A musical sequence. Stereo
for Christmas Day from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, conducted by THE REV JOHN WITHERIDGE Carol: Ding, dong, merrily on high
Responses (Smith) Psalm 85 (Ouseley)
Reading (Rsv): Luke 2, w 8-15 Te Deum (Britten in c) Carol: I saw three ships (arr Ledger) BBC SINGERS directed by BARRY ROSE
Organist ANDREW LUMSDEN Stereo
preceded by Christians awake, salute the happy mom. Stereo
7.5 Caroline's Christmas or The Inexplicable Infant by STEPHEN LEACOCK
Read by Gabriel Woolf
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
7.25 Christmas Bells
Introduced by Kate Moon
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT. Stereo
7.50 The Christmas Story
Jeremy Irons reads the story of the Nativity. Stereo
preceded by Christians awake, salute the happy morn. Stereo
Join the Archer family as they share memories and events from the last 35 years.
Cast from the past: [see below]
BBC Pebble Mill
(For present cast see page 139 at 7.5pm)
Once again Radio 4 provides an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of programmes broadcast throughout the year. Entries on a postcard by Friday
2 January 1987 to: Radio 4 Christmas Competition, BBC, London WlA 4WW (Re-broadcast at 10. 10pm)
preceded by 0 come, all ye faithful. Stereo
A Week of Sundays
'It seemed a bit sad that we weren't doing the full Christmas bit this year, and I thought maybe it'd be a good idea if we had our own little Christmas lunch on Sunday ...' Stereo
speaks to the Commonwealth Stereo (Re-broadcast at 1. 0pm)
from Worcester Cathedral Celebrant
THE REV JAMES BUTTERWORTH
Preacher CANON JEFFERY FENWICK Readings: Hebrews 1, w 1-5 (JB); John 1, w 1-14 (rsv)
Coronation Mass (Mozart)
Hymns (A&MNS): 0 come, all ye faithful (34); Of the Father's love begotten (33); 0 little town of Bethlehem (40); Hark, the herald-angels sing (35)
Offertory motet: Hodie Chnstus natus est (Sweelinck)
Director of Music DR DONALD HUNT Organist ADRIAN PARTINGTON BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
Episode 27: 'I was massaging your dad's foot, Vicky. He's got Miner's Toe.' Stereo
Fritz Spiegl lifts the veil on Mrs Berlioz
by JANE AUSTEN dramatised in six parts by JOHN TYDEMAN
Part 1: Emma Woodhouse , handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence.... Then an event occurred one late September which brought with it an upheaval to the sublime state of domestic stability that reigned at Hartfield.... Stereo (R)
(For cast see page 115at 11.0am)
In the summer of 1979 Tom Vemon pedalled his 19 stone from Muswell Hill to the Mediterranean.
1: Fair Stood his Windfor France A fitting with a bicycle tailor and a ferry to Dieppe.
Producer JOY HATWOOD . Stereo (R)
Guaranteed original and genuine - originally recorded between 1956 and 1958 and never before broadcast in the UK.
Starring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers
With Max Geldray, The Ray Ellington Quartet, Wally Stott and his Orchestra
Hear This! page 22
Stereo
Join Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton. Slumped in the chair Humphrey Lyttelton. Lying on the piano, Colin Sell. Topping up the glasses, Paul Mayhew-Archer.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast Monday 11.15 pm)
Quincy the Christmas Toy
4: Second Floor - Quincy Meets a Christmas Cracker. Stereo
A true love story, with music, by ELIZABETH FORBES
Giovanni Mario and Giulia Grisi met when they sang in the first London performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at Her Majesty's Theatre in June
1839. Soon after, they fell in love. They became the best-loved singers of the day, thrilling audiences for more than 20 years in such popular operas as Don Giovanni , Les Huguenots, II trovatore, Norma and L'elisird'amore.
Narrator John Rowe
With CAROLE BOYD , JOHN CHURCH WILLIAM EEDLE , RONALD HERDMAN
JOHN RYE and PATIENCE TOMUNSON Producer ALAN HAYDOCK. Stereo
by TERENCE RATTIGAN
1936: the living room at
'Miramar', a villa in a small town in the South of France.
Directed by GERRY JONES. Stereo
Presented by Wynford Vaughan -Thomas Lynn ten Kate investigates the electronic mail which links pupils at a village school in Devon with junior school children in Tasmania. There's concern in the north of Scotland about the threat to the homes of rare mammals, birds and plants by the planting of conifer trees. Plus, the village in Staffordshire that's encouraging businesses to move to the country. Producer CAROLINE ELUOT
(Re-broadcast on Saturday at 9.5 am)
British Nudism in the 1930s
Armed with a pair of binoculars and a copy of the Vagrancy Act, Harry Thompson explores the world of eurythmics, eugenics, gymnosophy and heliotherapy. Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester (R)
talks about the value of radio in the day-to-day life of those who are blind. Donations to:
Richard Baker , British Wireless for the Blind, [address removed]
Nine programmes in which Johnny Morris recalls his childhood in Wales. BBC Bristol
A serial in eight episodes by FRANCIS DURBRIDGE
Paul Temple is invited by the German police to help trace Dr Conrad's daughter.... 1: The Man from Munich (First broadcast in 1959) (For cast seepage 115 at 6.30pm)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1.40pm)
by David Bean
by Dorothy L. Sayers, dramatised by Michelene Wandor
[Starring] Gary Bond as Lord Peter Wimsey, Jeffery Dench as Fr Venables, Terry Molloy as Supt Blundell, Mary Wimbush as Tailor Paul, Hedli Niklaus as Batty Thomas
On his way to visit friends at Walbeach, Lord Peter Wimsey's car lands in a ditch and he and Bunter are forced to take shelter at Fenchurch St Paul.
Here they learn of the theft of the Wilbraham emeralds...
BBC Pebble Mill
(Stereo)
Hear This! page 22
Deep in the mire of a medieval winter, the funeral procession of an English Queen makes its sorrowful journey to Westminster. The grieving King decides that a massive stone cross shall be erected wherever her coffin rests. Who were the King and Queen and are any of those crosses still standing?
Written and presented by Jenny Hursell
MICHAEL LEWIN (lute)
Producer GWYN RICHARDS
BBC Pebble Mill
Stereo/Binaural.
The full binaural effect can only be received by listening with stereo headphones
(Re-broadcast on Saturday at 4.30pm)
by Anthony Smith
Stereo
Hurrying to Bethlehem - the Challenge of Peace with Canon Anthony Harvey , Canon Residentiary of Westminster Abbey. Stereo
A Christmas story set in Orkney by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN
Read by Eileen McCallum Producer JOHN ARNOTT
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland)
A seasonal satirical silliness.... How a Humble Civil Servant
Stumbles on an Official Secret Bigger than the Genuine Unemployment Figures
Written by STEVE PUNT
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo
followed by an interlude
