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7.45 Bells long wave only
7.50 Sunday Reading
MGR PATRICK MCENROE reads from The Risen Christ by CARYLL HOUSELANDER long ware only
7.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
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8.10 Sunday Papers long wave only
A weekly look at religious news at home and abroad. Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer JOHN NEWBURY long wave only
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
9.10 Sunday Papers long wave only
by Alistair Cooke
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from Park Road United Reformed Church, Sutton Coldfield
Conducted by the Minister, THE REV F.J. HOLLEY
Preacher THE REV DR FRED KAAN
Readings: 2 Samuel 6, vv 11-23: Philippians 2, vv 5-11; Mark 11, vv 1-10
Hymns (Congregational Praise): All glory, laud, and honour (120); At the name of Jesus (167); Praise the Lord with joyful cry (New cp 80); Draw nigh to thy Jerusalem (121)
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A new programme in which Tom Vernon presents a selection of your reactions and responses to programmes on radio and television.
Producer KAY EVANS long wave only
Presented by Peter Hobday and Louise Botting
Including Debatable Point A Financial World Tonight production
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject with the voices of PETER SELLERS, TONY HANCOCK JOHN CLEESE , JOYCE GRENFELL PETER COOK and DUDLEY MOORE Written by FRANK MUIR and simon BRETT
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
In the Chair
Michael Charlton
[Producers JOCK GALLAGHER and PAT TAYLOR
BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 10.30 am
John Julius Norwich presents his personal choice of poetry and prose. with readings by Maria Aitken and Norman Rodway Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Shortened repeat)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
introduce and sing some of the songs The King's Singers sing.
Today: A Mixed Bag of Songs. Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
visits Gwynedd where members of the Aberdovey Garden Club put their questions to FRED LOADS
CLAY JONES and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD
BBC Manchester (Rev rpt:
Wed 10.5 am) long wave only
Trevor Howard in Goose with Pepper by FREDERICK BRADNUM with Jack Watson
Company Sergeant Major Gooseley returns to his former home in Sussex. His commanding officer, now retired, lives there. His return cannot be a coincidence.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (First broadcast in 1970) long wave only
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Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions With HUGH SCULLY Producer
PAMEI A HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
Where the Ocean Meets the Land
In venting their spite on the coasts of the Scilly Isles, the Atlantic rollers charge the waters with oxygen, and a rich wildlife community thrives among the waves. As the tide falls, we follow a Radio Nature Trail through the sea anemones, the shellfish and the sea squirts of this sparkling shore. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Wed at 9.5 am) long wave only
Presented by Jane Finnis
First Get Yourself Organised ... : HANNAH WRIGHT has some advice for people who are re-learning to cook after losing their sight.
Producer THENA HESHEL lony wove only
Brian Johnston recently visited Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire. Producer ANTHONY SMITH. BBC Bristol (Rev rpt of Fri's b'cast long wave only
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only
Omnibus edition Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST BBC Birmingham
A programme of poetry. prose and music for Palm Sunday.
Compiled by FREDA DOWIE and performed by Michael Deacon Freda Dowie
Denys Hawthorne
PETERJARVIS (clarinet and special sounds crentt'd by IAIN KENDELL and STEUART ALLIN Producer AI.EC RElD
... I the treetops. that is. where the vocalists are birds, not human beings. Why do birds sing? Do they need to learn their songs.? And how does the song of a wren. for example, sound to the wren next door?
Jeffery Boswall tries to answer these questions and illustrates his replies with his personal ' top 20 '- the 20 most musical of our British bird songsters. Producer DILYS BREESE
BBC Bristol
An epic adventure in time and space occurring between the old and new series of the show that also includes some helpful advice on how to avoid certain death, starring Peter Jones as the Book, with Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Stephen Moore as Marvin, Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect/Frogstar Robot, Bill Paterson as Assistant Arcturan Pilot, David Tate as The Captain/Receptionist/The Lift, Alan Ford as Roosta
(First broadcast on Christmas Eve)
by Anne Bronte, adapted for radio in six parts by Allan McClelland
with Rosalind Shanks and Russell Dixon
Helen Huntingdon has experienced the utter degradation of being married to a man whose love of drink is destroying him. Gilbert Markham learns from her diary that Helen plans to flee from her husband and adopt the pseudonym by which she has become known to him - Mrs Graham.
(BBC Manchester)
(Repeated: Tues 3.35 pm)
A look at what has been going on recently in the world of archaeology. Presenter
Malcolm Billings
Producer RON HAYWARD BBC Bristol
for Palm Sunday Devised by MONICA FURLONG
Narrator David Strong Music: BBC SINGERS
Falling by JONATHAN RABAN
A middle-aged script-writer throws himself from the 12th floor of a London hotel. He finds himself falling at a slower speed than he'd expected: like his life, his death involves a bad miscalculation.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
