The Foolishness of God read by the author. JOHN AUSTIN BAKER 5: Freedom. Gailt, Forgiveness
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A weekly programme of religious news and views presented by PAUL BARNES Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
8.20-8.50 i medium wave) Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye Make Yourself at Home
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from St Marys, the Parish Church of Swansea: conducted by THE VKN HARRY WILLIAMS , Vicar of Swansea, Archdeacon of Gower
Hymn: Jesus, where'er thy people meet (Wareham)
Lesson: Matthew 5, vv 1-16
Anthem: Up good Christian folk and listen
Organist DILYS LLOYD
Choirmaster CLIFFORD ROSE
EAMONN ANDREWS appeals on behalf of St Elizabeth's School and Home St Elizabeth's, a branch of the Daughters of the Cross, provides residential care for children and adults suffering from epilepsy. Funds are needed for a sick bay and additional .recreational facilities.
Donations. -preferably by crossed po or cheque, to Eamonn Andrews. St Elizabeth's School and Home, [address removed]
Introduced by Jim Pestridge
The Year Ahead: Maxwell Boyd of the Sunday Times, Frank Hicham of the MAA, John Weinthal of the SMMT
Making it Safer: Ken Teesdale, Head of Ford's Safety Research Department, with Neville Powley
Tomorrow's Motoring World: by Raymond Baxter
at 11.43' the latest traffic report
A countrywide look at politics - from outside Westminster Presented from Glasgow by GEORGE SCOTT
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With him this week are:
George Porter. Nobel Prize winner and Director of the Royal Institution
Andrew Sinclair , historian and author of The Breaking of Bumbo and other books
Marghanita Laski. writer and reviewer whose special interest is words and their meanings
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leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report presented by Nicholas Woolley
Editor HARRY BROWN
Your postal questions answered
by Oscar Wilde
with Maxine Audley, Fabia Drake, Timothy West , Rosalind Shanks.
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE
Questions to Talking about Antiques, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Talking Point: queries about wildlife and the countryside.
A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Do blind people earn parking concessions for their drivers.' GEORGE MILLER reports Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Producer THENA HESHEL
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FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Berkhamsted. Herts Producer RICHARD DURWOOD
Extended version: Wed, 730) Financial Times
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On the panel:
DR WENDY GREENGROSS. author of a number of books on sex and marriage
DR JAMES HEMMING , educational psychologist and WALTER TAPLIN
In the chair Jean Metcalfe
Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
David Franklin and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden Chairman STEVE RACE
(Repealed: Thurs. 12.25 pm)
(Given before an invited audience at the Commonwealth Institute, London)
A special programme from Scotland for the New Year
An invited audience of Edinburgh people in Broadcasting House put their questions about religion to THE VERY REV
LORD MACLEOD OF FUINARY DAVID STEEL, MP, and a distinguished lady member Chairman COLIN SEMPER
Producer DOUGLAS AITKEN
KATHLEEN JONES (piano) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader COLIN STAVELEY conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON Mendelssohn Overture: The Fair Melusine
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23, in A major (K 488)
Kodaly Dances from Galanta
by Charles Dickens
adapted and produced in seven episodes by Charles Lefeaux
(For cast see Tuesday, 3.0pm.)
(Next week: "The Herries Chronicle" by Hugh Walpole)
Themes and variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words.
In the Middle Ages the peasant carries everyone else on his back. He does it with mixed feelings...
Composed and produced by Michael Mason under the direction of Barrie Dobson, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York, who also speaks the commentary.
Speakers for the people: Mr Andrews, Bill Cowley, Mr Sandford, Arthur Morley, Harold Hingley, Norman Daniel, Richard Hamilton, Jim Codden, Eyton Boulden, W. Richards, Ray Gosling, Tom Clark, Harry Bland, Brian Pearson, Norman Belcher, E.J. Gurney, Mrs Freshney, Gordon Baverstock, Farmer Stevens, Dick Graham, N.C. Bush, Louis Dale, George Smallwood, Mr James, Terry Yarnell
Producer for the voices of the people, Charles Parker, assisted by John Merson and Jon Crook.
Special music, sound composition and orchestration by David Cain, assisted by Norman McLeod
The Early Music Consort directed by David Munrow
Readers Clifford Norgate, Gerald Cross, David Valla, Henry Stamper, Jane Knowles
Additional commentary by Jacquetta Hawkes and Michael Drake
The series of 26 programmes created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Michael Mason
(Repeated: Wed, 3.45 pm)
O come, let us adore him
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