Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Rosemary Hartill
6.55 Weather: travel: - programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
ProducerANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Bargain of the Year. Norman Tozer gives the results of a competition to find which bargains listeners tracked down during 1982.
7.55 Weather: travel: programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
Gerald Williams is your host for this year's final dip into the sporting world. There's news of ENGLAND'S cricketers on the first day of their game against TASMANIA. and a look at the issues and off-beat moments that make up the sporting spectrum at the end of an eventful year.
Producer DAVE GORDON
8.57 Weather: travel
Introduced by Peter Jones With SUSAN MARLING and ROBIN DEWHURST. taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and ' leisure scene. Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Colin Semper takes a look at the weekly magazines. Producer DAVID HARDING
with Robert Carvel
Producer MARGARET BUDY
New Every Morning, page 114: All my hope on God is founded (BBC HB 299): Psalm 29: II Corinthians 3. v 17-4 y 6 (rsv); Be thou my vision, 0 Lord of my heart (BBC HB 316)
with Margaret Howard
Presenter Louise Bolting What's happening in the field of personal savings, tax. mortgages, insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)
Part 1
Not only an irreverent side-swipe at the past seven days, but also the whole of 1982 seen In a questionable way as Barry Took invites Richard Ingrams Gay Search and Nigel Dempster to earn more points than Alan Coren , Sue Cook and Simon Hoggart
Headlines compiled and set by JOHN LANGDON and Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated. Mon 6.30 pm) (Part 2 on Christmas Day at 12.27 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news
Brian Rix
Baroness Phillips
General Sir John Hackett and Dr Anthony Clare
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Once Upon a Christmas by DAVID FITZSIMMONS
I think we're going to our Joan's. Last time we saw her she said, " You and Norman be all on your own on Christmas Day." Don't you remember? '
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 11.3 am)
GeofI Watts reports
More of your questions
The last of a ten-part serial by JAMES FOLLETT withand
The crew of the Challenger have at last landed on their home planet. Earth. It is now a hot. arid desert with one small surviving community that look upon the crew as gods.
The Angels, with the help of Elka. are plotting the downfall of the crew and their take-over of Earth. Earthvoice
Technical presentation LLOYD SILVERTHORNE
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Book. Earthsearch 11 - Deathship. £1.50 from booksellers
BBC correspondents cast a collective eye over a contemporary issue.
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with country-wide news and views. Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Last of five programmes Dr Martin Bax of St
Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, examines how researchers are disentangling the process by which humans acquire language.
Arc Mothers Necessaryt How important is the role of parents and other family members in teaching a baby to talk' Producer ALISON Richards
An irreverently critical look back at the week. {Broadcast yesterday)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: travel: programme news
With BRIAN PERKINS includingSports Round-up
Amiably competitive conversation.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record. Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed U.3 am)
by Marcelle Maurette translated by Guy Bolton adapted for radio by John Scotney
In Berlin 15 years after the Bolshevik revolution and the massacre of the Imperial family at Ekaterinburg, a group of Russian exiles think they have found a way to claim the fortune held in the name of the late Tsar Nicholas II. They have to prove that the Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the Tsar, is still alive.
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)
Six programmes
Themes and variations from the lives of the British in South-East Asia in the days of the Empire, in the words of those who were there. 5: The Land of the White Rajahs
' A Dyak longhouse contains as many dogs as people and In any one longhouse there may he anything from 30 to even 100 families, each family will have its own cocks and hens and pigs ... so that the noise and the scratching and cock-crowing and grunting and yelps and pitterpattering backwards and forwards across the floor do tend to make for a somewhat disturbed night ... '
Narrator Garard Green Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Compiled by CHARLES ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON
An evening meditation led by FR MICHAEL HENNESSEY
A Christmas Pastoral by TOM VERNON A picture of the shepherd's life. ancient and modern, with music and voices from
Northumbria, Scotland and Wales.
Producer JENNY DE YONG ( Repeat) followed by an interlude
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
