BBC Birmingham
7.40 Bells
7.45 Sunday Reading
BRIAN NEAL reads from Search. ing for God by CARDINAL HUME
7.50 Sunday Papers
7.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer JOHN NEWBURY
DAME FLORA ROBSON appeals on behalf of Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy
The centre cares for nearly 500 people and plans to provide a Remedial Centre. Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [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
Radio City to close
14 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
New York landmark and art deco 'jewel' Radio City is to close. Show more
medium only from Newquay Wesley Methodist Church, Cornwall led by THE REV PAUL HULME and THE REV DR EDGAR RICHARDS
Hymns: Praise to the living God (MHB 15); Jesus, good above all other (sop 540): God is working his purpose out (MHB 812)
Choirmaster HUBERT JULIAN Organist DENIS OSBORNE BBC Bristol
medium only until 10.30
A Sunday morning miscellany including a winter landscape of words and music; and ALEXANDER WALKER in conversation with the bookseller PETER GIDDY. Presenter June Knox-Mawer. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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: David Donnison. Chairman of the Supplementary Benefits Commission
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
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
(Repeated: Friday 8.10 pm)
visits Somerset, where members of the Sedgemoor Gardens Club put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 4.5 pm)
medium only
The Birthday Party by HAROLD PINTER with Lee Montague
Norman Rodway , John Hollis
Pinter's first full-length play. Is it a study of growing up, of the pressures of bourgeois society on the artist, or a morality on death - or perhaps a blend of all three?
Directed by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY. Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
The Place That Comes and Goes ...
Spurn Head, a narrow peninsula at the mouth of the Humber, has vanished twice since medieval times. Its disappearance was due to erosion but subsequently the Head built up once more. Last winter the sea broke through again - is history repeating itself? Today's Radio Nature Trail looks at this strange area and its wildlife.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)
A series of special interest to the visually handicapped.
Fife Thousand Requests a Day: DAVID SCOTT BLACKBALL talks to DON ROSKILLY and MURIEL BEN-STEAD behind the scenes at the talking-book library.
Presented by Jane Flnnis Producer THENA HESHEL
Book (same title), £1.50 (including postage), can be obtained from: [address removed]
Brian Johnston recently visited Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd, Wales. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
Sue MacGregor meets Professor Erie Laithwaite. inventor of the linear motor and expert on butterflies, to talk about his life and work and to invite him to reflect a little on both. Producer GILLIAN RUSH BBC Manchester
The Planets by Gustav Holst in a performance by the new PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, COnducted by Sir Adrian Boult. who conducted the first performance on 29 September 1918. gramophone record
A radio portrait of a countryman by Robin Clarke
' He was a strange apparition, covered in drifting snowflakes, with a sack over his head, another tied round his waist, and a good deal of baling twine holding it all together ... During the months that followed, our lives and Frank's got increasingly intermingled.'
by Yannis Ritsos, one of Greece's most popular and remarkable contemporary poets translated by Nikos Stangos
with Annette Crosbie as the woman and Paul Chapman the voice of the Poet
A writer visits a woman living in a vast empty house. She talks and he listens: but what is truth and what is the fantasy of a disturbed mind? He tries to understand her extraordinary story.
'... a feeling of magic and fear had seized me as if I had been suddenly confronted by the decadence and the fascination of a very ancient civilisation ...'
An evening reflection, in words and music, devised and introduced by VERNON SPROXTON
Producer HUBERT HOSKtNS
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
