BBC Birmingham
7.45 Sunday Programmes Bells and Sunday Reading
JOHN BAKER reads from a new translation of the Psalms
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Paper*
Presented by Brian Truemaa Producer LESLIE MITCHELL. BBC Manchester
9.10 (medium only) Sunday Papers
(Repeat)
medium only
Omnibus Edition
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
Suns Eucharist (Series 2) from St Mary Redoliffe, Bristol Celebrant and preacher: CANON KENNETH CLARK
Communion setting: Folk Mass (Shaw) and Darke in F: Readings: Romans 12, vv 9-21; Luke 10. vv 25-37: Hymns (from English Hymnal): Praise to the Lord (536); Blest are the pure in heart 1370); 0 thou who earnest from above (343); Let all mortal flesh (318)
Organist GARTH BENSON
Choirmaster BRYAN ANDERSON BBC Bristol
BRIAN GLOVER appeals on behalf of the Michaelmas Trust who give further education and training to mentally and educationally handicapped schoolleavers and young adults and help to place them in open employment.
Donations to: Brian Glover, [address removed]
Bernard Falk. connoisseur of the unusual, reports on a countrywide search for people who find fulfi'lmenit in unlikely, not to say eccentric, occupations and interests.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
Countrywide reactions to current political issues presented from Birmingham by George Scott Ring [number removed]
Producer DAVID SHUTE BBC Birmingham
Derek Cooper 's
Sunday Supplement
12.55 Weather, programmenews
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor HARRY BROWN
visits Liverpool, where members of the Liverpool Region Hospitals Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and CLAY JONES Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 4.5 pm)
medium only
The Passing Day bV GEORGE SHIELS
John Fibbs-shopkeeper. Ulsterman. miser and small-time gambler in shares - has come to his last day in business. He sees Ms doctor and visits his lawyer. On that day, John Fibbs discovers the value of his life - a vaJue he hadn't accounted for.
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN BBC Northern Ireland
This week, a magazine of news and comment presented by Malcolm Billings
Series producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Talking Point
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Wed 9.5 am)
PETER WHITE and JANE FININIS present this month's round-up of news and events of special interest; PETER WHITE interviews a remarkable Scottish COUple. SUE AND ALAN MARSHALL , about bringing up a child when both parents are blind. Presented by Peter White Producer MICHELL RAPER
Brian Johnston recently visited Kilkeel in County Down Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
Robert Kee continues his conversations with the men who wield the power of the press.
2: Owen O'Brien , General Secretary of NATSOPA, whose
56.000 members give him as much influence as many pro-, prietors.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
The imagination of every writer is coloured by experience of places which made a lasting impression when he was young. In the second of a series of talks, Peter Greave , whose widely praised autobiography The Seventh Gate was published Last year, talks about Calcutta.
... to Dynamic Living
Radio's Amazing Revelation Course in which the programme's subject is.............
(We can't tell you yet, because it's a secret) in Lesson 17: This is your Life the Burkiss Way. Do you remember these voices from Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris And who wrote these words? (Here's a clue - ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK)
And whose name is in producer SIMON BRETT'S little black book this week?
A series which reviews religious books and music
Presented by Trevor Beeson Producer MONICA FURLONG
From the American Big Bands Benny Green introduces a selection of popular records made during the 30s and 40s by bands, including those of Glenn Miller , Benny Goodman. Artie Shaw and Charlie Barnet. gramophone records
(The Big Band Sound: Monday
8.2 pm R2)
(Details: See Tuesday at 3.05 pm)
"Never has anything approaching this piece of lunacy ever been accomplished in any country. It is a piece of insanity." (Beecham on the BBC)
"His contempt for the BBC and his absolute inability to collaborate has made his rehearsals a nightmare." (BBC internal memo)
Sir Thomas Beecham made no secret of his dislike of the BBC. All the same, for more than 30 years, the BBC continued to engage him for concerts and opera performances. Inevitably there were quarrels and misunderstandings. This programme, compiled from material in the BBC's Written Archives, tells for the first time the story of this unlikely, yet fruitful, association. With Norman Shelley as Sir Thomas Beecham
Narrator MANNING WILSON
with ROD BEACHAM, GARARD GREEN, WALTER HALL, FRASER KERR, JANE KNOWLES, JONATHAN SCOTT, IRENE SUTCLIFFE and STEPHEN THORNE
Written and produced by ALAN HAYDOCK (Rptd: Wed 11.5 am)
The evening office of CompLine
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
