CYRIL FLETCHER with his choice of Christmas poetry
A series of four services during Advent on the theme of The Return of Jesus
4: The Coming Kingdom from Trinity Methodist Church, Penarth. Glamorgan conducted by the Minister, THE REV ARNOLD MORRIS
Preacher THE REV D. R. THOMAS
Reading: Revelation 21, vv 1-6, 10-12, 22-27
Hymns: Rejoice the Lord is King; Hark the glad sound; Thy kingdom come on bended knee; God is working his purpose out
Choirmaster HOWARD PONSFORD Organist H. MACMILLAN EWENS
Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
Motoring Over Christmas: advice about roads and conditions High-speed Gas?: COLIN DRYDEN of the Daily Telegraph on ' LPG ' Motoring Insurance Costs: a review by RONALD BEALE together with topical news and at 11.43* the latest traffic report Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS
A countrywide look at politics from outside Westminster Presented from Bristol by GEORGE SCOTT
Produced by ANTHONY SMITH
Introduced by Michael Billington
A theatre and film critic's choice of what's new and what's always around us in the arts - including
The Gondoliers, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at Sadler's Wells: Scrooge, the film starring Albert Finney ; and Henry VIII. the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych
Produced by ROSEMARY HART and ALAN HAYDOCK
The One O'Clock News leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report presented by Nicholas Woolley
Editor HARRY BROWN
Members of the Thame and District Gardening Club put their questions to
FRED LOADS, B[LL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL Question-master
FRANKLIN ENGELMANH
Produced by KENNETH FORD
by NESTA PAIN based on the eye-witness accounts of Herbert of Bosham and William Fitz Stephen, the letters of Becket, Bishop Foliot and others, and the records of contemporaries with Michael Hordern
Barry Foster and Peter Jeffrey
Produced by NESTA PAIN
(Barry Foster is in ' Tea Party ' and ' The Basement ' at the Duchess Theatre, London) The 800th anniversary of Becket's martyrdom falls on 29 December. Anouilh's 'Becket Monday, 28 December, 8.0 pm
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Produced by PAMELA HOWE
Questions to Talking About Antiques, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
A magazine edition of this programme about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Produced by DILYS BREESE (Repeated: Wed, 9.5 am)
A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
I Knitted a Suit of Armour: ANN FISHER tells GEORGE MILLER of the things she does to help pass the time
When I come to Bethlehem: first performance of a new Christmas carol written by BRIAN NEAL and DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL and sung by the PRO CANTO SINGERS Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Produced by THENA HESCHEL
Inverkeithing
(Extended version: Wed, 7.30)t
A serial for radio in 12 parts 12: Combo
(Next Sunday: Part 1 of ' The Mill on the Floss
A professional broadcaster talks on a topic which has caught her attention
Tonight Joan Bakewell
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):
Hark! the herald-angels sing (50); Come, thou long-expected Jesus (30): 0 little town (56); 0 come, all ye faithful (55) with music and readings by NADIA CATTOUSE, JOHNNY SILVO
JILL BALCON and RICHARD LEECH Produced by HUBERT HOSKINS
St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Fund bv THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS
Gifts in response to this annual appeal by the Vicar are distributed throughout the British Isles to people in need. Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]
Rolf Harris discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in wildlife and its conservation, and chooses some recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives.
Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral from the Herkulessaal of the Residenz, Munich
GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano)
BRIGITTE FASSBAENDER (contralto) WALDF.MAR KMENTT (tenor) FRANZ CRASS (bass)
BAVARIAN RADIO CHORUS BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
Great joy all yesterday, at London and at night more bonfires than ever and ringing of bells and drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets which methinks is a little too much ...
In 1660 Ktng Charles II returned to England from exile. Samuel Pepys began his Diary that same year. Through his eyes we become spectators at the great event.
Timothy West as Samuel Pepys Narrated by STEPHEN THORNE Written by RICHARD BARBER
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
Change and Industrial Society by Dr Donald Schon followed by questions from an Invited audience
6: What can we know about Social Changef
In the present situation, Dr Schon argues, we must be willing to regard every theory that we develop as a perspective that can shift at the same time as we are taking it as a basis for action; to use ourselves as informational instruments. be attentive to our own feelings as sources of data. In this attitude, he suggests, lies the germ of ah ethic for knowing.
(This the last of the 1970 Reith Lectures , recorded at the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers in London, will be published in The Listener dated 24 December)
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