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John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Unload your query on to Nell Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER Questions, on a postcard, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London [Postcode removed]

Producer ANTHONY SARGENT

NEM, p 1: 0 heavenly Word. eternal Light (BBC KB 37); Psalm 99: John 20, vv 19-29 (AV): The Lord is King! (BBC IIB 28)

by IRENE THOMAS , who reads the final extracts from her autobiography abridged for radio in ten parts by MOLLIE HARGREAVES 410)

With the festive season rapidly approaching Jim Flegg sends you the song of the robin as an aural Christmas card. BBC Bristol
Bird Sounds and Their Meaning, book, £4.95. and record from bookshops

Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce

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Presenter Brian Widlakc

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Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer Sounds of Praise: DENNIS THURLOW runs a small company which builds and restores church and cathedral organs. He talks about his craft to DAVID LLOYD and illustrates the different stages of production.
Cast-offs and Left-overs: are you likely to be still faced with turkey four days after Christmas? Overwhelmed with unwanted wrapping paper? Will those socks and ties have to be changed? ANN TENNANT and Richard CARR -INGTON present a crash course in coping with the season's excesses.
Resetting the Body's Clock: some people find it difficult to sleep at night - and prefer to doze during the day instead. At the Montefiore Hospital in New York. DR ELLIOTT WEITZMAN has developed new techniques which may help such cases. He discusses his work with GILL PYRAR. BBC Birmingham
The Two Wise Virgin- *< Have (2)

The Story of Christmas by JEAN SUTCLIFFE
Presenters NERYS HUGHES and TONY AITKEN
Written by TONY AITKEN Producer MARY HAYDON
Songs from Listen with Mother are featured on the BBC Record The Bumper Fun Album for Children (also available as a cassette): from record shops

by Anita Bronson
with Geoffrey Beevers as William and Sandra Clark as Rosemary.

To William's terror, Christmas is upon him once again. He faces the prospect of the inevitable shopping with all the over-spending that entails, and to add to his trepidation, it looks as though his wife's entire clan-like family, plus their numerous offspring, are about to descend. But when the country is covered by a mammoth fall of snow, he breathes again...

BBC Bristol

The lives and music of Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth
Written and presented by Frank Dixon
.' You could be well Into your 40s without knowing what Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth meant to those of us who were around during and after the war. Anne and Webster were - and still are - all about romance.' Producer
HERBERT SMITH BBC
Manchester

Pearl by GEORGE MACKAY UROWN Read by John Shedden
A day in winter. No school. I was sent from the smithy to the boat-house with a message. It was this: " John Gorss the ferryman is not to trouble Tessa Smith again by night or by day. winter or summer, to his peril." '
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland

with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell
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Richard Hudson-Evans brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport. Producer GEOFF DOBSON
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Christmas Eve
1.40 pm)

with Margaret Howard Producer SIMON ELMES
< Repeated." Sat 10.45 am)

Robert Hardy , the actor and author, who has played Henry V and many other leading Shakespearean roles. presents a personal view of Henry V, to be seen this Sunday in BBC2's season of Shakespeare's plays. Producer
ALAN WILDING

The Rt lion
Enoch Powell , mp Baroness Phillips Nell Kinnock , MP and Peregrine Worsthorne tackle the issues raised by the audience in Birmingham. Chairman David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)

A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presented by Sheridan Morley
Producer ANNE WINDER
Sheridan Morloy 's Films: page 25

with Alexander MacLeod

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis David Tale
Sheila Steafel Chris Emmett and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN JOHN LANGDON , ROGER WODDIS , RICHARD QUICK JEREMY BROWNE and ANDY WILSON
Producer GRIFFRHYS JONES Woddis On ... : page 20

A Cab at the Door by V. S. PRITCHETT abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by PETER JEFFREY
15: The Other Side of the Frontier
Producer MARGARET tTALL I Peter Jeffrey is a Natiimal Theatre player) long wave only

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by Robin Taylor
with Charlotte Mitchell as Margery, Roy Kinnear as Kipling and Peter Bayliss as Mr Perkins

'Everyone who works here likes Christmas. Thanks to Mr Perkins. Every year he turns the store into a real fairyland. And, you know, each time it comes round, 1 wish I was a child again. No matter how hard you try. it's never quite the same once you're grown up, is it?'

(Peter Bayliss is in 'My Fair Lady' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)

Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude