Your Christmas listening and viewing

[Owen Spencer-Thomas]

Your Christmas listening and viewing
BROADCASTING BULLETIN
Saturday 24 December – Friday 30 December 05

Saturday 24 December

A Bach Christmas   Wall to wall Bach continues from 7am today and includes
his Mass in B Minor at 7pm on Radio 3

All Day Carol Requests   Jane Jones  plays listeners’ favourite
Christmas carols.  12.00 noon Classic FM

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols  Live from the chapel of Kings College
Cambridge        3pm R4   and   5.15pm BBC2

Story of Carols    The story of some of this country’s favourite carols.
5pm Classic FM

Midnight Masses   Radio Times writes that “While some people are stuffing
the turkey, the British clergy are putting the finishing touches to Midnight
Mass.  With church numbers decreasing and the age of the congregation
increasing this is their one chance to speak to those people in their
community they wouldn’t normally see.  The programme witnesses preparations
in three very different churches and speaks to some of the people whose only
church experience is this one night of the year.”   7.15pm R4

Gordon Ramsay’s Christmas F Word    Picked from thousands of applicants, a
vicar’s wife from Harrogate will feature in this Christmas edition.  Ruth
Sowerby, wife of the Team Rector of St Wilfrid’s Church, Harrogate, will be
seen being taught to cook an alternative Christmas dinner – in between
visits to church.          8pm Ch4

Father Ted      Involves Fr Ted and Dougal,  lost in a lingerie department.
10pm Ch4

Carols by Candlelight    Aled Jones introduces this programme of carols from
the Chapter House Choir of York Minster.    11pm R2

Midnight Mass  Live from Corpus Christi Church in Leeds, with the Rt Revd
Arthur Roche, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds.  11.15pm R4

Christmas Eve Service  From Norwich cathedral, the bishop is joined by
singers and readers including Katherine Jenkins and Carol Smilie.
11.25pm ITV1

Midnight Mass  Live from Gloucester cathedral in a service led by the
bishop.  11.40pm  BBC1


Sunday 25 December

Songs of Praise  Andrea Bocelli is one of the guests at this special
Christmas edition, recorded at the Albert Hall.    11am BBC1

Desert Island Discs  Sue Lawley’s guest is the composer John Rutter who
celebrated his 60th birthday this year   11.15am R4 and repeated on Friday
at 9am.

The Simpsons  This Christmas special finds Homer standing in for the
Revd Lovejoy  6pm  Sky One

Tsunami: Where was God  As the Asian tsunami waters receded and the relief
operation began, religious leaders across the world found themselves
grappling with the age old questions about the existence of God.  Former
Dominican friar Mark Dowd meets survivors of the disaster.  7.50pm Ch4

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols   A repeat of yesterday afternoon’s
broadcasting from Kings College, Cambridge.   5pm R3

The Story of Christmas  Judi Dench leads an all-star cast of narrators to
tell the story of Christmas.   5pm Classic FM


Monday 26 December

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe   Animated film version of this classic
children’s fantasy.    10.10am  ITV1

The Organ Transplant    Radio Times opines that British church organs
languish unplayed as congregations shrink and fashions in music and worship
change.    Not so in Latvia    3pm R4

Narnia Day   BBC7  is devoting itself to CS Lewis and Narnia today – from
7am


Wednesday 28 December

A Passion for Churches   The first of 12 programmes about remarkable people
and their battles to preserve British churches.  Tonight’s programme focuses
on St Hywyn’s church in Aberdaron, North Wales.
7.30pm BBC2


Thursday 29 December

Analysis  Is God on their Side?  From the Supreme Court to what should be
taught in the country’s schools, religious beliefs profoundly shape US
politics.   Andrew Brown asks why Americans see themselves and so much of
world history in religious terms.   8.30pm R4

Friday 30 December

Miss Marple:   Murder at the Vicarage.   It’s Christmas, and in a daily
series of crimes for Miss Marple  here comes an Agatha Christie vicar.
3.50pm BBC2

Plus:
Thought for the Day
Speakers for the week:
Saturday -      Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor
Monday -        Rev Dr Alan Billings
Tuesday -       Rev Angela Tilby
Wednesday  Rabbi Lionel Blue
Thursday        Rev Dr Giles Fraser
Friday -           (yet to be announced)

Pause for Thought
Speakers for the week:
Monday          9.15am           (not listed)
Tuesday         9.15am           Rev Roy Wiliamson
Wednesday   9.15                Major Charles King
Thurs               9.15                Rev Ruth Scott
Fri                   9.15                (not listed)

Prayer for the Day
Speaker for the week:
Lord Carey


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