Music selected by Michael Ford Stereo

A sequence of hymns presented by Charlotte Green

7.10 Sunday Papers
7.15 Apna Hi
Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves Beverley McAinsh selects readings from
The Lion Christmas Book by MARY BATCHELOR

8.10 Sunday Papers

Religious news and views Presented by Clive Jacobs Reporter TREVOR BARNES Producer DAVID COOMES

talks, for the Week's Good Cause, about work being undertaken to help old people, and the changing patterns of social needs to accommodate an ageing population.
Donations to: Gloria Hunniford [address removed]

9.10 Sunday Papers (Broadcastat 7.10am)

for the Fourth Sunday in Advent from Stornoway Free Church, Isle of Lewis
Preacher THE REV MURDO MACLEOD Theme: Hope that finds fulfilment in 'heaven'.
Readings: Isaiah 35, w 1-10 II Corinthians 4, v 11 to 5, v 5
Psalms: My soul wait thou with patience (62, w 5-8);
But I with expectation (71, w
14-24); Nevertheless continually, 0 Lord, I am with thee (73, w 23-28); The Lord's my shepherd (23) Precentor WILLIE MURRAY BBC Scotland

Omnibus edition
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Director DIANE CULVERHOUSE Producer WILLIAM SMETHURST BBC Birmingham

A chance to hear the clues again

Reindeer-herding by helicopter, a silent killer that leaves no marks, and teeming life below the snow - Barry Paine unravels facts from fiction in legendary Lapland, Europe's last great wilderness.
Producer TIM GROUT-SMITH BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast on Christmas Eve at 11.0pm)

with Eugene Fraser

A seasonal edition of the musical quiz 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 Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Saturday at 3.0pm)

There's everything from the story of Joseph Bonaparte 's chamberpot to the secret of the diamond ring with a deadly sparkle in Bernard Price's selection of tall tales and short verses from the world of antiques and curios.
The readers are MARTIN JARVIS and JUNE BARRIE
Producer MARY PRICE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast on Christmas Day at 9.5am)

Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS

A Christmas entertainment in words and music written and performed by David Barlow, Peter Christie, Miles Kington, Alan Maryon-Davis with their special guests The Fine Arts Brass Ensemble.
Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Christmas Eve at 12.30pm)

A Wreath of Roses by ELIZABETH TAYLOR dramatised by OLWEN WYMARK
A violent incident at a railway station at the start of her holiday shocks and disturbs Camilla and proves to be a memory from which she cannot escape.
Stereo

Malcolm Jones traces the career of the 19th-century artist
Thomas Cole , the father of American landscape painting. with Alan Rothwell as Thomas Cole
Readers MALCOLM HEBDEN and PAUL WEBSTER
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R) Revised

Killer whales are the most powerful of the dolphin family and the only whales to take warm-blooded prey. But there are few records of killer whales harming man. Whale-watchers Mike Bigg and John Ford of the Pacific Biological Station, Canada, and Peter Evans, Oxford University, consider the natural history of this social marine mammal.

BBC Bristol

(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast on New Year's Day at 11.15pm)

With HARRIET CASS

Colin Semper pursues complaints and queries about the BBC.

A recital of prose and poetry by or about prisoners of conscience devised by GREGORY DE POLNAY with Peggy Ashcroft. Alec McCowen Gregory de Polnay , Leo Wringer Music by the GALLIARD TRIO Directed by MARTIN JENKINS Stereo (R)

Anita Robinson examines the perils and pitfalls of preparing for a fun-filled festive season. Producer LAN KENNEDY BBC Radio Foyle

A Week of Sundays
'It seemed a bit sad that we weren't doing the full Christmas bit this year, and I thought maybe it'd be a good idea if we had our own little Christmas lunch on Sunday....' Written by SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Christmas Day at 12.30pm)

by JEREMY LLOYD , dramatised for radio by BRIAN SIBLEY
Captain Beaky and his Band decide the time has come for all the members of the woodlands to hear the story of Jesus. Producer GRAHAM GAULD Directed by JOHN FORREST Stereo (R)

by CHRISTOPHER FRY with Kevin McNally Brenda Bruce and Brian Blessed
What will the old woman do Dear Heart, with no roof over her head, no man
No money, and her boy doing nothing
But make a cart?
With DOUGLAS BLACKWELL
ALARIC COTTER. RICHARD
DERRINGTON MALCOLM GERRARD.
MICHAEL N. HARBOUR. KENNETH SHANLEY and VALERIE SARRUF
Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo (R)

Three traditional fairy tales by PAUL SHEARER and NICK SYMONS 2: Jack and the Beanstalk
THE INCREDIBLE BENDING BODGER BROTHERS as traders, villagers, serfs, kettles, etc Musical tinsel
COLIN SELL AND HIS LONELY GNOMES Witchcraft TINKERBELL NIXON. Stereo (Re-broadcast on Christmas Day at 3,30pm. 'Rumpelstiltskin 'on Boxing Day at 3.30pm)

What happens when a green blob from outer-nowhere goes WHOOMF! on a turkey farm?
With Jeremy Hitchen, Morwenna Banks, Steve Steen, Harry Enfield and Paul B. Davies
Written by ALAN WHITING. STUART SILVER and MALCOLM WILLIAMSON Producer MARK ROBSON Filmed in VEG-O-VISION (Stereo)
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 6.15pm)

2: Magnifying
The Rt Rev Michael Baughen , Bishop of Chester, presents the second of three reflections. Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester. Stereo

Edward Blakeman presents portraits of great flute players. Today James Galway plays music by Mozart,
Rimsky-Korsakov, Bach,
Godard, Mayer and Rodrigo. Producer ANDREW LYLE. Stereo (First broadcast on BBC World Service)

by E. M. DELAFIELD abridged for radio in five parts by PAMELA HOWE
Read by Anna Massey (1)
The trials and tribulations of a middle-class lady - a best-seller in the 1930s, it recreates vividly a time long past.
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol (R)
(Part 2 tomorrow at 11.30pm)

followed by an interlude