6.55 Weather; travel; programme news
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
8.10 Sunday Papers
Religious news
Presenter Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID COOMES
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
9.10 Sunday Papers
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)
Omnibus edition Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer . who meets Nell Klnnock. mp, and his wife Glenys, and presents highlights from Woman's Hour.
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)
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
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
visits Herefordshire where the villagers of Orleton put their questions to
Bill Sowerbutls Geoffrey Smith and Daphne Ledward Questionmaster Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.2 am)
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)
long wave only
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)
A magazine edition with news of what's happening to wildlife and the countryside. Producer
ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 am) long wave only
followed by travel; programme news long wave only
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
with PAULINE BUSHNELL
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
by TED WILLIS (3)
(Details: Wed 12.27 pm)
Frank Delaney presents the magazine programme for browsers and bookworms about all that's best between two covers.
Producer KATE PENTON
(Repeated: Thurs 4.10 pm)
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)
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)
Motion:
Schools would benefit from a voucher system
(Details: Friday 11.3 am)
The Litany sung to the music of Thomas TalHs
Presenter Roger Currell Producer PETER ROBINS
Weather report; forecast followed by an Interlude
12.15-12.23* am Shipping forecast; inshore forecast