A selection of music for early-morning listening.
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham long wave only from 7.30
7.45 Bells long wave only
7.56 The Shape of God
THE REV RUTH MATTHEWS reflects on the Gospel reading for the first Sunday of Advent: Matthew 25, vv 31-46
7.55 Weather; programme news
A weekly look at religious news at home and abroad. Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer JOHN NEWBURY
TERRY WOGAN appeals on behalf of Children in Need of Help. Many thousands of children are helped each year through this BBC appeal. The money received is distributed by the BBC on the advice of its Appeals Advisory Committees.
Charitable organisations who would like further information should write to : [address removed].
Donations to Terry Wogan at the same address
8.55 Weather; programme news
(Broadcast at 8.10 am'
The first of four broadcasts centred on the four traditional themes of Advent.
Today: Death from Ilmington Parish Church, Warwickshire
Conducted by the Vicar CANON DILWYN DAVIES Preacher
Hymns (A and M Rev): Come, thou long-expected Jesus (54): Happy are they, they that love God (261); Ye servants of God (226): 0 come, 0 come, Emmanuel (49)
Readings: Wisdom 3, w 1-6: John 14. vv 1-6 Organist JOHN FRYER BBC Birmingham long wave only
Omnibus edition
Directed by ALARIC COTTER Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer, who meets Eric Norris , a bookseller for nearly 50 years; and presents highlights from the weekday programme.
Kobin Ray traces, with the use of records, the artistry and achievements of some of the world's great musicians.
This week. the Viennese violinist, Fritz Kreisler Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
Derek Cooper takes the lid off food - good and bad. fun and fast - and the industry behind it.
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Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
Your responses and reactions to programmes on radio and television.
Presented by Tom Vernon Producer JENNY DE YONG
Any comments, questions or suggestions would be welcomed by Feedback, Room 7076, BBC, Broadcasting House, London [Postcode removed]
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
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visits Northamptonshire, where members of the Warmington Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and CLAY JONES
Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.5 am) long wave only
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Freeborn, dramatised by Geoffrey Beevers
with Ian Holm, Angela Pleasence and Michael Graham Cox
"No man is as easily carried away by his emotions as the man whose emotions do not run deep."
(First broadcast in 1977)
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Is it old? Is it genuine" What is it? Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
Questions to: Talking about Antiques, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed] long wave only
The South Stack
In winter when few humans venture on to the rocky coasts beneath salt-sprayed heathlands cormorants and ravens, stonechats and linnets take over.
Roger Lovegrove leads Derek Jones on a Radio Nature Trail amidst the birds of the Anglesey coast.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 am) long wave only
'I'm not at all sure that I wasn't trying to blow my own gender by presenting a bodily boyish figure '-Jacky Gillott recalls her years suffering from anorexia nervosa. Presented by Caroline Parsons
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol long wave only
Brian Johnston recently visited Dudley in the West Midlands
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tues 12.20 pm) long wave only
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
In which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Dick Taverne , QC, and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London. Tonight's motion:
It Cannot be Right to Instruct People on How to Take Their Own Lives It is proposed by Dr Richard Fox and opposed by Professor Antony Flew
Each advocate calls supporting witnesses who are questioned by each protagonist. The jury vote at the beginning and the end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer KAY EVANS
(Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)
Frank Delaney on the books you read, borrow and buy, both new and old, from classics to comics.
Producer NICK HUGHES
(Repeated; Tues 4.10 pm)
A portrait of the legendary actor, as drawn by GEORG CHRISTOPH
LICHTENBERG in his
Letters from England
1 Having been a law student, he appeared in his 24th year on the stage at Goodman's Fields as Richard III. And it was at this first appearance that he surpassed all the players of his age and became the idol of the people, the spice of society, and the darling of the quality.'
In the fifth of seven readings related to the preceding Bookshelf programme, Donald Sinden reads from the letters of the 18th-century German philosopher in which he gives eye-witness accounts of several of Garrick's greatest performances. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Donald Sinden is a member of the RSC)
An anthology of words and music for Advent, devised and introduced by Stanley Pritchard
Readers Jill Balcon and Eva Haddon with the ST MARGARET 'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS directed by RICHARD HICKOX Organist IAN WATSON
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
by EVELYN WAUGH dramatised in four parts by BARRY CAMPBELL with Hugh Dickson Norman Rodway
Patrick Troughton Jennifer Hilary and Hugh Burden as the Narrator
Part 2: ' To Guy it seemed impossible that anything conducted by the Halberdiers could fall short of excellence. He loved Major Tickeridge and Captain Bosanquet. He loved Apthorpe. He loved the whole corps deeply and tenderly.'
With ERIC ALLAN and ALAN DUDLEY
Title music played by the BAND OF THE ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT director of music
MAJOR WILLIAM ALLEN
Directed by JANE MORGAN (First broadcast in 1974) (Repeated: 2'ues 3.15 pm)
9.58 Weather
For nearly 400 years men have lost fortunes, and their lives, in the search for a golden hoard sunk in the wreck of the Florencia in Tobermory Bay in Scotland. But was she carrying this hoard? And is the wreck the Florencia, anyway? Alison McLeay now reveals the disconcerting answers.
BBC Scotland
In the season of Advent, devised and narrated by Frank Topping 1: Wise Men
Readers Gordon Dulieu and Patrick Barr
Book, The Busy World is Hushed: £1.50, from bookshops
Laurens van der Post, writer, explorer, soldier, film-maker and farmer. introduces some of the prose and poetry that has delighted and inspired him.
Reader Ingaret Giffard Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol See feature: page 23
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
