Music selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford. BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Writing Skills
7.10 Sunday Papers (LW)
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye
for Asians
7.45 Bells
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves
Julie Loyd looks at and selects readings from The First Christmas by RACHEL billington and The Faber Book of Christmas Stories edited by SARA AND STEPHEN CORRIN.
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer JOHN NEWBURY
talks, for the Week's Good
Cause, about work being done to restore for the general public one of Britain's greatest musical heritages - a Willis concert organ with over 6,000 pipes.
Donattons: [address removed]
9.10 Sunday Papers
Preparing the Way of the Lord Morning Service for the First Sunday in Advent from St
John's Wood Church, London The Parish Communion conducted by THE REV PETER GALLOWAY
1: Now is the Time to Wake Out of Sleep
Readings: Isaiah 52, w 7-10; Luke 21, w 25-33
Hymns: The advent of our King; Lo, he comes with clouds descending; 0 come, 0 come Emmanuel
Anthem: Zion hears her watchman's voices Director of Music
JOHN STREETING
Omnibus edition
Directed by PETER WINDOWS Producer WILLIAM SMETHURST Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Helen Atkinson Wood and Jenni Mills go out in search of the Great British Sunday.
Produced by VANESSA HARRISON for the Woman's Hour Unit
3: / promised myself to you.... ever so long ago....
Lewis Dodd runs away with Tessa Sanger in The Constant Nymph by MARGARET KENNEDY with Martin Jarvis and Janet Maw Presented by Pamela Howe BBC Bristol
Invented by a Swiss around the turn of the century, today it's big business and the staple of the health food shelves.
Derek Cooper delves into muesli: a nutritious start to the day or an over-priced fad? Producer JOY HATWOOD
with Gordon Clough
visits Sussex where members of the Woodingdean Horticultural
Society put their questions to Geoffrey Smith Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wednesday 10.0 am)
by ROSE TREMAIN with Alan Dobie as Radcliffe Maggie McCarthy as Stella and Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Anne Stella , ordinary, suburban, seems an unlikely companion for a great musician, but as Radcliffe lies dying, she, his nurse, both gives and receives something unexpected. Directed by PENNY GOLD
More events from his life in a Moscow apartment house, recalled by Bill Campbell , alias 'Villi the Clown'.
4: Thank Heaven for Little Girls
(Details: Tuesday 8.30 pm)
(Details: Monday 11.0 am)
With CLIVE ROSLIN
Producer CHRIS REES
(Details: Thursday 11.28 am)
A BBC digital recording. Stereo
with Susan Marling
by G. K. Chesterton
Seven stories dramatised by John Scotney with Andrew Sachs as Father Brown and Olivier Pierre as the arch villain Flambeau
The cream of London's police force in association with France's finest detective fail to apprehend Flambeau, the master of disguise. Their suspicions fall on a tall Roman Catholic priest and they set off in vain pursuit. However it is the little English priest who seems to be behaving oddly.
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
(Stereo)
HEAR THIS! page 26
WODDIS ON... page 95
Hunter Davies presents the good books programme.
Including a profile of novelist, playwright, historian, soldier and Scottish Nationalist and broadcaster Eric Linklater. Producer NIGEL ACHESON
(Repeated: Thursday 4.10 pm)
Geoff Pearson is a dedicated falconer who spends all of his free time working with the birds he raises and trains. At a display at Castle Drogo in Devon, Malcolm Billings watches him and his hunting birds in action, and talks to him about his unusual hobby. Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE (Repeated: Friday 9.45 am)
for Advent
Fr David Hope of All Saints Church, Margaret Street , London, meditates on the meaning of Advent with the BBC SINGERS directed by JOHN POOLE , SANDRA CLARK and BRETT USHER.
Producer STEPHEN SHIPLEY
Series editor DAVID CRAIG. Stereo
by JOHN MASTERS
Book Three: The Lotus and the Wind
(Details: Friday 3.0 pm) Stereo
It takes all kinds of stories to reflect the world we live in. Some are new, others can be traced back to another place and another age.
Frank Delaney has been in search of tales, wherever they are told.
4: The After-dinner Speech Producer ANNE BROWN BBC Birmingham
Canon Michael Austin presents a series of illustrated talks on the Advent theme. 1: Death
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester Stereo
Westminster committees at work - extracts and discussions
Presenter David Davies Producer PETER ROBINS
followed by an interlude
