Music selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford. BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Preparing Your Home and Your Family
7.10 LW Sunday Papers
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians
7.45 Bells
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves David Winter reviews and selects readings from Immanuel by HANS-REUDI WEBER.
8.10 Sunday Papers
A look at religious news and views from home and abroad. Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID COOMES
talks, for the Week's Good
Cause, about housing for frail elderly people of all denominations who are in need, and the residential care provided.
Donations: [address removed]
9.10 Sunday Papers
for the third Sunday in Advent from St Mary's Church, Bamber Bridge, Preston. Parish Mass celebrated by FR IAN PETIT , OSB.
3: When the Lord comes he will disclose the purposes of the heart.
Readings (JB):
Isaiah 61, w 1-2, 10-11;
I Thessalonians 5, w 16-24; John 1, w 6-8, 19-28
Hymns: Come, thou long expected (A&MR 54); The race that long in darkness pined (PHB 38); Offertory Motet:
Gabriel's Message Communion
Motet: 0 Come, 0 Come Mass Settings: Mass of St Martin
Choirmaster RAYMUND LIVESEY Organist SIMON LIVESEY BBC Manchester
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
4: 'I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool....'
Maxim de Winter marries a young second wife in Rebecca by DAPHNE DU MAURIER with Charles Kay and June Barrie
Presented by PAMELA HOWE
(Charles Kay is a member of the RSC) BBC Bristol
With the approach of the festive season, Derek Cooper reports from the Douro valley on the 1984 Port vintage, while Mike Chaney scours
Poultryland for alternatives to the frozen bird.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
with Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
visits Essex where members of the Billericay Horticultural
Society put their questions to Geoffrey Smith , Clay Jones and Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, dramatised by David Blum
with Clive Merrison as Foma Fomich, David Suchet as the Colonel, Alan Dudley as Yezhevikin, John Webb as Sergei, Kathryn Hurlbutt as Sashenka and Helena Breck as Natasha
Russia, 1859, and the manor of Stepanchikovo has been thrown into chaos by the activities of a former servant. When he interferes with the marriage plans of the family, the whole situation explodes.
(Stereo)
Let's Hear it Again
A selection of extracts from listeners' favourite The Living World and Wildlife programmes broadcast during the past year.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Details: Monday 11.0 am)
with HARRIET CASS
(Details: Thursday 11.28 am)
A BBC digital recording. Stereo
Kevin Crossley-Holland traces the history of one of the most beloved of Christmas songs and finds some unusual variations from several different, and unexpected, sources.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
(Details: Wednesday 12.27 pm) Stereo
(Details: Thursday 4.10 pm)
In preparation for Christmas from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, conducted by THE REV CHARLES HEDLEY , with the st MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
CHAMBER CHOIR
Carols: Hark what a sound;
0 come, 0 come, Emmanuel; Reading: Genesis 2, w 4-9
Carol: Jesus Christ the apple tree (Poston)
Reading: Mark 1, w 1-11
This is the record of John (Gibbons)
Reading: Luke 2, w 1-7 Carols: 0 little town of Bethlehem; Sion hort die wachter singen (Bach);
Hosanna to the Son of David (Weelkes); Hark the herald angels
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in G minor (Buxtehude) Organist and Master of Music CHRISTOPHER STOKES
Assistant organist DAVID BISHOP
Currently touring his one-man show Lorca, the actor and writer Trader Faulkner evokes some aspects of the controversial and colourful life, plays and poetry of the Spanish writer
Federico Garcia Lorca , killed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. Producer JOHN POWELL
(A Kaleidoscope repeat) Stereo
(Details: Friday 3.0 pm) Stereo
A portrait of Alison Uttley (Details: Friday 11.0 am) Stereo
Canon Michael Austin presents a series of illustrated talks on the Advent theme. 3: Heaven
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester Stereo
Presenter John Sergeant Producer PETER ROBINS
followed by an interlude
