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: Farming Today
S.25 Shipping forecast long wave only: Today
John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Timpson
Unknown:
Libby
Purves
Unknown:
Richard
Harries
Read By:
John
Marsh
: News
: Enquire Within
Unload your query on to Nell Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.Producer BARBARA CROWTHER Questions, on a postcard, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London [Postcode removed]
Contributors
Unknown:
Nell
Landor
Producer:
Barbara
Crowther
: News
: Daily Service
NEM, p 1: 0 heavenly Word. eternal Light (BBC KB 37); Psalm 99: John 20, vv 19-29 (AV): The Lord is King! (BBC IIB 28): The Bandsman's Daughter
by IRENE THOMAS , who reads the final extracts from her autobiography abridged for radio in ten parts by MOLLIE HARGREAVES 410)Contributors
Unknown:
Irene
Thomas
Unknown:
Mollie
Hargreaves
: News
: Bird of the Week
With the festive season rapidly approaching Jim Flegg sends you the song of the robin as an aural Christmas card. BBC BristolBird Sounds and Their Meaning, book, £4.95. and record from bookshops
Contributors
Unknown:
Jim
Flegg
: News
: My Word!
12.55 Weather;programme news: long wave only: The Archers
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only: News
: Woman's Hour
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer Sounds of Praise: DENNIS THURLOW runs a small company which builds and restores church and cathedral organs. He talks about his craft to DAVID LLOYD and illustrates the different stages of production.Cast-offs and Left-overs: are you likely to be still faced with turkey four days after Christmas? Overwhelmed with unwanted wrapping paper? Will those socks and ties have to be changed? ANN TENNANT and Richard CARR -INGTON present a crash course in coping with the season's excesses.
Resetting the Body's Clock: some people find it difficult to sleep at night - and prefer to doze during the day instead. At the Montefiore Hospital in New York. DR ELLIOTT WEITZMAN has developed new techniques which may help such cases. He discusses his work with GILL PYRAR. BBC Birmingham
The Two Wise Virgin- *< Have (2)
Contributors
Unknown:
Dennis
Thurlow
Unknown:
David
Lloyd
Unknown:
Ann
Tennant
Unknown:
Richard
Carr
Unknown:
Dr Elliott
Weitzman
: News
: Listen with Mother
The Story of Christmas by JEAN SUTCLIFFEPresenters NERYS HUGHES and TONY AITKEN
Written by TONY AITKEN Producer MARY HAYDON
Songs from Listen with Mother are featured on the BBC Record The Bumper Fun Album for Children (also available as a cassette): from record shops
Contributors
Unknown:
Jean
Sutcliffe
Presenters:
Nerys
Hughes
Unknown:
Tony
Aitken
Written By:
Tony
Aitken
Producer:
Mary
Haydon
: Afternoon Theatre
Once a Year by ANITA BRONSON with Geoffrey Beevers as William and Sandra Clark as Rosemary To William 's terror. Christ mas is upon him once again. He faces the prospect of the inevitable shopping with all the over-spending that entails, and to add to his trepidation, it looks as though his wife's entire clan-like family. plus their numerous offspring, are about to descend. But when the country is covered by a mammoth fall of snow, he breathes again ...Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
Contributors
Unknown:
Anita
Bronson
Unknown:
Geoffrey
Beevers
Unknown:
Sandra
Clark
Unknown:
Rosemary To
William
Directed By:
Shaun
MacLoughlin
Edward:
Rory
Corsellis
JOSie:
Binnie
Rees
Saleswomen:
Christine
Pollon
Combat man:
Miles
Anderson
Doll:
Rosemary
Whitefield
Ghost of Christmas yet to Come:
Michael
Dehrington
: Lovers Come Back
The lives and music of Anne Ziegler and Webster BoothWritten and presented by Frank Dixon
.' You could be well Into your 40s without knowing what Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth meant to those of us who were around during and after the war. Anne and Webster were - and still are - all about romance.' Producer
HERBERT SMITH BBC
Manchester
Contributors
Soprano:
Anne
Ziegler
Tenor:
Webster
Booth
Presented By:
Frank
Dixon
Producer:
Herbert
Smith
: Short Story
Pearl by GEORGE MACKAY UROWN Read by John SheddenA day in winter. No school. I was sent from the smithy to the boat-house with a message. It was this: " John Gorss the ferryman is not to trouble Tessa Smith again by night or by day. winter or summer, to his peril." '
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
Contributors
Unknown:
George MacKay
Urown
Read By:
John
Shedden
Unknown:
John
Gorss
Producer:
Patrick
Rayner
: PM
with Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news
Contributors
Unknown:
Gordon
Clough
Unknown:
Joan
Bakewell
: The Six O'Clock News
including Financial Report: Going Places
Richard Hudson-Evans brings you stories behind the scenes in the world of travel and transport. Producer GEOFF DOBSONEditor ROGER MACDONALD
Contributors
Unknown:
Richard
Hudson-Evans
Producer:
Geoff
Dobson
Editor:
Roger
MacDonald
: News
: The Archers
(Repeated: Christmas Eve1.40 pm)
: Pick of the Week
with Margaret Howard Producer SIMON ELMES< Repeated." Sat 10.45 am)
Contributors
Unknown:
Margaret
Howard
Producer:
Simon
Elmes
: Prefaces to Shakespeare
Robert Hardy , the actor and author, who has played Henry V and many other leading Shakespearean roles. presents a personal view of Henry V, to be seen this Sunday in BBC2's season of Shakespeare's plays. ProducerALAN WILDING
Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
Hardy
Unknown:
Alan
Wilding
: Any Questions?
The Rt lionEnoch Powell , mp Baroness Phillips Nell Kinnock , MP and Peregrine Worsthorne tackle the issues raised by the audience in Birmingham. Chairman David Jacobs
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Enoch
Powell
Unknown:
Baroness Phillips Nell
Kinnock
Unknown:
David
Jacobs
Producer:
Carole
Stone
: Letter from America
by Alistair Cooke(Repeated: Sun 9.15 am)
Contributors
Unknown:
Alistair
Cooke
: Kaleidoscope
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.Presented by Sheridan Morley
Producer ANNE WINDER
Sheridan Morloy 's Films: page 25
Contributors
Presented By:
Sheridan
Morley
Producer:
Anne
Winder
Unknown:
Sheridan
Morloy
: Weather
: Week Ending
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis David TaleSheila Steafel Chris Emmett and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by GUY JENKIN JOHN LANGDON , ROGER WODDIS , RICHARD QUICK JEREMY BROWNE and ANDY WILSON
Producer GRIFFRHYS JONES Woddis On ... : page 20
Contributors
Unknown:
Bill
Wallis
Unknown:
David
Tale
Unknown:
Sheila
Steafel
Unknown:
Chris
Emmett
Unknown:
Jenkin John
Langdon
Unknown:
Roger
Woddis
Unknown:
Jeremy
Browne
Unknown:
Andy
Wilson
Producer:
Griffrhys
Jones
: A Book at Bedtime
A Cab at the Door by V. S. PRITCHETT abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFTRead by PETER JEFFREY
15: The Other Side of the Frontier
Producer MARGARET tTALL I Peter Jeffrey is a Natiimal Theatre player) long wave only
Contributors
Unknown:
Donald
Bancroft
Read By:
Peter
Jeffrey
Unknown:
Peter
Jeffrey
: The Financial World Tonight
long wave only: Just Before Midnight: The Last Santa
by Robin Taylorwith Charlotte Mitchell as Margery, Roy Kinnear as Kipling and Peter Bayliss as Mr Perkins
'Everyone who works here likes Christmas. Thanks to Mr Perkins. Every year he turns the store into a real fairyland. And, you know, each time it comes round, 1 wish I was a child again. No matter how hard you try. it's never quite the same once you're grown up, is it?'
(Peter Bayliss is in 'My Fair Lady' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
Contributors
Writer:
Robin
Taylor
Director:
Bernard
Krichefski
Margery:
Charlotte
Mitchell
Kipling:
Roy
Kinnear
Mr Perkins:
Peter
Bayliss
: News
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