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7.10 Sunday Papers
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians
7.45 Bells
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves Dom Robert Gibbons reviews Ways of Imperfection by SMON TUGWELL , OP

8.10 Sunday Papers

Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID COOMES

in the centre of London, where gifts are distributed throughout the British Isles to people in need through illness or misfortune, is the setting for The Rev Austen Williams and the Week's Good Cause Donations to: [address removed]

9.10 Sunday Papers

Preparing the Way of the Lord Morning service for the Fourth Sunday in Advent from
St David 's, Aberystwyth,
Presbyterian Church of Wales and URC led by the ministers,
THE REV J. ELUS WYNNE DA VIES, and THE REV HUGH ST JOHN GRAY The Glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all mankind shall see it.
Hymns (CH): Angels from the realms of glory (182); Child in a manger (180); Hark the herald angels sing (169)
Readings: Isaiah 40, w 1-11; Psalm 96; Luke 2, w 8-14. Organist GEORGE NICHOL BBC Wales

Omnibus edition
Directed by PETER WINDOWS
Producer WILLIAM SMETHURST Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham and BFBS Berlin

Helen Atkinson Wood and Jenni Mills visit some of the people, places and events which make up the Sunday before Christmas.
Produced by VANESSA HARRISON for the Woman's Hour unit

A seasonal edition between Frank Muir and John Amis and Ian Wallace and Denis Norden with Steve Race in the Chair Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Producer PETE ATKIN
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Derek Cooper dips into the confectionery trade's seasonal bin of soft centres and hard boilings.
Producer JOY HATWOOD

Presenter Gordon Clough

The Berlin Butterfly is a delicately carved symbol of life designed by a group of unknown artists who met in ruined Berlin in 1945. Its story is just one of Bernard Price's delightful tales of collections and collectors of treasures and trifles.
Read by MARTIN JARVIS and JUNE BARRIE
Producer MARY PRICE. BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Christmas Day at 9.5 am)

When the Snow Lay Round About by JAMES FORSYTH with In the spring of 928 the Imperial Army of the Franco-Germanic Empire crossed the mountainous frontiers of the small and independent country of Bohemia. The King of Bohemia is Wenceslas, a man of peace and vision, but he has more enemies than the invaders - some of them are of his own flesh and blood.
Music composed by DAVID CAIN Directed by DAVID SPENSER Stereo

Raymond Baxter presents an examination of the greatest game on earth with contributions from expert players Willie Rushton, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer

Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(The Rules of the Game to be broadcast next week)
(Repeated: Christmas Day at 10.35 pm) Stereo

An impression of The Rev
Patrick Bronte , written and performed by Denys Hawthorne
Born Patrick Brunty at Emdale, Co Down, on 17 March 1777, he studied at St John's College, Cambridge, entered Holy Orders and became, in time, the Rector of Haworth in Yorkshire.
(Denys Hawthorne was nominated for Best Actor in the 1984 Sony
Radio Awards for this performance) Producer PAUL MULDOON
(First broadcast on Radio Ulster)

with CLIVE ROSLIN

by Jeremy Lloyd
Dramatised for radio by Brian Sibley

Captain Beaky and his Band are back. They have decided that the time has come for all the other members of the woodlands to hear the story of Jesus. Unfortunately their 'mission' is thwarted when it starts to rain. So they spend the afternoon reading their Woodland Bible and discovering how little they had known about the real Gospel story.
(Stereo)

A new definitive history of music written especially for music lovers who suffer from headaches.
Read by Robin Bailey Written by MARTIN BAKER
Producer CATHY WEARING

with Yvonne Minton
Teleri Bevan talks to the Australian mezzo-soprano, now on the verge of a significant change of direction in her career, about her life and music. Producer MARK OWEN. BBC Wales

by JOHN MASTERS
Book Three: The Lotus and the Wind, dramatised in four parts by DAVID WADE withand
4: Horses North
Three men clung together on a narrow rock shelf, the Burhan dragging them toward the edge. It was a desperate struggle to stay alive.... it was a desperate flight from the Russian woman.
Music by MALCOLM CLARKE of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Technical presentation
TIM STURGEON . AUCK HALE-MONRO, DIANA BARKHAM. VANESSA ELLNER Directed by PENNY LEICESTER

In the first of two programmes, Anthony Smith examines our understanding of the forces that produce weather, and considers the influence of the 'Two Els'-El Nino and El Chichon
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

Canon Michael Austin presents a series of illustrated talks on the Advent theme 4: Hell
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester. Stereo

Barry Norman talks to
Christopher Robin Milne and friends about the real world of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Research CAROLINE DALY
Producer ROGER MACDONALD (Revised repeat)
(Readings from Winnie -the -Pooh from Christmas Eve 4.45 pm)
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Ian Skidmore takes you on a necessarily brief tour of his one-man radio station in the kitchen of Virgin and Child Cottage on the island of Anglesey; and the station's Religious Affairs Correspondent Fr Brian Jones discusses the meaning of Christmas and the difficulty of showing charity towards the parish cat who's just eaten your Christmas dinner.
BBC Wales
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