WYN CALVIN reads the first of two excerpts from How Far to Bethlehem! by Norah Lofts
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 4: City of Men - City of God from the Chapel of King's College, London conducted by the Dean
CANON SYDNEY EVANS, assisted by students of the College
Reading: Hebrews 11, vv 1-16 (RSV)
Hymns (EH): Wake, 0 wake! with tidings thrilling (12); The advent of our God (11)
Psalm 112 (Anthony Milner )
Anthem: Praise to God in the highest (S. S. Campbell) Organist and choirmaster E. H. WARRELL
GALE PEDRICK selects items from BBC radio and television introduced by JOHN ELLISON
(Extended version of last Friday's broadcast)
Radio's correspondence programme, which reflects listeners' own views on current topics, presents some Sunday-morning letters selected with all the family in mind introduced by ANNE ALLEN
Adapted from his TV series by Richard Waring, starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer and Francis Matthews as Henry
Robin has won a scholarship to boarding school and this is the eve of his departure, so Jennifer is keen to make his last night a rather special one.
and programme 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
Members of the Cambridge Gardening Club put their questions to:
FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL question-master
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Produced by KENNETH FORD
An allegorical fairy tale bv EUGENE SCHWARTZ translated from the Russian by HAROLD SHUKMAN and MAXHAYWARD adapted for radio by NICHOLAS BETHELL with John Hollis , David March David Spenser
Other parts JO MANNING WILSON ROSALIND SHANKS , GLYN DEARMAN GORDON FAITH. NIGEL GRAHAM LEROY LINGWOOD
Music and special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
A Gaelic bard coined this phrase for the Isle of Mull, one of the Inner Hebrides which takes the holidaymaker away from it all.
Introduced and produced by ARCHIE P. LEE
Presents - Wanted and Unwanted: LAURIE SAPPER With a miscellany of information
They Should Have Known Better: some regular contributors confess to not following the advice they give to listeners 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)
Franklin Engelmann recently visited The Charles Dickens House in London
(Repeated: Wed 12.15 pm. Next week: the British Red Cross Society - centenary year)
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)
KENNETH ELLIOTT (harpsichord) BBC SCOTTISH
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN
Bach Harpsichord Concerto No 5, in f minor
7.12' Brahms Symphony No 4, in E minor
From the Bute Hall,
University of Glasgow
St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Fund by THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS
Gifts in response to this annual appeal by the Vicar are distributed throughout the British Isles to people in need through illness or misfortune.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]
from St Martin-in-the-Fields London conducted by the Vicar, THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS assisted by THE REV HUGH MADDOX
Organist ROBERT VINCENT
Carols (BBC Hymn Book):
In the bleak midwinter (51): Once in Royal David's city (58) Standing in the rain: sung by SIDNEY CARTER
Away in a manger (43)
Children, go where I send thee: sung by DORRIS HENDERSON Hark, the herald-angels sing (50) with Lessons read by people representing different aspects of the life and work of St Martin's
Produced by COLIN SEMPER
by WILKIE COI.LINS adapted for radio in 12 parts by HOWARD AGG
Walter Hartright and Marian Halcombe have managed to get Laura out of the asylum. Walter has put the case to Mr Gilmore who, though sympathetic, has told him that there is little he can do to reestablish Laura's identity. 11: The Missing Marriage
Walter Hartright. PETER BALDWIN
Produced by ROGER PINE
(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.0 pm)
Introduced by ALAN KEITH with .gramophone records of the most popular pieces of music chosen bv listeners
' Knowing who you are, I think, can lead to golden moments in ! everybody's life when there comes the realisation that they are capable of coping - not only with other responsibilities, but with their own ... '
BARBARA MULLEN recalls the upbringing and experiences, both in America and Ireland, that brought her to this realisation. Produced by SHEILA ANDERSON (Repeated: Thurs, 5.15 pm)
O come, 0 come, Immantiel
A reading from Medieval Mystics of England 0 come, 0 come, Immanuel (BBC HB 36); Malachi 3, vv 1-5. and 4. vv 1-2: Luke 7, vv 19-28; On Jordan's bank (BBC HB 38); John 10, v 10
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Etudes and Polkas (Books 1,2,3) IRIS LOVERIDGE (pianoi
