6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead With HUGH SYKES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV JOHN MATTHEWS
7.0 and 8.0 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Exploring Outer Space
This morning you can engage in a close encounter with Patrick Moore , by phoning [number removed]to enquire on all matters extraterrestrial and astronomical. Whether your interest is in stars, planets, quasars or pulsars there is a whole galaxy of questions to ask and theories to discuss. In the Chair
BarbaraMyers
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Lines are open from 8.0 am
Material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Bob Langley.
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
NEM, p 110; Beloved, let us love (BBC HB 373); Psalm 138; Isaiah 60, vv 1-15 (AV); Love. unto thine own (BBC HB 523)
The Gift
Written and read by Robert Rietty
Christmas in Italy, 1944. It sounds exciting, doesn't it, until you remember the war was on and the Italian campaign was at its worst.
Producer MITCH RAPER
The Battle of the Booze byPATRICKRYAN
The improbable story of how two ingenious army officers managed to line their own pockets and fool the mighty German military machine - at one and the same time.
With JONATHAN NEWTH. JACK MCKENZIE , PETER WICKHAM , DAVID GRAHAM , GRAHAM FAULKNER , GREGORY DE POLNAY, PHILIP VOSS , ANDREW SACHS , HENRY KNOWLES , FRED BRYANT , MARTIN MATTHEWS , LAWRENCE HARRINGTON, ANTHONY NEWLANDS , ROY MONTAGUE. Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Whenever a couple of farmers get together they tend to talk shop. David Richardson , who grows crops and keeps pigs in Norfolk, and Michael Clark. who milks cows and tends sheep in Avon, are no exception. Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Story: Mr and Mrs Rooster by EMMA MILTON
News and information that affects the way you live. Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines. Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
There is Nothing Like a Dame: ARTHUR ASKEY , DANNY LA RUE and writer JOHN MORLEY consider the role of this traditional character, Reading Your Letters.
Alone at Christmas; MARY PHILPOT has been for years, as she tells JUNE ROSE.
Work in Progress: NOEL BARBER talks about the book he's working on. Here We Go A-Carolling-2: The Coventry Carol
Down The Rabbit Hole (10)
Live from the House of Commons
by PAUL BOND
On the bus routes of a Northern city a war rages at the season of goodwill. For nine years Sidney Tooms has played Father Christmas at the depot's children's party. Now he has been deposed. Will his fight for reinstatement bring the city to a halt?
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
4.30 Announcements
The Thirty-Nine Steps
2: The Literary Innkeeper
Presented by
Robert Williams
and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
A marital comedy starring Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick
2: You're Never Too Old to Stay at Home featuring NIGEL LAMBERT and AUBREY WOODS
Written by BARRY PILTON Producer
GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated; Wed 1.40 pm)
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad - with reports by STEVE BRADSHAW and DAVID HENSHAW
Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols will be broadcast on Christmas Eve for the 50th time. Michael Till , Dean of King's College Chapel. Cambridge, and Philip Ledger. Director of Music, trace the growth of an international reputation.
We know that the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation programmes, and outgassings from the earth contribute to increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and may combine to cause a rise in the global temperature. Are recently observed decreases in polar ice cover signs of a warmer planet? The practical consequences could be catastrophic, for a predicted rise in ocean would mean London, New York and the Netherlands being five metres below the waves. John Maddox examines the validity of climate modelling, and assesses whether or not we should act on the predictions.
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer ANNE WINDER
Anthony Howard reporting Including at
10.25' Market Trends
says Cardew Robinson to Tom Mennard Jan Harding and Peter Robinson KEN FRITH (piano)
Producer MIKE CRAIG BBC Manchester
The Enchanted Places (7) long wave only
(Play 3 tomorrow 11.15 pm) long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
