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 STEPHEN WHITTLE BBC Manchester
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
9.10 Sunday Papers
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
The last of five broadcasts during Lent on the theme of Living Under the Cross
5: The Cross and Compassion From St Mary's Parish Church, Luton, Bedfordshire. Morning Prayer, conducted by the Vicar, REV CHRISTOPHER MAYFIELD , assisted by REV ANTHONY FLETCHER. Preacher REV CANON ERIC JAMES Lessons: Isaiah 40, vv 1-11 (AV); Luke 10, vv 25-42 (AV); Psalm 23: Hymns (from A and M Rev): Immortal love for ever full (208); My song is love unknown (102); Love divine, all loves excelling (205); (from 100 Hymns for Today) God is love: let heav'n adore him (32)
Director of Music ROGER WINDMILL. Organist ROGER PALMER
THE VERY REV EDWARD H. PATEY , Dean of Liverpool, appeals for funds to complete Liverpool's majestic Anglican Cathedral. £150,000 is needed before the end of 1977. Donations to: The Dean of Liverpool, [address removed]
Introduced by Jim Pestridge
Driving at the Limits: HARRY HEYWOOD previews the TOTAL Economy Drive.
Instructing Instructors: ELWYN REED , a driving instructor, joins a course for super instructors.
The International Tyre and Equipment Exhibition: GEORGE MARSHALL reports.
Together with topical news. Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues, presented from Glasgow by George Scott Producer GEORGE SINCLAIR
BBC Scotland. Ring [number removed]
Nancy Wise's
Sunday Supplement
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor HARRY BROWN
KENNETH FORD invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
Questions, on postcards please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX. BBC Manchester
The Polyglots by WILLIAM GERHARDIE adapted for radio by OLIVIA MANNING from the novel of the same title. with Geoffrey Beevers as George Madeline Smith as Sylvia and Mary Wimbush as Aunt Theresa
A young Englishman in the course of travelling on a military mission to the Far East, discovers his cosmopolitan relatives and a dedication to romance. Produced and directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY. Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
' A duck to a blind baby Is the sour smell of the pond, the gurgling sound of water and the familiar quack.' MARGARET FORD reviews some booklets designed for parents and discovers why blind babies don't appreciate plastic ducks. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Producer THENA HESHEL
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Langholm in Dumfriesshire Producer CAROLE STONE
BBC Bristol
5.55 Weather, programme news
The antidote to panel games featuring the antics of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and William Rushton anticipated by Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair with the antiphony of Colin Sell at the piano.
Next Saturday night, the Jewish festival of Passover begins with a special service - known as the Seder - conducted in the home. The Seder isacolourfulceremony,combining prayers and songs with the eating of symbolic foods and involving the whole family.
Anne MacNamara was the guest of the Kosmin family for a Seder in their home near London. She describes the ceremony with specially recorded excerpts and the comments of REV JOHN WILKINSON about the links between this ceremony and the Last Supper, Producer THENA HESHEL
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, leader ANDREW ORTON conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1
8.13* Boccherini Symphony No 4, in D minor (Delia casa del Diavolo)
8.36* Mussorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
8.49* Arnold Overture: Tam O'Shanter BBC Manchester
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 a King is robbed of his life and Falstaff is King of the Robbers.
Produced and directed by Gerry Jones.
(Anthony Quayle is a member of the RSC, Stratford)
Review: page 66
Four Lent talks by REVDONALD ENGLISH , on the four Gospels as guides to understanding the death of Jesus, and the contemporary significance of each. 4: According to John BBC Bristol
preceded by Weather
