7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samaj hiye: for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 The Shape of God MONSIGNOR BHUCE KENT reflects on the Gospel for the Sunday after Christmas: Luke vv 22-40
7.55 Weather; programme news
Presented by Clive Jacobe Producer JOHN NEWBURY
WILLIAM MCDOWALL appeals on behalf of the Glasgow City Mission which, for over 150 years, ha, counselled and cared for the needy and lonely. [address removed]
3.55 Weather; programme news
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A mass to celebrate the Holy Family from
St Vincent's Roman Catholic Church
Altrincham in Cheshlre Celebrant
FR ANTHONY COGLIOLO
Preacher eisuor JOHN BRAWER , auxiliary of Shrewsbury
Hvmns (Carols for Choirs): It came upon the midnight clear (18); little town of Bethlehem (27); Venite Adoremus ; I am the bread of life (Songs of the Spirit 51) Readings (JB): Ecclesiastes 3. vv 2-6. 12-14; Colossians 3, vv 12-21; Luke 2. VV 41-52
Conductor MARY PETHICA Organist ANTHONY O'BRIEN BBC Manchester
Omnibus edition
Written by TESSA DIAMOND and HELEN LEADBEATER Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
I remember as a child rrticiilar birthday party. was told I could ask who I wanted and I said I would lilre very much to ask the butcher's boy. So you see, I started very young, noticing the opposite sex. My mother was horrified naturally and I was not allowed the butcher's boy. Shame!
For many years now Hermione Gingold has made her home in New York and it was there recently that she had a reasonable conversation with Alan Haydock , occasionally interrupted by Miss Gingold herself in party mood, in recordings of past performances, including her wartime revues. Gigi, and the Broadway musical. A Little Night Music.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
Robin Ray traces, with records, the artistry and achievements of some of the world's great musiclans. Today: the Italian tenor. Enrico Caruso
Derek Cooper takes the lid off food
Editor DENNIS LOWER
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough
Your responses and reactions to programmes
Presented by Tom Vernon Producer JENNY DE YONG
Questions or suggestions to Feedback, Room 7076, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
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visits Yorkshire, where members of the Pudsey Allotments and Collage Gardeners' Association put questions to FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
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Flora Robson stars in The Soft September Air
A play for radio by Charlotte Hastings, specially written for Dame Flora
with Andrew Branch
"The dead winter snaps the heartstrings.
Or the trees stand bleak and bare,
Let the quiet mind remember
The soft September air"
(First broadcast Oct 1978)
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Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions with HUCH SOULLY producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
Questions to: Talking about Antiques, BBC. Bristol BS8 21,R long wave only
Let's Hear it Again
A selection of extracts from listeners' favourite Liring World and Wild life programmes broadcast in the past year. Introduced by Peter France Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
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Ten years that changed his life - and the way he looked at the world
Producer CHARLES G. NAIRE BBC Scotland long wave only
(James Camernn on The Pink 'Un: Fri 11.5 am)
Hear again some of the people Brian Johnston has met in recent months. Producer ANTHONY SMITH
BBC Bristol (Repeated: New Year's Day 12.20 pm) long wave only
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At the end of a decade Wynford Vaushan-Thomas looks back at his own 70 years and reflects on memorable times in his life: the 30s, the War, royal tours, the country-side, and his own childhood and family background in Swansea. Producer MEGAN EMERY
BUC Wales
Frank Delaney introduces the magazine about hooks Producer SIMON ELMES
(Repeated: New Year's Day at 4.10 pm)
The General
The archacological collections at the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford and Salisbury illustrate the work of General Augustus Pitt-Rivers in the 19th century who is today regarded as the creator of archaeological excavation techniques. Malcolm Bill ings visits the collections with Richard Bradley. Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
At the Turn of the Year
A sequence of words and music, devised and introduced by Stanley Pritchard Readers
Margaret Rawlingg and Frank Duncan with the ST MARGARET 'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS directed by RICHARD HICKOX Organist IAN WATSON
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
(Recorded in St Alban's Church, Holborn
by Ken Whitmore
[Starring] Sheila Hancock and Graham Roberts
with Arthur Lowe
'I'll get a suit, I'll get a suit. As soon as we've stopped paying a mortgage, 29 quid a week: HP for furniture, eight quid; telephone bill, 25 smackers. Oh yes, I'll get a denim suit with silk veneers and bells on the bottom'
BBC Manchester
(First broadcast in 1978) 9.58 Weather
In a special end-of-decade edition Marghanita Laski Professor Graeme Moodie and The Very Rev Edward Patey , in conversation with Brian Redhead , try to put the vanishing 70s into perspective.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
The Office of Compline for the Feast of the Nativity from St Alban's Church, Holborn, .with the ERIC BARNES SINGERS
Dogs
Presented by Judi Dench
Additional readings by Joss Ackland. Music from Cambridge City Jassband Vocal refrains
Dave Skitaui and the Rhythm Boys
Written and compiled by PETE ATKIN , RUSSELL DAVIES Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
(Judi Dench is a member of the RSC)
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
