News, weather, papers and sport
Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.45* Prayer for the Day with FR JOHN BEDFORD 7 0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines 7i45' Thought for the Day
The Christmas Story
What are the facts about the birth of Jesus? How much has tradition inlluenced our interpretation? How much has it affected our ideas about family life?
Put your questions to Sophie Laws , Lecturer in New Testament Studies at King's
College, London. and The Rt Rev Bill Westwood , Bishop of Edmonton.
In the Chair Jill Burridge Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
NEM, p 71; The Lord is King! lift up thy voice
(BBC HB 26); Canticle 7; Isaiah 38. vv 9-20 (AV); Thy kingdom come, 0 God (BBC HB 27) long wave only
The Photograph by HADRIAN ROGERS Read by June Ellis Producer
JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingha?n
The Chosen by GERRY KNIGHT
A team of naturalists answer your questions.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Presenter Bill Breckon
including eavesdroppings, graffiti and the occasional outbreak of foot-in-mouth. Chairman Nigel Rees Guests Celia Haddon Rula Lcnska
Arthur Marshall and Paul Theroux Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER Producer ALAN NIXON (Rptd. Wed 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Peter Rutt
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Including
Getting the Wind Up:
BOB PRIZEMAN hears of the feats and failures of a dwindling band of organ blowers.
Games People Play;
Schoolboy PATRICK BOSSERT explains the fascination of the cube that's hooked millions around the world. Story: A Bear Called Priscilla
by Henry Fielding.
Adapted for radio in six parts by Hallam Tennyson.
In which Sophia runs away; Tom is shaved by Mr Partridge: Mrs Waters 'repays' Tom for rescuing her from a hanging; and Tom and Sophia find rooms at the same inn, with catastrophic results.
(Martin Jarvis is in "Caught in the Act" at the Garrick Theatre, London)
Recollections of a professional traveller. 4: On Rereading the Greek Testament
1 It brings me closer to the events to read words I can still hear today in the fields and streets of Greece.'
Jorvik - Viking York
Over the last eight years a wealth of Viking objects has been brought to light from the wet, oozey mud of Coppergate - an archaeological site in the heart of York. A shopping area is now being built over it, but what has been learnt so far about the Viking city, Its inhabitants, its trade and character? How are thethousandsofobjects so far recovered to be conserved and studied? A report by Malcolm Billings
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Tell Sally (7)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons on VIIF until 5.55
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave onlu
5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Girvan Academy, Girvan v either Cowes County High School, Cowes, IoW or Tasker Milward School, Haverfordwest, Dyfed
Questionmasters TIM GUDGIN and PADDY FEENY
Questions set by PAUL LIVESEY, NIGEL RICHARDSON and PADDY FEENY
(Repealed; Wed 1.40 pm)
' From Bethlehem
Hospital: a pair of ancient shackles ... 9s 6d. From curio shops in Rome: a small mortar and three old books on magic, surgery and arithmetic. 16th century: £1 17s 4d.'-At the time of his death in 1936, Sir Henry Wellcome 's collections of medical, anthropological and archaeological objects consisted of over one-and. a-half million items. Geoff Watts visits
Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine, which opened last week at the Science Museum in London, and talks to the people responsible for exhibiting this testimony to man's concern with the preservation of health
Producer ALISON RICHARDS
(Details on Christmas Day at 10.30 am)
talking about music Each week, ANTONY HOPKINS explores a different musical work or topic, explaining his thoughts at the piano and illustrating them with records.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT
In this edition, Jane-Finnis reports on the range of talking calculators which are now available; and some blind children talk about the presents they would like to find waiting for them when they wake up on Christmas Day.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Blind listeners can phone in suggestions and comments relating to the programme on [number removed]8.30-10.0 pm Free quarterly bulletins summarising information broadcast, arailable from Room 816. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver Producer ANNE WINDER
with Alexander MacLeod and voices and opinions from around the world
The Orchid Trilogy (11)
Radio 4's international business report; market trends
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
