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Practical farmers and leaders of the agricultural industry look back over the past 12 months and forward to 1985

A morning sequence for the Feast of St Stephen with the BBC SINGERS, JAMES ATKINS and SANDRA CLARK
Producer DAVID CRAIG. Stereo

brings a touch of nostalgia to the festive season as he delves into the treasure chest of the BBC archives and finds some of your favourite sounds and voices.
Producer HELEN FRY including at 8.0 News With PETER DONALDSON

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Fit the Second Stereo

For six Christmases, Britain was dark, families were apart and good cheer was in short supply. Forty years on from the last wartime Christmas, Dr Christopher Andrew looks back at those bittersweet times and the radio programmes that kept Britain smiling through: morale boosters from Churchill's speeches to Workers' Playtime, the comedy of ITMA and Gert and Daisy, the sentiment of Issy Bonn and Vera Lynn.
BBC Manchester

3: The 60s
(First broadcast on 24 December 1967: a White House Christmas)

The Martyr of St Stephen Day The ritualistic hunting and dissection of wrens with hatchets and cleavers was an old Boxing Day tradition carrying evil portent.
Producer CAROL JEFFERSON-DAVIES BBC Bristol. Stereo

3: 'The sudden departure of Mr Bingley and his party from Netherfield to London was a continued source of wonder and distress to Mrs Bennet. ' Stereo

at the World Wine Fair,
Bristol, with Emma Thompson and The Cambridge Buskers, who vaguely remember doing the programme. 'Vintage Stilgoe'
'An amusing little programme' Stereo

with Celia Haddon , Ludovic Kennedy , Dr John Rae and Colin Welland Stereo

The Goon Show
The International Christmas
Pudding starring Peter Sellers Harry Secombe , Spike Milligan With THE RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET and MAX GELDRAY. Orchestra conducted by WALLY STOTT
Announcer WALLACE GREENSLADE Script SPIKE MILLIGAN Producer PETER ETON
(First broadcast November 1955)

Pickle Makes a Christmas Card

by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted for radio by John Keir Cross
with Timothy West as Long John Silver, Geoffrey Bayldon as Ben Gunn, Alethea Charlton as Mrs Hawkins and Allan Cuthbertson as Captain Smollett.
(Repeat)

The Jets and Sharks came back to Her Majesty's Theatre earlier this year for a faithful revival of the smash hit musical West Side Story.
Paul Allen traces the history of the musical with original creators ARTHUR LAURENTS ,
JEROME ROBBINS and STEPHEN SONDHElM and goes backstage to talk to Tom Abbott who recreated the original choreography, and Grant Hossack who conducts the music of Leonard Bernstein. Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN (A revised Kaleidoscope repeat)

Brian Johnston recalls some of the places he's visited.

3: In which Piglet meets a Heffalump

... at their occasionally unco-operative keyboards, poised over possibly perplexing pedals.... some church organists tell Bob Prizeman of their toils, tribulations - and triumphs. Producer JANET THOMAS
(Repeated: Wed 11.30 pm) Stereo

Part 3. Stereo

Mary Murphy gives advice to party-poopers

With BRYAN MARTIN

John Foster, Director of the Countryside Commission for
Scotland, shares the pleasures of a favourite walk on the southern slopes of the highlands. BBC Scotland

5: Poverty. Stereo followed by an interlude

3: Bond Street
Four men who have lost a fortune in the collapse of Prospecta Oil set out to get their million dollars back. Stereo

(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)

The turkey's been eaten and now's the time for the serious - or not so serious - problem of how to fill the gap between Christmas and New Year. Hunter Davies gives an insight into how his family will cope.

The Apple Cart. A political extravaganza in two acts and an interlude by BERNARD SHAW Orinthia ( Prunella Scales
A typically Shavian look at the future. Written in 1928, many of Shaw's prophesies have become and are becoming alarmingly true.
Narrator DENYS HAWTHORNE Directed by IAN COTTERELL Stereo

While most folk were preparing for the Christmas festivities, the naturalists of olden times still had their eyes to the wild. Peter France explores their Yuletide journals.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol

Portrait of a great Italian baritone.
For 40 years, Tito Gobbi was one of the most admired and popular singers in the world, particularly in this country with his favourite audience at Covent Garden. Off stage too, he was delightful company, greatly loved by everyone who enjoyed his warm friendship. Derek Parker celebrates
Gobbi's life and music with memories from his wife Tilde and many of his friends, colleagues and pupils. Producer STEPHEN SHIPLEY Stereo
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Margaret Howard talks to five clergy wives about the pressures of their daily lives and whether or not they still see themselves as traditional dispensers of'cake and charity'. Producer JAN TAYLOR (Rev rpt)

A meditation for Boxing Night by Peter Levi , Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford

presents a selection of his own adaptations from the writings Of CHARLES DICKENS in the second of four programmes
Some Youthful Reminiscences from the Personal History of David Copperfield

As the fairy lights twinkle on the station's Christmas tree, Ian Skidmore recalls the horrors of purchasing one of its predecessors and cheers himself up with a telephone call to Robert Robinson. BBC Wales. Stereo

by Anthony Smith. followed by an interlude