A musical start to your day Stereo
Practical farmers and leaders of the agricultural industry look back over the past 12 months and forward to 1985.
Hymn: Love came down at
Christmas; Responses: Bernard Rose ; Venite (Barry Rose ); Psalm 121 (Barry Rose );
Te Deum in B flat; Carol: A
Babe is born (Mathias); Organ voluntary: Prelude on the carol 'Seigneur Dieu ouvre la porte' (Boely) Stereo
Presented by Michael Stewart and Jon Silverman
7.30, 8.28* News Summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.0 Today's News
Read by BRYAN MARTIN
8.25* Sport
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Fit the Third Stereo
by Richard Mullen
'We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.' A portrait of Charles Lamb, the essayist 'Elia', who died 150 years ago on 27 December 1834. With David March as Lamb and Michael Tudor Barnes, Gwen Cherrell, David Garth and Colin Starkey
Narrator John Rowe
(Stereo)
4: The 70s
(First broadcast on 23 December 1977)
Cheese, Please
As you sink your teeth into that piece of Stilton, spare a thought for the cheese and the many organisms that have been brought into service to make everything from Brie to Vasterbottensost.
Presented by Caroline Parsons Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol. Stereo
4: 'It was with no great reluctance that Elizabeth left the vicarage of Hunsford, with its proximity to Rosings and all that house now stood for in her mind....' Stereo
Richard Stilgoe ,
Emma Thompson and The Cambridge Buskers were admitted to
Guy's Hospital for sound tests. Visiting time is 'now', so pull up the chair, don't eat all the grapes, but put on the headphones and hear the result.
Stereo
with Canon Don Lewis
Julian Mitchell , Elaine Morgan and Myfanwy Talog Stereo
Presenter Gordon Clough
Pickle and the Snowbear
Rupert of Hentzau by ANTHONY HOPE adapted by CYNTHIA PUGHE and KAY PATRICK with Julian Glover
Nigel Stock , Hannah Gordon Martin Jarvis , David Timson Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania; Rupert of Hentzau plots to return from exile;
Queen Flavia is still in love with Rassendyll; danger and intrigue are everywhere. Rudolf Rassendyll /
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
Lord Harewood has been involved for nearly 30 years with the operatic lifeblood of this country, first at the Royal Opera House and then as Managing Director of the English National Opera post he will relinquish in 1985. In conversation with Rodney Milnes , he talks about his policy of staging opera; about outstanding successes such ac Rienzi, Rusalka and Rigoletto; and about the funding of the major companies.
Producer JOHN BOUNDY (A Kaleidoscope repeat)
A chance to join Brian Johnston again as he remembers some of the people he's met on his journeys Down Your Way.
This week's stories and five others from 'The House at Pooh Corner' are published by BBC Enterprises on records (REC 528/REC 493) and cassettes (ZCM 528/ZCM 493) price £2.99 each
Presenter Susannah Simons
Part 4 Stereo
Joe Mahon discovers the truth about Santa.
With BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
6: Away from Home AMBROSIAN SINGERS conducted by JOHN MCCARTHY Stereo followed by an interlude
4: Monte Carlo
Four men cheated out of a million dollars have come up with various schemes to get their money back from the American con-man
Harvey Metcalfe. Jean Pierre Lamanns ' plan was a success. Now it is the turn of Dr Adrian Tryner. Stereo
(Repeated: Friday 1.40 pm)
The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley , mp, in his role as regular Punch columnist, takes a step back to observe the Press and politics at Christmas-time.
Major Barbara by BERNARD SHAW with Anna Massey
John Phillips , Gwen Watford and Jeremy Clyde
This play, written in 1905, is a moral confrontation between two generations: the old, who made the best of opportunities in an immoral world, and the young, who want to atone for this by the misguided idealism of individual sacrifice. It is an exposition of Shaw's doctrine that one 'must either share the world's guilt or go to another planet'.
Directed by RONALD MASON Stereo
A portrait of Dame Isobel Baillie , who died in September 1983 aged 88, after more than 30 years as one of Britain's leading oratorio sopranos, particularly renowned for her singing in Handel's Messiah.
Among those contributing are DAME EVA TURNER. MARY JARRED. SIR KEITH FALKNER. BERYL REID.
BRYAN CRIMP. JOHN GRIERSON. and pupils and friends from her adopted city of Manchester. Presented by Richard Baker Producer RAY ABBOTT
Just Resting (7)
Presenter Richard Kershaw
A meditation for the Feast of St John the Evangelist by Michael Buss , Pastor of Lansdowne Baptist Church, Bournemouth.
presents a selection of his own adaptations from the writings Of CHARLES DICKENS
The third of four progammes: Mrs Gamp (Martin Chuzzlewit ) and The Fall of Midas (Little Dorrit).
Ian Skidmore rallies to the aid of threatened angels and rings John Julius Norwich to thank him for his very special Christmas card. BBC Wales. Stereo
by Anthony Smith followed by an interlude
