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7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading. Gospel Meditations
by LOUIS EVELY Read by PETER FETTES
7.55 Weather, programme news
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Programme for Asian listeners
BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading. Gospel Meditations
by LOUIS EVELY Read by PETER FETTES
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.1(1 Sunday Papers
Presented by GERALD PRIESTLAND Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
9.10 Sunday Papers
BBC Birmingham
Parish Communion (Series III) from St James the Great, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire
Celebrant and Preacher, REV ADAM FORD
Readings (RSV): 2 Corinthians 11, vv 19-31; Luke 8, vv 4-15
Hymns (A and m Rev): AU creatures of our God (172); Jubilate (Psalm 100); Creator of the world (83); Let all mortal flesh (390); Lord of beauty (174)
Organist JAMES STANSFIELD BBC Manchester
TONY SOPER appeals on behalf of the Devon Trust for Nature Conservation
Donations to: [address removed]
Talkabout ...
A discussion of current motoring matters between members of the Southern Group of the IAM and JUDITH CHALMERS , radio and television personality; NORMAN FOWLER , MP, Conservative spokesman on Transport; COURTENAY EDWARDS , Motoring Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph.
Chairman jim PESTRIDGE Producer ANTHONY SMITH
at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues. Presented from Birmingham by George Scott. Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham Ring [number removed]
Presented by Derek Cooper
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough
The City of the Horizon by DAVID SPENSER with Gary Bond , Mary Morris and Kate Binchy
The first of two plays based on the life and times of the Pharaoh Akhnaten whose reign in Egypt (1371-1356 BC) preceded that of Tutankhamun. A poet, a heretic and a visionary, he established a new religion and hoped for a new world. 1: The Dream
Producer john TYDEMAN
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY. Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
Mice and Voles at Home
The garden blackbird defending his territory is a familiar sight, but we seldom notice the similar dramas in the lives of mice, voles and shrews.
Introduced by PETER FRANCE. Producer dilys BREESE. BBC Bristol (Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)
Read All About It: MARGARET FORD reviews some publications that might be of interest to the families of blind people. Introduced by PETER WHITE Producer THENA HESHEL
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Shildon. County Durham. Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol
5.55 Weather, programme news
Mike and Mary discuss with their guests of the week the interaction of public and private lives in various types of successful relationships. Producer MICHAEL EMBER
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
The quiz game about what famous people said and what Peter Cook. John Wells
Richard Boston. Jo Kendall think they ought to have said instead. Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees Producer JOHN LLOYD
A look at new books, plays and poetry with a religious theme. Presented by Mary Craig Producer MONICA FURLONG
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor BORIS BROTT
Rossini Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers
Holst St Paul's Suite Bizet Symphony in c BBC Wales
by THOMAS HARDY dramatised for radio in six parts by DESMOND HAWKINS
2: Christmas at Bloom's End
' As he drove his reddle cart across Egdon Heath , Diggory Venn pondered his chance discovery of the meaning of Eustacia's bonfire - that it was a signal luring her former lover, Wildeve, back to 'her after the breaking of his promise to marry Tamsin Yeobright ... ? '
Mummers played by JOHN BARKER DONALD BISSET , VICTOR FAWKES JACK HARDING. KIT THACKER and HUBERT TUCKER
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
Britain and America over two centuries: a series of eight programmes to mark the American Bicentennial.
Written and presented by Ian Mclntyre
5: Divided by a Common Tongue - British English and ' American English '
Speakers: ROBERT BURCHFIELD ALISTAIR COOKE , JOE DILLARD ELIZABETH HAHDWICK
MARYA MANNES , RAVEN MCDAVID JR JAMES RESTON
ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR and LARRY ZIFF
Readers: LOUISE PURSLOW
TOM FLEMING , ROBIN HOLMES
Historical consultant ALEC campBELL, Professor of American History, Birmingham University Producer MICHAEL MASON
(Next week-6: Books will Speak Plaint
Words and music on a Christian theme
Devised by MONICA FURLONG Narrator GARARD GREEN Music: BBC SINGERS
preceded by Weather