Listings
: Hodie Christus
Natus Est: music on record.: News
: Walking Backwards for Christmas
Nick Baker and Dilly Barlow with listeners' favourite bits of radio. Producers Mark Savage and Kim Normanton. StereoContributors
: The Queen
Stereo: News
: Christmas Morning Service
from Henleaze U R C. Come and Join the Celebration; ChristiansAwake; Hark the Herald
Angels Sing; Little Donkey; See Him Lying on a Bed of Straw; Joy to the World;
Make Way, Make Way; 0 Come All Ye Faithful.
Isaiah 9, vv 2, 6; Luke 2, vv 2-5, 6; John l,w 9-14. Organist Dr John Bishop.
Contributors
: Dear Diary
Christmas Day:Francis Kilvert breaking the ice on his bath; Liane de Pugy 's Exotic presents; Evelyn laugh's "ghastly" day.
PrOducer Kate McAll. Stereo
Contributors
: Down Your Ear
Armando Iannucci recycles 1992's events.Producer Cathie Mahoney. Stereo
Contributors
: Desert Island Discs
Physicist ProfessorStephen Hawking talks to Sue Lawley.
Producer Ian Gardhouse
Contributors
: The X-Factor
Emma Freud talks to six partnerships that achieved great things but ended in "divorce".1: Sammy Stopford and Shirley Ballas, once the number one Latin-American dance couple.
Contributors
: Second Thoughts Christmas Special
by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.Starring James Bolam as Bill and Lynda Bellingham as Faith. 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas
Producer Paul Schlesinger. Stereo
Contributors
: News
: The Million Pound Radio Show Pantomime
Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell as The Babes in the Wood. WithFelicity Montagu and Jasper Jacob. Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer
Contributors
: The Archers
Stereo (B'cast yesterday 7.05pm): Christmas Spirits
2: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. StarringDramatised by Christopher Denys Music: Elizabeth Parker
Director Janet Whitaker. Stereo
(Third play tomorrow 7.50pm)
Contributors
: Here Come the Books
Martyn Wiley goes out with the library bus into the Peak District villages. Producer Dave Sheasby. StereoContributors
: Falstaff - A Voyage round his Belly
with Donald Sinden as Sir John Falstaff. A celebration of Shakespeare's "huge bombard of sack", exploring his enduring appeal - to Verdi, to Orson Welles , to Olivier and Branagh. Contributors include Joss Ackland , Timothy West ,Robert Stephens , Les Dawson and Adrian Noble.
Producer Paul Schlesinger. Stereo
Contributors
: Short Story
5: Crying, Talking, Sleeping, Walking by Greg Snow.Read by Haydn Gwynne. Producer Duncan Minshull
Contributors
: Mary Ellis, 92 and Still Working
The actress, singer and writer talks toDavid Foster about her career.
Producer Gillian Hush. Stereo
Contributors
: Christmas
A chance to eavesdrop on the people who have to work on Christmas Day. Producer Sara ConkeyContributors
: News
: Something Borrowed, Something New
Jeremy Nicholas 's survey of musical borrowings and plagiarism.Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo
Contributors
: News
: The Archers
Where's Elizabeth?Stereo
: Titus Groan of Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake's gothic fantasies Titus Groan and Gormenghast dramatised. Starring Sting as Steerpike.Dramatised by Brian Sibley
Director Glyn Dearman. Stereo (First broadcast in 1984)
Contributors
: News
: Rhythms of Life
Fergus Keeling discovers life may have needed rhythm to evolve. With Patrick Moore.Producer John Ruthven
Contributors
: A Book at Bedtime
The Jumblies and Other NonsenseSome of Edward Lear 's nonsense poems read by Sir John Gielgud.
Director John Theocharis. Stereo
Contributors
: Bute Reading
David Neal reads from the Book of Isaiah.Producer Philip Martin
Contributors
: My Dancing Day
A meditation on Christ as the Lord of the Dance, led by Stephen Shipley with St Paul 's Girls' School choir, Hammersmith. DirectorHilary Davan Wetton.
Producer Claire Campbell Smith Stereo
Contributors
: News
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