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7.50 Sunday Reading
MARTIN MUNCASTER reads from his new book, 7'he Wind in the Oak long wave only
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8.10 Sunday Papers long wave only

Presented by Michael Cooke
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester long wave only

GORDON FRANKLIN , OBE, anpeals on behalf of Pearson's Fresh Air Fund For the past 87 years this fund has helped to provide holidays for children whose lives are overshadowed by poverty, illness or neglect.
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to: [address removed]long wave only
8.55 Weather; programme news

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The third of four Lenten broadcasts
Parish Communion (Series 3) from the Church of St Andrew , Mottingham, south-east London
Celebrant and Preacher: THE REV CHRISTOPHER BYERS , assisted by THE REV NORMAN DAVIES
Hvmns (100 Hymns for Today All my hope on God is founded (3); Praise we now the word of grace (84); Lord of lords and King eternal (63); Christ is the King: 0 friends rejoice (121
Anthem: It is finished (Bach)
Epistle: 1 Peter 2, w 19-25 (neb)
Gospel: Matthew 16, VV 13-28 (NEB)
Director of Music
GODFREY HURST
Organist NICHOLAS LUFF long wave only

with Marghanita Laski The English Roses Producer HELEN FRY long wave only

Presented by Peter Hobday and Louise Bolting
Including Debatable Point A Financial World Tonight production

Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject
1 An officer was walking across the parade-ground when he saw a cigarette stub on the floor with a private standing nearby. "You. soldier." he bellowed, " is that yours? " " No, it's all right, sir." said the private, " you have it - you saw it first ".' and the voices of BOB NEWHART. ALAN BENNETT and TOM LEHRER
Producer simon BRETT

In the Chair
Michael Charlton
Producers PETER WINDOWS and JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Lines are open from 10.30

A lighthearted anthology of words and music which this week looks at the great outdoors, from the countryside to the cottage garden.
Introduced by Brian Thompson
with Christian Rodska, Anne Rye and Brian Southwood
Over the Hills and Far Away, Country Gardens and Shepherd's hey by Percy Grainger played by Keith Swallow (piano)
BBC Manchester

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Presented by Gordon dough
Editor DEREK LEWII

Presenting music from the 16th century to the present day. Introduced by Philip Jones
Producer RICHARD WILLCOX
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visits Lincolnshire where members of the Wellingore Memorial Hall put their questions to FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
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Samson Agonistes by JOHN MILTON
This dramatic poem takes its subject from the Bible and its form from Greek tragedy. It was almost certainly Milton's final work. first published in 1671. ' Samson, made captive. blind. and now in the Prison at Gaza, there to labour as in a common workhouse, on a Festival day, in the general cessation from labour, comes forth into the open air.'
PAUL GAYMON. PETER PACEY ,
PETER WHITMAN
CAROLE BOYD , MADI HEDD
Special music composed and recorded by RON GEESIN
Adapted and directed by RICHARD WORTI. EY
(First broadcast in 1975) 1 have often heard Mr Thorne with enjoyment and respect, but his Samson was beyond all that.
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Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY Producer
PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long ware. only

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Presented bv
Kevin Mulhern
Why are we Still Waiting . Good ideas for new inventions to help blind people abound, but they can take months, or even years, to become available. JANE FINNIS looks at the process by which an invention becomes a saleable product.
Producer THENA HESHEL long ware only

Brian Johnston ends his six-week tour of Australia at Melbourne in Victoria Producer ANTHONY SMITH
BBC Bristol (Rerised repeat of Friday's broadcast) long wave only
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Omnibus Edition Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST BBC Birmingham

A series of programmes in which Robert Kee confronts a defector with a convert. The belief in question this evening is Roman Catholicism.
Barbara Smoker was a devout Roman Catholic who considered becoming a nun; now she is President of the National Secular Society.
English lecturer, Brian Wicker , was an agnostic until ' I made a choice on which depended my eternal destiny ', and became a Roman Catholic. Producer HUGH PURCELL
(Repeated: Wed 11.0 am)

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA conducted by URI SEGAL
Mussorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain
Mozart Divertimento in I flat (K 113)
Shostakovich Symphony No 9. BBC Scotland

by ANNE BRONTE adapted for radio in six parts by Allan MCCLELLAND with Rosalind Shanks and Russell Dixon
Part 3: Gilbert Markham has learned to love and trust Helen Graham , the new tenant of the desolate Wildfell Hall. and he attacks the village gossips who imply a scandalous relationship between herself and the owner of the Hall, Mr Lawrence. Therefore, it is a shock when, one evening, he sees them together.
Directed hv KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester

' Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.'
Such insights have made Reinhold Niebuhr a powerful influence over many American and British politicians. He worked as a minister in Detroit during the depression of the 20s and brought moral and religious insights to bear upon political issues in a way acceptable to politicians.
Vernon Sproxton explores his life and thought through many of the men and women influenced by him, including THE RT HON TONY WEDGWOOD BENN , MP, THE RT HON DENIS HEALEY , MP, RONALD PRESTON , RICHARD HARRIES , DANIEL JENKINS , SIR ISAIAH BERLIN, SIR JOHN BARNES and URSULA NIEBUHR with the recorded voice of Reinhold Niebuhr, and extracts from his writings read by Robert Beatty. Producer PETER FIRTH BBC Bristol

In the second of three talks, Bishop George Appleton shares some of his thoughts about prayer, 2: Methods of Prayer

The Worm Will Turn by JOHN GRAHAM
Edith and Marian are expected back home, but they're late. There's nothing old Joseph can do, and the children are getting impatient. If they are children, that is ...
Directed by ANTON GILL

Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude