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With THE VERY REV
DR STEPHEN S. SMALLEY. Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys and Peter Hobday
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25*, 8.25* Sport With JULIAN TUTT
7.45* Thought for the Day

by FRANK TUOHY
Read by Patrick Malahide 1 The Paliadian Bridge
Producer MAURICE LEITCH (R)

Today Sue MacGregor meets Anne Bancroft.

Choice cuts with Derek Cooper. (R)

A series for Christmas week, reviewing the main themes and events of the year.
2:The Other Side of FreedomThe freedom to create unprecedented wealth has also led to a widening poverty gap. Paul Foot depicts the poverty, and also argues that the year has seen a serious erosion in standards of public responsibility.
Producer ANN KOCH

The second of five recollections by DENIS CONSTANDUROS. Stereo (R)

Earth has many a noble city (amns 48); Matthew 2, vv 1-12;
Three kings from Persian lands afar (Cornelius); As with gladness men of old (AMNS 51)
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A seasonal edition of the musical quiz.
Frank Muir and John Amis v
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden with Steve Race in the Chair. Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

Debbie Thrower visits five very different shops.
2: Old Atkins the Draper Mr Atkins 's shop in South
Molton looks for all the world like the haberdashery where your grandmother used to shop for anti-macassar pins and sleeping gloves ... though the traditional image is not all that it seems.
Producer JEAN SNEDEGAR

featuring David Calder as Jerry Westerby.
George Smiley has begun his 'extra-mural' investigation into allegations of a Russian double agent inside the 'Circus'.

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Today's story: Dark Is Necessary. Stereo (R)

with David Buck as Antonio Vivaldi and Edward de Souza ,
Joe Dunlop , Peter Craze , Nicholas Courtney , Melinda Walker ,
Michael Deacon , Norman Bird and Cara Kelly.
2: Consumed in God's Glory 'Whatever dazzles the eye is dust, is shadow, is nothing. Life begins and ends, the years fly. We are the cause of our own destruction. The immortal soul lives on. Our love, our fire - all are smoke, consumed in God's glory.'
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Peter White reflects on his experiences in pubs, where he used to play the piano, and developed an effective technique for attracting the barman's attention. (R)

3: Cold Buttock and Carrots Stereo (R)

'At last, the moment he'd longed for. She gently slipped the silky wrappings off his word processor.'
And what next? Paul Vaughan leafs through the business of writing - the ingredients of sex and money, the glossy covers in airport lounges, the keen students of writing schools, and the critics.
Is there a formula that will 'shift the units'. And, if so, what is it?
Producer JULIAN MAY

with Ferdi Dennis.
2: The Sound System Man
In the 1970s the mobile disco was big business. But in the 80s things are a bit different. (R)

Fifty years ago America trembled. Martians had landed in New Jersey. Over a million people listening to Orson Welles's radio dramatisation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds didn't realise it was a play.

Johnny Apple talks to some of those who were behind the most bizarre event in the history of broadcasting, and others who have good reason never to forget that night.

BBC Manchester (R)

With DAVID SYMONDS

The first of four daily programmes.
Starring Kenneth Horne with Kenneth Williams
Hugh Paddick , Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.
Announcer Douglas Smith Music from the Max Harris
Group, the Fraser Hayes Four , Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers.
Written by BARRY TOOK,
BRIAN COOKE. JOHNNIE MORTIMER , and MARTY FELDMAN.
Producer JOHN SIMMONDS
(First broadcast in May 1968)

First of four programmes. Gordon Clough talks to Yolande King, the eldest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr, who runs a theatre company with the daughter of Malcolm X, once King's rival in the civil rights movement.
Producer STEPHEN OLIVER (R)

Pygmalion by BERNARD SHAW.
Set in London in 1912, Shaw's famous play tells of a common flower girl who is tutored in phonetics to 'speak like a lady', and all that happens as a consequence.
Other parts played by ANDREW BRANCH . GARARD GREEN and DAVID LEARNER.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Stereo (R)

Helen Forrester takes
Christopher Somerville to places she remembers from her childhood in Liverpool, and which form the background to her books Twopence to Cross the Mersey and Minerva's Stepchild.
Reader Anna Carteret (R)

Judi Dench is the storyteller in the second of five Stories with Music. Words and music by SERGE PROKOFIEV Stereo (R)

Blowing Your Own Horn Twenty years ago
Barry Tuckwell left the ranks of the orchestral horn section to go solo.
Michael Berkeley talks to him and to his colleagues about the life and the music of a man who blows his horn for a living. Producer JOHN BOUNDY (R)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (7)

Robin Ray rounds off the gramophone's centenary year with a selection of records designed to puzzle and amuse his guests:
Humphrey Burton Benny Green and Helen Shapiro. Producer JEFF LINK
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Cliff Morgan spends a day with country folk in the valley of the River Windrush in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. Stereo (R)