conducted by SIRVIVIANDUNN Roger Quilter A Child-
Roger Quilter A Children's Overture trad, arr Percy Grainger Londonderry Air
Frederic Curzon The Boulevardier
Gordon Langford March (Colour Suite) gramophone records
6.55 Weather; programme news
Presented by Libby Purves and HUGH SYKES
7 0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by EUGENE FRASER
7 30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45 Thought for the Day
by SAKI
Read by Ian Carmichael Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey : Thurs 6.30)
with Joan Bakewell in a Boxing Day special brimful of ideas of how to overcome the effects of too much TV and turkey. Visit a wildlife park in Norfolk: watch sword-dancers in Newcastle upon Tyne: see the industrial revolution brought to life in a Shropshire village; or escape to Thailand, South America or the Bahamas.
(Detaits: next Sat 4.2)
NEM, P 114; I saw a maiden sitten and sing (Carols for Choirs 2: 18); Psalm 29: Acts 6, vv 815 and 7, vv 55-60 (AV); Good King Wcnceslas (OBC 136)
2: Good Neighbours
in which Tommy Trinder talks to Barry Took about some of the stars of a few years ago, including Billy Cotton, Claude Dampier, Sid Field, Flanagan and Allen, George Formby, Eddie Gray, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Vic Oliver,
Gillie Potter, Ted Ray and Nellie Wallace
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Tommy Trinder is in 'Robinson Crusoe' at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
with Susannah Simons
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
A special Yuletide edition of the antidote to party games. Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Willie Rushton and Barry Cryer play a variety of games with and around the Christmas turkey.
Santa, Humphrey Lyttelton, awards points from his sack, and Colin Sell accompanies on piano and sleighbells.
A musical version of the shepherd boy versus ' a great big. very big whopper of a fellow story. Performed by children from
ST BARNABAS AND ST PHILIP C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL conductor ALAN DIXON ; and the LONDON BOYS SINGERS conductor GORDON now-LAND-ADAMS. assisted by Isla St Clair - Recitative Ignatius Temba - Goliath The part of David is played by Andrew Knight Lyrics PETER RAPSEY Music ALAN DIXON
Arranged by JOHN LEWIS who also conducted musicians of the ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
Sound by BILL AITKEN Producer ALEC REID
by Tom Stoppard
Who is the real Inspector Hound? Will Moon always be a second-string critic; Will Birdboot meet his heart's desire? Will Lady Cynthia? All these questions - and more - are answered in this hilarious version of an Agatha Christie-like whodunnit.
A BBC World Service production
from Westminster Cathedral, London
Hymn: Christe, redemptor omnium; Psalms: 109 and 129; Canticle: Colossiansl, vv, 12-20; Reading: 1 John 1. vv 1-7; Responsory:, Verbum caro factum est
Magnificat a S (octavl toni) by Vivanco
Intercessions and Prayer Motet: Hodie Christus natus est(Schütz)
Master of Music STEPHEN CLEOBURY. Assistant Master Of Music ANDREW WRIGHT
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
A musical 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
Producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm) (Frank Muir Goes into.... Celebrations: New Year's Day 10.30 pm)
BBC Correspondents. In four continents, look back at the events and personalities that have caught their eyes and ears in 1979: Clive Small (Washington) Kevin Ruane (Moscow) Philip Short (Peking) John Osman (Nairobi)
Donald Milner (Brussels) Producer ANTHONY SARGENT (Repeated: Fri 10.5 am)
(Repeated: Thurs 1.40 pm)
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Eric Simms visits the Wild-fowl Trust sanctuary at Arundel, the newest of the reserves directed by Sir Peter Scott, and Jo-Anne Watson learns about traditional Christmas customs in an East Yorkshire village. Richard Muir talks about the heritage of the village green: and while Ross Finlay takes to the nature trail in lowland Scotland, Bob Danvers-Walker casts a sympathetic eye towards the stock of a Norfolk turkey farm. Seasonal folklore from the Cotswolds is recalled by Mollie Harris, and from upper Weardale by Keith Allen and David Bellamy.
BBC Manchester
(Revised repeat of Christmas Eve's broadcast at 10.45 am)
by JOSEPHINE TEY dramatised for radio by CYRIL WENTZEL
It is 1949 and Simon Ashby. heir to the estate of Latchett's is preparing for his coming-of-age. The family plans are interrupted by the arrival of a stranger who could be Simon's twin brother.
Directed by RICHARD IMISON
Universal Studios was first opened in 1915 by the pioneer movie tycoon Carl Laemmie.
Sheridan Murley toured the studios and talked to some of the people working there-Edith Head. the costume designer who has won eight Oscars; Walter Matthau , starring in a remake of a Shirley Temple film: and Dennis Weaver , who is embarking on a new television series. He also experienced some of the attractions put on for modern tourists, played the part of an extra in an ' Airport ' disaster movie. Producer
ROSEMARY HART
Sheridan Morlcy 's Films: page 16
9.59 Weather
' The greatest singer the world has ever known.'
(JAMES AGATE)
Written by PEGGY BRANFORD and Jill Balcon Brian Carroll
Ysanne churchman Godfrey Kenton David Timson and Lockwood West Narrator Ian Holm
In an age of prima donnas Maria Malibran was supreme: even Chopin, who was not easy to please, described her as ' fabulous Her operatic career began In 1825, when. at the age of 17, she sang Rosina in The Barber of Seville in London. Scarcely more than ten years later, she was dead.
In this documentary port-trait, the operatic roles for which she was celebrated, are sung by Victoria de los Angeles Teresa Berganza
Montserrat Cabatle Maria
Callas Christa Ludwig
Frediriea von Stade and Joan Sutherland Producer ALAN HAYDOCK :
(Details: next Sat 12.27)
in teutonic guise, presents and performs a newly discovered Bach cantata. BBC Sound Archives recording
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
