Encounter with Martin Buber by AUBREY HODES. Read by BRIAN HAINES and JOHN RUDDOCK

8.10 Sunday Papers

9.5 Sunday Papers

from the Chapel of St Michael's College, Llandaff, Cardiff conducted by THE REV
CANON OWEN GEOFFREY REES
Pictures of Jesus: three broadcasts during Advent 1: The coming Christ
Hymns (A and M Rev): On Jordan's bank (50: Winchester New); Hark the glad sound! (53: Bristol); Sleepers, wake 155: Sleepers Wake)
Reading: Isaiah 35. vv 1-6 Psalm 33, vv 1-10, 17-21 St Matthew 11, vv 2-6
Organist DAVID GRIFFITHS Conductor NICOLAS CLAPP

GLENDA JACKSON appeals on behalf of the New Horizon Youth Centre
Founded in 1968 by Lord Longford, New Horizon runs a day centre and a hostel and emergency telephone service to help young people adrift in London.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDCE
Tunnel to Europe: RAY DAFTER of the Financial Times on the current position: COLIN DRYDEN of the Daily Telegraph on the early history
Vehicle Safety and the Common Market: by JOHN TOOGOOD In-car Entertainment: ERIC TOBiTT compares tape-plavers at 11.43* the latest traffic report Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS

A countrywide look at politics from outside Westminster Presented from Glasgow by GEORGE SCOTT
Producer ROSS ANDERSON Ring [number removed]

Cliff Michelmore invites you to ring him on [number removed]to exchange ideas live by phone on any subject bar party politics with studio guests:
Patrick Moore , author of 59 books, mainly on astronomy
Dilys Powell , film critic, and a former President of the Classical Association
Nicolas Stacey , social services director, author of Who Caresf and an Olympic runner in 1952 [number removed](16 lines) will take calls from 11.0 am onward. Or send your question to Whatever You Think, Room 4066, Broadcasting House, London W1.4 1AA

leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report: presented by Nicholas Woolley "Editor
HARRY BROWN

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the BBC and of Radio Week
Manchester, before an invited audience at the New Century Hall, gardening enthusiasts from the Manchester area put their questions to FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS, ALAN GEMMELL. Introduced and produced by KENNETH FORD
(Repeated: Tuesday. 4.0 pm)

medium wave
Four programmes featuring some of the less famous, but certainly not less interesting, characters from Dickens.
Compiled by BARRY CAMPBELL 3: Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol with Patrick Magee and Anthony Jacobs Producer
R. D. SMITH

ARTHUR NECl'S and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE
Questions to Talking about Antiques, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Talking Point

Guiding the Sighted: GEORGE MILLER reports on a Manchester conference held by blind people to advise the general public on how to help the visually handicapped. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKBALL Producer THENA HESHEL

BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited The Royal Smithfield Show Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
(Extended version: Wed, 7.30)

I dread the coming of Christmas and the annual dispute over whose family to spend it with. My mother-in-law seems to take it for granted we must go to her. because my husband is her only son. But I feel this is very hard on my parents who live 200 miles away, so we can'even pop in for a drink. Rare you any suggestions?
One of the problems to be discussed by DR WENDY GREENGROSS , DR JAMES HEMMING and GERALD
SANCTUARY
Chairman JEAN METCALFE Producer THENA HESHEL

A panel game 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 Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
(Repeated: Thurs, 12.25 pm)

A series of 4 programmes looking at 50 years of religious broadcasting
3: The Post-war Years
Introduced by Baroness Stocks and featuring sounds and voices from the BBC Sound Archives, including DR LESLIE WEATHERHEAD. FR AGNELLUS ANDREW and THE REV ELSIE CHAMBERLAIN Written by MARY CRAIG
Producers PETER ARMSTRONG and DAVID WINTER

HEATHER HARPER (soprano) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conductor PIERRE BOULEZ Mahler Symphony No 4
(Given before an invited audience in Studio 1, Maida Vale. London)

by JOAN O'CONNOR adapted in three parts from the novel by HONORÉ DE BALZAC with Ian Ogilvy and Stacey Tendeter 2: You Possess All Things
Raphael de Valentin , having been introduced into French society, and rejected by it. has become obsessed with the need for wealth; and by means of the power in his talisman, a wild ass's skin, his first wishes are granted - and his life threatened.
(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.0 pm)

The story of America's space programme and its $25 billion conquest of the Moon: written and told by REGINALD TURNILL
With ARTHUR GARRATT. DR WERN-
HER VON BRAUN. DR KURT DEBUS , DR JOHN HODGE and the voices of other scientists and the astronauts themselves.
Edited by LARRY HODGSON Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
(This week the last Apollo mission planned for the moon blasts off. An exclusive report from Cape Kennedy, including interviews with the Apollo 17 astronauts, by Tam Fry: pp 9-11)

The promise of salvation