The issues of the week in rural Britain.
With the Rev Ernest Rea.
With Sue MacGregor, John Humphrys. 725, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Tom Butler.
In the first of three programmes, John Nettles , Siobhan Redmond ,
Greg Wise and Emma Fielding read a Election from the top 50 poems in the recent nationwide poll.
Producer David Hunter Repeat
At her Suffolk farmhouse, Libby Purves '"vites celebrity chef Robert Carrier to cook a Christmas brunch for her guests. roducer Ronni Davis
A look at the news of Christmas 1957. here's something in the air in Britain - People seem to want change. There has been a nuclear leak at Windscale.
Produced by Jenni Murray. Short story; Geoffrey Palmer reads Caput
4pri by Helen Simpson , from The
Oman's Hour Christmas Collection.
By Charles Dickens , dramatised in six Parts by Martyn Read. 1: The
Pickwickians Set Forth on Their Travels
The Pickwickians encounter a %sterious stranger.
Si David Bannerman , Ian Brooter ,
Simon Carter , Kim Durham , John Fleming , Joyce Gibbs. Tina Gray. Susan Jeffrey ,
Malcolm McKee. Jillie Meers. Richard Mitchley Terry Molloy. James Richard , Cathy Sara Christopher Scott.
James Thackwray ackwray and Iwan Thomas
Music by Malcolm McKee
Director Sue Wilson. Repeated at 9.30pm
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Presented by Mark Whittaker.
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The last programme in the current series of Christopher Fitz-Simon 's comedy drama set in County Donegal. McGoldrick, suitor to Josie, has long proved a source of aggravation, but a phone call from Birmingham gives Phonsie the ammunition he needs. with Aine McCartney. Gerard Murphy.
Tim Loane and Cathy White. Music Stephanie Hughes. Director Eoin O'Callaghan
With James Cox.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
By Bernard Walke , adapted for radio by Melville Jones. As part of BBC
Radio's 75th anniversary celebrations, parishioners of the Church of St Hilary near St Michael's Mount in Cornwall re-create the mystery play written especially for them by their priest. One of the first outside broadcast dramas, it so delighted listeners in the 1920s that it became part of the nation's Christmas for almost a decade.
Musical director David Ball
Director Marion Nancarrow
From the Chapel of King's
College, Cambridge
See panel on right for Order of Service. Director of Music (*and descant) Stephen Cleobury. Organ Scholar
Robert Quinney.
Producers David Kremer and James Whitboum Repeated tomorrow 2pm Radio 3
* Brian Kay 's Christmas Choice: p34
Birdwatcher and naturalist Bill Oddie delves into the dark plantations of the Norway spruce. He looks at the two lives of the Christmas tree - visited by crossbills and goshawks in Kielder Forest, then by London pigeons in Trafalgar Square.
Producers Mary Colwell and Brett Westwood
With Clare English and Jon Sopel.
Repeated from Monday 22 December 12.25pm
A mother and child reunion. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
Arthur Smith plays host to Christmas Eve travellers and friends as they pass through Leicester Forest East service station. Benedict Allen leaves the car and takes a camel. Dillie Keane plays pub cricket on route.
Rory Motion gets the blues. Ross Burden cooks up a treat in the car park. Producer Mary Price
Repeated from 11.30am
This first of three special debates is chaired by Jeremy Harris and is about that elusive "feelgood factor".
By Raymond Chandler. Part 3.
For details see Monday 22 December Repeat
The Brandy Butter Factor
A festive hamper of Saturnalia and scurrilous sketches.
With Gerard Foster , Dave Lamb , Gordon Southern, Tim Verrinder ,
Ben Ward and Richard Webb.
Producers Phil Clarke and Adam Tandy
From the Metropolitan
Cathedral of Christ the King,
Liverpool, the first Communion of Christmas. Preacher the Archbishop of Liverpool, the Most Rev Patrick Kelly. Isaiah 9, wl-7; Titus 2, wll-14; Luke 2, wl-14; Away in a Manger; 0 Come, All Ye Faithful; The Lamb (John Tavener ); Hark! The
Herald Angels Sing. Director of music Mervyn Cousins. Organist Meirion Wynn Jones.
Written and read in five parts by Tom Bodett. Stories of the Alaskan
Christmas spirit.
3: The Best Sauna Story So Far For details see Monday 22 December
