With THE REV PHILIP CROWE BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with BOB FINIGAN
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

with Richard Baker
(Revised broadcast of Saturday's programme at 7.45pm) Stereo

with Colin Semper
Producer SALLY THOMPSON

Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

Violation by aw BRIGHOUSE Read by William Eedle
The year is 1899 and the scene is a North Country village school. A young pupil has written a most remarkable essay. 'Filth!' says the teacher as he tears it up. But is he right? Producer MITCH RAPER

Advent Calendar:
Hope (In God the Father)
NEM, p 122: All my hope on God is founded (bp 3); Quern pastores (Carols for Choirs 2); Isaiah 63, v 18 to 64, v 8; Blessed are the pure in heart (BBC HB 318). Stereo

Stoddart Down Under
In tropical Queensland, there are frogs that brood their tadpoles in hip pockets, on the back, or in the mouth. But none is more curious than the frog that keeps its tadpoles in the stomach. Why aren't they digested? Professor Michael Stoddart finds out. BBC Bristol

Derek Cooper looks at a new food safety campaign whose members want more
Government controls - and a campaign for the restoration of unpasteurised milk, which demands that the Government mind its own business. Producer JOHN FORSYTH

Stereo

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner RICHARD BRIERS reads A Fancy Dress Fit for a King by DIANA STOW
2.0 Deutsches Magazin 9: Sport Compiled by DR BRIAN HILL and at 2.15 10: Ferien Compiled by ROB QUIRK
2.30 Books, Plays, Poems The Raid by JOHN STEINBECK

Introduced from Glasgow by Mary Marquis
Over 100 years ago William Quarrier built a children's village in the Renfrewshire hills for orphans from the Glasgow slums. It remained Scotland's largest children's home until the late 1970s, when a drop in the number of children coming into care forced a rethink on how the village should be run. JOAN ELRicK reports on the changing face of Quarrier Village.
For KAY MORRIS and her husband the purchase of Holy Island in the Firth of Clyde was a dream come true. But can they survive and keep the island unspoilt? Producer COLIN CALEY BBC Scotland
Serial: Six Ghost Stories by H. G. WELLS
3: The Temptation of Harringay

by D.H.LAWRENCE dramatised in six parts by ROY SPENCER with 5: A New Start in Life
Leslie has been involved in a serious car crash and Lettie feels guilty. George is continuing his courtship of Meg.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham

Roy Johnston reminisces with Joan Trimble about the career of the two girls from
Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, who made their 'two pianos sing twice as sweetly as one, and twice as subtly.'
Producer DAVID BYERS (R)

(Revised version of yesterday's broadcast at 9.45 pm) including The Obituary - a game of literary consequences in five episodes.
Read by Michael Hordern
Episode 5 by ALICE THOMAS ELLIS

Presented by Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons continued on VHF/FM 5.50-5.55

With HARRIET CASS including Financial Report

Clive Jacobs and the team monitor the movements in the world of travel and transport. This week Tom Boswell tests the Audi 90 and the Audi 90 Quattro.
Producer IRENE MALUS

(Re-broadcast on Monday at 1. 40pm)

Presented by Margaret Howard Producer ANGELA HIND
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 10.30am) Stereo

Do people still believe in the old superstitions? Or are they dying out and new ones being created? Peter France is keeping his fingers crossed and touching wood while he attempts to find out.
Researcher SHELLEY BOVEY Producer SHIRLEY PENROSE BBC Bristol (R) Stereo
0 HEAR THIS! page 25 and INFO: page 93

The Rt Hon Shirley Williams The Rt Hon Denis Healey , mp The Rt Hon Norman St John-Stevas , mp and Paul Johnson , journalist tackle the issues raised by the audience in Northampton Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

You may think that today's news is fresh, but check the headlines and you'll see that some things just don't change. Show more

by Alistair Cooke

Presented by Sheridan Morley Producer KATHRYN PORTER (Re-broadcast next Monday) including The Obituary
Episode 5 by ALICE THOMAS ELLIS

The Aloe by Katherine Mansfield abridged in five parts by VIVIEN CREEGOR
Read by Kika Markham Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting on Monday: 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens )

Presented by Richard Kershaw

with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover Written by RICHARD QUICK
PAUL B. DAVIES . STUART SILVER MARTIN BOOTH . IAN BROWN
JAMES HENDRIE. PETER SINCLAIR STEVE PUNT . DAVID COHEN PETER HICKEY and others
Producer PAUL MA YHEW ARCHER
Stereo

followed by an interlude

Horizons de France
5: Le microprocesseur (R)