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with Clive Jacobs and Ted Harrison
Researcher ALISON BOGLE
Producer CAROLINE DONNE
Editor DAVID COOMES
including at 8.00 News

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Ted Harrison
Unknown:
Alison Bogle
Producer:
Caroline Donne
Editor:
David Coomes

looks back, for the Week's Good Cause, on the BBC's own fund-raising activities over the last few days for its Children in Need appeal, and tells where all the money is going.
Your donation can be made at any bank, at most building societies, at any high street post office (Transcash 1066), or by post to: [address removed]

for the first Sunday of Advent from Hope Park Church, St Andrew 's led by the Minister,
The Rev William Henney
Introit: Almighty God , who hast me brought
Readings (RSV): Isaiah 11, w 1-4, 9; John 1, w 35-42; Romans 8, w 31-39
Hymns (CH3): Hark the glad sound; When Jesus saw the fishermen; Jesus calls us o'er the tumult; The Saviour died, but rose again
Anthem: Blessed are the pure in heart; Carol of the Advent ST LEONARD'S SCHOOL CHOIR conducted byGRACE MCINTOSH Organist and Choirmaster PROFESSOR JOHN M. HOWIE BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
St Andrew
Unknown:
William Henney
Unknown:
Almighty God
Conducted By:
Grace McIntosh
Choirmaster:
Professor John M. Howie

In the third of six programmes Martin Wainwright describes how the passion for collecting was shared by Victorian and Edwardian women.
Readers DEBORAH MAKEPEACE and MARGARET WARD
Producer JENNY HARGREAVES (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Wainwright
Readers:
Deborah Makepeace
Readers:
Margaret Ward
Producer:
Jenny Hargreaves

The Schumacher Inheritance Dr E. F. Schumacher , in his best-selling book Small Is
Beautiful, criticised western society's pursuit of profit and progress, arguing instead for an economic system with an emphasis on the person rather than the product. Ten years after Schumacher's death,
Ted Harrison discovers what has happened to his ideals. Researcher AMANDA HANCOX
Producer and series editor DAVID COOMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr E. F. SchumacHer
Unknown:
Ted Harrison
Unknown:
Amanda Hancox
Editor:
David Coomes

by G.K. Chesterton
Dramatised by John Scotney
A sword with blood on it, a young man bound and gagged, a missing dandy - Father Brown, in company with the retired, elderly sh... you know who, attempts to track down the mysterious Mr Glass.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
G.K. Chesterton
Dramatised by:
John Scotney
Director:
Alec Reid
Father Brown:
Andrew Sachs
Orion Hood:
Bernard Archard
Flambeau:
Olivier Pierre
Maggie:
Deborah Makepeace
Todhunter:
Kim Wall
Housekeeper:
Margaret Ward

Last programme in the series. Joyce and David Aldred had always wanted to own a theatre organ. When the instrument at the Odeon, Southport, became available, they snapped it up and then built it into their Stockport home.
Margaret Howard discovers how David installed it and listens as Joyce makes sweet music.
Producer PETER HOARE. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Aldred
Unknown:
Margaret Howard
Producer:
Peter Hoare.

The Lives of L. Ron Hubbard Whether seen as brilliant innovator or manipulative charlatan, Hubbard undoubtedly achieved extraordinary things. Science-fiction writer, experimental scientist, inventor of the psychotherapy Dianetics, and author of the best-seller based on it, and founder of a worldwide business empire based on his Church of Scientology, he was successively celebrity, fugitive and eventually a recluse. Was he a true believer in his own ideas, or did he invent worlds from his imagination to make his followers pay for new revelations?
Margaret Percy investigates.
Producer GRAHAM TAYAR (R) revised

Contributors

Unknown:
L. Ron Hubbard
Unknown:
Margaret Percy
Producer:
Graham Tayar

Words and music for Sunday night
The Waters of Life
In the first of two programmes Ian Bradley reflects on the place of water as a symbol of life in Christianity and other religions.
Readers GLENYS MILES and ALAN SYKES
Producer JULIA BROSNAN BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Bradley
Unknown:
Alan Sykes
Producer:
Julia Brosnan

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