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 Producer JOHN NEWBURY

MAGNUS MAGNUSSON appeals on behalf of Mill Hall Oral School for the Deaf
The school is being enlarged to enable a greater number of profoundly deaf children under the age of 12 to receive the specialised education for which the school is noted.
Donations to: Magnus Magnusson, Mill Hall Oral School for the Deaf, [address removed]
8.50 Sunday Papers
8.55 Weather, programme news

BBC correspondents around the world report
A Radio News production

Survey finds Britons are happy - despite lack of national economic growth. Show more

Community Mass for World Peace Day from the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Armagh, Northern Ireland
Celebrant and Preacher
THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGB, DR TOMAS O'FIAICH
Choirmaster and Organist GEORGE MINNE
Readings: Micah 4, vv 1-5; Ephesians 4, vv 1-6; Matthew 5, vv 43-48
Music of the Mass: Mass in Gregorian Style (Thomas Kelly ) Responsorial: Eternal word made flesh (Descha)
Hymns: Carol of the bells (Bennett); All the earth proclaim the Lord (Deiss); Adeste Fideles (trad); 0 holy night (Adam)
BBC Northern Ireland

A Sunday morning miscellany including some reflections on Hogmanay from DOREEN TAYLOR ; advice on spending the Christmas book tokens; and Many Happy Returns with PEARL BINDER and her choice of place, book and music. Presenter June Knox-Mawer Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit

A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Francis Matthews.
BBC Birmingham

The programme that aims to help you follow the ins and outs of personal finance.; Featuring each week
The Man Behind your Money A Financial World Tonight production

with Joan Bakewell
A programme for would-be holidaymakers with advice on when to go and what to avoid. In a month when almost every new brochure promises the holiday of a lifetime, a searching analysis of the true cost of those tempting offers.
Producer ROGER MACDONALD

by Alistair Cooke
12.55 Weather, programme news

Presented by Gordon Clougb

An ' entertainment ' provided by David Barlow , Peter Christie. Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis
Producer IAN FENNER

visits Northumberland, where members of the Ashington Rose Society put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester

Locusts by DICK SHARPLES

Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

Let's Hear it Again
A selection of extracts from listeners' favourite Living World and Wildlife programmes broadcast during the past year. Introduced by Dilys Breese BBC Bristol

A few weeks ago, listeners were invited to compete in a special In Touch competition. In this week's programme the results are announced, and to get 1978 off on the right foot, our regular team of presenters announce their own New Year resolutions.
Presented by Peter White Producer MICHELL RAPER

Brian Johnston recently visited Campbeltown in Argyll
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)

5.55 Weather, programme news

Omnibus Edition

Sue MacGregor meets Emlyn Williams , actor, playwright, author and solo performer as Dickens, Dylan Thomas and ' Saki ', to talk about his life and work and to invite him to reflect a little. on both. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

This week's programme, which was recorded before an invited audience at The Arts Centre, Christ's Hospital, Horsham, is devoted to music by Bizet and
Weber. GAVIN MCNAUGHTON (bassoon) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA led by ARTHUR PRICE conducted by ALAN suttie

by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised in 12 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL and CONSTANCE COX with with and ' " They have subpoened my three friends ", said Mr Pick wick. " Oh! Of course they would. Important witnesses; saw you in a delicate situation." " But she fainted of her own accord. Mrs Bardell threw herself into my arms." " Very likely, my dear sir, very likely and very natural. But who's to prove it? " '
7: Trials and Tribulations
With DIANA BISHOP, KAREN ARCHER
BRENDA KAYE , PETER BALDWIN
ERIC ALLEN , GAVIN CAMPBELL and KENNETH SHANLEY
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
(Elizabeth Spriggs is a National Theatre player)
9.58 Weather

' We take the events of a hundred ordinary streets and we encapsulate them into one.' (Harry Kershaw, Coronation Street)
Ray Gosling explores the world of soap operas

The evening office of Compline

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude