The Foolishness of God read by the author. JOHN AUSTIN BAKER 3: A Jew Named Jesus
A weekly religious programme VHF (also on 202m Ramsgate): see column 5
8.20-8.50 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye Make Yourself at Home
Programme for Asian listeners
8.50 Programme news
9.5 Sunday Papers
A series of services during Advent
4: John the Baptist
Preacher THE DEAN OF WINCHESTER. THE VERY REV MICHAEL STANCLIFFE from St Bartholomew's Church, Hyde. Winchester conducted by the Vicar.
THE REV CANON CHARLES WELLS
Readings: Isaiah 40, vv 1-9; St Matthew 11, vv 2-11
Hymns (A and m Rev): On Jordan's bank: Come down, 0 Love divine
Organist HERBERT DAWSON
THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS appeals for
St Marlin-in-the-Fields Christmas Fund
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]
Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
Christmas for the Motorist
Roads and Travel: STUART BLADON of Autocar and PETER WHELPTON
In the Country: JACK HAY
Useful Gifts: COLIN DRYDEN Of the Daily Telegraph and JEAN ROBINSON together with topical news and at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
A countrywide look at politics from outside Westminster
Presented from Manchester by GEORGE SCOTT
To telephone your comments during the programme ring: [number removed]
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
With a leisurely morning behind you, and Sunday dinner ahead, Cliff Michelmore invites you to liven up the midday scene. Ring him on [number removed] and put your question on any subject under the sun, bar politics. With him this week are:
Jonathan Miller, author, stage director and Research Fellow, History of Medicine
George Porter, FRS, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Marghanita Laski, writer and critic with a special interest in the Victorian age
[number removed] (16 lines) will take calls from 11.0 am onward as well as while the programme is on the air. If you prefer, send your question in advance on a postcard with your telephone number to Whatever You Think, [address removed]
12.55 Weather; programme news
leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report presented by Jonathan Dimbleby Editor HARRY BROWN
visits Ashwell in Rutland
(Repeated: Tuesday, 4.0 pm)
Mr Norris Changes Trains The novel by CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD adapted by ERIC EWENS with The place: Berlin, 1930-33.
Despite his questionable credentials and ridiculous pretensions, one could hardly imagine a more engaging or plausible old rogue than 'Arthur Norris - Gent certainly none more qualified to guide an impressionable young Englishman through the underworld of pre-Hitler Berlin.
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE
A magazine edition
A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Always on Fridays: NANCY WISE meets members of the Crusoe Club, in the East End of London, at one of their weekly meetings. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Producer THENA HESHEL
Horndean. Hampshire
(Extended version: Wed, 7.30)
5.55 Weather; programme news
Jean Metcalfe introduces problems posed by listeners including: ' 'My mother is a widow - my older sisters are married. I'm the only one left at home and apart from the time I go to work I don't get a chance to live my own life. Mother insists on going everywhere with me. What can I do? '
Panel OLGA FRANKLIN
DR WENDY GREENGROSS DR JAMES HEMMING
ALAN LEIGHTON
Producer THENA HESHEL
In which Barry Took traces the development of comedy from The Goons to Monty Python. Illustrations from Radio and TV comedy series and film soundtrack.
Conducted by the Vicar, THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS assisted by THE REV HUGH MADDOX SPECIAL CHOIR OF ST MARTIN conducted by ROBERT VINCENT DAVID GILCHRIST (baritone) HILARY CROUCH (soprano)
COLIN HODGETTS (double-bass) PETER MOORSE (organ)
Carol: 0 little town of Bethlehem (BBC HB 56. omitting v 2) Reading: Luke 2, vv 1-7
Lullaby Carol: Lullay my babe (arranged Robert Vincent ) Reading
Carol: In the bleak midwinter (BBC HB 51)
Address: The Vicar
Carol: Blessed be that Maid Marie
Prayers and Blessing
Carol: 0 come all ye faithful (BBC HB 55)
Producer COLIN SEMPER
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conductor BRYDEN THOMSON
Weber Overture: Der Freischiitz
8.10* Purcell, arr Britten Chacony in G minor, for string orchestra
8.18* Brahms Symphony No 2, in D major
by Charles Dickens
adapted and produced in seven episodes by Charles Lefeaux
(For cast see Tuesday, 3.0)
Themes and variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words.
5: Village Church
In the early medieval village the priest and other ' clerks ' wrote about their world: the daily hustle and bustle of activities. From dawn to dusk and from birth to death, life was bound up with the demands of the church.
Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Paul Hyams , Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford, who also speaks the commentary.
The series of 26 programmes created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by MICHAEL MASON (Further details: Wed, 3.45pm) (Part 6: 2 January)
0 come, 0 come, Immanuel
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