6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Wendy Jones
6.45* Prayer for the Day with WILF WILKINSON
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
4: Paddington and the Christmas Pantomime
8.57 Weather: travel
An Engine, a Few Trucks and a Small Oval of Track ...
This is where railway modelling begins and oftenendsformost people, but some take the interest a great deal further.
Anthony Burton meets today's enthusiasts and manufacturers and traces the history of one of Britain's most popular hobbies.
Producer PETER HOARE
(The full binaural effect of this programme can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones)
... or Hekkity Nogbom Anug in Nogl
In the first of two programmes, Richard Sttlgoe finds himself blessed with a rather special gift of tongues. as he assembles a beginners' guide to some of the 500 or so attempts at creating an international language, from the serious to the sublimely silly.
Producer SIMON ELMES
by Hadrian Rogers
Read by Jack Haig
'He fingered the envelope. It certainly contained something more substantial than a sheet of paper. Was it a cheque? Were all his worries over?'
NEM, p 25: 0 come. all ye faithful (BBC HB 55);
Psalm 27, pt 1; Isaiah 55 (NEB); Christians, awake! (BBC HB 46)
followed by travel
In the beginning were the Teds. Now the torch of 50s rock 'n' roll is kept burning by the Hep Cats, teenagers who dress as 50s-style Americans, obsessed by the rockabilly strand of the music. At Great Yarmouth 1,500 of them (many from Europe) gathered for a weekend of rock 'n' roll and bopping to groups like CRAZY CAVAN and, top of the bill, GENE VINCENT'S BLUE CAPS, reunited for the first time In 25 years. Richard Gilbert finds out how and why the Hep Cats keep on rocking.
We all have queries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor. together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producer KATE FENTON
News, views and advice for consumers, with the BBC Shopping Basket Presenter Jennl Mills Editor JOHN GETGOOD
The Wonder Show Christmas Edition starring
Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden
David Hatch , Jo Kendall and Bill Oddle Music by THE DAVE LEE GROUP Script by GRAEME GARDEN. BILL ODDIE Producers DAVID HATCH and PETER TITHERADGE (First broadcast on Christmas Day 1969)
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Peter Hobday
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Introduced from Wales by Noreen Bray
Next year is the Year of the Castle in Wales, but GRAHAME LLOYD wonders if it's odd to celebrate Invaders' fortresses. The ' James Herrlot effect'has apparently produced queues of aspiring vets. including many young women, as gerrymontereports.
Producer JANE DAUNCEY
The Magic Apple Tree (2)
Obsession In August by MICHAEL ROBSON
It began with a letter from Lord Sackville to
Professor Dulac, inviting him to his house in Dorset, and acquainting him with a strange discovery too important to confide on paper. Through the correspondence of those involved we learn of the mysterious and fearful events that took place in Dorset that August, of 1892. Directed by DAVID SPENSER
Distant Days
Jack Webster remembers a country holiday from the mill.
The Misadventures of John Nicholson (4)
Presenters Robert Williams and Gordon Clough
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only S.55 Weather; programme news
With PETER DONALDSON
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world
Including Financial Report
Jeremy Slepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by URI SEGAL. Part 1
Wagner Overture: The Flying Dutchman Britten Four Sea
Interludes (Peter Grimes ) John Hawkins Sea
Symphony (first broadcast performance)
Vivien Merchant reads a short story by MANNY DRAYCOTT
(First broadcast on R3)
Part 2
Wagner Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Siegfried) Debussy La mer
(Given on 9 December in the Winter Gardens,
Bournemouth. Concert arranged by the Western Orchestral Society, in association with the Marine Society.) BBC Bristol
Paul Vaughan discusses a selection of books about the theatre including The Coward Diaries; No Turn Unstoned, Diana Rigg 's collection of ' worst ever ' reviews; tales of unforgettable nights In the theatre and thought-provoking stories by contemporary authors inspired by Shakespeare, with Stan Phillips Kenneth Williams and Michael Billington Producer ANNE WINDER
John Morgan reporting
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour by R. S. SURTEES abridged In 13 parts by ARCHIE CAMPBELL. Read by JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS (13) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(John Franklyn-Robbins is a member of the RSC) long wave only
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Jocelyn Ryder-Smith in conversation with His
Holiness the Dalai Lama , the exiled religious and Political leader of Tibet.
0 Tibetan Buddhists he is an incarnation of Chennezig. the Buddha of mercy; he sees himself as a humble monk.
Producer JANE MARSHALL
BBC Birmingham followed by an Interlude
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
