BBC Birmingham
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7.45 Bells long wave only
7.50 Sunday Reading
MGR PATRICK MCENROE reads from The Desert Fathers by HELEN WADDELL long wave only
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THE REV ERIC MILTON appeals on behalf of the Submarine Museum Trust The Trust is creating a Memorial Museum with the submarine ' Alliance ' as its centrepiece. Proceeds from this venture will assist in the care of submariners in need and their dependants.
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to: [address removed]long wave only
8.55 Weather; programme news
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The last of four Lenten broadcasts on the theme: "Hear, you that have ears to hear, what the Spirit says to the churches!" (Revelation 2, v 7)
Mass for the fourth Sunday of Lent from St Mary's College, Blairs, Aberdeen
Celebrant: the Rector, The Very Rev Benjamin Canon Donachie
Preacher: The Bishop of Aberdeen, The Rt Rev Mario Conti
Hymns: Dear face, with pain transfigured; On we go to Jerusalem; Walk with me, O my Lord; Attende, Domine; Thou, whose almighty word
Readings: 2 Chronicles 36, vv 14-23; Psalm 137: By the waters of Babylon; Ephesians 2, vv 4-10; Gospel: John 3, vv 14-21
Choirmaster The Rev Michael Johnston
Organist Thomas Knight
BBC Scotland
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Marghanita Laski presents some of our national songs that were already popular before Victoria became Queen and are still loved and sung today. Goud-byee!
Producer HELEN FRY long wave only
Presented by Peter Hobday and Louise Sotting
Including Debatable Point A Financial World Tonight production
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject. and the voices of BOB NEWHART , BILL COSBY , MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN , and The Burkiss Way team
Producer SIMON BRETT
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In the Chair
Michael Charlton
Producers PETER WINDOWS and JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 10.30 am
An anthology of words and music which this week celebrates Mother's Day. Introduced by Brian Thompson with Angela Bruce, Daphne Oxenford and Hilda Schroeder
Songs by VICTORIA WOOD and BERNARD WRIGGLEY
Music producer ANN STANGAR
Producer KAY JAMIESON
BBC Manchester
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
Presenting music on the lighter side of the ensemble's repertoire... Introduced by Philip Jones Producer
RICHARD WILLCOX
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Ken Ford invites FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. BBC Manchester
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The Flower of Immortality by MARGARET ROSE
Gilgamesh, King of Uruk. rules for seven years before he has to marry the Goddess Inanna and go to his death. The young man goes on a search for the Flower of Immortality and takes with him on his journey his twin self, Enkidu.
This, one of the oldest myths known, pre-dates the stories of The Iliad by 1,500 years.
The place is Sumeria.
Special sound by PADDY KINGSLAND Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Directed by LIANE AUKIN (First broadcast on R3) long wave only
introduce and sing a few songs by MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON long wave only
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Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY Producer
PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
The Starling - the Bird You Cannot Ignore
Aggressive, argumentative and adaptable, the starling has now spread to become the commonest bird in the world. We take an affectionate look at these experts in survival. Introduced by Peter France
Producerjohn HARRISON BBC Bristol
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Presented by David Scott Blackball
Can You Hear that Wall'
PETER WHITE visits the National Mobility Centre in Birmingham to find out how blind people can learn to guide themselves by sounds and echoes. Producer THENA HESHEL long wave only
Brian Johnston recently visited the Vale of Berkeley, Gloucestershire
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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Omnibus edition Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST BBC Birmingham
The last in a series of programmes in which Robert Kee confronts a defector with a convert. The belief in question this evening is Feminism. Mary Kenny , whose new book. Women Times Tiro, includes the ' Confessions of a Women's Liberation Revisionist', is brought face to face with Anna Petehutska. mother of two and now a writer for Woman's Voice.
Producer DEBORAHCHRISTIE (Repealed: Wed 11.0 am)
direct from the Corn Exchange, Bedford William Bennett (flute) John Marson (harp)
BBC Concert Orchestra conductor
Ashley Lawrence present a programme of Viennese music
Schubert Overture: Rosamunde Mozart Concerto for flute and harp in c (K 299)
Johann Strauss The Emperor Waltz
(Part of a concert presented by the BBC in association with the Bedford Society)
by ANNE BRONTE adapted for radio in six parts by ALLAN MCCLELLAND with Rosalind Shanks and Russell Dixon
Part 4: Gilbert Markham has fallen in love with the beautiful new tenant of Wildfell Hall, Helen Graham. There is much scandalous gossip about her in the village, and when Gilbert appears to doubt her too, she decides to reveal to him the truth about her past.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
Through television, the cinema and even comics, most people are familiar with the figure of Count Dracula. the Transylvanian aristocrat who immortalised himself by sucking the blood from living human victims. But few are familiar with his origins, and even fewer know anything about his creator Bram Stoker , originally a Dublin civil servant, who wrote 18 books other than Dracula, including one called The Duties of Clerks in the Petty Sessions of Ireland.
Sarah Dunant looks at the life of Bram Stoker , and Stoker's original novel. and follows the career of his creation. Count Dracula, through successive rebirths on stage and screen.
Also taking part: DAVID PIRIE, CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING and DENYS HAWTHORNE Producer TONY KNOX
(First broadcast on Radio Ulster)
The last of three talks in which Bishop George Appleton shares some of his thoughts about prayer. 3: The Effects of Prayer Producer PETER FIRTH BBC Bristol
Paul Scofield in Microcosm by J. C. WILSHER with Eric Allan
' I think I'm beginning to understand the theme that runs through your work, your little captured moments of history.... They're all disasters which are man-made, examples of man's technological skill over-reaching itself with calamitous results.... Perhaps because we've forgotten that technology has its roots in magic and mysstery....'
Directed by IAN COTTERELL (Drama Now Thurs R3
7.30)
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
