Jane Hardy and friends say Hallo Again.

In a culture where the uninhibited expression of feeling is regarded as suspect, should adoration play any part in our approach to God? The Rev Linda Mary Evans suggests some of the barriers which must come down before true adoration can begin.

On the second Sunday in Advent,
Margaret Collingwood visits the home of Trish Stroud , a community worker at
Stirchley in Birmingham, for a simple service of worship and reflection.
Readings: Isaiah 61: vv 1-3 Luke 4: vv 14-21
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS
Series producer HELEN ALEXANDER BBC Pebble Mill

Join Judi Spiers and find out how you can save time, effort and above all, money.
Lyn Brown comes up with two days' worth of tasty meals for £5.40;
Eamonn Holmes wields a paintbrush; and home-made beer - a taste test by some big bruisers. Director DAVE THOMAS
Producer CLARE BRIGSTOCKE
(e) For free leaflet send sae to:
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A series of five programmes about how to make your business more successful, especially if English is your second language. 1: Raising Money
Golam Chowdhury , Darko Mensah , Shirley Nip and Amrik Singh each run very different businesses. The problem they all face is raising money. How do they go about it? How far do they succeed? What's their advice for others?
Film editor PETER ESSEX
Producer MARY SPRENT (R) (e)
Book: 'You and Your Business - in English, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Greek, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu or Chinese. Please state which language you want. £4.95 from [address removed] also 'English for Business': a self-study course. £4.95, from booksellers.
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with Chantal Cuer
In a transatlantic edition you can catch up with the week in French Canada as covered by CBC/Societe Radio Canada and the French Canadian press.
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French for beginners in the eighth of 15 programmes.
Likes and dislikes: Carolle Rousseau and Patrick Simpson-Jones show how to make your choice in shops and they ask about the favourite leisure activities of the French.
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(Complementary programme on Radio 4 VHF/FM at 5.00pm)
Book, teachers' notes, computer software and cassettes available from booksellers and BBC Publications. For French transcripts of the series send cheque or PO for £1.50 (payable to BSS) to: [address removed]

Deaf But Not Silent
From the current affairs series Spotlight, Deaf But Not Silent is a critical examination of the education of deaf children in Northern Ireland.
Director CAROLYN BLEAHEN

News and entertainment with sign language and subtitles.
With Clive Mason , Maureen Denmark and John Lee
Produced by EDDIE MONTAGUE (e)

Pollution of Britain's water supplies by nitrates is causing growing public concern and putting pressure on the Government to act.
But whatever is done to clean up the country's drinking water is certain to carry a heavy cost for farmers. Producer ANNE BROWN BBC Pebble Mill

MICHAEL FISH

with Vivian White
Starting with News Summary The weekly programme of lively discussion.
Producers MARGARET BUDY
CHRISTINE CHAPMAN
Senior producer JAMES HOGAN
Film director VIRGINIA ASHCOMBE Editor LYDIA HOWARD

by Bill Lyons and Tony McHale.
"You can tell Charlie I'm not speaking to him."
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starring Dan Dailey
Diana Lynn
Thirteen-year-old Tad
Bayliss runs away from the ill-run Springville orphanage and hitches a lift with the travelling 'Doc' Tilbee and his companion Enoch. The duo run a show from their horse-drawn wagon - visiting small towns and county fairs. One day they discover that Tad has a beautiful voice. This nostalgic portrait of turn-of-the-century America is one of Douglas Sirk 's most heart-warming films, combining comedy, music, romance and a happy ending in the best Hollywood style.
Screenplay by IRVING WALLACE Produced by ALBERT J COHEN Directed by DOUGLAS SIRK
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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert fell in love with the camera the moment it was invented and filled their private albums with an astonishing array of photographs.
This programme opens up the pages of Victoria's albums for the first time and tells the story behind the pictures. It uses the Queen's own words from her diaries and personal letters, with sequences filmed inside Windsor Castle and Osborne House.
HRH The Duke of York, an enthusiastic photographer himself, talks about the royal photographic collection with Sir Michael Hordern , the programme's presenter.
Annette Crosbie is the voice of Queen Victoria.
Written by MICHAEL DEAN Film editor ROY SHARMAN Producer ANN PAUL (R)
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Every dream kitchen has one, and some people think they won't get through
Christmas without one, but are microwave ovens always a safe and simple solution for the family menu? Today's Watchdog has the answer.
Plus more investigations and stories from your letters, all presented by Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton.
If there's anything you want action on, write to Watchdog, BBCtv, London W12 8QT or ring the hotline on [number removed]. Deputy editor STEVE PHELPS Editor NICK HAYES

