BBC Birmingham
7.40 Bells
7.45 Sunday Reading
DAVID PLAUT reads from The Rock by T. S. ELIOT
7.50 Sunday Papers
7.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID WINTER
PATRICK ALLEN aopeals on behalf of the Friedreich's Ataxia Group
The group supports research into this uncommon genetically determined disease of the nervous system occurring mainly in children between eight and 15; they also assist sufferers and their families.
Donations to: Patrick Allen , Friedreich's Ataxia Group, [address removed].
8.50 Sunday Papers
8.55 Weather, programme newt
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This edition: The Great Car Race. With the help of colleagues around the world, Peter Smith asks if Britain is losing the production stakes. A Radio News production
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
The political filibuster
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Understanding the art of the political filibuster. Carter busts his own filibuster to force through energy policies. Show more
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Harvest Thanksgiving from Bannside Presbyterian Church, Banbridge, Co Down conducted by THE REV ERNEST REA Organist MAUD ANDERSON
Readings: Luke 12, vv 13-21; John 12, vv 20-26;
Hymns (CH 3): Come, ye thankful people (627); God of the pastures (513); We plough the fields and scatter (620); Almighty Father (451)
BBC Northern Ireland
medium only until 10.30
A Sunday morning miscellany including a visit to Milton's cottage at Chalfont St Giles, a retiring look at the Sound Archives by MADEAU STEWART , and TRADER FAULKNER in church in Russia.
Presenter Teresa Mcgonagle Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting, selected and presented by Francis Matthews.
Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
Presented by Peter Hobday
The programme that aims to help you follow the ins and outs of personal finance and get the best deals as a saver, investor or borrower-in short, to look after the Pound in your pocket. Featuring each week
The Man Behind your Money A Financial World Tonight production
Richard Mayne with an unpredictable selection of comment and humour, prose and poetry, music, performers and personalities.
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW assisted by SARAH DUNANT and (music) GEOFFREY SIMON
by Alistair Cooke
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor HARRY BROWN
(In other words: NIGEL PERRIN , ALASTAIR HUME , ALASTAIR THOMP SON, 'ANTHONY HOLT , SIMON CARRINGTON and BRIAN KAY) introduce and sing some of the songs the King's Singers sing. Today: A Small Carnival of Animal Songs
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
KENNETH FORD invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
Questions should be on postcards only and addressed to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX. BBC Manchester
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The One-Eyed Monster adapted from his novel by ALLAN PRIOR
' 1956 was the year British television exploded, came right into everybody's living room. The year of What's My LineT, This is Your Life, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral, Ask Pickles ... The year of my own adventure with Fred Miffin and of our own TV show Take My Advice ... which you have most certainly forgotten all about, by now ..."
The fairground crowd and television contestants played by ROSALIND ADAMS , EVA HADDON, MALCOLM HAYES , MADI HEDD, STEVE HODSON , DAVID GRAHAM , MICHAEL SHANNON , NORMA RONALD and JAMES THOMASON. Directed by IAN COTTERELL
Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Not Merely Meres ...
A Radio Nature Trail beside the green depths of the Shropshire and Cheshire Meres, where the waters are as fertile as the land around them.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Jane Finnis reviews the range of books available in large print.
Presented by David Scott Blackhall
Brian Johnston recently visited Downham Market in Norfolk Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Rptd: Thursday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
Written by TESSA DIAMOND
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
A studio counselling session introduced by Jean Metcalfe Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
Bernard Roberts (piano) with the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor Ashley Lawrence in a programme of music by Mozart
Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
Piano Concerto No 23, in A (K 488)
Symphony No 38, in D (K 504) (Prague)
by PHYLLIS BENTLBY
The Church of England has been separated from the Roman Catholic Church for four centuries, but in recent years Canterbury and Rome have been moving towards each other.
Robert Foxcroft looks at the issues that keep these churches apart, analyses the present moves and looks ahead to the possible repercussions of a reconciliation between them. Producer DAVID WINTER
H. M. Burton samples the sermons of some 16th and 17th-century churchmen and talks about their lives and fortunes. 1: Hugh Latimer (c 1485-1555) Reader JAMES THOMASON
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
