(music on record)
Nick Baker and Dilly Barlow with listeners' favourite bits of radio. Producers Mark Savage and Kim Normanton. Stereo
Stereo
from Henleaze U R C.
Come and Join the Celebration; Christians Awake; Hark the Herald Angels Sing; Little Donkey; See Him Lying on a Bed of Straw; Joy to the World; Make Way, Make Way; O Come All Ye Faithful.
Isaiah 9, vv 2, 6; Luke 2, vv 2-5, 6; John I, vv 9-14.
Francis Kilvert breaking the ice on his bath; Liane de Pugy's Exotic presents; Evelyn Waugh's "ghastly" day.
(Stereo)
Armando Iannucci recycles 1992's events.
Producer Cathie Mahoney. Stereo
Emma Freud talks to six partnerships that achieved great things but ended in "divorce".
1: Sammy Stopford and Shirley Ballas, once the number one Latin-American dance couple.
by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.
Starring James Bolam as Bill and Lynda Bellingham as Faith.
(Stereo)
Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell as The Babes in the Wood. With
Felicity Montagu and Jasper Jacob. Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer
Stereo (B'cast yesterday 7.05pm)
2: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Starring
Dramatised by Christopher Denys Music: Elizabeth Parker
Director Janet Whitaker. Stereo
(Third play tomorrow 7.50pm)
Martyn Wiley goes out with the library bus into the Peak District villages. Producer Dave Sheasby. Stereo
with Donald Sinden as Sir John Falstaff. A celebration of Shakespeare's "huge bombard of sack", exploring his enduring appeal - to Verdi, to Orson Welles , to Olivier and Branagh. Contributors include Joss Ackland , Timothy West ,
Robert Stephens , Les Dawson and Adrian Noble.
Producer Paul Schlesinger. Stereo
5: Crying, Talking, Sleeping, Walking by Greg Snow.
Read by Haydn Gwynne. Producer Duncan Minshull
The actress, singer and writer talks to David Foster about her career.
(Stereo)
A chance to eavesdrop on the people who have to work on Christmas Day. Producer Sara Conkey
Jeremy Nicholas 's survey of musical borrowings and plagiarism.
Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo
Where's Elizabeth?
Stereo
Mervyn Peake's gothic fantasies Titus Groan and Gormenghast dramatised. Starring Sting as Steerpike.
Dramatised by Brian Sibley
Director Glyn Dearman. Stereo (First broadcast in 1984)
Fergus Keeling discovers life may have needed rhythm to evolve. With Patrick Moore.
Producer John Ruthven
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense
Some of Edward Lear 's nonsense poems read by Sir John Gielgud.
Director John Theocharis. Stereo
(Stereo)
David Neal reads from the Book of Isaiah.
A meditation on Christ as the Lord of the Dance, led by Stephen Shipley with St Paul 's Girls' School choir, Hammersmith. Director
Hilary Davan Wetton.
Producer Claire Campbell Smith Stereo
