6.25 Shipping forecast long wave only
Presenters John Timpson and Peter Mayne
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
5: paddington's Christmas
8.57 Weather; travel
The Year Ahead
BBC News Correspondents peer into a crystal ball.
A Radio News production
The Genius by FRANK O'CONNOR
Read by Sean Barrett
NEM, p 30; It came upon a midnight clear (BBC HB 52); Psalm 31; Isaiah 61 (NEB); In the bleak mid-winter (BBC BB 51)
followed by travel
Malcolm Coe reflects on adventures with these bad-tempered, bristly creatures.
BBC Bristol
Presenter Bill Breckon
12.55 Weather: travel; programme news
Presenter Brian Wldlake
by the Liberal Party
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
with Sue MacGregor
Roll up for some sombre and silly, courageous and corny, romantic and riotous moments from this year's programmes. Producer LIZ MARDALL
The Magic Apple Tree (3)
adapted for radio in seven parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
6: The Proposal
In which Lord Kilcullen, at his father's behest, Elavs court to Fanny.
Directed by PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
(Sorcha Cusack and Jeffery Dench are members of the RSC)
Distant Days
Lilian Jones remembers her early life in service.
Slap and Tickle In the last of six programmes,
Paul Heiney learns to relieve his stress by having a massage, and also visits an aromatherapist.
He is joined by Dr liana Glass of the Institute of Psychiatry.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
The Misadventures of John Nicholson (5)
Presenters Gordon Clough and Robert Williams
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news
Half-an-hour of reports from the BBC newsmen around the world
With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report
Clive Jacobs investigates some of the advantages and disadvantages of buying a car abroad.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC programmes over the past year.
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
A personal portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote, an assessment of a public figure or the story of a private individual.
The Rt Hon Denis Healey , MP. Lady Howe, Patrick Moore and Robin Ray tackle the questions raised by the audience in Hastings, Sussex
Chairman David Jacobs Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
In 1943 one of the most novel experiments in musical history began. Record companies and musicians agreed to waive fees and contractual rights to a series of stunning musical offerings to the American forces. V-Disc recordings Included the jazz greats of the period: Denny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and vocalists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby.
Paul Vaughan talks to musicians Peanuts Hucko and Yank Lawson, who played on the sessions, and to English collectors who now prize these rare recordings. He considers the relationship that developed between jazz men, American forces and English collectors.
John Morgan reporting
Barry Norman in conversation with some famous sportsmen - Henry Cooper
Danny Blanchflower and Steve Ovett.
starring David Jason as a flexible roster
Tracey Ullman as a positive vet David Tate as the voice of moderation and Bill Wallis as Trident II with Steve Brown singing selections from the musical South Atlantic
The script was found in a dead letterbox near
Cheltenham by JAMES HENDRIE , JOHN REVELL
ROB SINFIELD , IAN BROWN and ANDREA SOLOMONS
Martial law imposed by JAN RAVENS
A portrait in sound of the amazing world of bells, direct from St James' Parish Church.
Wlnscombe. It's a village that nestles In a high valley on the Mendips and since 1490 its church bells have spreai the news of passing events around the neighbouring hills.
Join THE REV
BERNARD SALMON and the villagers In their church as the old year diss. And stay with them as they ring in the New Year and hold their Watchnight Service. Watchnight Address
THE REV CANON DAVID ISITT Written and presented by DIANE SHELLEY
Producers CHRISTOPHER MANN and PETER FIRTH BBC Bristol
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