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What Britain is getting up to. News and views from home and around the world.
Presented by John Timpsen with PETER RUFF Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by SAKI
Read by David Markham Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Popular classics on records. Presented by Richard Baker
(Revised repeat of Saturday's broadcast at7.30pm)
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
NEM, page 21; Infant holy, infant lowly (Carols for Choirs 16): Canticle 9: Philippians 2, vv 1-11 (AV); The holly and the ivy (OBC 38)
Thursdays for Romance by NORA WINDRIDGE
Read by Sheila Mitchell
Library books and ' the pictures ' - these were Miss Waller's pleasures, and forbidden ones ... Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Brian Johnston recently visited Aviemore in Inverness-shire.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Revised repeat: New Year's Eve at 5.15)
11.40 Announcements
Story: Big Fat Rosie's Christmas Present by Mary Calvert
Presenters Nerys Hughes and Tony Aitken
Written by Tony Aitken
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DENNIS LOWER
A quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Recorded before an invited audience at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music
Stereo. BBC Birmingham
(My Music: New Year's Eve 3.55 BBC2)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Heritage in Stitches: WENDY LLOYD talks to some of the 300 needlewomen engaged in making the Chester Tapestry.
Helping Hands: FAY WAT SON reports on a scheme tJ involve schoolgirls in a playgroup.
Poetic Protest: MARGARET MAISON traces the early steps in the march towards liberation made by 18th-century poetesses. BBC Manchester Moon's Ottery (3)
The Funny Man by JOHN GRAHAM with Cyril Shaps as Askell ' Alive and warm. Up there in front of an audience. It's the only time I feel - wanted - if you know what I mean. If they laugh, if they smile, I feel real.'
' But vou killed a China-man. didn't you, Askell? Got five years for it. How did you do it? '
Directed by ROGER PINE
(First broadcast in 1972)
John Barrett reads
Hiawatha's Wooing and Wedding by HENRY
WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW BBC Bristol
with Gordon Clough and Kachael Heyhoe-Flint Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
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5.55 Weather; programme news
Barry Norman continues his reflections on the transport year.
PAUL CALLAN , MICHAEL EDWARDS, JOHN HORAM , MP, RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS , SIR FREDDIE LAKER , SIR PETER PARKER. ERIC TOBITT
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: New Year's Day at 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard makes a personal selection of items from BBC radio and television programmes over the past year.
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
A personal portrait
Sir Charles Curran The Rt Hon
Enoch Powell , mp
Ann Clwyd , Dick Jeeps Chairman David Jacobs from Wallheath, West Midlands
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
"Look then upon this Cathedral Church of Christ, imagined by men's minds, built by the labour of men's hands. working with power upon the souls of men, symbol of the Everlasting Trinity, the visible Temple of God." (Dorothy L. Sayers)
Peter France makes the pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, where Thomas à Becket, Archbishop, Saint and Martyr died on the Fourth Day of Christmas 1170.
With The Dean of Canterbury, The Very Rev Peter de Waal, Canon Derek Ingram Hill, Dr Allan Wicks, Dr William Urry and Alec Clifton-Taylor
A Kaleidoscope production
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Nigel Rees presents a seasonal edition of the popular quotation game incorporating the funniest and the most fatuous Quotes of 1978 featuring Peter Cook Clement Freud , MP Neil Kinnock. mp and Ann Leslie
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcber
Producers JOHN LLOYD and GEOFFREY PERKINS
The Withered Arm 3)
(Starting on New Year's Daw: The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Sinoer ) long wave only
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This week: Other People's Jobs
by J.C. Wilsher
A series of plays for late-night listening
With Eileen Atkins and Edward Woodward
A man (married) takes a colleague from work (female) to the theatre - dinner to follow. After that... well, he has booked the company flat for the night. A clear-cut business arrangement. Only where does business end and pleasure begin?
(Eileen Atkins is a member of the Prospect Theatre Company)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
