Stories of St Francis of Assisi Read by BRIAN HAINES
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
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from Wesley College, Bristol, with students from Methodist, Anglican and Baptist Theological Colleges of Bristol
Preacher REV RUPERT E. DAVIES , Principal of Wesley College
Hymns: 0 for a thousand tongues to sing (MHB 1); Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to us (Hymns and Songs 86); And can it be? (MHB 371)
Readings: Exodus 3. vv 7-10; John 8, vv 32-36
ROGER MEEKINGS and other students assist in the service Organist DAVID FRANCIS
NORMAN WISDOM appeals on behalf of the Independent Adoption Society
This Society finds good homes with loving parents for unwanted babies. It helps people of all religions and all races. Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Norman Wisdom , Independent Adoption Society, [address removed]
visits the London Borough of Bromley Road Safety organisations. Questions from members and their friends answered by: GEORGE EYLES , director of Tests, iam; MRS GILLIAN DICKENS , National Road Safety Committee: HARRY HEYWOOD , editor, Practical Motorist; MICHAEL KEMP , motorIng correspondent, Daily Mail; chairman NEVILLE POWLEY Recorded in the Epworth Hall, Bromley Producer JIM PESTRIDGE at 11.43* the latest traffic report
A countrywide look at politics from outside Westminster
Presented from Birmingham by GEORGE SCOTT
Producer DAVID SHUTE shuts Ring: [number removed]
Cliff Mtchelmore invites you to ring him on [number removed]to exchange ideas live by phone on any subject bar party politics with studio guests:
Kingsley Amis, novelist and poet, whose recreations include music and films
Monica Tyson. editor Ideal Home magazine and writer on the home as a place to live in Andrew Sinclair , historian, film producer and novelist
[number removed](16 lines) will take calls from 11.0 am onward. Or send your question to Whatever You Think, Room 4066, Broadcasting House, London WI 1AA
12.55 Weather, programme news
leads off this 60-minute up-totha-minute report: presented by Gordon Clough
Editor HARRY BROWN
visits Forfar in Angus
Is it oldf Is it genuinef What is itr
ARTHUR NECUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE
Questions to Talking about Antiques, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Fungus Foray
Early October is probably the best time of year for fungi, so that's the theme of this month's Radio Nature Trail.
A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Music-Making: Jane Finnis reports on some of the aids and services available for blind musicians. Introduced by David Scott Blackhall
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Bletchley, Buckinghamshire
(Extended version: Tues, 7.30) (Radio Times People: page 4)
5.55 Weather, programme news
"I am 54, an engineer and redundant since the beginning of 1972. I consider I am too young to accept early retirement but not too old to work. What do you advise?"
One of the questions sent in by listeners which will be discussed in this programme by Richard Freeman, Educational Director of the National Extension College: Dr James Hemming, educational psychologist; and Margaret Korving, careers consultant.
Chairman Jean Metcalfe Producer thena heshel
A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 pm)
(Out of the Box, Denis Norden's TV quiz: Monday 8.50 pm BBC2)
Members of the audience at the Church Hall, Yardley, Birmingham, put questions on religious, moral and social issues to: DR JOHN HARRINGTON , consultant psychiatrist and Medical Director at the Uffculme Clinic, Birmingham
DR FRED MILSON. Head of the Youth and Community Service Dept, Westhill College of Further Education. Selly Oak and COUNCILI.OR NORA HINKS JP Chairman geoikrey SMITH Producer JACK SINGLETON
BBC TRAINING ORCHESTRA concert-master PETER MOUNTAIN Conductor MEREDITH DAVIES JOHN BIRCH (organ)
Rossini Overture: L'ltaliana in Algeri
8.10* Handel Organ Concerto No 1, in G minor
8.29* Dvorak Serenade in e, for string orchestra
by JANE AUSTEN : adapted in four parts by THEA HOLME : with Jill Balcon , Madeleine Cannon Peter Egan. John Rowe
Amateur theatricals can lead to private dramas, and several of the company at Mansfield Park have reason to regret the decision to perform the play Lovers' Vows. Part 3
(For full cast see Tues, 3.0 pm)
A look at the present plight and future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by MALCOLM MACEWEN
The World Environmental Crisis Whose Finger on the Trigger?
Professor Barry Commoner , the American biologist, has recently criticised the assumptions underlying the world model on which the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's study The Limits to Growth was based. Commoner argues that the crisis. including the population problem, has been triggered off bv the developed countries and above all by technologies directed towards short-term ends. Professor Commoner's views were recorded at the annual conference of the Royal Institute of British Architects last July.
Producer LEONIE COHN
Thou, Lurd, art my health
