Make Yourself at Home
Programme for Asian listeners
7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading from Meditations by Ladislaus Boros Read by BRIAN NEAL from a translation by DAVID SMITH (4)
Religious news and views presented by PAUL BARNES Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
9.5 Sunday Papers
The last of four services during Advent on the theme of The Kingdom of God 4: Its King
Morning Prayer from St Paul 's Church, Heaton Moor, Stockport: conducted by the Rector, REV EDWIN TAYLOR
Preacher CANON DAVID JENKINS
Hymns (A and M Rev): Hark the glad sound! (53); Thou didst leave thy throne (363)
Anthem: Rejoice! the Lord is King (Bryan Kelly )
Organist GORDON VINEY
Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
Christmas Motoring: the roads and driving conditions by ROBIN RICHARDS.
Keeping the Car Going: by RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS .
Christmas Cracker: a motoring gift from CLIVE JACOBS.
The Changing Signs: ALLAN HADDRELL on a new system. Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS at 11.43* the latest traffic report
A countrywide look at politics from outside Westminster
Presented from Birmingham by George Scott
Producer DAVID SHUTE Ring [number removed]
Derek Cooper presents the Sunday edition with new topics for the day, including: a real family Christmas - in a monastery; festive food in other countries; the psychology of lonely hearts.
leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report: presented by Nicholas Woolley
Editor HARKY BROWN
visits London
Members of the London Gardens Society put their questions to FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and AI.AN
GEMMELL Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
The Ballad of Cock Lane A ghost mystery for radio by DAVID BUCK
Last year of George the Second's reign
The first of George the Third
Moll Parsons ruled at 6 Cock
Lane
Where first our ghost is heard Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
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Is it oldr Is it genuiner What is itt
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol) Questions to Talking about Antiques, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
As Others See Us
A chap with a tattered anorak, a funny woolly hat, binoculars round his neck - why, of course, he's a birdwatcher. The absent-minded one capering through a field with a butterfly net-no doubt about him, either. Today a group of naturalists take a not-too-serious look at their respective 'images': how did they come about, and how true are they today?
Introduced by PETER FRANCE
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) (Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 am. Wildlife: Monday, 10.5 am)
A weekly magazine programme of special interest to blind listeners.
Just What I Wanted: some suggestions for gifts to visually handicapped people. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKBALL Editor THENA HESHEL
In Touch, a book of guidance for the blind and those who care for them, 60p: see p 114
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited The Hippodrome, Bristol, to watch final rehearsals for the Christmas Pantomime, Aladdin. Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
The Truth about Dick Whitt ington (and Robinson Crusoe): Thursday (and Friday) at
11.15 pm; TV's pantomime, Robin Hood: Christmas Day,
4.20 BBC1
'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 t Lady Barnett answers Any Questions? on Friday, 8.30 pm
for The Way to Bethlehem Tom Fleming introduces
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON ELIZABETH TIPPETT (soprano)
JANET COSTER (mezzo-soprano) BBC SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
This operatic Music to Remember ' includes music from Nuit de Noel, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Aida.
Produced by ANTONY ASKEW
(Janet Coster b'casts by permission of Welsh National Opera)
A nativity play with music by RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Edited and completed by ROY DOUGLAS. The words adapted from medieval pageants by SIMONA PAKENHAM : adapted for radio by SIMONA PAKENHAM and IAN COTTERELL
The First Noivell was originally created for a charity matinfe organised by the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and given at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1958. Simona Pakenham and her husband Noel Iliff (the Creator in this production) managed to persuade V.W.' to compose the music basing it on traditional tunes. It was his last composition.
Singers SALLY LE SAGE JOHN CAROL CASE
Chorus trained by JOHN MCCARTHY
THE SERENATA OF LONDON conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE Producer IAN COTTERELL
Summertime on Bredon: Mon JU
The best of Hancock's Half-Hour now collected for the first time on a BBC Records LP, linked together with the voices of the stars who helped to make it one of the most successful comedy series on radio. The stories are told by: Sidney James, Bill Kerr Hattie Jacques
Kenneth Williams
Ray Galton, Alan Simpson and Dennis Main Wilson
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERLE
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
Unique Hancock is available from record shops, price 12.15
O come, O come, Immanuel
