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Make Yourself at Home
Programme for Asian listeners
7.45 Bells followed by programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading from
Meditations by LADISLAUS BOROS Read by BRIAN NEAL from a translation by DAVID SMITH (3)
7.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Read By:
Brian Neal
Translation By:
David Smith

A weekly programme of religious news and views presented by PAUL BARNES Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather

Contributors

Presented By:
Paul Barnes
Reporter:
Douglas Brown
Producer:
David Winter

The third of four services during Advent on the theme of The Kingdom of God 3: Its people
From Elmwood United Reformed Church, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham: conducted by the Minister,
REV KENNETH HIBBERD
Readings: Luke 17, w 11-21; John 3, vv 1-8
Hymns: (from Congregational Praise): At the Name of Jesus (167); And art thou come with us to dwell (169); Trumpet of God (338)
Organist H. JOHN STRATTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Hibberd
Organist:
H. John Stratton

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: The Vicar[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Austen Williams

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
Don'Drink and Drive: RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS discusses the present application of the laws.
Keep It Safe: ROBIN Richards visits Liverpool to discuss vehicle and road safety.
Why Waste Oil? Investigation into motor oils by ALAN BAKER. The Build-a-Car Competition: NEVILLE POWLEY reports on competitors' progress.
Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Robin Richards
Unknown:
Alan Baker.
Unknown:
Neville Powley
Producer:
Arthur Phillips

The Voysey Inheritance by HARLEY GRANVILLE-BARKER adapted by KERI LEWIS with David Andrews and Norman Shelley
My dear boy, if I knew that you were going to inform the next client you met of what I've told you and that I should find myself in prison tomorrow, I wouldn'wish a single thing undone.'
Producer R. D. SMITH (1969)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Keri Lewis
Unknown:
David Andrews
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Producer:
R. D. Smith

From the Other Side of the Atlantic: a report on work-shops for the blind in the USA. Introduced by JANE FINNIS Editor THENA HESHEL
In Touch, a book of guidance for the blind and those who care for them, 60p: see page 78

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jane Finnis
Editor:
Thena Heshel

DR BRONOWSKI, director of the Council for Biology in Human Affairs at the Salk Institute, USA, illustrates his talk with recordings of some of his famous contemporaries when he was an undergraduate. Producers ROSEMARY HART and MICHAEL BRIGHT
(Repeated: Thursday, 11.5 am) Dr Bronowski's acclaimed series The Ascent of Man is being shown again on Thurs-day evenings BBC2. Book, f4.75

Contributors

Producers:
Rosemary Hart

'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and Richard Murdoch , David Nixon Tune-twisters from Steve Race In the chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Written By:
Ian Messiter

in preparation for the Christmas Festival from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London: conducted by the Vicar, REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS
Hymns (BBC Hymn Book): Hark what a sound (32): Come. thou long-expected Jesus (30): God is love (7); Once in royal David's city (58)
Anthem: The blessed Son of God (Vaughan Williams)
Organist and Master of Music ROBERT VINCENT
Conductor and Assistant Organist PETER MOORSE

Contributors

Organist:
Peter Moorse

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by GARY BERTINI
Mendelssohn Overture and Nocturne (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
8.18* Haydn Symphony No 53, in D major (The Imperial)
8.43* Ravel Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No 2

Contributors

Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Gary Bertini

by MARGUERITE STEEN dramatised for radio in five parts by BRIAN GEAR
When Maria Cayetufia dies, Maria Pia, her daughter, goes to England to assume control over the legacy left by her grandfather Matthew Flood. She soon finds herself the centre of the attentions of the Sax brothers, Lionel and Beaufort. 5: Survivors
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol) (For cast see Tues, 3.5 pm)
(30 Dec: ' David Copperfield
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Marguerite Steen
Unknown:
Brian Gear
Producer:
Brian Miller
Unknown:
David Copperfield

Peace and goodwill on the Western Front 1914-17 Narrators TONY CHURCH
PETER REEVES. CHARLES CHILTON Songs by PAT WHITMORE
CHARLES YOUNG. PETER REEVES THE CHARLES YOUNG SINGERS
BILLY BELL AND THE BING BOYS Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Reeves.
Songs By:
Pat Whitmore
Songs By:
Charles Young.
Unknown:
Peter Reeves
Singers:
Billy Bell
Produced By:
Charles Chilton

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