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The third of four broadcasts during Advent
3: Living in Hope: for This World from Horfield Baptist Church, Bristol, conducted by the Minister. REV BERNARD GREEN Preacher DR MORRIS WEST
Hymns (BHB): Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore him (24); Almighty Father, who dost give (657); God of mercy, God of grace (373); Lord, thy kingdom bring triumphant (382)
Readings: Isaiah 61, vv 1-4: Luke 7, vv 11-23
Organist and Choirmaster
ARTHUR TOWNSHEND BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Green
Unknown:
Preacher Dr Morris

Introduced by Jim Pestridge
Another Tax on Motoring: CHRISTOPHER GOFFEY discusses the scheme to recover hospital costs through Motor Insurance.
' Repairability ': HARRY HEY-WOOD talks to the Director of the Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre.
Rally Testing: BRIAN ROBINS explains how the RAC Rally improves the family car.
The Great Welsh Motor Industry: what is coming out of the Mettoy factory for Christmas?
Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43' the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Christopher Goffey
Unknown:
Brian Robins
Producer:
John Haslam

visits Cambridge where members of the Sawston, Pampisford and Babraham Horticultural Society put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 4.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Michael Barratt

The Hideous Silence by MICHAEL ROBSON with John Pullen , Jane Wenham and Lockwood West Northern India: 1885
1 All I know is that after six years of cruelty and neglect he began to trust us ... How can I know what might have happened if this horror hadn't been revived ... ? But unless I see him again, and talk to him without all these barbaric reservations that our society insists on imposing, I shall never know whether I love him - or pity him - or need him.'
Produced and directed by DAVID SPENSER

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Robson
Unknown:
John Pullen
Unknown:
Jane Wenham
Directed By:
David Spenser
Allan Reece:
John Pullen
Alice Laker:
Jane Wenham
Gus Laker:
Lockwood West
Captain Fairfax:
Michael Cochrane
Letty Fairfax:
Judy Bennett
Flora Bellew:
Julie Hallam
Dr Kitson:
Hugh Dickson
Prince Louis Napoleon:
Steve Hodson
Colonel Harrison:
Peter Williams
Colonel Glyn:
Malcolm Hayes
Corporal Grubb:
Anthony Smee
Le Tocq:
Leslie Heritage

What should talking newspapers be talking about? PETER WHITE reflects on the role of this increasingly popular service. Introduced by JANE FINNIS Producer THENA HESBEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter White
Introduced By:
Jane Finnis
Producer:
Thena Hesbel

A series in which current, controversial issues are put on trial before Dick Taverne , QC, and an audience of jurors assembled, this evening, in Broadcasting House, Glasgow. The proposition:
In a Parliamentary Democracy. a Referendum is the Wrong Way to Decide National Issues It is proposed by John Mack intosh, mp (Labour), Berwick and East Lothian, and opposed by Oonagh McDonald , MP (Labour), Thurrock
Producers ISABEL JAMES and CHARLES NAIRN BBC Scotland
(Repeated: Thursday 11 q

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Taverne
Unknown:
John MacK
Unknown:
Oonagh McDonald

London: Louis Allen (Chairman) with Irene Thomas, John Julius Norwich

New York: Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Brendan Gill, Marya Mannes

BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wednesday 8.30 pm)

Contributors

Chairman (London):
Louis Allen
Panellist (London):
Irene Thomas
Panellist (London):
John Julius Norwich
Chairman (New York):
Anthony Quinton
Panellist (New York):
Brendan Gill
Panellist (New York):
Marya Mannes
Producer:
Trevor Hill

' As there's such a Hot going on here. what's in it for St Martin-in-the-Fields?' asks
BERNARD JACKSON
' Nothing,' replies the Vicar, Austen Williams. ' but everything for the Kingdom. St Martin 's is neither proper nor improper, it's just a way of life and you react to it in the way that you are made.' Producer COLIN SEMPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Jackson
Unknown:
Austen Williams.
Unknown:
St Martin
Producer:
Colin Semper

RICHARD MARKSON (cello)
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN
Haydn Symphony No 88, in G Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkiire) BBC Scotland

Contributors

Cello:
Richard Markson
Conductor:
Christopher Seaman

by J. B. PRIESTLEY adapted for radio in nine parts by ANTONY KEAREY
Commodore Tribe was already in hot water with Laura Casey , having announced her engagement to Michael Seacombe at the civic luncheon. But now she accuses him of being completely childish and even more irresponsible for having overspent on various Festival events - in particular, the fire-work display. Part 9
Produced and directed by TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester (Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
(Starting next Sunday: The Aspern Papers by Henry James )

Contributors

Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
Laura Casey
Unknown:
Michael Seacombe
Directed By:
Trevor Hill
Unknown:
Henry James
Laura Casey:
Anna Cropper
Commodore Tribe:
Jack Watson
Capt Mobbs:
Wilfred Harrison
AtCham:
Anthony Wingate
Philippa Hookwood:
Jo Kendall
Smith:
Colin Bean
Theodore Jenks:
John Gillett
Group Captain Trevone:
Graham Tennant
Mr Casey:
George Hagan
Mrs BulfoSS:
Rosalind Knight
Seth Hull:
Tom Harrison
Maggie:
Paula Tilbrook
Grace:
Valerie Skardon
Music adviser:
Gordon Chambers

The Conscientious Objectors of the First World War were ' few and far between ', and had to sustain their convictions against isolation, self-questioning and overwhelming social pressure. Some of them reflect on these experiences in recordings chosen by Margaret Brooks , Deputy to the Keeper of Sound Records. Imperial War . Museum, from the museum's own archives. Producer
MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Brooks
Unknown:
Michael Mason

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