Music selected by Michael Ford Stereo
visits Tom Southern in Northumberland
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 (William Mathias )
Organ voluntary: Prelude on the carol 'Seigneur Dieu ouvre la porte' (Boely). Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Phil Longman
7.30 News Summary
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.0* Today's News With CLIVE ROSLIN
8.25* Sport with ANDY SMITH
The antidote to panel games Stereo (R)
Dame Celia Johnson presented her personal choice of poetry and prose shortly before her death in 1981. Readers DAVID DAVIS and ROSALIND SHANKS Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
Stereo (R)
A portrait album of the people of a small Scottish country town in the years between VE Day in 1945 and the Coronation in 1953. Written and introduced by Robin Bell
Readings by FULTON MACKAY
EILEEN MCCALLUM , MARY RIGGANS and ROBERT TROTTER Producer JOHN ARNOTT BBC Scotland. Stereo (R)
(Winner of the 1985 Sony Award for Best Radio Feature)
by Anthony Smith
10: 'I'm not the wicked villain you used to know - I've changed. Victoria, forgive me.' Other parts played by CHRISTOPHER BARR.
DOUGLAS BLACKWELL and SALLY GRACE (R)
Losing his brother Frank to the Spaniards, Amyas vows a war of attrition, spurred also by thoughts of the gold of El Dorado...
BBC Bristol
(Stereo) (R)
Song of a Road
A radio ballad by EWAN MACCOLL and CHARLES PARKER on the building of the first stage of the London to Yorkshire motorway, told by the men who designed and built it.
Songs by EWAN MACCOLL
Music directed by PEGGY SEEGER Producer CHARLES PARKER (First broadcast in 1959)
Presented by Gordon Clough
5: Christmas Creatures - Camel told by DANA
The last in a series of plays by William Douglas Home.
What is a husband to do when his wife says she is leaving him after 15 years of marriage?
Acquiesce or fight - or do both?
(Stereo)
A special edition of rigorous mind-expanding gobbets as Irene Thomas and Eric Kom challenge Bill Russell and Jack Jones.
Chairmen Gordon Clough and Louis Allen
Researchers BERNICE COUPE, KAREN OSTLE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
(Re broadcast on Sunday at 7.30pm)
Winter
Caroline Parsons finds out how man, beast and plant respond to the bleaker days of winter. Stereo (R) Revised
ThelastofFinlay
J. Macdonald 's memoirs of a Hebridean boyhood. A Rum Affair
With the outbreak of war many strange and sinister objects were washed up on the sandy Atlantic beaches of Harris. (R)
Presented by Susannah Simons
11: 'Ditchley's found the Schmidt contracts, and he's blackmailing me. We're done for.' Other parts played by TREVOR COOPER , DAVID ENGLISH
NICK MALONEY and NICK REVELL (R)
With CHARLOTTE GREEN
The last of three talks Mole on Lifestyle (R)
5: A Surprise for Mrs Milbourne At the request of Margaret Milbourne , Paul Temple and Steve are in Geneva to investigate the supposed death of her husband, publisher Carl Milboume. Danny Clayton has also asked them to meet his employer, film star Julia Carrington , who is being blackmailed.
Directed by MARTIN C. WEBSTER (R)
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 1.40pm)
The Lingo de Mid Channel Episode Cinq: Presents pour Maman! Stereo (R)
by JOHN HARRISON with Paul Scofield ,
Linda Gardner and Maurice Denham Tensions and emotions explode between passengers and crew during the close confinement of a voyage aboard a ship of the East India Company during the late 18th century.
Directed by KAY PATRICK
BBC Manchester. Stereo (R)
Alistair Cooke's weekly talk on American life, history and politics.
The Midgley Family
The late Walter Midgley was one of this country's great operatic tenors; his wife Gladys is a successful accompanist. Their son and daughter,
Vernon and Maryetta Midgley. have inherited the family's musical talent and are acclaimed wherever they sing. Marion Foster talks to Gladys Midgley and her son and daughter about their life together and takes a peep inside the family album - a record album of course!
Producer DAVID WELSBY BBC Birmingham (R)
An opportunity to hear the clues again.
(Seepage 39at 7.50 am for details)
A Christmas Carol being A Ghost Story for
Christmas by CHARLES DICKENS abridged in eight episodes by DEREK PARKER
Told by Martin Jarvis and Denise Bryer
8: God Bless Us, Every One! Adapted and produced by IAN COTTERELL. Stereo
with Charles Wheeler
A meditation by The Most Rev Derek Worlock , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool. Stereo
William Bennett plays music by Mozart, Handel,
Richard Rodney Bennett and Boehm (R)
The last of five parts (R)
followed by an interlude
