BBC Birmingham
7.45 Sunday Programmes Bells and Sunday Reading
Extracts from The Confessions of St Augustine chosen and read by VERNON SPROXTON
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by DAVID MELLOR Producer LESLIE MITCHELL BBC Manchester
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
9.10 Sunday Papers
Omnibus Edition
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE
Agricultural adviser ROBIN HICKS BBC Birmingham
The first of five broadcasts during Lent on the theme of Living Under the Cross 1: The Cross and Faith
Ante-Communion from Melbourne Parish Church, Derby-shire. Conducted by REV GEOFFREY SURTEES and CANON R. W. T. MOORE
Preacher THE BISHOP OF DERBY
Hymns (100 Hymns for Today): God of grace and God of glory (34); Be thou my vision (10)
Epistle; 2 Corinthians 6, vv 1-10 Gospel: Matthew 4, vv 1-11 Organist LAURENCE ROGERS BBC Birmingham
CHRISTOPHER BEENY appeals on behalf of the Horder Centre for Arthritics which helps many who are badly disabled.
Donations to: Christopher Beeny , The Horder Centre for Arthritics, [address removed]
Introduced by Jim Pestridge
The League of Safe Drivers: an examination of its methods and success. Killer Cars: JOHN LANE talks to members of the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association about their campaign. Under the Hammer: CLIVE JACOBS visits the British Car Auction Group.
Producer JOHN HASLAM at -11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues. Presented from Manchester by George Scott. Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM. BBC Manchester Ring [number removed]
Derek Cooper 's Sunday Supplement
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor HARRY BROWN
The Rabid Summer by JAMES FOLLETT with Patrick Barr Clifford Norgate
John Ringham , Garard Green and Pauline Letts
It is a hot August Bank Holiday and in a small seaside town, panic and disaster strike when it is discovered that rabies has broken out. How did it enter the country? The outbreak must be controlled, people must be protected, the culprit must be found ...
With thanks to the Animal Health Division of the Ministry of Agriculture for their guidance. Produced and directed by KAY PATRICK
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY. Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
The Land-and-Water Beasts
Today's programme looks at the life and mating habits of our common frogs, toads and newts as they embark on another year. Introduced by PETER FRANCE. Producer DILYS BREESE
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Wed 9.5 am)
Sounds Interesting: a report on new recording techniques of particular interest to the blind. Introduced by JANE FINNIS Producer TIIENA HESHEL
5.55 Weather, programme news
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe
If you need help, write to: If you think You've got Problems, BBC, London WIA 1AA Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Leonard Pearcey introduces music of his choice and talks to his guest: Peter Pears Soloist OSIAN ELLIS (harp) Producer ANGELA TILBY
Music for St David: Opening Concert from the New Theatre, Cardiff WALTER KLIEN (piano)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA guest leader JULIAN CUMMINGS conductor BORIS BROTT
Wagner Prelude and Liebstod (Tristan und Isolde)
8.20* Mozart Piano Concerto No 21, in c (K 467) (Part 2 R3 9.20)
A dramatic chronicle of the English Crown through 200 years of its history by the Elizabethan playwrights Shakespeare, Marlowe and their contemporaries, adapted in 26 parts by Martin Jenkins
Music by Christopher Whelen
The story is told by Richard Burton
3: Obsession
In which the King's mind is poisoned by love and the French are attacked by the English.
Produced and directed by Martin Jenkins
(Susan Fleetwood is a National Theatre player)
(Keith Michell broadcasts by permission of the Chichester Festival
For free booklet send large SAE to Vivat Rex, [address removed]
In 1777, when Mozart was 21, he left home with his mother on a 16-month tour which was to prove traumatic: on the way to Paris he fell in love; once in France, the audiences who had adored him as a child prodigy treated him with indifference, and his mother died. Gerald Larner retraces this significant journey with the help of the Mozart family's correspondence. Readers:
DAVID MAHLOWE , RUSSELL DIXON
LINDSAY DUNCAN and OLIVE PENDLETON. Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester
The Litany sung to the music Of THOMAS TALLIS
preceded by Weather
