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
IAN WALLACE appeals on behalf of the Council for Music in Hospitals which provides live concerts given by professional musicians for patients in hospital.
Donations to: Ian Wallace , Council for Music in Hospitals, [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
Armed service pregnancy
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Armed services expected to follow new air force ruling allowing pregnant servicewomen to keep posts. Show more
medium only from All Saints Parish Church, Cockermouth, Cumbria
Holy Communion (Series 3)
Celebrant THE REV JOHN CRAWLEY Preacher THE REV COLIN FULLER Readings: Isaiah 10, vv 20-23; Romans 9, vv 19-24; Mark 13, vv 14-23
Hymns: Awake, awake (100 Hymns); Happy are they (A and M REV); Hills of the north (A and M REV); Thine be the glory (100 Hymns)
Organist WALTER H. rees BBC Manchester
medium only until 10.30
A Sunday morning miscellany including GORDON GOW with a portrait of John Mortimer ; GORDON SNELL on the art of ' apologising '; and classical guitarist ALICE ARTZT.
Presented by 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 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
The celebrated flautist talks about music and musicians. 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 to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX BBC Manchester
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Robert Harris in The Grandfather by BENITO PEREZ GALDOS translated and adapted by LESTERCLARK
' I cannot stop the law passing my name on to my two heirs, those innocent girls. But I wish to bequeath an exclusive moral legacy to the true child of my blood. She will be the genuine successor. She will carry my honour and my ancestry down to posterity. The other will not.'
Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Read any Good Books Lately? With 30 shopping days to Christmas, this programme is devoted to recently published books about wildlife which you might like to give - or receive!
Introduced by Dilys Breese BBC Bristol
When the post arrives how can a blind person, living alone. know which are the important letters, which need replies and how can they reply? -KEVIN MULHERN has been looking at the problems. Introduced by David Scott Blackhall
Producer MICHELL RAPER
Brian Johnston recently visited Winslow in Buckinghamshire Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
introduced by Jean Metcalfe Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN Mozart Overture: II Seraglio
Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Jultet)
Brahms Symphony No 3
1: The Pickwick Club
London-Rochester 1827 with 9.58 Weather
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. 2: The Echo in a Cathedral
' It was from Sir Frank Benson that I first began to see why the plays of Shakespeare are considered masterpieces - dramatic cathedrals; how, over and above and through the narration, are implied mean, ings - like the echo in a cathedral.'
(SIR TYRONE GUTHRIE )
H. M. Burton samples the sermons of some 16th- and 17th-century churchmen and talks about their lives and fortunes. 6: John Donne (c 1573-1631) Reader GARY WATSON
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
