Seasonal music for Boxing Day selected by Michael Ford. Stereo
visits Phil Cottis in Essex.
A morning sequence for the Feast of St Stephen with the BBC SINGERS, JAMES ATKINS and SANDRA CLARK
Producer DAVID CRAIG. Stereo
Forget 85 with its wet summer, freezing winter and drizzling economic gloom, as Glyn Worsnip creates, in fantasy, the perfect year - the one we all dream about - from the fun and sunshine and serendipity in the BBC Sound Archives. Producer HELEN FRY including at 8.0 News
The antidote to panel games Stereo (R)
Sir Michael Hordern presents his personal choice of poetry and prose with Freda Dowie
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol. Stereo (R)
The story of pioneer film-making in the twin towns of Brighton and Hove in the 1890s, more than a decade before Hollywood was dreamt of. Ivan Howlett discovers how this small colony of film-makers attempted to do tricks, tell stories and recall events in black and white and even in colour.
Producer PETER HOARE Stereo Binaural
by Anthony Smith
8: 'Don't fight me, Albert, you fool. I'm doing this for your own good.' Other parts played by NICK REVELL (R)
4: The Good Ship Rose
Amyas Leigh learns of the fate befalling Rose Salterne. Stereo (R)
People Talking
The Talking Streets
An impression of life and opinion in the back streets of a northern city.
Compiled and produced by DENIS MITCHELL
(First broadcast in 1958)
(Revised broadcast of Saturday's programme at 8.15 am)
Stereo
4: Christmas Creatures-Sheep told by DANA
A series of plays by WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME The Kingfisher
When Evelyn and Cecil meet again after 50 years, under the same beech tree where they parted half a century before, will their old relationship have withstood the test of time?
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo ('The Secretary Bird' tomorrow 2. 0)
Three traditional fairy tales by PAUL SHEARER and NICK SYMONS 3: Rumpelstiltskin
Musical Rumblings
COUN SELL AND HIS FORTE THIEVES Fairydust Sprinkler
WISHEE-WASHEE NIXON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast Saturday at 10.30pm)
Autumn
The time of hedgerows heavy with blackberries and bucks bellowing their desires, gossamer drifting from the sky and poets pondering over the strength of mushrooms under paving stones.
Caroline Parsons finds out how man, beast and plant respond to the golden days of autumn. Stereo (R) Revised
4: Loot
The young men of the village took advantage when Ali asked them to help him clear his small shop. (R)
The boisterous custom of hunting the wren on St Stephen's Day is now unique in Dingle in that it has continued there in an unbroken tradition. Steve MacDonogh followed the wrenboys on Boxing Day to find out about their preparations for the event, to learn about the origins and history of the practice, and to sample some of the music.
(First broadcast on Radio Ulster)
(Re-broadcast on New Year's Eve at 11.15pm)
9: 'Squadron Leader Ditchley, I'm here to acquaint you with the details of your forthcoming Court Martial.'
Other parts played by SALLY GRACE and NICK REVELL (R)
with BRIAN PERKINS
Frank Dunlop takes a break from planning next year's Edinburgh International
Festival to take a walk in the centre of the city. (R)
2: A Mole in Moscow (R)
4: A Change of Mind Danny Clayton asked Paul and Steve to go with him to Geneva to see Julia Carrington , who is being blackmailed. On the boat crossing the Channel, Danny receives a warning letter.... (R)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
The Lingo de Mid Channel
Episode Quatre: French Cricket est Dangereux. Stereo (R)
by JOSEPH CONRAD adapted by JACEK LASKOWSKI
'A bomb explodes and a man dies.... a blood-stained inanity of so fatuous a kind that it is impossible to fathom it.'
In London in 1886, the life of a secret agent is complex and dangerous.
Narrator MICHAEL BILTON
Directed by RICHARD IMlSON. Stereo (R)
Stereo
Ian McKellen and Judi Dench star in an excerpt from Act 2 of NOËL COWARD'S most famous play. Amanda and Elyot, now divorced, become re-united on the Riviera and elope to Paris. Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
(First broadcast for the Queen Mother's 85th birthday, 4 August 1985) Stereo
A meditation by The Most Rev
Derek Worlock , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool. Stereo
Elaine Shaffer plays music by Mozart, J. S. Bach, Schubert, Kuhlau and Copland (R)
Part 4 (R)
followed by an interlude
