News, weather, papers and sport
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson With HUGH SYKES Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for (he Day
Popular classics on records presented by Richard Baker
(Retted repeat of Saturday's broadcast at 7.30)
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
NEM, p 122; 0 Lord our God, arise! (BBC HB 25); Psalm 40; Isaiah 63, vv 7-9. 15-16 (AV); Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates (BBC HB 34)
by Mair McLellan
Read by J.O.Roberts
Gwenda was drawn to Larry the Flute who was much older than her, but it was David the Farmer, of her own age, whom she married but not without much heart-searching.
BBC Wales
Brian Johnston recently visited The Savoy Hotel in London
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Revised repeat: Christmas Eve 5.15)
11.40 Announcements
Story: The Naughtiest Story of All by DOROTHY EDWARDS
Presenters GARY TAYLOR and JEAN ROGERS
Written by JEAN ROGERS
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
News and information that affects the way you live.
Presenters Sue Cook and Andy Price
and voices and topics In and behind the headlines. Presented by Brian Widlake
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
Festive Frolic Billy Con nolly makes his operatic début tonight in a gala performance of Die Fledermaus.
Christmas in the Cairngorms: ANNE BROWN sam ples the seasonal attractions of Scotland's highland playground.
Mealies to Malawi: a cautionary tale by ELIZABETH ADAIR on the hazards of giving perishable presents. Here We Go A-Carolling -5: Ding, Dong, Merrily on High.
BBC Scotland
A Friend of Her Father's by WILLIAM Fl.OMER abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Margaret Inglia
starring Paul Jones in the ever popular rock opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The Musical Theatre Company's children's choir and orchestra conducted by Jack Forsyth.
Presented by arrangement with Martin Gates.
The Musical Theatre Company's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed by Ken Hill, is now at the Westminster Theatre, London
(Repeated: Boxing Day at 7.20; Thursday 7.30 pm)
Michael Elkins , the BBC Correspondent in Jerusalem, taking a highly personal look at Christmas as seen through the eyes of a Jew. He recalls the Christmases he knew before the 1967 Middle East War and describes his feelings then and now. A Radio News production
The Thirty-Nine Steps
5: Various Parties Converging on the Sea
Presenters Gordon Clough and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint
Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.51 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
Including Financial Report
Barry Neman reviews the transport year with the help of: PAUL CALLAN , MICHAEL EDWARDS, JOHN HORAM , MP, RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS , SIR FREDDIE LAXER , SIR PETER PARKER , ERIC TOBITT
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALB
(Repeated: Christmas Dag at 2.0 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection from BBC radio and television programmes.
Producer NICK HUGHES
(Repeated: Sat 19.36 am)
A personal portrait
A spontaneous discussion by Miriam Karlin Woodrow Wyatt
The Rev Roy Trevivian Arthur Marshall
Chairman David Jacobs from Holt. Wiltshire
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Sheridan Morley Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Anthony Howard reporting Including at
10.25* Market Trends
An irreverently critical look back at the week news with David Jason , Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Steafel and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by JOHN LANGDON , GUY JENKIN, BARRY BOWES , RICHARD QUICK, JEREMY BROWNE , ROGER WODDIS
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES (Repeated: Sat 5 25 pm) Woddis on .... page 18
Fritz Splegl keeps a keen eye and ear on what's written and said. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sat 11.55 am)
The Enchanted Places by CHRISTOPHER MILNE abridged in ten parts by DORIS KER Read by DAVID MARKHAM (10)
Producer MAURICE LEITCH BBC Plymouth long wave only
(Starting next Wednesday: The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy )
Three talks about Christmas, the light it throws on God and man, by Evan Pilkington. Canon of St Paul's Cathedral. 2: 1 am of Value long wave only
II Domestico by JOYCE MERRICK with Jonathan Newth as Tom Amanda Murray as Janet Janet Hargreaves as Pauline and Graham Faulkner as the Service Engineer
When robots do all the domestic chores, housewives will have no problems - or will they? Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
