Through the day on 1 and 2 News: 5.30 am 6.0 6.30 7.30 8.30
9.30 10.30 11.30 12.30 pm 1.30
2.30 3.30 4.30 5.30 6.30 7.30 10.30
11.30 12 midnight 1.0 am 2.0
3.0 4.0 5.0
Weather: 5.32 am 6.2 6.31
7.0 7.31 8.0 (R2) 8.31
5.31 pm 6.5 (R2) 6.31 7.44
12.4 am 2.1
Time Big Ben 5.30 am
GTS 7.0 am 10.0 12 noon
2.0 pm (R2) 7.30
Shipping: (1,500m only)
6.40 am 1.55 pm 5.57
2.2 am (also on VHF)
Paul Hollingdale with resident bands, singers, and discs, plus news, weather, and traffic Producers
BARBARA PAGE, COLIN CHANDLER Editor EDWARD NASH
Your records - your choice of guests - it's all yours
Radio Christmas Card from CYRIL FLETCHER
with music on and off the record, featuring a song or two from Jimmy, listeners' recipes, and phone calls
(Tuesday afternoon's broadcast)
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presents music with the Accent on Melody
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Guest of the Week: Bernard Braden
The pig and the piano: NORMA HUXTABLE
Reading your letters
A lean Christmas Eve: DICK GREGSON
The spirit of Christmas: In words and music
An excerpt from Gamesmanship by STEPHEN POTTER read by TENNIEL EVANS
Joan Turner invites all women to put their feet up and listen to a few Christmas thoughts and relaxing music
Produced by STEVE ALLEN
Joan Turner , zany comedienne, singer, religious broadcaster, and a lady of boundless energy, should by this afternoon have organised the shopping, the cooking, and got in the odd bottle. If she hasn' there'll be a nasty gap in Radio 2. But if her life has been suitably organised, she'll be inviting all her fellow lady sufferers to stop the Christmas rush - sit down and hear her set of problems recounted in a humorous fashion. And they can listen to some music that at least should encourage them to continue the whole business of Christmas with a happier countenance.
by JEFFREY SEGAL and PATRICK SCANLAN
with Brian Matthew for news, views, and music from all directions
Produced by FRANCES LINE
Barry Alldis with a review of the popular record releases
Radio Newsroom brings you what's news tonight, followed by Comment
Presenter NIGEL REES
7.44 Weather forecast
entertain with their kind of music for Christmas Eve, with THE RADIO ORCHESTRA leader JULIEN GAILLARD conducted by MALCOLM LOCKYER
Produced by JOHN BUSSELL and TONY HATCH
A play for radio by DENNIS DRISCOLL
Christmas is generally for nostalgia and reunions, when people hope old ties may be consolidated. But it doesn't always work, however. Christ was born to change the world, and Christmas may spark off disturbing thoughts and actions. Peacocks at Christmas seem strange birds, but a visitor proves stranger, even in the world of stocks and shares.
Produced by R. D. SMITH
It's Christmas Eve - too late now to do any more shopping! So put the final touches to the tree, and relax with Cliff Richard and an hour of Christmas spirit on records
