The Saturday Show featuring your personal New Year dedications.
Including at 7.45 Down to Earth with Alan Titchmarsh. Producer DAVID CORSER BBC Pebble Mill

Producer ANTHONY CHERRY

with Simon Dee
Crumblies rule, OK?
Producer STUART HOBDAY BBC Bristol

Producer GEOFF MULLIN

Producer ROGER BOWMAN
1.00 FM joins Radio 1

Comedy with John Inman

see panel

Charles Nove presents the best of 1988. Written by ROY PICKARD Producer LISSA EVANS

Rita Grade-Freeman presents the first of six programmes. Producer CHRIS MORGAN (R)

with Keith Fordyce Devised by DON DAVIS
Producer SONIA BELDOM

Stanley Black conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra led by MARTIN LOVEDAY with Peter Katin (piano).
Recorded in the newly-opened Brentwood Centre in Essex, the concert features popular classics and, of course, the pops themselves.
Introduced by Alex Lester who talks, during the two short intervals, to Geoffrey Jennings about the Brentwood Centre, and to Stanley Black about the traditions of the original Boston Pops concerts. Producer JOHN LANGRIDGE
(Presented in association with Bren twood District Council)

The Strings of the BBC Radio Orchestra led by MICHAEL TOMAUN conducted by Ian Sutherland Presented by Bill Rennells Producer ROBIN SEDGLEY

with Tony Davis , Mick Groves Cliff Hall , Hugh Jones and 'Count' John McCormick (bass). Joining them are old friends
Redd Sullivan , Jacqui McDonald Brian Lemon (piano) and Tony Carr (drums).
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (R) revised

I said to the man that stood at the gate of the year, give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. M. L. HASKINS Roger supplies the music to enable us to slip effortlessly into 1989. With a little help from a few friends. Producer PAUL WALTERS including Big Ben at Midnight