BBC Birmingham
7.40 Bells
7.45 Sunday Reading
BRIAN NEAL reads from Searching for God by CARDINAL HUME
7.50 Sunday Papers
7.55 Weather, programme news

Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer JOHN NEWBURY

CY GRANT appeals on behalf of GALS (Girls Alone in London Service), which aims to help any girls alone and in difficulties in the city. Donations to: [address removed].
8.50 Sunday Papers
8.55 Weather, programme news

BBC correspondents around the world report.
A Radio News production

President Carter may discover his foreign policy ambitions have left domestic duties undone. Show more

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At Epiphany-tide from Christ Church, Cockfosters, Barnet.
Officiant at Morning Prayer (Series 3): THE REV DONALD CHURCHMAN , Vicar, assisted by THE REV KEITH TURNER and THE REV ANDREW WINGFIELD-DIGBY
Lessons: Isaiah 42, vv 1-12 (RSV); John 4, vv 1-28 (RSV)
Hymns (from the Anglican Hymn Book): 0 worship the Lordinthebeautyofholiness (11); Earth has many a noble city (127); Thou whose almighty word (333). Psalm 46
Anthem: Star in the South (arr Sargent). Director of Music CHARLES WESTERN
Assistant organist ROY SLACK

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A Sunday morning miscellany which includes ANDY PRICE down on the Iron Age Farm in Hampshire and GORDON cow taking a look at the fascination of the ' thriller
Presenter June Knox-Mawer 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.
The Man Behind Your Money today is Ian Findlay. Chairman of Lloyd's. A Financial World Tonight production

with Joan Bakewell
A programme for would-be holiday-makers with advice on when to go and what to avoid. In a month when almost every new brochure promises the holiday of a lifetime, a searching analysis of the true cost of those tempting offers.
Producer ROGER MACDONALD

by Alistair Cooke
12.55 Weather, programme news

Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS

An ' entertainment ' provided by David Barlow. Peter Christie , Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis Producer IAN FENNER
(Repeated: Friday 8.10 pm)

visits Co Durham where members of the Northlea Parent Teachers Association put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster KENNETH J. FORD BBC Manchester

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The Grass is Singing by DORIS LESSING dramatised by MICHAEL KITTERMASTEH with Janet Suzman and Ronald Lewis
The newspaper report that Mary Turner , wife of Richard Turner , had been found murdered at their homestead and that the houseboy had been arrested and confessed to the crime, caused surprisingly little stir among their Rhodesian neighbours. But then the Turners had long been regarded as outcasts from society and it was easiest simply to ignore what happened to them,
' It is by the failures and misfits of a civilisation that one can best judge its weaknesses.'
With IRENE SUTCLIFFE and JOHN ROWE
Directed by JANE MORGAN

Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol

Talking Point....
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)

We cant foretell the future but we can give you a round-up of forthcoming events for the start of 1978 and in this week's edition of In Touch JANE FINNIS and PETER WHITE will be doing just that. Another item this week - from KEVIN MULHERN - is all about buttons, but in spite of the season it has nothing to do with Cinderella, or any other pantomime! Presented by David Scott Blackball Producer MICHELL RAPER

Brian Johnston recently visited Maldon in Essex
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
5.55 Weather, programme news

Omnibus Edition
Written by BRIAN HAYLES
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham

Sue MacGregor meets Alistair Cooke , foreign correspondent, broadcaster, and authority on all things American, to talk about his life and work, and to invite him to reflect a little on both.
Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester
(Americans, a series about 13 archetypes and heroes, begins next Monday 16 January on BBC2)

RALPH KIRSHBAUM (Cello) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by GUIDO AJMONE-MARSAN
Haydn Cello Concerto in c major
8.28' Sibelius Symphony No 5, in flat major
BBC Manchester

by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised in 12 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL and CONSTANCE COX withand
' You may try, and try, and try again, Messrs Dodson and Fogg, but not one farthing of costs or damages do you ever get from me, if I spend the rest of my existence in a debtor's prison.'
Meanwhile Mr Pickwick seeks more congenial surroundings. 8: Bath and Bristol with KAREN ARCHER
JUDY BENNETT , BRENDA KAYE
GAVIN CAMPBELL , WILLIAM EEDLE MALCOLM GERARD , NEVILLE JASON MICHAEL GOLDIE , KENNETH SHANLEY Directed by JANE MORGAN

A monthly magazine of archaeology, including a look at the last stages of a three years' excavation of Carthage where the naval harbour of the Punic Fleet was discovered; and a report from a conference called to consider the future of British archaeology.
Presenter Malcolm Billings Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol

An evening reflection, in words and music, devised and introduced by VERNON SPROXTON 1: The Love of Things Reader GARY WATSON
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude