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Glorious Return ...
...To Be Our Judge. This series of Advent services, featuring the Rev
Dr Colin Morris as preacher, continues with a family service from Dagnall Street Baptist Church, St Albans , led by the Senior Minister, the Rev Michael Bochenski. Also taking part is the Rev
Noel Pepper. Matthew 13, vv
24-30; Hail To The Lord's Anointed; Born In The Night, Mary's Child;
Restore 0 Lord; Rejoice The Lord Is King.
Organist and Conductor Bingitta Birchall. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Colin Morris
Unknown:
St Albans
Unknown:
Michael Bochenski.
Unknown:
Noel Pepper.
Conductor:
Bingitta Birchall.

Chairman Clay Jones digs into the postbag and calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ixdward to solve gardening problems sent in by listeners.
Producer Diana Stenson. Stereo ●Send sae for fact sheet to
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Contributors

Unknown:
Clay Jones
Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Daphne Ixdward
Producer:
Diana Stenson.

Grace and Favour
Are you an unbeliever if you don't go to church?
Grace doesn't think so, but in Richard Everett 's heart-warming play her faith is put to the test.
Director Glyn Dearman. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Everett
Director:
Glyn Dearman.
Grace:
Brenda Bruce
Frances:
Sarah Badel
Liz:
Siriol Jenkins
Robert:
Andrew Wincott
Donald:
Graham Crowden
Young Grace:
Victoria Carling
Frank:
Robert Portal
Ruth:
Ann Windsor
Gran:
Gudrun Ure

The third in a series of four programmes in which members of the four estates pick a favourite poem. Today Lord Jenkins of Hillhead makes a choice of poem for "The Lords Temporal".
Producer Julian Wilkinson
Stereo
● Requests to Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Producer:
Julian Wilkinson

Introduced by Edward De Souza , the Man in Black. 6: The Horn by Stephen Gallagher.
Three strangers, trapped in a snowstorm on a remote stretch of motorway, find themselves listening for the sound of a horn which they believe will lead them to safety - but they are very much mistaken!
Director Martin Jenkins. Stereo

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edward De Souza
Unknown:
Stephen Gallagher.
Director:
Martin Jenkins.
Natham:
John Castle
David:
Peter Gunn
Mick:
Philip Sully
The Girl:
Cara Kelly
The Snotcplough Driver:
Christopher Scott

A new collection of Rebecca West 's shorter fiction celebrates the centenary of her birth.
Nigel Forde finds out more about the novelist who took her name from one of Ibsen's most independent and strong-willed characters. And a look along the bookshelves of Jesus's biographer, A N Wilson.
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Rebecca West
Unknown:
Nigel Forde

Life After Life by Tony Parker.
From his tape-recorded interviews with 12 murderers sentenced to life imprisonment. Parker chooses two to bring a rare insight into the mind of the lifer.
Producer Faynia Williams. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Parker.
Producer:
Faynia Williams.

To start a new series,
Helena Kennedy QC presents her own selection of poetry, prose and drama on the theme of crime and justice. Leo McKern and Juliet Stevenson read accounts of spirited advocacy, courtroom drama and the bizarre eccentricities of the legal world. Recorded in the Benchers' Smoking Room in the Middle Temple. Producer Julian Wilkinson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Helena Kennedy
Unknown:
Leo McKem
Unknown:
Juliet Stevenson
Producer:
Julian Wilkinson.

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