At the end of the year. the five marketeers give their views to Brvan Platt and Leslie Cottington
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Libby Purves and HUGH SYKES
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
by Saki
Read by Ian Carmichael
Unload your query on to Neil Landor. Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Questions, on a postcard, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London WIA 4WW
NEM, p 89; Unto us a boy is born (OBC92); Psalm 118. vv 1-14; Matthew 2. vv 13-23 (AV); Jesus pood above all other (BBC HB 72)
4: Vanity Fair
The dunnock with its grey-brown plumage is an inconspicuous bird but its song can be heard in many gardens. Jim Flegg listens to this enigmatic bird which deserves mure attention BBC Bristol
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
Editor DAVID HARDING
Stereo
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Presenter Brian Widlake
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Wales by Noreen Bray , who. with her guests Gillian Clarke and Betty Camp-bell. talks about families. This is the time of year when, traditionally. families who are separated by miles or routine get together for a few days. Is it a happy experience enjoyed by all. or merely a time when the tensions of the rest of the year are kept only just below the surface jollity? BBC Wales
Children in the House (2) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: Leo's Birthday by MARGARET JOY
Presenters JEAN ROGERS and SAM KELLY
Written by JANET BOULDING Producer MARY HAYDON
Hunters by MALCOLM LYNCH Mike and Dave, fishermen trawling off the Devon coast, unexpectedly net two old wartime mines. As skipper of his boat. Mike must risk their lives if he is to save his boat and retain his independence as a trawler man.
Tom PATRICK CONNOR RN Lieutenant.JACK KLAFF with MELVYN BEDFORD and HUBERT TUCKER. Directed by BRIAN MILLER. BBC Bristol
"...the cruel parting jaws gaped wide, showing keen white teeth; the great furry paws clasped the sill like hands. The face was the hideous mask of a wolf with the eyes of a man, eyes red with hellish race..."
Far from being an invention of Hollywood, the idea of man transformed into wolf has a long history - and not only in horror fiction. During the Middle Ages. the werewolf was seen as sober fact and in the 16th century hundreds of alleged werewolves were tried and executed.
Dr Bill Russell, President of the Folklore Society, examines man's preoccupation with the belief.
with Valentine Dyall and Michael McClain
4.40 Announcements
by J.W.A. Roberts
Read by Mark Mulholland
(BBC Northern Ireland)
with Gordon dough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Barry Norman and Richard Hudson-Evans on the highlights of the year in transport and travel. Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: New Year's Eve at 1.40 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC programmes during the past year. Producer HELEN FRY
Lord Soames Alexander MacLeod talks to a man with an appetite for office. CHRISTOPHER SOAMES has been Minister for Agriculture. Ambassador to France, a European Commissioner, and is Lord President of the Council. He also has a reputation for good humour, in the words of a friend he is ' gregarious. good fun. a hearty drinker, and what's more, a good shot.'
Producer ANDREW VIVIAN
John Mortimer , QC
Tom Jackson , The Rt Hon Sir Richard Marsh and Prudence Glynn at Shere. Guildford. Surrey Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
The Pomping Folk
Michael Oliver borrows theatre critic J.C. Trewin's apt description of the acting profession and invades the temple of Thespis. There he views David Garrick and Sarah Siddons - monarchs of the English stage - Dion Boucicault, showman extraordinary, and glimpses amusing and striking scenes from 18th-century amateur theatrics at the Earl of Barrymore's theatre at Wargrave.
9.59 Weather
with Alexander MacLeod
A seasonal edition incorporating quotes of 1979. The panel includes Peter Cook
Arthur Marshall and John Mortimer , QC
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
The Helpmate by ANTON CHEKHOV , translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT Read by Derek Godfrey
' He remembered how. in his father's house in the village, a bird would sometimes chance to fly in from the open air into the house and would struggle desperately against the window-panes and upset things; so this woman, from a class utterly alien to him. had flown into his life and made complete havoc of it.' long wave only
Madame Pompadour The Dollar Princess
The Girl on the Train
Nigel Douglas introduces music from the operettas of one of his favourite Viennese composers. Producer
STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester long wave only until 11.30 then Stereo
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
