A look back at John's visits earlier this year to Ascension Island, Berlin, Goonhilly and Lindisfarne.

All this week, news and views from Australia.

2.00 VHF/FM joins Radio 1

Introduced by Barry Davies

including a sports pantomime: Scrooge Rides Again (in the 2.15 at Chepstow)
A Dickens of a Christmas Special by Joe Dunlop
Narrator Bryon Butler
Guest appearances by Steve Davis, Gloria Hunniford, Jimmy Young and Derek Jameson

Football: Barclays League
News from the morning matches plus reports from afternoon games with second-half commentary from one.

Racing from Chepstow
2.05 £25,000 Coral Welsh National Handicap Steeplechase (3m 6f)

5.00 Sports Report

A traditional pantomime for Christmas

With the Charles Young Singers

(Stereo) (R)

Starring Kenneth Horne with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.
(First broadcast June 1965)

The music of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin, among many others, performed in cabaret at the Ritz Hotel, London, by American singer/pianist Michael Feinstein
(R)

with The Best of Jazz on record

Ray Alan (by kind permission of Lord Charles) cordially invites you to join him in a festive romp starring Peter Goodwright, Johnny Moore, Dave Evans, Brian Coshall and Jeremy Hitchin. Musical impressions by the Max Harris Orchestra

(R)

presents Round Midnight

presents Nightride

The Early Show