Vnyoung, Vncoloured, Unpoor RICHARD SYMS reads from
Colin Morris 's latest book
7.55 Weather; programme news
Today's Time GTS 8.0, 9.0 am 1.0, 6.0, 11.0 pm Big Ben 10.0 pm
8.10 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye (Make Yourself at Home)
A programme for listeners from India and Pakistan
8.10 The Eye-Witness
(on VHF and Ramsgate) Reports from Britain and overseas
(Repeated: Mon, 9.20 am)
8.40 Sunday Papers
8.50 Programme News
8.55 Weather
Hymns and sacred music introduced by SANDY MACPHERSON singers MICHAEL RIPPON HAZEL HUNT with CHARLES SMART (organ)
Four services during Advent on the theme of Man's Responsibility to Man 3: In the world from the Temple
Congregational Church, St Mary Cray, Kent conducted by THE REV BRUCE KENRICK assisted by the Minister, THE REV ALAN FIGGIS
Lessons: Isaiah 61, vv 1-6 (rsv); Matthew 2, vv 1-8 (NEB)
Hvmns (Church of Scotland Hymnbook): Hark! the herald-angels sing (46); Thy kingdom come, 0 God (152); Child in the manger (53); Mine eyes have seen the glory (155) Song: Blowing in the wind
Guitarist BOB MELLOR. Organist and Choirmaster R. H. HALFORD
(Edited version of last Friday's broadcast)
Radio's correspondence programme presents some Sunday-morning letters selected with all the family in mind introduced by ANNE ALLEN
and programme news
The One O'clock News leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report on the world around us, with the latest news, the background to the news, and the people in the news presented by Anthony Howard Editor ANDREW BOYLE
A World at One production
FRANKLIN ENCELMANN invites FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post Produced by KENNETH FORD
Questions, on postcards, to ' Gardeners' Question Time.' BBC. Woodhouse Lane , Leeds [Postcode removed]
The Skin Game by JOHN GALSWORTHY adapted for radio by HOWARD ROSE with Leo Genn as Hillcrist and Wilfred Pickles as Hornblower Hillcrist , a country squire, and Hornblower, a newly rich manufacturer, come into conflict over the purchase of a piece of land. How this is resolved is the theme of one of John Galsworthy 's most power. ful plays.
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON
Dorset
The sandcastle seaside of the storybooks ... the brooding mystery of Hardy's
Egdon Heath
JOHN BRADDOCK acts as your guide through this ' secret ' county, collecting impressions and descriptions from people he meets on the way.
Produced by JONATHAN FULFORD
From My Postbag: KENNETH LEWIS , MP
Useful Publications: reviewed by JANET MCLEOD with Christmas in mind
Who counts as a child of the family?: RUPERT TOWNSHEND -ROSE explains the law
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
The weekly series reflecting wildlife and its position in today's ever-changing world presented by DEREK JONES
Produced by DILYS BREESE
(Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 am)
Thornliebank
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Renfrewshire
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON
and programme news
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(Repeated: Monday, 9.5 am)
A panel game from the Midlands devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair JACK LONGLAND (Repeated: Friday, 7.0 pm)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by AKEO WATANABE Beethoven Overture: Prometheus
7.6* Joonas Kokkonen Sinfonta III
7.24* Sibelius Symphony No 3 in c major
MARGERY HURST appeals on behalf of the Mental Health Research Fund
The MHRF devotes its entire funds to supporting scientific, medical, and sociological research into every form of mental illness and retardation.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]
A Parcel for
Willy LESLIE SMITH looks at the feelings of mentally retarded patients and the attitudes of those who care for them Produced by COLIN SEMPER
by WILKIE COLLINS adapted for radio in 12 parts Marian Hatcombe has recovered from her illness only to be told that Laura has died in Count Fosco's house in London. Sure that there has been foul play, Marian has left Blackwater Park and gone to consult Mr Gilmore.
10: The Dark Path
(For cast see Tuesday. 3.0 pm)
Introduced by ALAN KEITH with gramophone records of the most popular pieces of music chosen by listeners
by Dr Frank Fraser Darling
We must stop daydreaming about space, says Dr Fraser Darling, and realise that our problems are here on Earth. Two hundred years of rapid technological change, many believe, have placed the feet of mankind surely on the road to extinction.
If overpopulation and its implosive consequences in famine, pestilence and violence are not to spell the end of homo sapiens, must we not look afresh at sexuality as something existing in its own right unconfused by unwanted reproduction.
But who is to take the responsibility for seeing that man does not become yet another extinct planetary species?
(Repeated: Monday, 7.30 pm Third. This lecture will be printed in The Listener dated 18 December)
A set of copies of The Listener containing the six Lectures may be obtained from 18 Dec from BBC Publications, [address removed], price 8s 6d including postage. The Lectures will be published in book form early in 1970.
(piano): studies by Scriabin,
Rachmaninov, and Moszkowski gramophone records
Behold, he shall come
Malachi 3, v 1; The Lord will come, and not be slow (BBC HB 479); Reading from ' Christian Faith and Practice Galatians 3, vv 26-29, and 4, vv 1-7; Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30)
DOUGLAS CUMMINGS (cello) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Vivaldi Sonata in E minor (R Op 17, No 5)
Schumann Stiicke im Volkston, Op 102
Faure Elegie , Op 24; Papillon. Op 77
Prokofiee, transc Grunes
Masques (Three Pieces from Romeo and Juliet)
