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 CLIVE JACOBS Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
9.10 Sunday Papers
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SURYANE
Agricultural adviser ROBIN HICKS BBC Birmingham
The fourth of five broadcasts during Lent on the theme Living Under the Cross
4: The Fellowship of the Cross From 1st Lisburn Presbyterian Church, Lisburn, Co Antrim conducted by REV GORDON GRAY Hymns (rch Third Edition) We sing the praise of him who died (258, Walton); 0 word of pity for our pardon pleading (244, Londonderry Air); Lord, who in thy perfect wisdom (473, Blaenwern); Lift high the cross (550, Crucifer)
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 4, vv 5-12, 16-18 (NEB); Gospel: Luke 9, vv 18-24 (Rsv). Organist DAVID THOMPSON. BBC Northern Ireland
VICTORIA PLUCKNETT appeals on behalf of the Helping Hand Organisation, which runs residential homes, day care centres and a counselling service for men and women who have become dependent on alcohol or drugs. Donations to: Victoria Plucknett , Helping Hand Organisation, [address removed]
Introduced by Jim Pestridge
Garage Servicing: value-for-money or fraud? GEOFF DOBSON investigates. The Geneva Motor Show: a report by BRIAN ROBINS. Touring by Tape: ERIC TOBITT tries a pre-recorded continental route. HARRY HEYWOOD talks about making a route recording. Wayfaring with a Car: DONALD NORFOLK joins a wayfaring course for outdoor exercises. 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]
Sunday Supplement
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor HARRY BROWN
The Trumpet-Major by THOMAS HARDY , dramatised by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER with Ian Holm. Gareth Thomas Rosalind Ayres
Christopher Benjamin
The soldiers who came to the village of Overcombe and won the hearts of the young ladies had little idea that they'd end up as dust on the battlefields of Salamanca, Toulouse and Waterloo. For one particular soldier his affair of the heart was complicated by a rival who was not only a sailor, but also his brother.
Produced and directed by JANE MORGAN
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Why is a rabbit flea only able to lay eggs when the doe becomes pregnant? In today's magazine edition, Pat Morris describes some of the strange ways in which animals lives interact. Barbara Verard talks about the flowers of Malaysia. And if you're a milkman or a postman, there's a bird enquiry especially for you!
Introduced by PETER FRANCE Producer DILYS BREESE
BBC Bristol
1 Don't always tidy the things away ': WENDY HARRINGTON has some practical advice for people who share their kitchen with a blind relative.
Introduced by PETER WHITE Producer THENA HESHEL
5.55 Weather, programme news
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe
A man whose wife committed suicide four months after he learnt he had multiple sclerosis, discusses matters of life and death with Dr Wendy Greengross , Joan Meigh and his 14-year-old son.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
The antidote to panel games to be taken in the form of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and William Rushton.
With justice dispensed with by Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and the music therapy by Colin Sell at the piano.
Leonard Pearcey introduces music of his choice for a Sunday evening and talks to his guest: Colin Davis.
Soloist OSIAN ELLIS (harp) Producer ANGELA TILBY
BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Ashley Lawrence with Patricia Reakes (soprano),-Keith Erwen (tenor) and Ian Wallace (bass-baritone) present a programme of opera and ballet music, live from the Town Hall, Huddersfield Introduced by COLIN DORAN
Presented by the BBC in association with Kirklees Metropoiltan Council (Ian Wallace is in My Music; Tuesday 6.15 pm)
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
In which one King is deposed and another King is crowned.
Produced and directed by Martin Jenkins
(Rptd: Tues 3.5 pm)
Robert Hardy's preview: p 17
A Portrait in Music by DAVID WHEELER
As a composer, Sibelius achieved early recognition. But not before a rebuff in Vienna:
' Brahms stubbornly refused to see me ... when my case was reported, Brahms put the well-known question of Schubert: " Can he do anything? " ' with Leslie Sands as Sibelius Narrated by VICTOR WINDING with the voices Of LESLIE HERI TAGE, PAUL LAVERS , AUDREY NOBLE. RONALD RUSSELL. Produced and directed by brian miller
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Fri 11.5 am) Preview: page 17
Four Lent talks by REV DONALD ENGLISH , on the four Gospels as guides to understanding the death of Jesus, and the contemporary significance of each. 3: According to Luke BBC Bristol
preceded by Weather
