BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 Sunday Reading
SYDNEY CARTER reads from his book The Rock of Doubt
7.55 Weather, programme new!
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID WINTER
JACQUELINE DU PRÉ on behalf of Refresh, a charity which provides a holiday home for people whose life depends on a breathing machine.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed].
3.55 Weather, programme news
9.10 medium only
Sunday Papers
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Parish Communion on St George's Day from St Philip's Church. Norbury, South West London
Celebrant and Preacher
THE REV DENIS CLARINGBULL assisted by THE REV PAUL MARTIN Communion Service, Series 3 (John Rutter )
Agnus Dei (Martin Howe )
Epistle: Ephesians 6, w 10-17 (NEB); Gospel: Matthew 18, vv 21-34 (NEB)
Hymns (A and M Rev): Immortal, Invisible, God only wise (372); Who would true valour see (293); Rejoice! the Lord is King! (216); The head that once was crowned with thorns (218)
Motet: Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Edward Bairstow ) Organist and Choirmaster ROBERT PRIZEMAN
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Whether you feel that radio Is a turn-on or a rip-off, Derek Robinson welcomes your letters on the subject. Producer CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol
Send your comments to: Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells , BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Peter Hobday and Louise Botting
The programme that aims to help you follow the ins and outs of personal finance. Featuring this week
The Woman Behind Your Money: Lady Howe, Deputy Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission
A Financial World Tonight production
An epic adventure in time and space.
Fit the first: in which the earth is unexpectedly destroyed and the great hitch-hike begins, starring
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Written by DOUGLAS ADAMS
Producer SIMON BRETT
The Sunday phone-in offers you the chance to debate with the men or women in the news or with other Radio 4 listeners.
In the Chair Michael Charlton Producers JENNY DE YONG and jock GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 10.30 am
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 (Revised rpt: Tues 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme newt
Presented by Gordon Clough
1.40 Stereo
The Spinners
Tony Davis , Mick Groves Cliff Hall and Hugh Jones with John MeCormick (bass) sing some songs and tell the odd story - in the company of a few friends.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday 8.10 pm)
visits Gloucestershire, where members of the Woodmancote Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
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Dandolo by ANTON GILL with Carleton Hobbs as Dandolo
A panoramic view of political intrigue fitted round the Fourth Crusade and the fall of Constantinople in 1204 and featuring Enrico Dandolo , the extraordinary octogenarian Doge of Venice who was blind. Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY (Lost Monday's broadcast)
The Public Records Office contains a class of record marked Baga de Secretis.
David Starkey continues the history of the Bag and of the treasons it recorded.
4: Regicides and Reaction (1605-1688)
Producer BRIAN cook
For Peat's Sake!
About a tenth of the earth's land surface north of Inverness is covered in peat. How did it get there? Why is it so abundant? And why hasn't peat covered the rest of the world? Introduced by Peter France Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
A weekly programme of special interest to the visually handi- capped.
Why Are They Still Waitingt: JANE FINNIS presents an enquiry into the distribution of closed-circuit television.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Diana Rigg presents her personal choice of poetry and prose, with Philip Voss
Recorded before an invited audience at The Kenton Theatre, Henley-on-Thames
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
Omnibus Edition
Script editor WILLIAM SMETHURST Producer VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
Robin Holmes introduces an anthology of patriotic and imperial poetry which until quite recently was required reading and learning in all our schools. with Hugh Burden and Valentine Dyall
Producer ROBERT CRADOCK (First broadcast in 1973)
ANGELA MALSBURY (clarinet) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by ALAN SUTTIE
Bliss Ballet Suite: Miracle in the Gorbals
8.23* Stanford Clarinet Concerto
8.44* Parry Symphonic Variations. BBC Manchester
by ROBERT BAGE. Part 5
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Four programmes devoted to those who recognised and nourished the genius of others, and made their life-work possible
3: The Literary Godfather
George Henry Lewes in the Life and Work of George Eliot Written and narrated by Gabriel Woolf with Joe Melia as George Henry Lewes
Jill Balcon as George Eliot and the voices of ROD BEACHAM MARGOT BOYD. ALARIC COTTER
BRENDA KAYE , ANTHONY NEWLANDS George Henry Lewes , biographer, playwright, critic, scientist and philosopher, lived with George Eliot for 25 years as her husband. She was shunned by Victorian society in consequence. Without him she would quite simply not have been a novelist.
' To my dear husband, George Henry Lewes , I give this manuscript of a book that would never have been written but for the happiness which his love has conferred on my life. Marian Lewes. '
Directed by HALLAM TENNYSON
(Joe Melia is in ' Privates on Parade ' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London) Preview: page 19
The Letter ' D '
Devised and narrated by H. COLIN DAVIS
Music: BBC SINGERS
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
