WYN CALVIN reads a final excerpt from How far to Bethlehemr 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
(Correspondence in English, or your own language, should be sent to: Make Yourself at Home, BBC. Broadcasting House. Birmingham, 15)
8.10 The Eye-Witness
(on VHF and Ramsgate) Reports from Britain and overseas
(Repeated: Monday, 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)
from Gatley Congregational Church. Gatley, Cheshire conducted by THE REV GEOFFREY HAYES
Readings: Isaiah 35; Romans 8, vv 31-39
Hymns (cp): Now thank we all our God (42: Nun danket); Hark the glad sound! (74: Bristol): Father, hear the prayer we offer (523: Sussex): Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (45: Lobe den Herren) Organist JOHN RORBURY
GAI.E PEDRICK'S personal selection of items from BBC radio and television which have been featured in Pick of the Week in 1969 introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD (Extended 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
For either the Sunday or weekday editions, send your letters to: Listening Post, BBC. Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA
Adapted from his TV series by Richard Waring starring
Wendy Craig as Jennifer and Francis Matthews as Henry
and programme news
The One O'Clock News leads off this special edition of The World This Weekend which looks back over the whole panorama of the Sixties - its trends and its tragedies, its victories and its victors. Presented by William Hardeastle and David Jessel
Editor ANDREW BOYLE
A World at One production (The Sixties: pages 101-106)
Time in Northumberland
Members of the Corsenside Leek and Vegetable Society at Hexham put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL question-master
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Produced by KENNETH FORD
The Box of Delights or When the Wolves were Running A fantasy by JOHN MASEFIELD freely dramatised for radio by JOHN KEIR CROSS
' A work not only for young folk but for readers and listeners of all ages: full of charm and villainy, of magic black and magic white, of tremendous fun, of heroism, of tenderness, of hosts of engaging characters - above all, of the true spirit of Christmas ... ' Cast in order of speaking
Produced bv DAVID DAVIS
The Isle of Man
Many people think of the Isle of Man only in terms of its popular resort - Douglas. But there's far more to Mannanin's Isle.
PETER WHEELER talks about its coastline and countryside, and listens to people who help to create a variety of pleasures for the holiday visitor. Script and research by BERTHA LONSDALE
Produced by HERBERT SMITH
An Accountant Advises - the end of the business year: VIVIAN FRANK points out that 31 December is not always the most suitable time
From Here and There: JOAN YORKE with some more useful information
Noise: a Solicitor talks about possible legal remedies and reviews a new book on the subject
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)
The
British Red Cross Society On the eve of their centenary year, FRANKLIN ENGELMANN visited the BRCS National Training Centre, Barnett Hill , near Guildford. Surrey
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
DAVID FRANKLIN and FRANK MUIR challenge
IAN WALLACE and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair Steve Race
At the keyboard GRAHAM DALLEY and BERNARD CHINN
(Repeated: Friday, 7.0 pm)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conductor BRYDEN THOMSON
Wagner Overture: The Flying Dutchman
7.11* Mozart Symphony No 39, in E flat major (K 543)
7.39* Tchaikovsky Theme and Variations (Suite No 3, in c)
TONY ASPLER investigates a new religious movement.
Produced by HUBERT HOSKINS
by WILK1E COLLINS adapted for radio in 12 parts by HOWARD AGG
Sir Percival Glyde has died in a fire accidentally started by himself in the church at Walsingham as he tried to burn the forged entry he had made years earlier in the marriage register. Mrs Catherick. mother of the Woman in White, has told Walter that her daughter was in fact Laura Fairlie 's half-sister. 12: The Last Chance
Produced by ROGER PINE
(Repeated: Tuesday. 3.0 pm)
Introduced by ALAN KEITH with gramophone records of the most popular pieces of music chosen by listeners
Most people can look back at a certain time in their lives which was filled with intense pleasure and excitement.
Edgar Lustgarten feels that the time of his life was during the war when he worked with a BBC Section directly engaged in radio counter-propaganda. He found that his main adversary in this unprecedented 'Battle of the Radio Waves' was Lord Haw-Haw, the Nazi propagandist - later to be captured, brought to Britain, and executed as a traitor.
Produced by Alan Burgess
(Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)
Blessed be the hour
A quotation from The World's Christmas: Sweet was the song (Oxford Book of Carols 30); Reading from Christian Faith and Practice; Now blessed be thou (obc 131); Philippians 2, vv 5-11: On Christmas night (obc 24); Prayer from Acts of Devotion
PHYLLIS SELLICK (piano) Ravel Sonatine
Chopin Berceuse; Sonata in 3 flat minor
