6.55 Weather: programme news
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye
BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 The Shape of God NEIL RICHARDSON with a meditation for the first Sunday of Advent. Matthew 24, vv 1-28 BBC Manchester
7.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID COOMES
ROY PLOMLEY appeals on behalf of The Samaritans (reg no 219432). whose telephones are open every moment throughout the year for the suicidal and despairing
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to: [address removed]
8.55 Weather; programme news
The first of four broadcasts during Advent on the comings of God. The
Coming of God in Creation from All Saints Parish Church, Clifton, Bristol Celebrant and Preacher THE REV JEREMY YOUNGER Readings 'New English Bible): Isaiah 51, vv 4-6 and 11; Matthew 25, vv 31-46
Hymns (English Hymnal): Zion hears the watchmen shouting (12): Of the Father's heart begotten
(613); Hark the glad sound (6). Communion Anthem: I look from afar (Patestrina) Director of music KENNETH SMITH. Assistant organist JOHN GUV. BBC Bristol
Omnibus edition
Producer ANTON GILL
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by June Knox -Mawer, who meets the playwright John Osborne and his wife Helen at home: and presents highlights from Woman's Hour.
By popular request, another chance to hear some of the most popular comedy shows from the BBC Light Entertainment radio department. Take It From Here starring Jimmy Edwards Dick Bentley
June Whitfield
With WALLAS EATON AND THE KEYNOTES
THE BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA conducted by HARRY RABINOWITZ
Written by FRANK MUIR and DENIS NORDEN
Producer CHARLES MAXWELL (First broadcast in 1959)
with Derek Cooper
What do top chefs talk about when they get together? Seven young men who run the kitchens of some of Britain's best country house hotels have formed a club to raise the prestige of British cooks. And they are confident enough to let the microphones in for their first meeting ...
Producer JOY HATWOOD
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
visits Staffordshire, where members of the Whittington Women's Institute put their questions to
Bill Sowerbutts
Professor Alan Gemmetl and Geoffrey Smith
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.2 am) Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50, from booksellers
The Levant Trilogy by OLIVIA MANNING
Dramatised by ERIC EWENS 1: The Danger Tree with Anna Massey Jack Shepherd and Tim Woodward
Guy Pringle and his wife Harriet, caught in Romania during the early days of the Second World War, fled to Athens. As the swastika is raised over the Acropolis they are forced to flee again - to Egypt.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN iBroadcast last Monday) (Tim Woodward is a National Theatre player)
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Bruce Parker offers an insight into the trade; and in Saleroom Report, Huon Mallalieu looks at price trends.
Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol long wave only
The Meeting of the Ways The Romans built a castle to defend the point where the Rivers Yare and Waveney met at the top of the tide behind
Yarmouth. Now it is the wildlife of the marshes and the estuary that needs protection.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 am) long wave only
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Brian Johnston visits Troulbeck, Cumbria
(Details: Mon 11.5 am) long wave only
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
A serial in five parts by Chris Boucher
with Patrick Mower and Helen Atkinson Wood
Stuart Cobb has gone missing while on a sea voyage from Australia to England The police believe it is either accidental death or suicide. Stuart's sister, however, believes he was murdered.
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
The series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Chairman Peter Jay and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House. London. Todav's motion:
Customers, Not Taxpayers, Should Pay for the Arts Proposer George Gale Opposer Melvyn Bragg Each advocate will call supporting witnesses who will be questioned by each protagonist, and the jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN (Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)
Frank Delaney with the magazine about books old and new, classic and comic.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON (Repeated: Thurs 4.15 pm)
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra led by ANDREW ORTON conductor Gunther Herbig DENNIS SIMONS
ANDREW ORTON (violins)
Mozart Symphony No 40, in G minor (k 550)
Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins and string orchestra (BWV 1043)
Beethoven Overture: The Consecration of the House BBC Manchester
by J. Sheridan Lefanu
A tale of horror and suspense dramatised in three parts by Joan O'Connor with Peter Vaughan as Uncle Silas and Kate Lee as Maud
Maud is now living in the house of her Uncle Silas. She and her cousin Milly have discovered the room in which Charke was murdered - a murder that cast terrible suspicion upon Silas. Milly has now been banished to France and Maud faces the future quite alone.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 3.2 pm)
A plain man's guide to the Christian faith in 13 parts
11: Bread, Water and Wine
Gerald Priestland looks at the use of sacraments by the church, notably the Eucharist, Holy
Communion or Lord's Supper. Christians do not merely recite words when they worship God. They baptise, they marry, they administer bread and wine. There's much argument about the meaning of this. Is it magic, symbolic, a reminder, or just mumbojumbo? The BBC's Religious Affairs
Correspondent finds out why most churches use sacraments and why some don't use them at all. Music arranged by BARRY ROSE
Researcher PATRICK FORBES Producer CHRIS REES
(Repeated: Wed 4.0 pm) Book (same title), £ 3.50, from booksellers
Cassettes of the series are available. Details from Room 231, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA An article by Gerald Priestland based on this programme will appear in THE LISTENER, issue dated 3 December
The late evening office of Compline.
Presenter David Coss Producer PETER ROBINS
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
