Seasonal music for Christmas Eve.
(Stereo)
Presented by Leslie Cottington
Hymn: A great and mighty wonder.
Responses
Byrd Venite (Rose).
Psalm 116, vv. 1-6, 15, 16 (Carpenter).
Benedictus (the Short Service) (Gibbons).
Carol: Angelus ad Virginem (arr Willcocks).
Organ voluntary: Chorale prelude on In dulci jubilo (Buxtehude)
(Stereo)
Presented by John Timpson and Sue MacGregor
7.30, 8.28* News Summary
8.0 Today's News
Read by Clive Roslin
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.25* Sport
by Douglas Adams
An epic adventure in time and space
Full cast list: Peter Jones as the Book, Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, David Tate as Eddie and The Frogstar Prison Relation Officer, Stephen Moore as Marvin and Gag Halfrunt, Rula Lenska as Lintilla, Ronald Baddiley as Bird One, Alan Ford as Roosta, Valentine Dyall as Gargravarr, Bill Wallis as The Vogon Captain, Leueen Willoughby as The Nutrimat Machine, Richard Goolden as Zaphod Beeblebrox IV, John Le Mesurier as The Wise Old Bird, Mark Smith as Hig Hurtenflurst, Ken Campbell as Poodoo and Jonathan Pryce as Zarniwoop and The Autopilot
(Repeat) (Stereo)
A two-part documentary by David Wade.
Forty-five years ago the first Christmas of the Second World War found more than a million British children in strange domestic surroundings. They were the evacuees.
David Wade has been talking to some of them to find out how much they remember of what happened and in what ways the experience changed their lives.
(Part 2 at 9.30 pm)
Alistair Cooke has been sending his Letter from America regularly since 1946. Each morning this week a letter has been selected from nearly 2,000 sent since.
(First broadcast on 3 November 1948: the election of Harry Truman)
(Hear This! page 20)
Presented by Malcolm Coe.
Listen very hard tonight and you might hear the swish of the sledge, the jingle of bells and the click of hooves on your rooftop.
(BBC Bristol)
by Jane Austen dramatised in six parts by Denis Constanduros.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fortune must be in want of a wife; and however little known the feelings of such a man, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is invariably looked upon as the rightful property of one or other of their daughters...."
(Repeat) (Stereo)
(Full cast details on page 83)
Richard Stilgoe 's view of The Boat Show assisted by Sheila Steafel , Charles Collingwood and The Cambridge Buskers Written by RICHARD STILGOE Series producer MIKE CRAIG
BBC Manchester Stereo
with Alan Bennett
Janet Suzman , Leslie Thomas Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Series producer ALAN NIXON Stereo
Presenter John Harrison.
by Lee Pressman.
Read by Ernie Wise
(Feature: page 12)
Deep in rural Worcestershire, the tiny village of Elmley
Castle is host to local people and some special guests for an afternoon of country chat, sentimental journeys, and reminiscence.
With Royal Photographer Norman Parkinson , William Smethurst
Charles Collingwood
Vanessa McKeand (harp)
Presented by Gwyn Richards Producers GWYN RICHARDS and ELAINE BEDELL BBC Birmingham
●SHEAR THIS! page 20
Christmas Eve in King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Processional Hymn: Once in royal David's city.
Bidding prayer.
Carols: Nowell sing we (medieval); Up! Good Christen folk and listen.
Lesson: Genesis 3, w 8-15, 17-19:
A CHORISTER.
Carols: Adam lay ybounden; Sussex carol.
Lesson: Genesis 22, w 15-18:
A CHORAL SCHOLAR.
Carol: In dulci jubilo.
Lesson: Isaiah 9, w 2, 6, 7:
A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHES.
Carol: One star at last.
Hymn: O little town of Bethlehem.
Lesson: Isaiah 11, w l-3a, 4a, 6-9:
A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY.
Carols: The Lamb; The holly and the ivy.
Lesson: Luke 1, w 26-35, 38:
The Director of Music.
Carols: Gabriel's message; Joys seven.
Lesson: Luke 2, w 1, 3-7:
A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SISTER COLLEGE AT ETON.
Carols: The infant King.
Lesson: Luke 2, w 8-16:
A FELLOW.
Carol: In the bleak mid-winter. Hymn: While shepherds watched.
Lesson: Matthew 2, w 1-11:
THE VICE PROVOST.
Carols: The three kings; Torches.
Lesson: John 1, w 1-14:
THE PROVOST.
Hymn: Adeste fideles.
Collect and Blessing.
Hymn: Hark! The herald angels sing.
Chorale Prelude: In dulci jubilo (Bach)
Organ Scholar Richard Farnes
Director of Music Stephen Cleobury
(Stereo)
with Vicki Hughes. 4: Happy Ending
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Cumbria )
by A.A. Milne in five parts.
In which Winnie-the-Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
Reader Alan Bennett
Presenter Gordon Clough
by Goscinny and Uderzo
Translated and dramatised in six episodes by Anhtea Bell and Derek Hockridge
Back Page: 158
Harry Barton recalls a famous American. BBC Northern Ireland
With PAULINE BUSHNELL including Financial Report
3: Fun and Games, Shops and Toys
Pianist HELEN CRAYFORD. Stereo followed by an interlude
by Jeffrey Archer.
Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you've made it is perhaps the most difficult of all. Harvey Metcalfe had managed all three.
(Full cast details on page 99)
(Repeat) (Stereo)
(Repeated: Christmas Day at 1.40 pm)
The writers of Punch are abandoning their typewriters to examine the humorous side of Christmas.
Today Benny Green investigates music.
Series producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
Man and Superman
A Comedy and a Philosophy by BERNARD SHAW with and Narrator DENYS HAWTHORNE Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Stereo
The concluding programme in David Wade 's two-part documentary about evacuees in the Second World War
Just Resting (6)
(Part 7 on Thursday at 10.15 pm)
Presenter Robert Fox Editor BLAIR THOMSON
from the Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist, Salford President The Rt Rev Patrick Kelly , Bishop of Salford assisted by The Rt Rev Geoffrey Burke Lessons (JB): Isaiah 9, w 1-7; Psalm 95; Titus 2, w 11-14; Luke 2, w 1-14.
Carols: 0 little town of Bethlehem; Angels we have heard on high; Shepherds' pipe carol; In the bleak mid-winter; Silent night; The Sussex carol; While shepherds watched;
Hark! The herald angels sing Organist MARK GOGGINS BBC Manchester Stereo followed by an interlude
