Make Yourself at Home
Programme for Asian listeners
7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading from
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 ProducerDAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
The third of four broadcasts during Advent. He Who Comes 3: I have come into the world as light (John 12. v 46) from St Mary's Parish Church, Cottingham, Yorkshire: conducted by REV PETER VOWLES. Preacher
REV PROFESSOR ANTHONY HANSON
Readings: Psalm 9, vv 1-8; Exodus 34, vv 4-7; 1 John 1, vv 1-7 Hymns (A and M Rev): Hark a thrilling voice is sounding (47); On Jordan's bank (50); Thy Kingdom come! 1263)
Organist and choirmaster WALTER WRIGHT
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
Seat-belts - what now? Comments from drivers answered by NEIL CARMICHAEL , MP, Department of the Environment.
Motorway Signals - know your law: by motoring lawyer CHARLES BRANDRF. TH.
The Road Traffic Act 1974: some lesser-known paragraphs by GERALD SANCTUARY .
Shake Well! ARTHUR GARRATT describes new test equipment. Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues: presented from Manchester by George Scot. Producer MICHAEL GREEN
Ring [number removed]
Voice of the People: Fri 9.5 am
Derek Cooper presents the Sunday edition
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Nicholas Woolley Editor HARRY BROWN
The Last of the Incas by G. WILSON KNIGHT
Music specially composed by CHRISTOS PITTAS with Lee Montague
John Rowe , Hugh Dickson Robert East
The story of Pizarro's dramatic conquest of Peru and the fall of the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa in 1532-33. Producer MARTIN JENKINS
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
Gas-guard Alarm: a small and simple monitoring device which detects gas. In Touch examines its efficiency.
Introduced by JANE FINNIS Producer MARLENE PEASE
Cullompton, Devon
5.55 Weather, programme news
My flat-mate and I disagree over clothes and I find her attitude somewhat annoying.
I now realise I'm a homosexual and wonder whether I should continue with my marriage.
Two of the problems discussed in the studio by DR WENDY GREENGROSS , DR JAMES HEMMING and PAULINE CRABBE.
Chairman Jean Metcalfe Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Another selected repeat
Starring Tony Hancock
[with] SID JAMES, BILL KERR, HATTIE JACQUES and KENNETH WILLIAMS
Script by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON
Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT
Producer DENNIS MAIN WILSON
(1956)
in preparation for the Christmas Festival from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London: conducted by the Vicar, REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS
Readings (RSV): Isaiah 54, vv 1-6; 1 Corinthians 13.
Hymns (BBC Hymn Book): Hills of the north, rejoice (33); Blest are the pure in heart (318); God is love (7); 0 little town of Bethlehem (56)
Anthem: A spotless Rose (Herbert Howells)
LONDON CANTATA CHOIR
Organist and Master of the Music ROBERT VINCENT
Conductor and assistant organist PETER MOORSE
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
Martinu The Frescoes of Piero della Francesco
Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, in A (Italian)
by THOMAS HARDY: part 4
9.58 Weather
A panorama of British India recorded by some of those who lived in it.
5: The Heavenborn: the Indian Civil Service
Speakers: SIR PERCIVAL AND LADY GRIFFITHS , MRS IRIS PORTAL , JOHN MORRIS , LT-COL L. P. LK MARCHAND, LESLIE JOHNSON , LT-COL KENNETH MASON , DHARAM VIRA , PHILIP MASON , DAVID SYMINGTON , SIR JOHN COTTON , R. V. VERNEDE , SIR PENDEREL MOON , S. K. DAS , SIR OLAF CAROE , COL B. H. ZAIDI , RUPERT MAYNE and IAN STEPHENS. Presented by Evan Charlton
Field recordings by CHARLES ALLEN and PRAKASH MIRCHANDANI Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON
An Advent Prelude: a reflection on the future in the light of some Biblical themes by BROTHER ROLAND WALLS
2: The Prophet of the Exile
preceded by Weather