Programme for Asian listeners
7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading
Guru Jesus by ROBERT VAN DE WEYER. Read by RONALD FARROW
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Paper*
Presented by CLIVE JACOBS Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
9.10 Sunday Papers
BBC Birmingham
from Bethesda Baptist Church, Rogerstone, Gwent
Conducted by the Minister, REV EMLYN STEPHENS
Hymns (BHB): Great is thy faithfulness (576: Great is thy faithfulness); For thy mercy and thy grace (714: Culbach); He leads us on (542: Horfield) Reading: Psalm 78, vv 1-7; Psalm 84. Organist MARY BAILEY Conductor CYRIL WILLIAMS
MRS MURIEL BRADDICK, Founder, appeals on behalf of the Muriel Braddick Foundation
This charity provides cassette recordings on a free loan basis to housebound people to meet their Individual needs.
Donations, by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]
Introduced by jim PESTRIDGE Into 1976
The Roads Ahead: ERIC TOBITT discusses further development. The Year's Servicing: HARRY HEYWOOD plans for economy.
The Learner's Lot: RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS investigates the future for driving instruction. Motoring 76: a personal outlook by GEORGE BISHOP. Producer GEOFF DOBSON at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues. Presented from Manchester by George Scott. Producer MAX EASTERMAN BBC Manchester Ring [number removed]
Derek Cooper with things you should know about, like to know about and a cautionary tale or two.
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor HARRY BROWN
visits Luton
Members of the Luton and South Bedfordshire Federation of Allotments and Gardens Association put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD BBC Manchester
Wind versus Polygamy by OBI EGBUNA with Earl Cameron
'The future of the Wind of Change lies in the hollow of my palm. Wind versus polygamy.'
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX
Is it old? Is it genuine? What is it?
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA howi BBC Bristol
(For details: see Wed 9.5 am)
A magazine of special interest to the visually handicapped.
Sound Degrees: JANE FINNIS meets some of the blind students who are hoping to qualify through the Open University. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer THENA BESHEL
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Brackley, Northamptonshire Producer ANTHONY SMITH
5.55 Weather, programme news
Mike and Mary take a lively look round and meet other well-known couples in a medley of words and music. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
A new quiz game about what famous people said and what Ned Sherrin , Tom Stoppard Miriam Stoppard and Richard Boston think they ought to have said instead. Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer JOHN LLOYD Preview: page 19
From its earliest days radio has reflected the religious life of Britain.
DAVID WINTER Introduces recordings from the BBC Sound Archives of some of the voices and events of the first half century of religious broadcasting.
SOO-BEE LEE (soprano)
CYNTHIA BUCHAN (mezzo-soprano) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA led by ARTHUR PRICE conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
This operatic Music to Remember includes music from La Cenerentola, Hansel and Gretel, Amahl and the Night Visitors and Le Cid
Introduced by Bryan Martin
A two-part serial play by HALLAM TENNYSON based on GEORGE ELIOT 'S novel Daniel Deronda
(First published in 1876) Part 2: Retribution and
Mirah Cohen 's song sung by GINNETTE CLARKE
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
S.58 Weather
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Bob Danvers-Walker samples wine from Pilton vinery, near Glastonbury and Norman Turner looks at winter wildlife on Kinder Scout, Derbyshire.
Eric Simms records the bird life on the Isle of Wight: Neville Powley talks with the sugarbeet farmers of Lincolnshire; Mike Stevenson sees Christmas with village schoolchildren on the Yorkshire Wolds and Donald Johnson, a country parson in Sussex, looks at the winter scene with the eye of an artist.
Before the Feast of the Epiphany
Devised by MONICA FURLONG Narrator GARARD GREEN Music BBC SINGERS
preceded by Weather