At the end of the year, the five marketeers give their views to Bryan Platt and Leslie Cotlington
8.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Libby Purves and HUGH SYKE
6.45* Prayer for the Day With FR CRISPlAN HOLLIS
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by COLIN DORAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by SAKI
Read by Ian Carmichael
I suppose it is a case of partial loss of memorv I was in the tram coming down here; my ticket told me that I had come from Victoria and was hound for this place.
I can hazilv recollect that I have a title: I am Lady Somebody - beyond that my mind is blank'
(Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey at 6.30 pm)
A Cautionary Tale for Christmas by Brian Sibley
with Penelope Keith as Miss Cynthia Bracegirdle, the recipient of a series of gifts from an extravagant admirer who interprets the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas' too literally for comfort.
(First broadcast on Christmas Day 1977)
John Calder
We have been robbed of that one thing that enables us to face our troubles: we have been robbed of hope.'
BBC Manchester
Tom Vernon - from Muswell Hill to the Mediterranean Part the Third (of 6): The Napoleonic Road
How Our Hero Celebrated the Fall of the Bastille: Reflections on Contemporary Liberte, Egalite. Fraternité; A Machine for Teaching French Children to Drive: A Military Spectacle and A Batterie Municipale.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
NEM. p 97; Behold, the great Creator (BBC m 44): Psalm 50; John 1. vv 1-14 (AV); A great and mighty (BBC HB 41)
3: Smiles and Tears
On 28 December 1879, the Tay railway bridge was picked up by a raging gale and hurled into the river below. It carried with it a train, its crew and passengers, and the Victorians' hitherto unshakeable belief in the wizardry of their engineers. Alan Hamilton relates the rise and fall of the Tay Bridge and of its creator. Thomas Bouch. Producer HELEN FRY
In the last of the series, George Melly takes off his hat and considers fashion. Producer NICK HUGHES
Has International Year of the Child achieved anything? What did it hope for and what are the realisations? What did it mean to children? Molly Price-Owen has been investigating.
by Wally K. Daly
David Roper as Sam Baker and Sharon Duce as his wife Annabel. Also Bill Owen as Fred, and Patsy Rowlands as Rose
12.55 Weather: programme news (long wave only)
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Concerts and Camp Fires: TONY BARNFIELD joins 70 musical youngsters under canvas.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas....
Make Yourself a New Woman for the New Year: RICHARD VAUGHAN gives yOU the instructions.
Maybe I Can Help ... BR WENDY GREENGROSS With some of your problems. Children in the House byNAN FAIRBROTHER abridged in seven parts by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE
Read by Jill Balcon (1)
The Plum That Got Away. A Listen with Mother pantomime
Written by MOIRA MILLER Producer MARY HAYDON
by Howard Curtis
[Starring] Colin Jeavons as Phil, Petra Davies as Mary, Kenneth Cranham as Andy and Michael McStay as Sergeant Duffy
PHIL: "I felt, at work, that I was only half a man. It was different at weekends, though. At weekends, in my workshop, in my overalls, standing at my bench with my tools all to hand.... that's when I was really myself."
Now Phil and his wife have moved to the country and plan to make the weekend hobby a full-time job. But can he make a go of it?
John Arlotl , The Yettles and Jane Lilley with music, verse and a tale or two to celebrate the season. Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Ghost Train by GWEN PRITCHARD JONES Read by Dillwyn Owen
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long ware only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Including Financial Report
by Dorothy L. Sayers, adapted in six episodes by Chris Miller
Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter, Peter Jones as Bunter
with Gabriel Woolf as Chief Inspector Parker
(Repented Fri 1.40 pm)
(Details: next Sat 4.30)
Oratorio by Handel Judith Nelson , Emma Kirkby (sops). Carolyn Watkinson (contralto). Martyn Hill (tenor). David Thomas (bass-bar), Michael Laird (trumpet) Continue: Simon Preston (organ). Francis Grier (harpsichord), Anthony Pleeth (cello). Peter McCarthy (double-bass)
Christ Church Cathedral Choir. Oxford director SIMON PRESTON Academy of Ancient
Music, leader CATHERINE MACKINTOSH. director
Christopher Hogwood Part 1
8.20* Messiah - A Great British Tradition
Richard Baker talks to Dame Isobel Balllie and Paul Jennings.
8.35' Messiah Parts 2 and 3 (Recording from this year's Proms)
10.9* Weather
with Alexander MacLeod
A Happy Man by ANTON CHEKHOV , translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT Read by Derek Godfrey
' I'm revoltingly happy. Just think; in a minute I shall go to my compartment. There on the seat near the window is sitting a being who Is, so to say, devoted to you with her whole being . . ." Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Tomorrow ' The Help-mate ') long wave only
Trees
Presented by Judi Dench With additional readings by Joss Ackland Music from
Cambridge City Jassband
Vocalrefrains Dave Skitanl and the Rhythm Boys
Written and compiled by PETE ATKIN and RUSSELL DAVIES Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
(Judi Dench is a member of the RSC)
(Repeated: 15 Jan) long wave only until 11.30 then Stereo
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
