Programme for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.40 Bells
7.45 Sunday Reading
RONALD FARROW reads from The Christian-Marxist Dialogue and Beyond by PETER HEBBLE-THWAITE
7.50 Sunday Papers
7.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID WINTER
DAME VERA LYNN appeals on behalf of the Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society which assists all those who have suffered mental disability due to active service in HM Forces, or the Merchant Navy. Donations to: Dame Vera Lynn , Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society, [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
Local issues
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Vast difference between city and county issues come up during local elections campaign. Show more
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A Sunday morning miscellany including a visit to Ypres 50 years after the inauguration of the Menin Gate; JEAN ROBERTSON and NIGEL BUXTON discussing books about Italy; and ALAN COREN in conversation with RICHARD INGRAMS.
Presenter Teresa McGonagle Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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Among the War Graves in Flanders, and the places where his father served, Gabriel Woolf found himself wondering about their relevance to himself and the following generations...
A talk on behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
from the Cenotaph
The Silence
The Last Post The Laying of Wreaths
A short service conducted by THE BISHOP OF LONDON
O God our help in ages past; Prayer; The Lord's Prayer; The Blessing; Reveille; God Save The Queen
Before the Service the Massed Bands of the Guards Division will play: Rule Britannia; Heart of Oak; The Minstrel Boy; Men of Harlech; Skye Boat Song; Isle of Beauty; David of the White Rock; Oft in the Stilly Night; Flowers of the Forest; Nimrod; When I am laid in Earth; Solemn Melody; and, during the Wreath Laying, Funeral March No 1, in B flat (attrib Johann Heinrich Walch). Scene described by ROBERT HUDSON
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.
The Man Behind your Money Today: Nicholas Goodison
Chairman of the Stock Exchange 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 Clougfe
The celebrated flautist talks about music and musicians.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated; Friday 8.10 pm)
visits East Sussex, where members of the Felbridge and District Horticultural Society put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 4.5 pm)
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The Lady in the Lake
The RAYMOND CHANDLER novel dramatised by BILL MORRISON with Edward Bishop as Philip Marlowe and Toby Robins as Crystal Kingsley
A body found in a mountain lake connects mysteriously with the case of a missing wife. Three more corpses litter the stage before ' Murder-A-Day ' Marlowe comes up with the answer. Musical research ADRIAN EDWARDS
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
As Night Falls
Throughout the day the world seems full of birds but suddenly, as night falls, they all seem to disappear. Where do they go to?
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
BBC Bristol. (Rptd: Wed 9.5 am)
JANE finnis reports on a remarkable piece of equipment - the Mowatt Sensor. It can be held in the hand and warns the holder of an obstacle by vibrations rather than sound - something of special help to those who are both deaf and blind.
Presented by Jane Finnis Producer MICHELL RAPER
Brian Johnston recently visited Martock in Somerset
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
Omnibus Edition
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe Producer PAT TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wednesday 11.5 am)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Reger Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Tchaikovsky Theme and Variations (Suite No 3) BBC Manchester
Charles Dickens began the year 1836 as a rising young journalist of 23. He ended it, with his Pickwick serial less than half written, the darling of the nation. A year later, with Pickwick completed and Oliver Twist also well under way, he was world famous.
Professor Philip Collins has compiled, and narrates, the story of these extraordinary years during which a hack-job emerged as the most enduringly popular comic novel in English.
(Repeated: Tues 3.5 pm)
(A 12-part dramatisation of Pickwick Papers begins next Sunday)
who gave us the greatest theatrical heritage in the world
In a series of four programmes Bryan Forbes tells the story of the British theatrical tradition from the time of David Garrick until the present day. Introducing the views and memories of many of our most distinguished players, he considers the particular talents of those actors who, through the ages, have given an added lustre to their legacy and dignified a profession which less than 100 years ago was not even considered respectable. 1 : So Steep the Climb Producer
JOHN KNIGHT (Repeated:
Friday 11.5 am)
H. M. Burton samples the sermons of some 16th- and 17th-century churchmen and talks about their lives and fortunes. 5: Robert South (c 1634-1726) Reader JAMES THOMASON Producer
HUBERT HOSKINS
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
