A Christmas reading by DAME ANNA NEAGLE
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
9.5 Sunday Papers
by ALISTAIR COOKE
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(from Birmingham)
from St Martin. in-the-Fields. London, followed by the Annual Christmas Appeal
Pictures of Jesus: the last of three services during Advent 3: The human Christ
Hymns (BBC Hymn Book): Hark what a sound (32); 0 love, how deep (73); In the bleak mid-winter (51); How brightly beams (141); 0 little town (56) Readings: Psalm 8; Philippians 2, vv 1-11
Preacher: the Vicar,
THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS Director of music
ROBERT VINCENT
Organist PETER MOORSE
THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS appeals for
St Martin-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
Japanese Motoring: by MICHAEL KEMP of the Daily Mail
Top Mechanic: NEVILLE POWLEY talks about a new competition for motor mechanics
For the Sake of a Fanbelt: c. GORDON GLOVER recounts a breakdown experience Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report
A countrywide look at politics from outside Westminster Presented from Bristol by George Scott
Studio tel no: [number removed] Producer CAROLE STONE
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:
John Ebdon , director London Planetarium and churchman, whose enthusiasms include the countryside and dialects
Edgar Lustgarten , author, student of crime, whose enthusiasms include the theatre and league football
Donald MacRae , Professor of Sociology, LSE
12.55 Weather, programme news
presented by Gordon Clough Editor HARRY BROWN
visits Cookham Rise, Berks
medium wave
The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton from The Pickwick Papers by CHARLES DICKENS : adapted and produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX with music composed and conducted by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN
Storyteller Ralph Richardson
Goblin King WILFRED BROWN Goblins THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)
Questions to Talking about Antiques. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
A magazine edition of this programme about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol. Rptd: Wed, 9.5 am. Next Sunday, at 2.30 pm: discussion on animal legends)
A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Educating Blind Children: JANE FINNIS reports on parents' and teachers' reactions to the Vernon Report. Presented by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer THENA HESHEL
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Lesmahagow. Lanarkshire Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Extended version: Wed, 7.30) Variety Artists Home. Twickenham
5.55 Weather, programme news
Should husbands go to office parties to which their wives are not invited?
How can you stop someone giving you unsuitable presents without offending them?
Is it unreasonable for a husband to insist on spending Christmas quietly without hosts of visiting friends and relations?
These are some of the seasonal problems posed by listeners and answered by Dr Wendy Greengross and Dr James Hemming.
Compere Jean Metcalfe
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
in the Future
To conclude fhe series of reflections on 50 years of religious broadcasting, PETER ARMSTRONG speculates about the future With DAVID KINGSLEY , PROFESSOR WALTER HOLLENWEGER , COLIN HODGETTS , REX MALIK and PROFESSOR JOEL DE ROSNAY.
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON RAE WOODLAND (soprano) ROWLAND JONES (tenor) BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
This programme of operatic ' Music to Remember ' includes excerpts from Prince Igor, La Traviata, Eugene Onegin and La Bohème.
Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT
Adapted by GABRIEL WOOLF from Scenes of Clerical Life by GEORGE ELIOT with Jill Balcon , Richard Pasco and David March
When the Evangelical minister Edgar Tryan came to Milby in 1830 he incurred the wrath of lawyer Dempster and Dempster's ill-used wife Janet. But husband and wife had very different reasons for opposing Mr Tryan 's preaching.
(For full cast see Tues 3.0 pm)
When she was 15 Rita Hunter performed in working men's clubs on Merseyside to pay for singing lessons. Now, 20 years later, she has achieved one of the greatest operatic triumphs, an invitation to sing at the New York Metropolitan Opera: the first English Briinnhilde in the history of the Met.
In this programme RITA HUNTER and her relatives and friends, including MARTINA ARROYO , AL-BERTO REMEDIOS and DAME EVA TURNER , talk about her climb to the top. through long years in the chorus, to her recent successes with the Sadler's Wells Opera at the London Coliseum and the big international career which is just beginning.
Presented by ALAN HAYDOCK
Death is swallowed up in victory
