
Leonard Pearcey talks to Ean Begg, Dr Hilda Davidson, The Rev Eric Fisher, Father David Sparrow and The Rev Victor Stock
(Recorded in Ely Cathedral and London)
(Binaural - the full binaural effect of this programme can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones)
The Enchanted Places (6) long nate only
According to the English Dictionary, a Charade is a kind of riddle in which a word, or words, have to be guessed from their being enigmatically described or acted. Among the bric-a-brac and paraphernalia of the Merry Season, is there some clue as to its real meaning? These plays can be heard separately or as a series of interconnecting playlets.Ifyouaregood at crosswords, Charades may infuriate you. If you are not, don't worry about it. Play 1
Written by BRIAN SIBLEY
Devised and produced by SUZAN DAVIES i Play 2 tomorrow 11.15pm) long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