by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatised in 16 episodes by Alexander Baron
Starring Rebecca Saire as Amelia, Simon Dormandy as Dobbin, Jack Klaff as Rawdon Crawley, Shaughan Seymour as Sir Pitt Crawley, David Swift as Mr. Sedley and Eve Matheson as Becky

Becky has survived many battles in her stormy life - but now she meets her very own Waterloo...
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How to Get Things Changed
Six programmes about the skills and tactics of citizen action at the grassroots.
Getting value out of your Member of Parliament.
Success stories: deportation, the DHSS, pensioners' rights.
With MPs Ann Clwyd, Jeremy Corbyn, Steven Norris, Chris Smith, and Andy de la Tour as the citizen.
For free booklet send 32p sae to: [address removed]
(Ceefax subtitles)

with Moira Stuart ; Weather

from Zimbabwe
For this, the second Sunday in Advent, Pauline Webb takes the Songs of Praise Advent wreath to the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe.
The flame of hope burns in a country slowly uniting after the divisions of the war of independence.
The Rev Dr Canaan Banana, the President of Zimbabwe, talks about the dilemmas of guerilla fighting. Sir Garfield Todd, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s, looks back over his long life in the country he loves.
In Harare, the capital, Christians, both black and white, come together to sing their favourite Advent hymns in Shona and English.

Come, Thou long-expected Jesus (Stuttgart); Tichazvarirwa (We will be blessed, Shona); Tiri Vawadzani (We are united in God, Shona): This is the day; Hills of the north, rejoice (Little Cornard); Ini Ndinokurumbidzai Mambo (The Magnificat-Shona): Amazing grace (Shona and English)

Records and cassettes: 'Songs of Praise Vol 2' REC 338, ZCM 338; 'Your Songs of Praise Choice' REC 469, ZCM 469, Top Ten Hymns: the most popular hymns from BBCtv's Songs of Praise REC 556, ZCM 556, from retailers
Book: 'Your Favourite Songs of Praise, £3.95 from booksellers
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Written by John Sullivan
Starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Buster Merryfield

In this special edition for Christmas, Del's plan is upset by the upper set.
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(Ceefax subtitles)

[NB the episode title "A Royal Flush" was not billed in Radio Times]

When Rodney meets a pretty girl in the market, he fails to realise her connections. But when he is invited to her family home, Del sees his chance of making a buck. Show more

with Moira Stuart ; Weather

A musical film by Lee Drysdale
Starring Joely Richardson and Ricco Ross
with Jack Shepherd, Harry Fowler, Timothy Spall, Christopher Fulford

Smiley, a streetwise taxi driver, cannot believe his luck when a beautiful and mysterious woman steps into his cab.
Dominique Renoir, on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend, is desperate for his help. With two vicious hit men, the Apostles of Grief, hot on their trail, Smiley has to make a quick decision.
Feature: page 9
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On his visit to West Germany earlier this year, the Pope pronounced the beatification of Sister Teresia Benedicta, a Carmelite nun murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz.
Sister Benedicta had been born a Jewess, Edith Stein. Thousands of Catholics rejoiced at the ceremony, and welcomed the pronouncement as a sign of reconciliation between Catholics and Jews. But many Jews were indignant. In their eyes not only had Edith Stein betrayed her faith by converting to Christianity, but she died because she was Jewish, not as a Christian martyr. For them, the attempt at reconciliation failed.
Why are relations between Catholics and Jews so difficult and sensitive, and what hopes are there that a better understanding can be achieved?

Revealed by Lady Wedgwood
Explorations into the hidden meanings of three paintings

In this painting brilliant realism and a rich texture of symbols compete for admiration. The ambassadors are flanked by a still-life whose iconography reveals their hopes and fears. The symbolism points to doubts behind their self-confident stance and leads to the central political crisis of their day - the divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon.
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