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Producer LESLIE COTTINGTON
with Religious Affairs reporter Rosemary Hartul
6.55 Weather; programme news
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.55 Weather; programme news
with Tony Lewis
This week featuring
Show Jumping: the annual Christmas event at Olympia. Meet the personalities.
Football: informed background and opinion on the game's topical issues. Plus the rest of the news. A Radio Sport and OB production
with Richard Vaughan
Including NIGEL COOMBS with news of the travel and holiday scene: ERIC TOBITT with leisure ideas for the coming week; and a look at what's worth watching on ' the box '. Producers GEOFF DOBSON and JENNY MARSHALL
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
with Ann Leslie
Producer JOHN SKRINE
with Hugo Young
Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG
NEM. p 46: Jesus good above all other (BBC HB 72): Psalm 85; Romans 5, vv 1-11 (AV); Be thou my vision (BBC HB 316)
Presenter Louise Botting Radio's kev to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
Margaret Howard Martin Jackson
Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Mon 7.20 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Lord David Cecil , Joan Lestor. mp, The Rt Hon Edward du Cann , mp, and Dr Dermot Roaf
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Derek Jones and the team scratch their heads over your natural queries.
by GEORGE ELIOT dramatised in 12 parts by HALLAM TENNYSON, With
Steven Pacey , Russell Dixon. Judith Arthy and Jill Balcon as George Eliot Bulstrode has bribed Raffles not to reveal the truth about his past but his attempt to bribe Will Ladislaw has failed. The Lydgates' marriage is beginning to feel the strain of mounting debts; and Dorothea, after her husband's death, is involving herself in schemes for the improvement of labourers' cottages on her land. 10: Temptations
TOM STEER (piano)
Directed bv KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 3.2 pm)
Ray Gosling recalls December 1979 which he spent in India.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
or Christmas Presents and How to Survive Them
Have you ever wondered what you would actually do with a partridge in a pear tree if your true love had one delivered? Are you one of those people who are given colouring books for six year olds when you're preparing for O-levels?
Slinky nighties when you live in a draughty cottage? Purple shirts that are a size too small? Does Christmas mean unwrapping unwanted hot-water bottle covers, calendars and egg coddlers? David Self investigates with the help of game-keepers, poultry dealers and taxidermists.
Producer PETER FOZZARD
Soweto is the south-west township of Johannesburg built by the South African government to house black workers and their families. Life in Soweto has many tensions, especially in the schools. Yet the Soweto Teachers' Choir, conducted by JABULANI MAZIBUKO , has won every contest open to it in South Africa and this year achieved international success at Llangollen. Rosemary Hartill introduces their songs from Soweto and talks to the singers about their lives in the township.
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester
The publication of a long-suppressed manuscript, Young Emma. has revived interest in W. H. Davies , the tramp poet who created a literary sensation in Edwardian times. A look at this extraordinary man through the eyes of people who knew him, and rare recordings of Davies reading his own work.
Additional readings JOHN DARRAN. Compiled and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS. BBC Wales
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
A celebration of the festivities in a Victorian household 100 years ago, written by ANTONY MIALL
A loud and laughing welcome to the merry Christmas bells!
All hail, with happy gladness, to the well-known chant that swells!
We list the pealing anthem chord, we hear the midnight strain,
And love the tidings that proclaim Old Christmas once again.
ANTONY MIALL (piano)
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Editor JOE REID
When Mary Craig gave birth to a second handicapped child her religious faith wavered and she went through a long period of depression. She wrote her best-selling book Blessings about her attempts to create energy out of this despair, and from the many letters she's received, the book has provided a cathartic experience for other people with similar problems. She discusses how these letters and the people she has met through the book have deepened her own understanding of suffering and its purposes in the world.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
A variety show specially recorded in Edinburgh featuring the best of comedy and music, and a few oddities from the Fringe of the 1980 Festival. Producers
GEOFFREY PERKINS. ALAN NIXON and JIMMY MULVILLE
An evening meditation led by The Rev Frank Topping
For people who live and work in the country - or would like to. Introduced bv Jeanine McMullen Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
Folk music of the world with Jeremy Siepmann gramophone records
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
