BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 Sunday Reading
ROBERT RIETTY reads from Letters from a Prisoner of Conscience by CARLOS CHRISTO
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer JOHN NEWBURY
THE REV AUSTEN WILLIAMS appeals for St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Fund Donations 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]
8.55 Weather: programme news
J.10 Sunday Papers
from Oxclose Ecumenical Church Centre. Washington, Tyne and Wear Conducted by THE REV JOHN MARSH
Preacher the RT REV ON JOHN HABGOOD ,
Bishop of Durham
The third of four broadcasts during Advent. on ' Signs of the Times '. 3. The Signs in Science
Readings (RSV): Ecclesiasticus 17, vv 1-14; Mark 4, vv 26-32
Hymns: Come thou long expected Jesus (AMR 54); Cod is love; his the care (Piae Cantiones); Thou art the way. by thee alone (AMR 199): Tell out my soul (Woodlands) Pianist KENNETH SHORE BBC Manchester
Some time ago John Ebdon spent a holiday in Greece and found that his preconceived ideas were a little wide of the mark.
Presented by Peter Hobday and Louise Botting
Including Debatable Point, A Financial World Tonight production
Another chance to hear Tony's Sundau Afternoon starring Tony Hancock SIDNEY JAMES , BILL KERR HATTIE JACQUES and KENNETH WILLIAMS
Script by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON
Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT Producer TOM RONALD
(First broadcast in 1958)
In the Chair Michael Charlton
BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 10.30 am
with Sandra Clark and her guests - out and about or in the studio. Reflect on a review of the past week and hear how others relax.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
Tony Davis , Mick Groves. Cliff Hall and Hugh Jones With JOHN MCCORMICK (bass) Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
(Details: Wed 10.5 am) long wave onlu
A Fine Country by ELIZABETH TROOP adapted by the author from her novel of the same title, with Anna Massey as Sylvia Cass and Peter Jeffrey as George Cass
' Interesting, this identification with a woman called Rosa Luxemburg - I never heard of her.'
' You won't remain in ignorance of her long, with Mrs Cass around. German, I think - First World War - revolutionary. Knew Lenin. Got hit over the head and thrown in a canal in some riot. What all that has to do with our Mrs Cass , the Lord only knows.'
Sylvia Cass , more than just an ironic study in middle-class neurosis, ' flies over the cuckoo's nest ' at her hospital.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
(First broadcast in 1978) long wave onlu
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Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
(Details: Wed 9.5 am) long wave only
' But I didn't actually want to cross the road ...' Some reactions from blind pedestrians on their helpers. Presented by Kevin Mulhern
Producer THENA HESHEL long wave only
A chance to hear again some of the people Brian Johnston met in recent months on his journeys Down Your Way.
(Revised repeat of last Friday's broadcast) long wave only
5.58 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Omnibus Edition Producer
WILLIAM SHETHURST BBC Birmingham
in preparation for the Christmas Festival from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, conducted by the Vicar, THE REV PREBENDARY AUSTEN WILLIAMS
Hymns (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 (5)
Carols: Adam lay ibound. en (Warlock); I saw three ships; On Christmas night all Christians sing (Sussex carol); In dulci jubilo.
Master of the Music and Organist ROGER OVEREND
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by BARRY HASKEY conductor BORIS BROTT
SANDRA DUGDALE (soprano) Mozart Exsultate. jubilate (K 165)
8.15* Beethoven Symphony No 7, in A BBC Wales
(Details: Tuesday 3.35)
9.58 Weather
Roy Hudd in A Bicentennial Tribute to The King of Clowns - Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837)
Introduced by Alan Dobie with Marion Grimaldi, Timothy Bateson, William Roberts and Roy Hudd as Joseph Grimaldi
With THE CHARLES YOUNG SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
Joseph Grimaldi was the father of all pantomime clowns and the first of ten thousand 'Joeys' who take their name from him. It was Grimaldi who devised many of the tricks that are now the stock-in-trade of pantomime clowns - who coined the famous ' Here We Are Again ' greeting which is now recognised as the salute of clowns everywhere - and who gave the name ' Joey Joey ' to all theatrical comic business. Grimaldi was born 200 years ago, appropriately enough just before the traditional start of the pantomime season.
Compiled and written by GERALD FROW Producer JOHN DYAS
(Roy Hudd is in Oliver! at the Albery Theatre, London)
The last of three during Advent.
Devised and introduced by THE REV DR CHARLIE MOULE , with the CHOIR OF CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE directed by JOHN RUTTER 3: Confidence
by Michael Kittermaster
with Una Stubbs as Vi, John Duttine as Eddie, and Louis Mahoney as Mba
A series of plays for late-night listening
'It's very difficult getting a good night's sleep when someone's putting the voodoo on you overhead.'
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
