6.55 Weather; travel: programme news
7.10 Sunday Papen
7.15 Apna HI Ghar Samajhlye for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham 7.45 Bells 7.50 The Shape of God FR EDWARD MATTHEWS with a meditation for the second Sunday before Christmas.
John 1, w 19-27
7.55 Weather: travel; programme news
8.11 Sunday Papers
Presenter Michael Cooke Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester
THE RT REV DAVID SHEPPARD talks about the work of Apex Trust, which guides disadvantaged young unemployed to help build constructive lives.
Donations by cheque or PO to: Apex Trust, [address removed]
8.55 Weather; travel: programme news
9.10 Sunday Papers
How God Comes : Into our Society
The third in a series of four sermons for Advent Parish Communion (Rite A) from St Michael 's Church, Basingstake
Officiant THE REV camw CLIFFORD WRIGHT Preacher
THE REV PAUL BATES
Readings: Isaiah 40. w 1-5 (ksv); Matthew 11. vv 2-11 (NEB)
Hymns: Hark the glad sound! (A MR 53); City of God. the dream of men (Living Lord 72). Thy kingdom come! (A MR 263); Tetlout my soul (HHFT 89)
Organist and Choirmaster NICHOLAS WOODS BBC Bristol
Omnibus edition Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
A series of seven programmes about the future of radio and television.
2: The Choice for the Locals
One of the biggest developments in the past decade has been the growth of local radio - first under the BBC umbrella and more recently as part of the Independent Broadcasting Authority auspices. Both sides plan more stations in the next ten years.
Michael Barton , the BBC's Controller of Local
Radio; Jimmy Gordon.
Managing Director of the Glasgow commercial station Radio Clyde; and Gillian Reynolds of The Daily Telegraph and Broadcast magazine, talk about the options for the locals and invite the views of callers on the phone-in number [number removed](lines open from
10.15 am).
Producer JANE MARSHALL
Cookery books for Christmas gifts.
Derek Cooper is joined by writer Angela Carter and Jack Straw , mp to browse through the ethnic and the off-beat in a search for stimulating ideas and value for money.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
12.55 Weather: programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
visits Worcestershire where members of the Stourport Horticultural Society put their questions to
Bill Sowerbutts Geoffrey Smith and Daphne Ledward
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.2 am)
Sweet Sixteen by GRAHAM REID with Maggie Shevlin and John Hewitt
Joe Moore left Belfast for the Merchant Navy when he was in his teens.
Fourteen years later a chance reunion in a London pub with his childhood sweetheart seems just a fortunate coincidence to Joe. It is thoughwhatneitherhe nor the other customers In that busy pub realise is that it will be, literally, a matter of lifeanddeath.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
New Wives Tales bv Anthony Smith <Repeat)
long wave only
(Details: Thurs 10.2 am) long wave only
(Details: Thurs 9.30 am) long wave only
followed by travel; programme news long wave only
Brian Johnston is in Strathclyde to visit
Johnstone, which this year, celebrates its bicentenary.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 11.3 am) DownYourWay1983
Calendar of Britain, f2.25 from retailers long wave only
5.54 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news long wave only
with EUGENE FRASER
Margaret Percy confronts producers and managements with your criticisms and comments about BBC radio and television.
A series of six programmes on dialects and accents in England 3: Town Dialects
If you think that people who live in towns don't speak dialect, you'd be wrong! Brian Redhead , with the help of BBC
Local Radio archives and specially made recordings, sets out to discover why.
Consultant MALCOLM PETYT Producers ARTHUR WOOD and CHRISTOPHER STONE
7.0 Travel; programme news
by TED WILLIS (5)
(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 FENTON
(Repeated: Thurs 4.10pm)
BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conductor GÜNTHER HERBIG Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
Beethoven Symphony No 7. in A major BBC Manchester
by ANTIIONY TROLLOPE (4) (Details: Friday 3.2 pm)
Intensive farming of animals is unnecessary
(Details: Friday 11.3 am)
A series of 13 programmes
The Rev Stanley Brinkman reflects on his experience of private prayer. 8: Letting Go
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester
Westminster committees at work - extracts and discussions.
Presented by John Sargeant
Producer PETER R0BINS
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
