BBC Birmingham
7.40 Bells
7.45 Sunday Reading w.r.vanstonereadsfromhis book Love's Endeavour Love's Expense
7.50 Sunday Papers
7.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID WINTER
DICKIE HENDERSON , OBE, appeals on behalf of The British Polio Fellowship, which provides a welfare service. residential and holiday accommodation, and employment for polio victims.
Donations to: Dickie Henderson, OBE, British Polio Fellowship, [address removed]
8.50 Sunday Papers
8.55 Weather; programme news
Reports from BBC men around the world.
A Radio News production
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
UN and plane hijacking
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
UN to debate the global problem of plane hijacking, following pilots' union threat to strike. Show more
Holy Communion (Series 3) from the Parish Church of St James, Grimsby
Celebrant and Preacher, the Rector THE REV GEOFFREY BROWN Hymns (A and M Rev): Rejoice! the Lord is King (216); God is working his purpose out (271); 0 Lord Jesus. I adore thee (388) Anthem: Call to remembrance, 0 Lord, thy tender mercies
Readings: 1 John 3, vv 9-18; Mark 7, vv 14-23
Organist and Choirmaster CHRISTOPHER WEAVER BBC Manchester
medium only until 10.30
A Sunday morning miscellany including a contribution from ARTHUR MARSHALL ; P. D. JAMES and H. R. F. KEATING talking about detective stories; and HELEN PALMER describing a visit toIndia.
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 and Louise Botting
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 The Man Behind your Money.
Today: Geoffrey Haslam. Chairman of the British Insurance Association
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 DEREK LEWIS
(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: Folk Songs
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
visits Wiltshire, where members of the Trowbridge and District Horticultural Society put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
medium only
The Egoist by GEORGE MEREDITH dramatised for radio by DENIS CONSTANDUROS , With
Anton Rodgers. Joanna David Kathleen Michael
Penelope Reynolds and Norman Eshley
'No young man of Sir Willoughby's position is ever guilty, Miss Dale; he is merely allowed to escape. Though it's preferable that he doesn't escape too many times ...
Is it old? Is it genuine? What is it?
Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Three Score Years and Ten ... was once thought to be man's natural span of life. The Asiatic elephant comes near to it, with a known 69 years, while the common shrew can be expected to die before one year old. Many insects may survive only a few days, but a queen termite has been known to live half a century.-What governs the age to which an animal lives, and why, at last, does it die?
Introduced by Peter France Producer DILYS BREESE
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Wed 9.5 am)
A weekly programme of special interest to the visually handicapped
For a child, reading his or her first book can be an exciting voyage of discovery, something a blind child is denied. There are however tapes and cassettes especially designed for children which help to fill the gap, and in this week's programme MARGARET FORD talks about some of them.
Introduced by Peter White Producer MICHELL RAPER
Brian Johnston recently visited Coldstream in Berwickshire Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
5.55 Weather, programme news
Omnibus edition
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
A studio counselling session Introduced by Jean Metcalfe Producer PAT TAYLOR
KO IWASAKI (cello)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by JAMES MURRAY conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR Reger Overture: Lustspiel Dvorak Cello Concerto
by PHYLLIS BENTLEY adapted for radio in five parts by RICHARD IMISON 4: The Die is Cast with Martin Jarvis
Sian Phillips , Colin Baker Michael Deacon and Geoffrey Matthews
Caesar, Pompey and Crassus have dominated the Roman world, but now Crassus is dead and Pompey is under pressure from Cato and Cicero to desert Caesar.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS (Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
People of all ages are taking up the hobby and finding it fun and profitable, but the increasing use of metal detectors presents a real threat to archaeology and the proper study of the past.
Can the conflicting interests of professional archaeologists and amateur treasure-hunters be reconciled?
An inquiry by Malcolm Billings Producer ROY HAYWARD
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Mon 11.5 am)
H. M. Burton samples the sermons of some 16th- and 17th-century churchmen and talks about their lives and fortunes. 4: Isaac Barrow (c 1630-1677) Reader GARARD GREEN
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
