BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 Sunday Reading
RONALD FARROW reads from A Reason to Hope by DAVID L. EDWARDS
7.55 Weather; programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID WINTER
DEREK JACOBI appeals on behalf of the Association for All Speech Impaired Children, which is concerned with the medical, educational and social difficulties of children with severe speech and language disorders and with the training and employment problems of school leavers.
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to: [address removed]
8.55 Weather; programme news
S.10 Sunday Papers
Parish Eucharist (Series 2) from the Church of St John the Baptist, Knaresborough Celebrant
THE REV RICHARD COOPER Preacher
THE REV RONALD MCFADDEN
Readings: Genesis 1, vv 1-3. 24-31 (AV); St John 1, vv 1-14 (Av) Hvmns: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Praxis Pietatis); Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (Regent Square): Love divine, all loves excelling (Blaenwern)
Psalm 104, vv 1-9
Anthem: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (C. Lee Williams) Organist HARRY COLLEY BBC Manchester
Derek Robinson presents listeners' letters on all aspects of radio - some sweet, some sour, some salty. Producer
CAROLE STONE. BBC Bristol
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.
Including Debatable Point A Financial World Tonight production
Professor Emil Burkiss 's Way to Dynamic Living with Jo Kendall , Nigel Rees
Chris Emmett and Fred Harris Written by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK
Producer JOHN LLOYD
Your chance to debate with the men or women in the news.
In the Chair Michael Charlton Producers JOCK GALLAGHER and JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
The lines are open from 10.30 am
with Sandra Clark and her guests, including Peter Cushing who, in this week of Hallowe'en also reads the chilling story Lost Hearts, by M.R. James; hear too about all things strange, from Alchemy to Zombies, from Peter Underwood, President of The Ghost Club; and more mysterious happenings to help you... forget tomorrow's Monday.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presented by Gordon Clougb Editor DEREK LEWIS
Tony Davis , Mick Groves Cliff Hall and Hugh Jones with JOHN MCCORMICK (bass), sing some songs and tell the odd story - in the company of a few friends.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
by Giuseppe Giacosa
The play is set on a day in 1888 and takes place in a room in the Scarli house in a small provincial town in Italy.
(Broadcast on Monday at 7.45)
(Eileen Atkins is a member of the Prospect Theatre Company)
(medium wave only)
Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY. Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
The hornbill building a wall which imprisons his mate in the nest-hole, shrikes singing duets, and pratincoles which lay their eggs in camel footprints. TERRY WHITE recalls some sights and sounds of the birds of north and west Africa. Introduced by Dilys Breese Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)
Tips for Tips
Margaret Ford suggests the right kind of ferrules to get for white canes. Presented by David Scott Blackhall Producer THENA HESHEL
Brian Johnston recently visited Inverbervie, Kincardine. Scotland. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather; programme news
Omnibus Edition
Directed by VANESSA WHITBUIRN Producer WILLIAM SMETHURST BBC Birmingham
A series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Dick Taverne , oc, and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London.
This evening proposition: The Barriers to the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood should now be Removed
It is proposed by The Rt Rev Cyril Bowles , the Bishop of Derby, and opposed by The Rev John Broadhurst
Each advocate calls his own witnesses, cross-questions his opponent's and argues his case. The jury votes at the beginning and end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer KAY EVANS
Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts
Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Walton Suite No 1: Facade
ROYAI. PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
German Three dances from Nell Gwyn
PRO ARTE ORCHESTRA
Schubert Symphony No 8. in B minor (Unfinished)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA gramophone records
A novel without a hero by William Makepeace Thackeray dramatised for radio in ten parts by Michael Kittermaster
with Sarah Badel as Becky, Petra Markham as Amelia, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies as Miss Crawley, Stephen Murray as Mr Osborne, John Pullen as Rawdon Crawley, Sean Barrett as William Dobbin, Peter Wickham as Pitt Crawley, John Westbrook as Lord Steyne, and Alec McCowen as Thackeray
5: After Waterloo
In which many machinations and family suspicions are stirred up by the question: to whom will Miss Crawley leave her money? A lonely old man visits the battlefield of Waterloo. We learn how a gentleman may live on nothing a year; and our new young citizens of Vanity Fair learn to distinguish between Mayfair and the less salubrious parts of the city. With Hilda Schroder as Mrs Sedley Richard Hurndall as Mr Sedley and Samuel West and Simon Richmond as the two new young citizens of Vanity Fair Directed by David Spenser
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
A took at what has been going on recently in the archaeological world.
Presented by Malcolm Billings Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
The letter ' Y '. Devised and narrated by H. COLIN DAVIS Music: BBC SINGERS
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
