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The second of four broadcasts during Advent
Church under Trial
2: Saved - but only as by fire from Weoley Hill United Reformed Church, Selly Oak, Birmingham, conducted by the Minister, REV NORMAN HEALEY Preacher REV DR IAN FRASER
Readings: Malachi 2, vv 4b-9 and 3, w 1-5; Philippians 2, vv 1-11
Hymns (Church Hymnary): Come, thou long-expected Jesus (150); Thy kingdom come, 0 God (152)
Organist DONALD WORKMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Healey
Unknown:
Rev Dr Ian Fraser
Organist:
Donald Workman

ANTHONY KIRWAN , Warden, appeals on behalf of the Pitt Street Settlement which runs clubs, playschemes and special projects to help combat the frustrations and temptations to young people, of city life.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Kirwan

Introduced by jim PESTRIDGE
Christmas Book Review: a look at some of the recently published motoring books, by ERIC TOBITT and PAT GREGORY.
Bumper Crop: a round-up of motoring news by CLIVE JACOBS. Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Pat Gregory.
Unknown:
Clive Jacobs.
Producer:
John Haslam

visits Piddletrenthide, Dorset. Members of the Piddle Valley Gardens Club put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Michael Barratt
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

Home Again by MICHAEL ABBENSETTS starring Mary Morris
Anton Phillips , Mona Hammond Rudolph Walker and Gordon Woolford
' Sell this house? ... This house is what separates us from the barbarians out there!' .
The place: the once-grand home of the Van den Bergh family in Georgetown. Guyana. The time: the late 1960s.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Abbensetts
Unknown:
Mary Morris
Unknown:
Anton Phillips
Unknown:
Mona Hammond
Unknown:
Rudolph Walker
Unknown:
Gordon Woolford

Talking Point
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE (BBC Bristol)
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison
Producer:
Dilys Breese

A magazine for the blind
The more we are together, the merrier we shall bet: PETER WHITE reports on Integrated housing schemes for the elderly blind. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKBALL
Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter White
Introduced By:
David Scott
Producer:
Thena Heshel

A studio counselling session with Dr Wendy Greengross Yvonne Gunn and James Hemming
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe
A chance to talk things over and talk things out is given to people with problems they cannot solve alone.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Wendy Greengross
Unknown:
Yvonne Gunn
Unknown:
James Hemming
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe
Producer:
Sally Thompson

12: Where are we Nowt
From the religious debates of the 19th century there emerged a major challenge - to the idea that the Bible itself was unchallengeable. How is this challenge met by Christians today? And how has the Church adapted to the changing relationship between the people and the Book?
A discussion chaired by Brian Redhead
ProducerFRASER STEEL (BBC Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Producer:
Fraser Steel

International Celebrity Concert ALFRED BRENDEL (piano)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WILFRIED BOETTCHER Part 1
Weber Overture: Oberon
8.12* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3. in c minor
(A public concert direct from the New Theatre, Cardiff, in conjunction with the Welsh Arts Council)
(Part 2 on Radio 3 at 9.20)

Contributors

Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Conducted By:
Wilfried Boettcher

by JANE AUSTEN dramatised in six parts by DENIS CONSTANDUROS
Part 4
It was with no great reluctance that Elizabeth left the vicarage of Hunsford, with its proximity to Rosings and all that house now stood for in her mind ...
Music composed and conducted by SIDNEY SAGER
Producer BRIAN MILLER (BBC Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
Denis Constanduros
Conducted By:
Sidney Sager
Producer:
Brian Miller
Elizabeth Bennet:
Elizabeth Counsell
Darcy:
Frank Barrie
Mrs Bennet:
Eleanor Summerfield
Mr Bennet:
Robert Sansom
Narrator:
Madi Hedd
Mrs Gardiner:
Nancy Cower
Jane:
Gabrielle Drake
Kitty:
Sue Withers
Lydia:
Sheridan Fitzgerald
Mr Wickham:
George Raistrick
Mr Gardiner:
Rex Holdsworth
Housekeeper:
Moyra Babington
Mr Bingley:
Alan Moore
Miss Darcy:
Kim Hartman
Miss Bingley:
Charlotte Cornwell

At the close of European Architectural Heritage Year, four programmes on changing attitudes towards the conservation and renewal of towns. 3: The Big About Turn
Within a decade public and professional attitudes towards the conservation of towns have been turned upside down. Does the new conservationist mood inhibit creative architecture or does it provide a new source of inspiration?
Malcolm MacEwen in conversation With HERMAN HERTZBERGER, architect. Amsterdam: BERTRAND MONNET , Architecte-en-Chef, Alsace-Lorraine; OLIVIER TODD , writer. Paris: ADOLPHE CHAUVIN , Mavor of Pontoise: DR FIORETTA MAZZEI. Florence; PROFESSOR ROT WORSKETT, city architect and planner. Bath: and with British architects and educationists...
Producer LEONIE cohn

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm MacEwen
Unknown:
Bertrand Monnet
Unknown:
Olivier Todd
Unknown:
Adolphe Chauvin
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

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