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 Phil Smith Producer LESLIE MITCHELL BBC Manchester

FR KIT CUNNINGHAM appeals on behalf of The Zebra Trust who promote international friendship particularly by providing accommodation for senior married students from overseas. Donations, to: [address removed].
8.50 Sunday Papers
8.55 Weather, programme news

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How Many Days to Doomsdayt BBC correspondents report on nuclear weapons. Who has them and how is the precarious balance kept?
Presented by James Wilkinson A Radio News production

Remembering former vice president Hubert Humphrey who recently died. A political life well lived. Show more

medium only from St Paul 's Church, Sketty, Swansea, as the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins. Officiant: THE REV CHANCELLOR GARFIELD JAMES. assisted by THE REV ROBERT PATERSON
Lessons: Ecclesiasticus 17, vv 1-17; St Matthew 20, vv 1-15 Hymns: On this day (amr 39); Thou whose almighty word (AMR 266); The God who rules (HHFT 92); Psalm 8; Te Deum Organist JOHN M. DAVIES BBC Wales

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A Sunday morning miscellany in which Frances Perry has some advice for gardeners who are starting from scratch, and Celia Haddon and Arthur Marshall team up for songs for hockey (and other things) from girls' schools.

Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit

Material from local and regional broadcasts, selected and presented by Francis Matthews
Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham

Presented by Peter Hobday and Louise Boding
Featuring today The Man Behind Your Money: John Quin -ton, General Manager of Barclay's Bank
A Financial World Tonight production

with Joan Bakewell
A programme for would-be holiday-makers.
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)

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The Long Goodbye
The last of a monthly series Of five RAYMOND CHANDLER novels dramatised by BILL MORRISON with Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe and Toby Robins as Eileen Wade
Marlowe helps a friendly drunk conceal a crime. He is also asked to protect a drunken writer from his own violence. A murder seems to connect the two cases. And Marlowe almost falls in love ...
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN

Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY Producer PAMELA howe BBC Bristol

A magazine edition of this programme about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by Peter France Producer KEITH HOPKINS
Series producer DILYS breesi BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)

MARGARET FORD reports on ways in which people who can no longer live at home might find help with nursing home fees, and PETER white describes some tactile jigsaws. Presented by David Scott Blackball Producer THENA HESHEL

Brian Johnston recently visited Lavenham in Suffolk
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news

Written by William SMETHURST Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham

Sue MacGregor meets Arnold Wesker. playwright and director, to talk about his life and work and to invite him to reflect a little on both. Producer cillian HUSH BBC Manchester

WILLIAM BENNETT (flute) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA led by ARTHUR PRICE corfducted by KENNETH alwyn 19th-century French music

by CHARLES DICKENS , dramatised in 12 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL and CONSTANCE COX
If it's 40 year to come, I shall be a prisoner, and I'm wery glad on it. and if it had been Newgate, it would ha' been just the same. Now the murder's out and damme. there's an end in it.' With these words Sam Weller dashed his hat upon the ground, in a most unusual state of excitement, but Mr Pickwick felt a great deal too much touched by the warmth of Sam's attachment, to be able to exhibit any signs of anger or displeasure.
10: A Matter of Principle
With HEATHER BELL. MICHAEL GOLDIE and PETER WICKHAM Sam's song composed by MICHAEL GRAHAM COX
Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
(Elizabeth Spriggs is a National Theatre player; Tim Wylton is a member of the Rsc)
9.58 Weather

Christmas Humphreys, QC, in conversation with Hallam Tennyson, talks about his life as one of England's most eminent Buddhists and his work as Judge and Prosecuting Counsel. 'As a judge I've thought about the application of Buddhist principles and I've come to the conclusion that the first principle is found in every religion in the world... The man in the dock is my brother.'

Words and music devised and introduced by VERNON SPROXTON 3: The Love of Words Reader GARY WATSON
Producer HUBERT HOSKINS

Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude