Music selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Learning from Television and Radio

7.10 LW Sunday Papers
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians
7.45 Bells
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves Kevin Grant reviews
The Spirit of Christmas by G. K. CHESTERTON

8.10 Sunday Papers

Presenter Libby Purves Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester

talks, for the Week's Good
Cause, about Youthaid which researches into the problems of young unemployed people in order to provide information and advice.
Donations: [address removed]

9.10 Sunday Papers

Preparing the Way of the Lord
Morning Service for the second Sunday in Advent from St Columba's United Reformed Church, Cambridge, conducted by the Minister, THE REV ERNEST MARVIN
Hymns (Church Hymnary IH): 0 come, and let us to the Lord (19); On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (208); Thy kingdom come, 0 God (322); Tell out, my soul (164);
Readings (rsv): n Peter 3, w 8-14; Mark 1, w 1-8 Organist ERIC IMPEY BBC Birmingham

Omnibus edition
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. Producer VANESSA HARRISON for the Woman's Hour unit

They've made a coffin for MacGregor in the local welfare hall. However the strike ends, they know that the bell tolls for them and their way of life - a personal appraisal by Ray Gosling of the present state of the miners' strike from where it all began - Cortonwood Colliery, South Yorkshire.

BBC Manchester

Cookbooks for Christmas? Derek Cooper is joined by singer Linda Esther Gray and former trade union leader Tom Jackson to browse through some of the new food books in search of stimulating ideas and value for money. Producer JOY hatwood

Presenter Gordon Clough

Ken Ford invites
Geoffrey Smith , Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczacki to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. BBC Manchester

One Man Killed by RACHEL WYATT
Vera is proud of her Harry; Harry is a hero. In a flash-flood in their Yorkshire village he gallantly saved the life of a local widow. Vera's friends don't think it was quite as straightforward as that?
Directed by PENNY GOLD
Stereo

Brian Redhead talks about three of his favourite humorous characters from fiction. Readers BILL PATERSON and MARK ROLSTON
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol Stereo

A magazine edition with news of wildlife and the countryside. Presented by Michael Jordan Producer CAROL JEFFERSON-DAVIES BBC Bristol

Brian Johnston is in Knutsford in Cheshire, the original of Mrs Gaskell's Cranford. He meets the Knutsford sandman, learns about a most unusual custom and goes to Tatton Park and Jodrell Bank.
BBC Bristol

With HARRIET CASS

An inquiry into the existence and character of God in eight parts.
Written and presented by Gerald Priestland
7: The Church in the Dock
Most of what we know about God - even the claim that he exists -has filtered through to us through the Church. But do we really need the Church?
And is it time to stop thinking of it as an authoritarian structure and see it as a society of friends?
Researcher PATRICK FORBES
Music arranged by BARRY ROSE Producer CHRIS REES
(Repeated: Thursday 11.28 am) A BBC digital recording. Stereo

Exploring in the Sound
Archives, Malcolm Billings has discovered that his fascination with the Nile
Valley and its antiquities is well catered for.
Producer SALLY LUNN

by G. K. Chesterton
Seven stories dramatised by John Scotney with Andrew Sachs as Father Brown and Oliver Pierre as the arch-villain Flambeau
Death in a small hotel. Who stole the silver fish service? How many waiters are there? And how did all this lead to a glimmer of repentance?

(Details: Thursday 4.10 pm)

The Bank of England started operating in Threadneedle
Street 250 years ago on 5 June 1734. It had opened 40 years earlier in the reign of William and Mary. What began as a commercial concern developed into a supreme example of a bank with a national conscience.
A look back to the dramatic beginnings of this famous institution.
With contributions from c. w. MCMAHON, Deputy Governor;
D. H. F. SOMERSET, Chief Cashier; JOHN KEYWORTH , Curator, Bank of England Museum; RAYMOND WOOD , Senior Gatekeeper
Narrator NIGEL ANTHONY Guide CAROLE BOYD
With PETER ACRE. JOHN BOTT.
BERNARD BROWN. ARNOLD DIAMOND.
WILLIAM EEDLE , ANTHONY HALL ,
CLIVE PANTO, MARK ROLSTON , HILDA SCHRODER and DAVID SINCLAIR Compiled and directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS Stereo

An 18-part serialisation of JOHN MASTERS' saga of the Savage family spanning the years 1825-1946.
Book Three: The Lotus and the Wind dramatised in four parts by DAVID WADE with William Nighy as Robin Savage
Juliet Stevenson as Anne Nicky Henson as Major Hay ling and John Bott and Irene Sutcliffe as Mr and Mrs Hildreth
2: Compromised
Thin snow dusted the rocks of the shallow gorge; the storm of the knifemen had passed leaving the Highlanders sprawled in the isolation of death.
Narrator JOHN ROWE
Directed by PENNY LEICESTER
(Juliet Stevenson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

'I like to be looked upon always as an actor-singer. Or singer-actor. Which way? I don't know, as long as the two are combined, because I've always tried to get inside the part.'
The tenor Richard Lewis in conversation with David Hoult reflects on his long, varied and distinguished international career in the opera house and the concert hall.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester. Stereo

Canon Michael Austin presents a series of illustrated talks on the Advent theme. 2: Judgment
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester. Stereo

Westminster committees at work - extracts and discussions
Presented by David Davies Producer PETER ROBINS

followed by an interlude