7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 The Shape of God
FR VICTOR stock reflects on the Baptism of Jesus: John 1, vv 29-34
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Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer JOHN NEWBURY
ANDREW CRUICKSHANK appeals on behalf of the Breakthrough Trust, a self-help group, founded and administered by deaf people, which provides activities and help for deaf and multi-handi capped children.
Donations to: [address removed]
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from Christ Church, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, conducted by BROTHER NATHANAEL and THE REV E. TREFOR JONES Preacher
CANON R. GLYNDWR WILLIAMS Hymns (A and M Rev): The people that in darkness sat (80); Bless'd are the pure in heart (261); Praise the Lord, his glories show (544)
Organist NELLIE OWEN
Choirmaster WALTER HEWER BBC -Wales long wave only
Omnibus edition Directed by VANESSA WHITEURN Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer , who visits Tom Stoppard, the playwright, and his wife Miriam at their home in Buckinghamshire; and presents highlights from the weekday programme.
Robin Ray traces, with records, the artistry and achievements of some of the world's great musicians. This week: the Italian pianist, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Derek Cooper takes the lid off food - good and bad fun and fast - and the industry behind it.
Cookery Course 2: page 27
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Presenter Gordon Clough
Your responses and reactions to programmes on radio and television.
Presented by Tom Vernon Producer JENNY DE YONG
Send comments, questions or suggestions to: Feedback, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
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visits Lancashire, where members of the Blackburn and District Horticultural Society put their questions to: FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
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Indoor Gardening: paoe27
I Married You for Fun
A repeat of the first performance in this country of the comedy by NATALIA CINZBURG translated from the Italian by HENRY REED with and Giuliana may be an impossible girl, but Pietro finds her irresistible. It isn't exactly love at first sight, but he knows she must become his wife. They marry in haste. After one week of marriage can it be that they will come to repent at leisure?
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
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Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol long ivave only
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A magazine edition which catches up on the events and ideas that are changing our understanding of actions - and interactions - of living things. Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
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In a series of 13 programmes Marghanita Laski presents some of our national songs that were already popular before Victoria became Queen and are still loved and sung today, 2:Wooing
Producer HELEN FRY
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Brian Johnston recently visited Buckingham
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
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Graham Turner continues his assessment of the relevance of class in the 1980s.
2: Class in the Classroom All our children are supposed to receive an education ' suitable to their age, ability, and aptitude.' But do all children have an equal chance to get the qualifications which will determine their way of life from their teens to the day they die? Or is a child's social class still a barrier to success in the classroom?
Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Frank Delaney on the books you read, borrow and buy, both new and old, from classics to comics.
Producer SIMON ELMES
(Repeated: Tues 4.10 pm)
Stopping the Rot
The most difficult problem in underwater archaeology is the permanent preservation of the timbers of ancient ships. At the National Maritime Museum. Greenwich, the Archaeology Research Centre is making progress by advanced scientific methods. Presenter Malcolm Billings
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by GUNTER HERBIG
Beethoven Overture: The Ruins of Athens
8.8* Beethoven Symphony No 6, in F (Pastoral) BBC Manchester
by JANF. BEE SON with 'You don't come across many happy marriages ... not now. Nearly always one or the other champs at the bit. One doesn't often find both partners contented.'
When Anthony spends a weekend with his old friends Thomas and Carol, he finds himself painfully observing a marriage that has indeed gone sour.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
' I have imagined myself in turn, a liberal, a socialist or a pacifist, but I have never been any of these things in any profound sense. Always, the sceptical intellect, when I have most wished it silent, has whispered doubts to me . . . has transported me into a desolate solitude.'
Bertrand Russell died ten years ago at the age of 97. He lived through an era stretching from Glad-stone to Sir Harold Wilson.
Anthony Howard looks back over his life and reassesses his work and standing through the eyes of Sir Alfred Ayer , A. J. P. Taylor , The Rt Hon Michael Foot , HP, Dora Russell , and those most closely associated with him. Producer MICHAEL GANDON. BBC Birmingham
Mysticism means 'that which is mysterious, sacredly obscure, secret.'
Colin Semper explores the thinking of those who have had a special knowledge of the divine. 2: Thomas a Kempis
'A really great man has great love. A really great man is humble in his own eyes.... a really wise man treats all earthly things as worthless ... a man who has really learned something is one who does the will of God and abandons his own will.'
Written by PENELOPE WALLACE
Producer CRISPIAN HOLLIS
Jeremy Sicpmann ex. plores his favourite Beet-oven sonata - the Appassionata
Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK
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