BBC Birmingham
7.40 Bells
7.45 Sunday Reading
PAT STARR and DAVID PLAUT read Christmas poems.
7.50 Sunday Papers
7.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Clive Jacobs ProducerDAVID WINTER
THE 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 to: [address removed]
8.50 Sunday Papers
8.55 Weather, programme news
Tries Hard, Could Do Better
As the year ends, BBC correspondents offer a personal view of the performance of world leaders. Radio News production
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Smallpox eradicated
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
UN's World Health Organisation announces smallpox has been eradicated from everywhere in the world. Show more
from Wesley Place Methodist Church, Alsager, Cheshire. Who is this Jesus?
The theme of this final service in our Advent Series is Jesus - Son of God and Saviour
Preacher THE REV B. ARTHUR SHAW, President of the Methodist Conference.
Minister THE REV JAMES NEEDHAM Hymns (MHB): Join all the glorious names (Millenium); Dear Master, in whose life I see (Gillingham); 0 Church of God arise (St Cecilia); Hail to the Lord's anointed (Herrnhut)
Readings: John 14, vv 1-11 (RSV); Philippians 2, vv 5-11 (NEB) Organist HAROLD S. CROMPTON BBC Manchester
Including some ideas from MICHAEL SMITH for an old-fashioned Christmas tea, ghostly happenings from around the country, and a ghost story read by HUGH BURDEN .
Presenter Teresa McGonagle Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Francis Matthews.
Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
Presented by Peter Hobday and Louise Botting
The programme that aims to help you follow the ins and outs of personal finance. With The Man Behind your Money A Financial World Tonight production
Richard Mayne with an unpredictable selection of comment and humour, prose and poetry, music, performers and personalities.
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW assisted by SARAH DUNANT and (music) GEOFFREY SIMON
by Alistair Cooke
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough
The celebrated flautist talks about music and musicians.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday 8.10 pm)
medium only The Heiress by RUTH AND AUGUSTUS GOETZ
Based on the novel ' Washington Square ' by HENRY JAMES with Kate Binchy , Robert Harris , Ursula Jeans , Michael Spice
Dr Sloper's home on an October evening in the year 1850.
Directed by NORMAN WRIGHT
Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Sounds of the Wild
For the past year tape recording enthusiasts have been scouring the countryside in search of sounds to enter for the ' Scotch ' Wildlife Sound Recording Contest. Today you can hear the winning entries. Introduced by Peter France Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer dilys breese
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Wed 9.5 am)
Earlier this year a new guide dog training centre opened at Wokingham in Berkshire. PETER WHITE reports on the work of the new centre and talks to some of those who have just completed the course. He also talks to the centre's Director, Brian Moody. Presented by David Scott Blackball
Producer MICHELL RAPER
A chance to hear again some of the people Brian Johnston met in recent months on his journeys Down Your Way. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
5.55 Weather, programme news
Script editor CHARLES LFFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
in preparation for the Christmas Festival from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, conducted by the Vicar, THE REV PREBENDARY AUSTEN WILLIAMS
Readings: Isaiah 9, vv 2, 6, 7 (AV); Luke 2, vv 1-7 (av); 2 Corinthians 4, vv 5-11 (AV) Hymns (from the BBC Hymn Book): Hark what a sound, and too divine for hearing (32); It came upon the midnight clear (52); 0 little town of Bethlehem (56); Hark, the herald-angels sing (50)
Carols: A boy was born (Britten); 0 little one sweet (arr Bach); In the bleak mid-winter (Hoist); Hodie, Christus (Sweelinck). Master of the Music and Organist CHRISTOPHER STOKES
Deputy organist GRAHAM CALDBECK
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
8.12* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4. BBC Manchester
5: Perambulations and Proposals
Can You Find Me?
A feature by FREDERICK BRADNUM based on a family history by CHRISTOPHER FRY
'Thought this sheepshearing photo would interest you. Can you find me? '
On a postcard from my mother to her sister Ada, 29 July 1906. A sense of identity through one's family is something we all need - a positive link with the past and a sense of continuity. Fry at 70 years old finds himself in tracing the story of his family - and his relations lived extraordinary and dramatic lives.
Narrated by Christopher Fry with and NICOLETTE MCKENZIE and MICHAEL GOLDIE
Directed by JANE MORGAN
CanYouFindMe?Killbepublished by oup in the autumn of 1978. (Rptd: Friday 11.5 am) Preview: page 18
The Sound of Advent
Church musicians choose some Advent music and talk about its significance for Christian life and worship.
3: Lindsay Colquhoun , Organist and Choirmaster of St George's Church, Norton, Letchworth Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
