with Marjorie Lofthouse Producer JANE WARD
BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
with Jack Hywel-Davies , including Bells on Sunday from St Peter 's Church, Cradley, West Midlands. Stereo
Claire Powell visits a farm with a difference where most of the staff are inmates, when she meets Bev Wright , farm manager at HM Prison near Doncaster. Producer SUE SMITH BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by Clive Jacobs and Andrew Green
Producer NORMAN WINTER Editor DAVID COOMES BBC Manchester including at
speaks, for the Week's Good Cause, on behalf of an organisation that provides information and counselling on health matters affecting women.
0 DONATIONS: Women's
Health Concern, [address removed]
by Alistair Cooke
The Rt Rev David Jenkins , Bishop of Durham, preaches at the Parish Communion for the third Sunday in Advent, from St Peter 's, Stockton-on-Tees. Celebrant
THE REV ALEX WHITEHEAD. Introit: Rejoice in the Lord always (Purcell). Hymns (A and M
Revised): On Jordan's bank; Thy kingdom come; Lo, He comes with clouds descending. Anthem: Christe
Redemptor Omnium (Monteverdi).
Reading: Matthew 11, vv 2-10 (NEB).
Director of Music
GEORGE BARBER. BBC North East
Omnibus edition
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Directed and edited by RUTH PATTERSON BBC Pebble Mill
with Nicholas Comfort Producer JANE BERESFORD
with Margaret Howard Stereo
with Gordon Clough Deputy editor ROD LIDDLE Editor ROGER MOSEY
This week, Clay Jones digs into the bulging postbag, and calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Downham and Ken Hulme to solve listeners' gardening problems. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
0 See Gardening, page 79
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adapted in two episodes by Bert Coules
'I wouldn't tell her too much. Women are never to be entirely trusted.'
As Day One of the Chocoholics Weekend draws to a close, only three questions remain: will Heather beat Sian to the last remaining truffle? Will Dolly, Di and Sylvie return home in kaftans? Will the addicts be cured? Tune in to the third British Chocoholics Weekend and find out.
Producer CAROLINE SARLL BBC Wales. Stereo
0 See Feature, page 7
with Michael Rosen. How appealing are modern retellings of children's Bible stories? Julia Eccleshare and David Self examine some recent versions.
Dora Saint , better known to her readers as 'Miss Read', has written 40 books about village life in the Cotswolds. Recently she returned to Wood Green near Witney to see how it compares with her fictional village of Thrush Green.
Producer KATE WHITEHEAD BBC Bristol
Ending his memoirs of the Gallipoli campaign in April 1915,
Rupert Westmacott recalls the aftermath of losing a leg at the height of the battle.
Producer JULIAN HALE (R)
Dr Ray Barron explores the hill country of Southern India.
(Details as Saturday 11.30am)
Presented by Julie First and Adrian Moorhouse. Help Purwell and Dogsbody find the friend who is trying to ruin Christmas in The Big Stink with Elizabeth Estensen and Timothy Spall.
Script by LEE PRESSMAN . Snow Poems by ROGER MCGOUGH.
Eleanor Bron narrates the final episode of The Snow Queen by HANS CHRISTIAN
ANDERSEN, adapted by OLWEN WYMARK. Taking part:
JENNY LUCKRAFT ,
DAPHNE OXENFORD. NICOLA
STAPLETON.
RICHARD TATE , NIGEL CARRINGTON.
KEN CUMBERLIDGE ,
MARLENE SIDAWAY , RICHARD ELING and ANDY HOCKLEY . Researcher LIS ROBERTS
Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN BBC Manchester. Stereo
Nigel Forde presents a good atlas guide; poet Simon Armitage introduces his first collection, Zoom; and Susan Howatch discusses her novel. Ultimate Prizes.
with Max Pearson and Susan Marling
Taken from the novel "Not Prince Hamlet" by Michael Meyer, adapted by Elizabeth Bradbury
Learning Spanish at an advanced age so he could communicate with his savage parrot; going to have a heart check-up on his motorbike: Ralph Richardson was a true original. Michael Meyer describes his rare qualities in this affectionate memoir. (Stereo)
The last in a series of four poetry and prose anthologies in which Hannah Gordon and David Suchet taste the bitter sweetness of love.
'Dawn love is silver. Wait for the West -
Old love is gold love - Old love is best...
BBC Pebble Mill (R)
How the turkey cooked its goose and found its way to the dinner table. With Jessica Holm and Fergus Keeling
A search for Jaroslav Hasek , and his comic creation The Good Soldier Svejk. With and Directed by JOHN POWELL
with John Turnbull Producer SALLIE DAVIES
Lighting the Way to Christmas
4: John the Baptist
In the final programme of the series on the Advent wreath,
Pauline Webb lights a candle for the contemporary martyrs who are counterparts of John the Baptist.
Producer NOEL VINCENT BBC Manchester. Stereo
