7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading from
The Fourth Lesson in the Daily Office, Book 1, edited by-Christopher Campling Reader ANDREW TIMOTHY
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Religious news and views
Presented by GERALD PRIESTLAND ,Reporter Douglas BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
The second of four broadcasts during Advent He Who Comes
I have come that they may have life (John 10. v 10) from St Mary's Church, Hampstead. London
Celebrant FR FRANK MORRALL Preacher MGR BRUCE KENT Organist JUNE BARCLAY
Readings: Isaiah 61, w 1-4; John 10, vv 1-10
Hymns (Praise the Lord): Hail, Redeemer, King divine (104); Star of ocean, lead us (115); Father and Life-giver (17); 0 come, 0 come Emmanuel (32)
LADY HARROD appeals on behalf of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque; to Lady Harrod, Historic Churches Preservation Trust, [address removed]
Members of the Total Oil Company and enthusiastic motorists meet in a car showroom to discuss problems with JOHN CARPENTER. director. Rover Group, British Leyland: JUDITH JACKSON , motoring correspondent of the Sunday Times; and ROBIN RICHARDS , motoring broadcaster and commentator
Chairman Jim Pestridge
at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues: presented from Manchester by George Scott
Producer MICHAEL GREEN Ring [number removed]
Voice of the People: Fri 9.5 am
Presenter Derek Cooper
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Nicholas Woolley
visits High Wycombe, Bucks
French without Tears by Terence Rattigan
With an introductory comment by the author
The living-room at ' Miramar,' a villa in a small seaside town in the South of France, nine o'clock on a summer's morning.
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT (1973)
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol) Questions to Talking about Antiques, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Beachcombing
Today's Radio Nature Trail on a Devon seashore isn' about the animals and plants that live there naturally, but about the strange and exotic things washed up by the ocean. As our guide, TONY soper , says: ' It's the one habitat where the naturalist can' be sure what he'll see round the corner-anything from a tropical bean to a grand piano.'
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) (Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 am. Wildlife: Monday, 10.5 am)
A magazine for the blind
Heating Your Home in Safety this Winter: MARGARET FORD talks to GWEN CONACHER of the Electricity Council. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer MARLENE PEASE
Brian Johnston recently visited Usk, Gwent
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
5.55 Weather, programme news
"I'm an American married to an Englishman and we plan to visit my family in the States for Christmas. I dread it as my family is an unhappy one-how do I cope with the visit?"
One of the questions to be discussed in the studio by Dr Wendy Greengross, Dr James Hemming and Canon Bryan Green
Chairman Jean Metcalfe
(Repeated: Thursday, 11.5 am)
Starring Tony Hancock
SID JAMES, BILL KERR, HATTIE JACQUES and KENNETH WILLIAMS
Script by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON
Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT
Producer TOM RONALD
BBC Sound Archives still have a collection of these classics of radio comedy. A special series of six programmes has been selected, none of which has been heard since the original broadcast in the 1950s. This evening's programme was first heard in 1958.
(Kenneth Williams reads Cold Comfort Farm: Mon, 7.30 pm)
The final programme In the weekly miscellanies of music. people and places to celebrate Sunday
Presenter Martin Muncaster with EUPHONY
Pope Paul VI has assigned 1975 as a Holy Year of spiritual renewal and reconciliation at all levels. Producer COLIN SEMPER
Introduced by Bryan Martin RAE WOODLAND (soprano) STUART KALE (tenor)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
This operatic ' Music to Remember' includes excerpts from The Bartered Bride, Die Entfuhrung atts dem Serail, Hdrodiade and Madame Butterfly.
by THOMAS HARDY dramatised for radio In four parts by DESMOND HAWKINS
Part 3
It was Bathsheba's nature, In times of trouble, to make decisions and to act, swiftly - if not always wisely. Boldwood's passionate sense of outrage and his vehement threats convinced her that she might have to renounce Troy entirely.
(For cast see Tuesday, 3.5 pm)
A panorama of British India recorded by some of those who lived in it.
4: Lives of a Bengal Pilot: the reminiscences of F. Radclyffe Sidebottom, pilot on the River Hooghly at Calcutta.
Speakers:
F. RADCLYFFE SIDEBOTTOM LADY SMYTH , SIR PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS ,
LADY FOSTER F. C. HART , RUPERT MAYNE
COL B » ZAIDI, RAJ CHATTERJEE and MRS G. N. WOOD
Presented by Evan Charlton
Field recordings by CHARLES ALLEN and PRAKASH MIRCHANDAN1 Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON
An Advent Prelude
A reflection on the future in the light of some Biblical themes. by BR ROLAND WALLS 1: Abraham the Patriarch
preceded by Weather
