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7.10 Sunday Papers
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhije for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 The Shape of God THE REV DAVID WINWOOD with a meditation for Advent Sunday
Luke 21. vv 25-33
7.55 Weather; travel; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Ghar Samajhije
Unknown:
David Winwood

TERRY WOGAN talks about the ways 'in which Children In Need benefit from the BBC's 1982 radio and tv marathon appeal. The lives of thousands of disabled or deprived young people aremademorebearable by your donations.
Donations by cheque or PO to: [address removed]
8.55 Weather; travel; programme news

Parish Communion from St John 's Wood Parish Church, London
How God Comes: the first of a series of four sermons for Advent Celebrant
THE REV GARY BRADLEY Preacher
THE REV TIMOTHY RAPHAEL
Organist RICHARD PILLINER Hymns (A & MR):
On Jordan's bank (50):
Come then long expected Jesus(34);Lohecomes (51); Hark the glad sound (53)
Readings: I Thessalonians 5, vv 1-11 (NEB): Luke 21. vv 25-33 (NEB)

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Organist:
Timothy Raphael
Organist:
Richard Pilliner

All Gas and Gaiters
The Bishop Learns the Facts starring Robertson Hare William Mervyn
John Barron , Jonathan Cecil , Jo Kendall Betty Baskcombe
Written and adapted for radio from the television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS
Producer DAVID HATCII
(First broadcast in 1972)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robertson Hare
Unknown:
William Mervyn
Unknown:
John Barron
Unknown:
Jonathan Cecil
Unknown:
Jo Kendall
Unknown:
Betty Baskcombe
Unknown:
Pauline Devaney
Producer:
David Hatcii

Join Derek Cooper for analysisofthenewson the food front.
This week Dried Fruit: will the current surplus mean cheaper Christmas cooking?
And Christopher Driver with his monthly digest. The Driver File.
Producer joy HATWOOD
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Christopher Driver

Hell and McLafferty by ROSE TREMAIN with Blake and McLafferty have planned an expedition to the Malay Archipelago. The young Queen
Victoria's imagination is captured by the thought of the paradise birds for which the two men are searching. However. once they are deep in the jungle, away from order and civilisation, they discover that they are searching for more than the bird of paradise.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(David Suchet is an associate artist of the RSC)

Contributors

Directed By:
Kay Patrick
Unknown:
David Suchet
Blake:
David Suchet
McLafferty:
Jim Reid

Tips and techniques to save time and money if you do-it-yourself, from David Holloway. Editor of Handyman
Which?; David Nye , DIY consultant; and Marianne Gray. author of Working from Home - 201 Ways to Make Money, in response to diy enthusiasts of Mickleton Village in the Cotswolds,
Gloucestershire.
In the Chair Bill Breckon Producer CLIVE RICHE Editor JIM BLACK
(Repeated: Thurs 10.2 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Holloway.
Unknown:
David Nye
Unknown:
Marianne Gray.
Unknown:
Bill Breckon
Producer:
Clive Riche

Brian Johnston is in Chelsea where he visits the Royal Hospital, home of the Chelsea Pensioners. the National Army
Museum, the King's Road. houseboats on theThames, and of course, learns something of Chelsea's history.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 11.3 am) long wave only
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Producer:
Anthony Smith

Six programmes on dialects and accents in England.
1: The Real Speech of England
Are we in the last days of dialect? With the help of BBC Local Radio archives. Brian Redhead sets out to explore this question and to discover the differences between dialect and accent.
Consultant MALCOLM PETYT Producers ARTHUR WOOD and CHRISTOPHER STONE
7.0 Travel; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Malcolm Petyt
Producers:
Arthur Wood
Producers:
Christopher Stone

A 1963 concert In
Symphony Hall, Boston
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX , who had been Music Director 1919-24 Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis , for string quartet and double string orchestra
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela: LOUIS SPEYER (cor anglais)
Elgar Variations on an original theme (Enigma) (Boston Symphony Transcription Trust recording) (First broadcast on Radio 3)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Pierre Monteux
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis

by ANTHONY TROLLOPE adapted for radio in seven parts by BARRY CAMPBELL and 2: The Widow Kelly
In which the real power behind the Kelly family takes control and Anty Lynch takes flight from her brother's drunken cruelty.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Friday 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Anty Lynch
Directed By:
Vanessa Whitburn
with the Widow Kelly:
Mary Wimbush
Martin Kelly:
Bosco Hogan
Anty Lynch:
Marcella O'Riordan
Barry Lynch:
Michael N Harbour
Anthony Trollope:
John Rye
Mr Daly:
Steve Hodson
Meg Kelly:
Angela Harding
Jane Kelly:
Felicity Hayes McCoy
Biddy:
Mairin O'Sullivan
Jacky:
Jim Reid
Judy/nellie:
Shevaun Briars
Rooney:
Barry McCovern
Ostler:
David Vann

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