with Marjorie Lofthouse.
Producer David Bellinger. Stereo
with Jack Hywel-Davies . Including Bells On
Sunday from St Clement Danes, Strand, London. Stereo
Robert Forster breakfasts with Geoffrey John , chairman of the Meat and Livestock Commission.
Producer Carol Trewin
with Trevor Bames and Christopher Morgan. Editor David Coomes
Including at
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by Alistair Cooke.
Glorious Returns
On Advent Sunday a special series of services begins. The preacher is Rev Dr Colin Morris.
Today's service comes from Portsmouth Road
United Reformed Church in Guildford with the theme Glorious Returns with Clouds Descending.
0 Come, 0 Come
Emmanuel; Make Way; Lo He Comes; Joy to the World; II Peter 3. vv 3-14; Matthew 24, vv 23-25. Minister Rev Alasdair Pratt. Director of Music Gillian Lloyd.
Omnibus edition.
Director Keri Davies. Stereo
with Louise Levene.
Producer Dinah Lammiman. Stereo
with Chris Serle.
with James Cox and Nick Clarke.
Visitors to the Ideal Home
Show at the NEC in Birmingham put their questions to
Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Chairman Clay Jones.
Producer Diana Stenson. Stereo
The Dollar Princess by Kate Parker.
At the turn of the century, Consuelo Vanderbilt was forced to marry the Duke of Marlborough and spent years at Blenheim Palace pining for her American love.
Director Cherry Cookson. Stereo
How do lifers use their radios to escape from prison? Laurie Taylor goes behind bars.
Producer Mary Sharp
A Place Apart
Northern Ireland remains one of the most divided parts of Europe. Brendan O'Leary asks if there will ever be a settlement in which both communities have their aspirations satisfied.
with Michael Rosen.
Libby Purves looks at fiction in a setting of conflict, from Angola,
South Africa and Iraq to Northern Ireland.
Producer Jill Burridge
Last programme of the Down Your Way series in which Ludovic Kennedy explores his Scots heritage. 4: Islay.
The first of four programmes in which members of the four estates pick a favourite poem. Today: the press, and the choice of Simon Jenkins , recent editor of Tlie Times.
Producer Julian Wilkinson. Stereo
0 Requests to Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
with Chris Dunkley.
Introduced by Edward De Souza , the Man in Black. 4: Music Lovers by Nick Warburton.
The striving for ultimate musical perfection strikes a note of terror.
Director Martin Jenkins. Stereo
Nigel Forde looks at the best children's books of 1992 with Julia Eccleshare and Andrew Davies.
Stereo
Listeners' reports with Susan Marling.
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Goodbye Little England
Clancy Sigal was a refugee from McCarthyism who made his home and his living in Britain for 30 years. On the eve of Major's accession to power he returned to California.
This is a wry look back at those years and a permanent foreigner's view of life in Britain as lived today.
Read by Lewis Hancock. Producer Dave Sheasby
Presented by Jessica Holm.
Fifty years ago, at the end of one of the grimmest years of war, Sir William Beveridge captured the public imagination by unveiling an epoch-making battle plan to slay the domestic "giants" of idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want. But who was this unlikely hero?
David Walker examines the career of the "People's William", and discovers how an Edwardian gentleman with social pretensions became the ostensible founder of the post-war welfare state.
Producer Simon Coates
Stereo
The programme that follows the activities of MPs in committee as they cross-examine witnesses on issues of public concern.
Presented by Carolyn Quinn.
Producer Charles Sigler
A Season Under Siege Canon John Young , York Diocesan Evangelist, with his reflections for
Advent.
1: No One Gets Out Alive
Producer Clair Jaquiss. Stereo
