Producer DAVID BELLINGER
BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
A selection of hymns and music with Jack Hywel-Davies including at
6.50 Bells on Sunday from St John the Baptist,
Mayfleld, Staffordshire
7.10 L WSunday Papers
7.10 Introduction to Science
7.30 Into the Open: The First Hurdle
7.50 Music interlude
David Richardson takes breakfast this week with Rowan Cherrington from Hampshire, a member of a well-known farming family who has left the hierarchy of the National Farmers Union to chair a new organisation devoted to selling more British grain in overseas markets.
BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by Clive Jacobs and Rosemary HartiU
Producers DAVID COOMES and EDWARD LUCAS
VHF/FMjoinsat 7.55am including at
8.0 News
(Broadcasts 7.10 am LW)
talks, for the Week's 's Good Cause, about work being undertaken to support specialists, institutions, and families who are caring for children with growth disorders; to promote research into the treatment of hitherto unbeatable growth disorders; and to increase awareness of these disorders. Donations to: Child Growth Foundation, [address removed]
9.10 Sunday Papers
from St George 's Chapel, Paris A service of Holy Communion Celebrant and Preacher THE REV MARTIN DRAPER
Hymn: The Church triumphant (EH 639); Psalm 146; Jerusalem the golden (EH 412); My God how wonderful (EH 441); 0 beati quorum via (Stanford)
Readings (Rsv): Revelation 7, w 9-17; Matthew 25, w 1-13
Director of music ADRIAN SHAW
Organist RICHARD GOWMAN. Stereo
Omnibus edition
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Directed by PETER WINDOWS
Producer LIZ RIGBEY. BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by Margaret Howard
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
visits the Brimpsfield and Mid-Cotswold Garden Society
Josef and Maria by PETER TURRlNl translated and adapted by DAVID ROGER withand
It is Christmas Eve and the silence in the department store is shattered when Maria shouts Christmas greetings over the public address system. Josef is her only audience. For the part-time cleaner and the night-watchman it is the start of an evening of memories, music and romance.
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER. Stereo
The Shakespeare Connection Some of the details about
Kronborg Castle and life in the Danish court in Hamlet might imply that Shakespeare had personal knowledge of both.
Opinion is divided as to whether or not he ever visited Denmark. The castle, built 400 years ago, was host last summer to the Oxford Playhouse Company production of Hamlet.
Lynn ten Kate went to look for the Shakespeare Connection. Producer SUSAN SNAlLUM
Fergus Keeling hears from field manager Mark Stanley-Price about a project to preserve the Arabian oryx.
And Lionel Kelleway talks to
Adrian Barnett about his recent expedition to the humming bird rainforests of Ecuador.
Brian Johnston visits Ilkeston in Derbyshire
With CLIVE ROSUN
Standing Naval Force Atlantic Deployed 365 days a year,
STANAFORLANT is made up of ships provided by NATO members. Last year British,
Dutch, German, Canadian and American ships, under the command of Commodore Bruce Richardson , exercised throughout the North Atlantic. Actuality accompanied them at sea for four days and recorded anti-submarine warfare exercises, damage control, close formation and gunnery practice. Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo
by E.F. Benson, dramatised and narrated in three episodes by Aubrey Woods
'A most salubrious seaside resort' is an apt description of Brighton. But will the arrival of Mr Arthur Armstrong, critic, poet, novelist and Labour Member of Parliament, make it even more attractive to Miss Susan Leg?
Presented by Susan Hill
This week: two very different books set in and around the city of Beirut.
Plus The Novel Experience: a practical initiative from libraries in the county of Essex.
David Benedictus , Hunter Davies and Janet Morgan in conversation with Brian Redhead.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
by JOHN FLETCHER (2) Stereo
The last few years have seen a dramatic change in Britain's national press.... new proprietors, new technology, new titles and even new printing houses away from Fleet Street. In this series of conversations, Gordon Clough seeks to determine just how much influence today's proprietors have on the papers they own and on the readers. 2: David Stevens of United Newspapers Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBCPebble Mill
Dr Crippen's Trial
A fresh look at one of this century's most notorious criminal cases, compiled by criminologist JENNY WARD with comments from legal and forensic experts.
Other parts played by RICHARD DURDEN , SHEILA GRANT
RACHEL GURNEY. PETER HOWELL
STUART ORGAN . SHAUN PRENDERGAST
JONATHAN TAFLER. MANNING WILSON With contributions from
BILL WADDELL , curator of the New Scotland Yard Black
Museum; JONATHAN GOODMAN , crime writer; DR PHILIP WILLCOX : DR IAIN WEST; DR NORMAN SAUER ; and GREGORY STONE , barrister Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS (R)
The Case Against Christ
The Rev John Young , Chaplain at the College of Ripon and York St John , begins a new series of three talks based on his book with the same title. 1: Personal Evidence in which he examines reasons for belief in God.
Producer NOEL VINCENT BBC Manchester
Reflections, criticisms, jottings and memoirs from the notebooks of Franco Zeffirelli - one of the century's most outstanding opera, theatre and film directors - in conversation with Natalie Wheen.
A Kaleidoscope special (R)
'If you're frightened, bloody well sing!' That was the advice given by a British captain, Sam Wild , at the entrenched Battle of Jarama in the Spanish Civil
War. It's 50 years since the start of the war and Jim Lloyd re-creates the atmosphere by talking to some of the British soldiers about their songs. Researcher ROY PALMER
Producer ANNE-MARIE COLE BBC Pebble Mill (R)
followed by an interlude
