selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford
BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Producers ALLAN WRIGHT and LIZ RIGBEY
7.10 Today's Papers
BBC Birmingham
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent, Rosemary Hartill
Mike Gilliam talks to Alan Titchmarsh
8.10 Today's Papers
Take It From Here
Christmas with The Glums starring Jimmy Edwards Dick Bentley and June Whitfield
With WALLAS EATON AND
THE KEYNOTES
BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA conducted by HARRY RABINOWITZ Script by FRANK MUIR and DENIS NORDEN Producer CHARLES MAXWELL
(First broadcast Christmas Day 1958)
Each year, Radio News travels to some land where the Christmas spirit is troubled by social or military conflict. This year, the Polish people, deeply religious, still moved by the murder of their popular priest Fr Popieluszko , prepare for the festive season with deep misgivings about the year which will follow.
Reporter Kevin Ruane Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Repeated: Sunday 5.5 pm)
Colin Semper presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Robert Carvel, Political Editor of the London Standard, with highlights of the year and Christmas awards to MPs and Peers.
Producer JIM GRAY
with Margaret Howard Stereo
by JOE MAHON
'Molly's mind raced round the house. The back door was shut and bolted, as was the front door. All the windows were closed and tightly locked, even the fanlight. She looked at the fireplace. The fire was nearly out. Well, if he could get down the chimney, then he really was supernatural ...
Producer MAUREEN GALLAGHER BBC Northern Ireland
Kelpies and unicorns, sledgers and christening stools, music by lamplight, rocking horses revived, are all part of Jeanine McMullen 's cornucopia of life on a small country living at Christmas
Producer MARY PRICE. BBC Bristol (Repeated: Sunday 7.35 pm)
Part 1... in which
Simon Hoggart remembers the major and minor events of 1984, and finds out whether Alan Coren , John Wells , Ann Leslie , Gillian Reynolds ,
Oliver Pritchett and David Taylor can do the same!
Compiled, with the season's greetings by JOHN LANGDON and the producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
(Repeated: Friday 2.30 pm) Stereo
The Rt Hon David Steel , mp David Frost
The Rt Hon Enoch Powell , mp and Lord Soper
Rose at Roquebrune by DAWN LOWE-WATSON with To escape from her emotional problems at home, Rose is holidaying in the south of France with her mother. They become involved with a young couple staying at the same pension, and there is a surprise in store for Rose ...
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON (Repeal) Stereo
The child's mind can be honest, innocent and perceptive about life. In this collection of observations, children from 5 to 15 say what they think about Christmas.
Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBCBirmingham
(Repeated: Christmas Eve at 11.0 pm)
More musical reminiscences from Isabella Wallich , the niece of the great recording pioneer and impresario Fred Gaisberg.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
The story of two pioneering sisters, Catharine Parr Traill and Susannah Moodie , and their very different attitudes to life in the backwoods of Canada. Compiled by MARGARET HORSFIELD
Producer PETER WINDOWS
BBC Birmingham Stereo
Roy Plomley talks about three of his favourite humorous characters from fiction. Reader GARARD GREEN
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
(Repeated: New Year's Eve 11.30 pm) Stereo
Presented by Derek Jones
Stereo
With PETER DONALDSON including Sports Round-up
Without the benefit of radio or aircraft, the last of the old-style Polar expeditions ended in tragedy when the ship,
Karluk, was crushed in the Arctic ice and 11 men died. Seventy years later,
Magnus Magnusson tells the story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition.
Producer GEOFFREY CAMERON BBC Scotland
Music by PETER SKELLERN
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
with Richard Baker
Producer JILL ANDERSON. Stereo
adapted from The Pickwick Papers and Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens by Constance Cox and the narrator
On 23 December 1827, Mr Pickwick and his manservant Sam Weller set out with his friends, Mr Tupman, Mr Snodgrass and Mr Winkle upon a journey to Dingley Dell. There, as guests of Mr Wardle, they were to enjoy a good, old-fashioned Christmas.
RUTH EHRUCH, ANDREW WALTON (violins) Skaila KANGA (harp) Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Stereo
(The Pickwick Papers starts on 6 January on BBC2)
As the dawn mist rises above the ridge of the Borneo rain forest, a crescendo of a thousand voices begins -and every animal has a story to tell. Stephen Sutton remembers a day in the Borneo jungle. Producer MELINDA BARKER BBC Bristol
Advent Calendar:
The Prophecies of Malachi Behold the great Creator makes (BBC HB 44); The truth from above (Carols for Choirs 2V Malachi 3, w 1-12; Of the Father's love begotten (BBC HB 57) Stereo
A tale from the Mausoleum Club.
This is terror beyond compare. The only thing that you can compare it to is something that isn't terror. A mystery object is interred. Something else happens. Sir Henry Wellborne is impelled to visit Beestley Chase. Will he return? Don't come to me with your silly questions. Terror.
Starring Stephen Fry, Ballard Berkeley, Royce Mills, Sheila Steafel, Michael Ripper and Nick Revell
Written by Edgar Ian Brown and M.R. James Hendrie
(Stereo)
live at Christmas
Steve Brown , Helen Lederer , Clive Mantle and Nick Wilton toe the establishment line on Yuletide festivities and make no mention of the Virgin birth. Music by STEVE BROWN
Written by ARNOLD BROWN ,
PAUL B. DAVIES , JOHN DOCHERTY , KIM FULLER , JEREMY HARDY ,
JAMES HENDRIE , MORAY HUNTER, HELEN MURRY , VICKY PILE,
ROGER PLANER , NICK WILTON and the producer JAMIE RIX
(Repeated: Wed 2 Jan 6.30 pm) Stereo
(Clive Mantle is in 'Of Mice and Men' at the Mermaid Theatre, London)
A series of 15-minute sketches depicting seven separate aspects of Christmas in Queen Victoria's reign, as seen through the eyes of contemporary writers and ballads.
1: Traditions with Richard Briers , Martin Jarvis , Miriam Margolyes ,
David Timson , Sonia Fraser , Ann Davies and the CHOIR OF
KYSON SCHOOL, WOODBRIDGE
Producer LLOYD SILVERTHORNE Stereo followed by an interlude
