Programme for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.45 Sunday Programmes Bells and Sunday Reading
PENELOPE LEE reads from Isaiah
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by CLIVE JACOBS Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
9.10 Sunday Papers
BBC Birmingham
The second of four broadcasts during Advent
Living in the Kingdom
2: Living under Judgment from Oscott College. Birmingham. Celebrant and Preacher
MONSIGNOR FRANCIS THOMAS
Readings: Baruch 5. vv 1-9: Philippians 1, vv 3-11; Luke 3, vv 1-9
Hymns (Praise the Lord - Revised): 0, quickly come, great judge of all; Upon thy table, Lord; Come, thou long-expected Jesus Organist GARY CAWTDORNE
Choirmaster ERIC WOODHEAD BBC Birmingham
TERRY WOGAN appeals on behalf of The Albany, Deptford. which meets a wide range of social needs in one of London's depressed dockland areas.
Donations to: [address removed]
Introduced by Jim Pestridge
Christmas Book Review: HARRY LOUIS and ROBIN RICHARDS talk about some recent publications. A Car in the Making - 8: A Good Buy. GEOFFREY HANCOCK presents the last chapter when the car passes from the manufacturer to the retailer.
Lock It: GEORGE BISHOP has strong views about car security. Motor-cycle Safety: ALAN BAKER talks to PETER BOTHWELL about protecting the motor-cycle rider. Producer GEOFF DOBSON at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to political issues presented from Manchester by George Scott Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Manchester Ring [number removed]
Colour Supplement
Presenter Derek Cooper
12.55 Weather, programmenews
Presented by Gordon Clough
Margaret Tyzack in Animals in the Zoo by GAIE HOUSTON
...in the iap of the downs. an old farmhouse and there waiting are the old lags, young lags, thieves, and conmen who fill it nowadays ... in the bus sit the official visitors, social workers, probation officers, magistrates and judges. Produced and directed by LIANE AUKIN
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Glaucoma: an eye surgeon talks to MARGARET FORD about some of the common problems patients face. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer THENA HESUEL
(David Scott Blackhall 's personal choice of poetry: The Tunes You Play with Words, Wednesday 4.5 pm)
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Rothwell in Northamptonshire Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
A series in which current, controversial issues are put on trial before Dick Taverne, QC, and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House.
This evening's proposition:
The Price of Alcoholic Drinks Should be Greatly Increased.
It is proposed by Dr Douglas Acres , JP, GP, member of the Government's Advisory Committee on Alcoholism: and opposed by Tom Boardman, MC, Vice-chairman of Allied Breweries Ltd
Each advocate will call his witnesses, cross-question his opponent's and argue his case so that the jury may reach a verdict.
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
Round 5 London:
Louis Allen (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
John Julius Norwich New York:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Brendan Gill Marya Mannes
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wednesday 8.30pm)
A theological detective story in which Melvyn Bragg and Brian Morris look at the story of the Garden of Eden and the fall of man. wi'th a theologian: an anthropologist: and an analytical psychologist. Singer STEPHANIE SALE Producer ANGELA TILBY
ANDREI GAVRILOV (piano)
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS
Rachmaninoy Piano Concerto No 2. in c minor
(Austrian Radio recording from this year's Vienna Festival)
(Full details : Tuesday 3.5 pm)
The prizewinning play by Don Haworth
[Starring] Colin Blakely as Dick Dock, Geoffrey Banks as Jim Dock, Julie Hallam as Jack Dock
JACK: What's encroachment, Uncle Jim?
JIM: The other plants encroaching.
DICK: But we don't fear it.
JIM: Attempting to choke us.
DICK: Because we're more than equal.
JIM: Sometimes.
DICK: Always, Jim.
JIM: Not always, Dick. A large number of dock plants have been lost through the years.
DICK: You're here. I'm here, young Jack's here. This is our patch of the garden. As for a threat from 'the persons'...
(Stereo) (Repeat)
(This programme won the 1976 Imperial Tobacco Award for the best play. The producer, Richard Wortley, was given the award for outstanding radio direction for this programme and The Cookham Resurrection: tomorrow at 8.0 pm)
reads one of his favourite poems: The Parson's Son by ROBERT SERVICE.
Three talks in Advent by REV PETER DEWEY , Curate-in-Charge of All Saints Church, Isleworth 1: The Coming of the Light
preceded by Weather