6.55 Weather; programme news
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samaj hiye. BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 The Shape of God
THE REV HUGH BISHOP With a reflection for the fifth Sunday before Christmas (Mark 13, vv 14-23)
7.55 Weather: programme news
Religious news presented by Clive Jacobs Producer JOHN NEWBURY
Following Friday's appeal on television. TERRY WOGAN continues to ask vour support for Children in Need of help. Many thousands of children benefit each year from this appeal. The money received is distributed by the BBC on the advice of its Appeal Advisory Committees.
Charitable organisations who would like further information should write to- Children in Need, [address removed]
Donations to Terry Wogan at the same address.
8.55 Weather: programme news
Series Three Morning Prayer from Cromer Parish Church, Norfolk, conducted by the Vicar, THE REV CANON DEREK OSBORNE Hvmns: O praise ye the Lord (Laudate Dominum); Jesus is Lord: Lord of all hopefulness (Slane); Ye servants of God (Paderborn)
Lessons: Isaiah 61, vv 1-4; John 1, vv 1-14
Organist JOHN BURTON BBC Birmingham
Omnibus edition. Directed by CLARE TAYLOR. Producer WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
in which June Knox-Mawer visits the Barracloughs: Jenny, television documentary producer: and Michael. consultant physician; and presents weekday highlights
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilvs powell and Frank Muir challenge Gillian Reynolds and Denis Norden. In the Chair John Julius Norwich
Questions compiled by PETER MOORE. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Rcpeatcd: Wed 12.27 pmi
Derek Cooper surveys the industry and its products. Producer DENNIS LOWER
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
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Ken Ford invites Geoffrey Smith
Bill Sowerbutts and Professor Alan Gemmell to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. BBC Manchester
The Leveret by LARRY MCCOUBREY adapted for radio by MATTHEW WALTERS with Sean Barrett and Sandra Clark
' The leveret is said to be capable of contacting the middle world ... it's all superstitious nonsense, of course ...' John Gra ham's decision to return to live in his native County Down seems to have been a good one: his English wife Ruth loves her new home, and the children seem to have settled in well, too, especially when they are allowed to keep a young, abandoned hare as a pet. In fact, Northern Ireland seemed an idyllic place to live until they found the leveret ...
Radiophonic music by DICK MILLS
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
In the last of three programmes, John Ebdon offers some more oblique reflections on present-day life in the Greek Islands.
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Introduced by Bruce Parker
This series offers an insight into the trade: and in Salesroom Report Huon Mallalieu takes a look at price trends.
BBC Bristol
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Jim Flegg , Anthony Smith and Jeffery Boswall take a look at recently published natural history books and records you might like to give - and receive - this Christmas. Presented by Peter France Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
( Repeated : Thnrs 9.30 am) long wave only
with John Morgan
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Brian Johnston recently visited the North Cotswolds
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tues 12.20 pm) long wave only
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5.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
A series 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:
Britain's Civil Defence Plans are Worse than Useless. It is proposed by Dan Smith and opposed by Edward Leigh
The jury will vote at the beginning and the end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer JOHN SKRINE
(Repeated: Mon 11.5 am)
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners.
Presenter Marilyn Alan Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Man 2.0-4.0 pm, [number removed]. Ext 2531
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Editor MARLENE PEASE
A divertissement in four parts in which Sir John Gielgud. in conversation with John Miller. takes an international look over half a century working on stage and screen.
3: Blue in the First Act and Pink in the Last
' Cecil Beaton said, " If I do a new set you've got to change their dresses over." And Dorothy Hyson, who was playing
Lady Windermere, said, "I can't change my clothes. I feel skittish in the pink dress to elope with the young man and in the last act I feel motherly in the blue dress." So we sat until about two in the morning arguing with Beaton, who was absolutely adamant ... Finally, I got my way, but he made the most terrible fuss and didn't speak to me. When we got to London I went down to the Haymarket and I said rather timidly. hoping to make it up. " Cecil, anything I can do for you this morning? " And he said, " Only congratulate me on my genius," and walked off:'
Producer JOHN POWELL
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by IRVINE ARDITTI conducted by STEUART BEDFORD
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) Strauss Songs with orchestra: Zueignung, Op 10 No 1: Muttertandelei, Op 43 No 2: Meinem Kinde, Op 37 No 3; Ich wollt' eitt Strausslein binden, Op 68 No 2: Morgen, Op 27 No 4: Die heiligen drei Kbnige aus Morgenland, Op 56 No 6
Schumann Symphony No 2, in c major
BBC Scotland
Frank Delaney introduces the magazine programme about the books you read. borrow and buy, both new and old, from classics to comics. Producer HELEN FRY
by Yukio Mishima
In a reading relating to the preceding edition of Bookshelf, John Shrapnel reads a previously unpublished story by the Japanese writer who died ten years ago this week. Producer BRIAN COOK
(Repeated: Thurs 4.35 pm) (A drama for Yukio Mishima , Death at Midday, Tues Radio 3,7.0 pm)
A history in 26 parts, in the words of those who have made the history.
15: Engineroom and Stokehold
In the great steamer the bridge was a gold-braided Olympus; the engineroom a kind of underworld; and the stokehold Hades itself. Yet engineers could regard their huge machines with almost religious devotion; and the sub-human stoker of legend plied in fact a skilled trade.
Readers: ANTHONY NEW-LANDS, LEONARD MAGUIRE. TIMOTHY BENTINCK , ROBERT TROTTER , DOUGLAS BLACK-WELL, BILL MONKS, RONALD BADDILEY , DAVID CASEY , ANTHONY HALL , DAVID ASH-FORD. JOHN HOLLIS , JOE DUNLOP.
Programme consultant and presenter Campbell Mac-Murray, Assistant Keeper, Dept of mss and Printed Books, National Maritime Museum.
Special sound DICK MILLS BBC Radiophonic
Workshop. Composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
Bernard Jackson visits Nevers and the convent where the body of Bernadette of Lourdes lies in-corrupt.
Producer SARAH WIDDOWS
Westminster committees at work - extracts and discussions. Presented by Rodney Foster.
Producer PETER ROBINS
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
