BBC Birmingham
7.45 Sunday Programmes Bells and Sunday Reading
CHARLES DAVIS reads from his book Body as Spirit
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
Omnibus Edition
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
from Fuller Baptist Church, Kettering. Conducted bytheMinister THE REV REGINALD SPOONER Hymns (Baptist Hymn Book): How firm a foundation (579); Through the love of God our Saviour (590); And can it be (426). Lesson: Acts 4, vv 1-12 Organist HORACE GEARY BBC Birmingham
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Introduced by Jim Pestridge
Driving Examiner: a visit to the new training centre at Cardington.
New Lights for the Autumn: SUE BAKER of the London Evening News describes future developments.
What Not to Do Yourself: GEOFFREY HANCOCK underlines the hazards of the home workshop.
Tell Your Insurers: a principle of motor insurance by RONALD BEALE.
Producer JOHN HASLAM 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]
Derek Cooper 's
Sunday Supplement
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough
visits Norfolk, where members of the Sheringham Horticul tural Society put their questionstOFREDLOADS,
BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD
BBC Manchester (Rptd: Tues 4.5)
by J.M. Synge
Adapted for broadcasting by W.R. Rodgers
with Siobhan McKenna, Eamonn Keane, Liam Redmond, Milo O'Shea, Anna Manahan and Jack Cunningham
Greatness is about to begin.
In a little room
Men will walk and talk like Kings for a while
And explore
The wide and windy acres of words.
A country girl will comport herself in the style of a Queen of note,
A penny potboy take on the golden tongue of a poet
(W.R. Rodgers)
(medium wave only)
(B'cast in 1965)
John Julius Norwich. traveller and writer, presents a mixed bag of international records.
A Recipe for New Land
Take some derelict clay pits. Fill with a few million tons of ash. Add a layer of soil from the sugar beet factory. Garnish with some trees and grass. Flavour with bird song. And lo - new land for this Radio Nature Trail.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Wed9.5am)
We Never Say No: that, says PETER WHITE , could be the motto of a special development unit attached to the Nelson and Colne College of Education in Lancashire. He reports on how the unit creates courses for the blind, rather than working to a pre-planned schedule. Presented by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Producer MICHELL RAPER
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Chipping Ongar in Essex Producer ANTHONY SMITH
BBC Bristol(Rptd: Tues 11.5am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
A series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Dick Taverne. QC. and an audience of jurors assembled, this evening, in Hinde Street Methodist Church, London. Tonight's proposition: The World Council of Churches is Right to Aid Liberation Movements.
It is proposed by Pauline Webb , Committee member of the World Council of Churches; and opposed by The Rev George Austin , member of the General Synod of the Church of England. Each advocate will call his witnesses, cross-question his opponent's, and argue his case. The jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial so that a swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached. Producer
HUGH PURCELL.
London v Midlands (Round 1)
London: Gordon Clough
(Chairman) with Irene Thomas and Professor John B. Mays who seek partners for Bacon, Indices, Crick, Spell, Crosses and It.
Midlands:
Jack Longland (Chairman) with John Julius Norwich and Dr Frederick Milson who look for the Islands of Langerhans, Kronig's Isthmus. and the canals of Schiaparelli. Question researcher DAVID MACKAY Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
An occasional series which reviews religious books and music, presented by Christopher Booker
Producer MONICA FURLONG
MISCHA MAISKY (cello)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN Dvorak
Overture: Amid nature
8.16* Cello Concerto in B minor BBC Manchester
13: Harfleur
A Quatercentenary Celebration of Robert Burton (1577-1640) by JOHN BOWLE presented by Frank Muir
'Observe this short precept: Be Not Solitary, Not Idle. Let the Unhappy Hope and the Happy Beware.'
A genial investigation of the only book which could get Dr Johnson out of bed before he really wanted to rise, and of its author. It is a tour de force of Renaissance learning and imagination, and 'melancholy' in the wide definition Burton gave it, is virtually synonymous with ' the condition of mankind '.Also taking part: JOHN BOWLE WILLIAM EEDLE. MUSIC composed and performed by BOB DOWNES. Producer
JOHN THEOCHARIS .
Devised and narrated by RICHARD HARRIES
Music: BBC SINGERS
preceded by Weather
