Sunday 25 December 2011 Rātapu 25 Hakihea 2011

• 12:04 AM. All Night Programme

  Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 1:15 History Repeated (RNZ); 2:06 Spiritual Outlook (BBC); 2:35 Hymns (RNZ); 3:15 Happy Birthday Christmas, by Elizabeth Smither (RNZ); 3:35 NZ Books (RNZ); 4:30 One Planet (BBC); 5:35 Auckland Stories (RNZ)

• 6:06 AM. Sugar and Spice's Christmas Morning

  Christmas fairies Sugar and Spice are back to get your Christmas morning off to an entertaining start and put you in a festive mood for the rest of the day, including

  7:06 Christmas Church Service: From Pitt Street Methodist Church in central Auckland (RNZ)

• Noon The World at Noon

  A roundup of today's national and international news

• 12:12 PM. Spectrum

  Coal Range Day. Fancy some ginger gems, hot cheese scones, or colonial goose, cooked on a coal range stove? Justin Gregory is on hand when the old Shacklock coal range at Cornwall Park's historic Huia Lodge is fired up (RNZ)

• 2:05 PM. Christmas at St Brides - with Jethro Tull and the St Brides Choir

  A 2008 benefit concert at St Brides Anglican Church in London's Fleet Street with proceeds going to charities for the Homeless. Jethro Tull join the St Brides Choir and organist Robert Jones for a programme of religious and secular Christmas songs. The Rev George Pitcher and Ian Anderson share the order of service (EMI)

• 3:04 PM. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

  The classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts of who help him discover joy and the spirit of Christmas (Radio Spirits)

• 4:06 PM. Backstage at the Met

  In the first of a two-part series, Paul Bushnell goes through the stage door at New York's Metropolitan Opera to find out how it works. His backstage interviews feature a wide range of the key people who get the productions onstage and make it run, including the General Manager Peter Gelb (Pt 1 of 2, RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. The World at Five

  A roundup of today's national and international news

• 5:12 PM. Spiritual Outlook

  Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (BBC)

• 5:36 PM. Ships in the Night, by Frankie McMillan

  As Irene sits alone in her car it begins to dawn on her that what goes round, comes round (RNZ)

• 6:06 PM. The Queen's Message

  Queen Elizabeth II with her annual message to the Commonwealth (BBC)

• 7:06 PM. World Book Club

  Harriet Gilbert talks to Colm Toibin about his book 'Brooklyn', a haunting tale of love, loss and familial duty, as it follows the fortunes of a young Irish woman who leaves home to make a new life for herself in 1950s New York (BBC)

• 8:06 PM. A Prairie Home Companion

  The award-winning American radio show presented by Garrison Keillor (NPR)

• 10:00 PM. The World at Ten

  A roundup of today's national and international news

• 10:15 PM. Solander's Legacy

  There were two botanists on board the Endeavour when it arrived in New Zealand in 1769, but most people have heard only of Joseph Banks. Justin Gregory tells the story of the other botanist - Daniel Solander (RNZ)

• 11:06 PM. Christmas Church Service

  A repeat broadcast of our service from Pitt Street Methodist Church in central Auckland (RNZ)

Next day - Mon 26

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