6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV JOHN MATTHEWS
7.0. 8.8 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.31, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Untrodden Borneo.... where the wildlife is still largely undisturbed by man. and where you can find killer hornets, giant centipedes that bite and huge butterflies that waft gently through the trees. Introduced by Feter France
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
A play for Christmas by ANGELA SEWELL with John Castle and Pat Heywood
'If vou had the chance would you say the same words over again ... there is no room at the inn "? ' with JULIAN FIRTH
Directed by PETER FIRTH BBC Bristol
visits Norfolk where members of the Norwich Telephone Area Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERUTT 'S and PROFESSOR
ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(A revised repeat of Sunday's broadcast at 2.0 pm)
NEM, p 118: All praise to thee, who safe hast kept (BBC HB 401); Psalm 91, vv 1-13: Isaiah 61, vv 1-11 (AV); Forth in thy name, 0 Lord (BBC HB 406)
My Christmas Carol by BUDD SCHULBERG
Read by Timothy Earle
JEAN ROGERS goes to a Christmas party at Shprborne Nursery School, Kentish Town. Story: The Cat Who Wanted to Sing Carols by JOYCE GLOVER
Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines. Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Looking ahead to 1979, which is the International Year of the Child, and to Christmas, which is the season of the child every year:
Guest o/ the Week: child star Bonnie Langford
Judith Stone , UK Director of International Year of the ChHd, and other guests, join with Sue Mac Gregor to celebrate the joy and deprivations of children round the world. Down The Rabbit Hole (11)
The Wonderful ' 0 by JAMES THURBER adapted for radio by BRIAN SIBLEY with Frederick Jaeger and Eric Allan
A lighthearted story telling of a group who force an island population to removetheletter'O' from their language - or at least attempt to. HENRY KNOWLES
Directed by GERRY JONES
from St Paul 's Cathedral Responses (Leighton)
Psalms 102, 103 (Peter Tranchell )
Lessons: Isaiah 26, vv 1-9; St John 14, vv 1-11 (rsv) Antiphon: 0 dayspring, brightness of light everlasting
Canticles (The St Paul's Service: Herbert Howells ) Anthem; Rorate coell (Byrd)
Master of the Choir BARRY ROSE . Organist CHRISTOPHER DEARNLEY
The Thirty-Nine Steps 3: The Spectacled Roadman
The news magazine
Presented by Robert Williams and Susannah Simons
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen from around the world
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
John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40pm)
1 Did your turkey explode last year? Did the children have the mumps? Were you burgled, breathalysed, or stranded at an airport? That was a misery Christmas. A seasonal anthology for all those who sympathise with Scrooge, and have wished to see anyone who said " Merry Christmas " boiled alive with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'
Producer PETER FOZZARD
Edward Woodward presents
The History of London'* Gaiety Theatre-its songs, its stories, its girls, and its Guv'nors.
There never was a theatre quite like it. For seven decades the Gaiety was the talk and the toast of London. It won a unique place in the hearts of theatre-goers, an affection that no theatre before or since has ever achieved. It was an institution - and it stood unashamedly for escapism. In its turn-of-the-century heyday, it caught the very tang and tempo of that brief and opulent Edwardian summer-the days of Empire and golden sovereigns ... When hats were hats of startling size.
And waists were waists. and thighs were thighs with SHEILA MATHEWS ,
PETER REEVES. JO MANNING WILSON , DAVID RYALL , DAVID STRONG , and CHARLES YOUNG AND HIS SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
Devised and written by GERALD FROW
Producer JOHN DYAS
China
Two years after the death of Chairman Mao and with a leadership dedicated to ' bringing great order across the land China is busily allying itself with the West while remaining intractably Communist. Mary Gold-ring has been re-visiting China to report on the social, economic and political changes and their implications for the rest of the world. Producer
GREVILLE HAVENHAND
(Repeated: Thurs 11.0 am)
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAH
9.59 Weather
Anthony Howard reporting Including at
10.25* Market Trends
Sir John Gielgnd. in the ninth of 11 programmes, talks to JOHN MILLER 9: Speak the Speech
' I never had trouble with my speaking, my voice; although in nearly every play I've been in, somebody's said they couldn't hear me, which has upset me very much because I'm supposed to speak very well. Taxi-drivers can" never understand me and I gabble tremendously off the stage, but I've never had to have voice lessons. I think it was Barker who used to say, " You've done that, now do something else", so that I'm very aware that you mustn't keep on the same note for too long, and you must vary your pace and pitch and phrasing, and that is really the main secret.' Producer JOHN POWELL
(Tomorrow: John Gielgud in The Browning Version at 3.35 pm)
The Enchanted Places (8) long wave only
Written by Brian Sibley
Devised and produced by Suzan Davies
(long wave only)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
