long wave only
Variations on La cl darem la mano from
Mozart's Don Giovanni , Op 2
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano) LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by ELIAHU INBAL : record
6.50 The Christmas Story read from St Luke and St John by HANNAH GORDON
6.55 Weather; travel; programme news
presents an anthology of words and music for Christmas morning. Producer RAY ABBOTT gramophone records
7.50 The Christmas Story read from St Luke and St John by SIMON CADELL
7.55 Weather; travel: programme news
Part 2
8.55 Weather; travel; programme news
Robert Hudson
Introduces a collection of Christmas bells from bell-towers acruss me UK, Including All Saints', Strathclyde, Scotland: St Peter's.
Howden. Humberslde: St Mary's. Usk, Gwent; St Bronach's. Rostrevor, Newry, Co Down; St Mary's, Burton Bradstock. Dorset; and Canterbury Cathedral.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.
Eucharist for Christmas Day from Southwark Cathedral.
London Bridge Presiding Minister
CANON PETER PENWARDEN Concelebrants CANON GERALD PARROTT THE REV ROLY BAIN
THE REV GORDON MCPHATE Preacher
THE RT REV RONALD BOWLBY. Lord Bishop of Southwark Readings (AV): Isaiah 9. vv 2, 6. 7; Hebrews 1. vv 1-5; Luke 2, vv 8-20 Hymns: 0 come, all ye faithful (EH 28); Glorv to God! (More Hymns for Today 129); Christians, awake (EH 21)
Anthems: Long, long ago (Richard Shephard ); Whence is that goodly fragrance? (arr Willcocks) Gloria,Sanctus,Agnus Dei (Missa Brevis in c: Spatzenmesse)
Creed: Plainsong (Sarum) Director of Music
HARRY BRAMMA, Assistant Organist JOHN SCOTT
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas introduces a seasonal look at activities in the countryside, including a visit to Walney Island to meet the only female lighthouse keeper in the UK; a trip to Cornwall to Investigate the local tradition of carol writers and a report on Welsh Christmas customs.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
This is the time of year when people's thoughts turn homewards, but what is home for the people of the Falkland Islands this Christmas?
Award-winning reporter. Robert Fox. returns to the islands to find out how life has been changed by the war. How much are the settlers unsettled by the presence of what may be a permanent British garrison, by mines on their roads and beaches, by the looming threat of anotherassaultfrom
Argentina? Will they - and their military guests - be enjoving Christmas in the Falklands this year?
Producer ADAM RAPIIAEL
(Ed Stewart 's Falkland requests at 2.0 pm on Radio 2)
A nostalgic medley of radio from 40 years ago, presented by Christopher Andrew
Petula Clark's radio debut, Wilfred Pickles singing the Internationale, Dimbleby over Berlin, 'Ack-Ack, Beer-Beer' (for barrage balloon companies everywhere), Victor Sylvester's Dance Club and Churchill announcing the end of the beginning. The third Christmas of the war was one to remember...
BBC Manchester
The continuing saga of the struggle by Richard Ingrams, Gay Search and Nigel Dempster to thrash Alan Coren, Sue Cook and Simon Hoggart while Barry Took asks the questions regardless.
12.55 Weather; programme news
with Margaret Howard
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
The Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad died
26 years ago this month. ' The memory of that unrivalled splendour of voice remains clear and untarnished.'
An affectionate portrait by Peter Orr with extracts from recordings, and the voices Of RICHARD LEWIS.
LORD MILES, GERALD MOORE , CHRISTOPHER RAEBURN. HAROLD ROSENTHAL ,
CONSTANCE SHACKLOCK.
DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR , SIR GEORG SOLTI and ASTRID VARNAY , and. from the BBC Sound Archives. IVOR NEWTON and FLAGSTAD herself In a talk she gave in June 1950.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
The novel by Josephine Tey dramatised by Neville Teller
Laid up in hospital, Inspector Grant decides to fill his days by trying to solve the riddle of the murder of the two Princes in the Tower.
Lord Denning presents his personal choice of poetry and prose.
Readers PAUL ROGERS and JILL BALCON
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; travel; programme news
RICHARD BAKER makes the annual appeal for the British Wireless for the Blind Fund
Donations, by cheque or PO, to: Richard Baker , [address removed]
Singer Mary Ellis
(Details on New Year's Eve at 9.5 am)
Roy Plomley's castaway is actress Mary Ellis. Show more
with Anna Cropper and Roger Frith
An anthology of prose and poetry for Christmas.
Compiled by ROGER FRITH Producer GRAHAM GAULD
(Details: Wed 11.3 am) (Richard Baker 's
Christmas Dozen at 9.35 on BBC2)
by Oscar Wilde
with Maxine Audley, Fabia Drake, Timothy West and Rosalind Shanks
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
(first broadcast in 1968)
Last of six programmes The Four Sisters
ANN, ELIZABETH, PIPPA and SUSAN were daughters of the rubber planter Mark John Kennaway , who went out East in 1899. They grew up in Malaya during the last period of the British Empire in the East. Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
CompliedbyCharlesallen Producer MICHAEL MASON
Highlights of this year's popular production, from Ambridge Village Hall. Brian Aldridge is your host for an evening of music, mirth and ghostly goings on. The cast: Charles Collingwood, Bob Arnold, Sara Coward, Kathryn Hurlbutt, Arnold Peters, Graham Roberts, Haydn Jones and Trevor Harrison, with Tom Steer and Janet Kerr and members of St Teresa's Choir, St Helen's
"Good is not the word..." (Borchester Echo)
BBC Birmingham
A meditation for
Christmas led by the MOST REV STUART BLANCH , the Archbishop of York.
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
