6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presented by Brian Bedhead and John Timpson including at
C 45' Prayer for the Day With THE REV ALEX MOTYER
7.0, 8.9 Todays News
Read by laurie macmillan
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day
An ordinary talk show with some extraordinary people.
Producer UN cahdhousi
xenneth FORD invites FRED LOADS bill sowerbutts and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
Questions, on postcards, to Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse .Lane, Leeds [Postcode removed] BBC Manchester
nem, p 67; Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30); Psalm 146; Isaiah 35, vv 1-10 (AV); Lo! he comes with clouds descending (BBC HB 35)
by IRENE THOMAS (8)
with Richard Baker
(Richard Baker narrates Holy Boy at 7.45 pm)
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
A selection of plays from the series
Just Before Midnight The Bionic Blob
(or This Bazooka on my Left Shoulder is Loaded) A sci-fl comedy by JAMES FpLLETT
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
Antlanta by BERNARD KOPS
Directed by JOHN tydeman
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presented by Robin Day
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Pam Gems , playwright
Desert Island People: ARTHUR MARSHALL selects some would-be and not-would-be companions for his blue lagoon.
Little Miss Coot and Plcasino: just one of the children ANNE CATCHPOLE heard about during her recent visit to Burma.
The Social Sense by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Read by Gerald Cross
Story: The Happy Little King's Crown Jewels by MOIRA HERITAGE
A play for Christmas by Fay Weldon.
'Cynthia speaking. I lie in bed and don't get up and think just how much I don't believe in God, or Christmas, or miracles ... I don't want to be observed. I just want to live in peace, alone, with Miranda.'
'Mrs Ruddy speaking. I sit here in my office at the school and think just how much everyone ought to make an effort. Especially Miranda's mother.'
'Colin speaking. Miranda's father. I believe a man should be allowed to put his past behind him, sit in this west-bound high-speed train and think just how much I believe that.'
(BBC Bristol)
(Stereo)
(Fay Weldon regularly writes the Radio Times Preview column)
from the Queen's Free Chapel of St George.
Windsor Castle
Responses (Smith)
Psalms 98, 99, 100, 101 (Attwood, Hanforth, Battishill, Goss)
First Lesson: Isaiah 13, vv 1-13
Canticles (Howells: Gloucester Service)
Second Lesson: Colossians 2, vv 1-15
Anthem: Vigilate (Byrd) Choir directed by CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON Organist
JOHN PORTER
The Same Angel
Written and read by Shirley Cooklin
'Terry thought It's the same dirty old world. Nothing's changed, and it's Christmas too, to top it! He looked at the tinsel and the mock Christmas trees in the shop windows. Everything from wallpaper to tinned cat-food was decorated.'
The news magazine
Presented by Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.54 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report and half-an-hour of reports from BBC Newsmen around the world
A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden In the chair
John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
A weekly investigation intoaccusationsofunfairness, fraud and injustice.
Presented by Roger Cook (Repeated: Thurs 9.5 am)
HELP! page 15
A Folk Oratorio in celebration of Christmas with words and music by David Palmer from the Fairfield Hall, Croydon.
Narrator Richard Baker with a choir assembled from local Roman Catholic schools and an orchestra, recorder group and folk group provided by various schools in the Croydon area.
Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
Current events, attitudes and opinions, at home and abroad.
Reporter David Henshaw Producer GERRY northam Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presented by Tony Palmer
Producer ROB WHITE
Douglas Stuart reporting
A comedy series by WALLY K. DALY
Stereo
A Cab at the Door 13: Post-War Bille. long wave only
Radio 4s International Business Report; Market Trends long wave only
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
