6.55 Weather; travel; programme news long wave only
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7.10 Sunday Papers long wave only
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham long wave only
7.45 Bells long wave only
7.50 The Shape of God DOM MICHAEL HOPLEY or Ealing Abbey with a meditation for the second Sunday of Lent. Matthew 12, vv 22-32 long wave only
7.55 Weather; travel; programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Religious news from home and abroad.
Presenter Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID COOMES
GLENDA jackson appeals on behalf of the Wirral Autistic Society (reg no 257435), a voluntary organisation who run a community home for autistic people which they plan to extend.
Donations, by cheque or PO, to: Wirral Autistic
Society, [address removed]
8.55 Weather; travel; programme news
9.10 Sunday Papers
from St Machar's
Cathedral, Aberdeen led by the Minister, THE REV STEWART TODD Theme:
The Christ of the Cosmos Readings (AV): Proverbs 8, vv 12, 22-32; John 1, vv 1-14
Hymns (cn3): Spirit of God (109); 0 worship the King (35): Of the Father's love begotten (198)
Psalm 86: Bow down thine ear. 0 Lord
Assistant organist MICHAEL THOMPSON
Organist JAMES LOBBAN BBC Scotland
Omnibus edition Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer , who meets
The Rt Hon
William Rodgers , mp, of the SDP, and his wife Silvia at their London home; and presents highlights from Woman's Hour.
By popular request. another chance to hear some of the most successful comedy shows ever produced by the BBC Radio Light Entertainment Department.
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again
The Wonder Show starring
Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese David Hatch Jo Kendall
Graeme Garden Bill Oddie Script by GRAEME GARDEN
TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR BILL ODDIE
ELIZABETH EVANS Music by THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Producers DAVID HATCH and PETER TITHERADGE
(First broadcast in 1968) Boofc, Laughter in the Air, £3.95 from booksellers
Meat and drink for your Sunday lunchtime entertainment.
Derek Cooper 's topical guide to food - and the industry behind it.
Producer JOY hatwood
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Ken Ford invites Bill Sowerbutts
Professor Alan Gemmell and Geoffrey Smith to answer questions which listeners have sent In by post.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.2 am) Questions should be on a postcard only please and addressed to:
Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX
Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50 from booksellers
by William Ingram
with William Squire as Rollo
'In the village, they call this house "the Sentry Box". It has about it a feeling of waiting - of marking time - and finally this tall, gaunt house will bear witness to the inescapable fate of its occupants.'
Patrick Hannan looks at the Welsh language.
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Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss your questions with Hugh Scully
Producer PAMELA howe BBC Bristol long wave only
A magazine edition with news of wildlife from around the world.
Presenter Peter France Producer BRUN leith BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 am) long wave only
0 HELP! page 75
followed by travel; programme news long wave only
Brian Johnston visits
Saddleworth - a collection of seven villages nestling in the hills and valleys of the western Pcnnines - about six miles north-east of Oldham in Greater Manchester.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 11.5 am) long wave only
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news long wave only
' You either like it and then you love it, or you can't take it.'
Norway's Spitsbergen islands, only a few hundred miles from the North Pole, are home to about 1.000 Norwegians but twice that number of Russians.
This is a look at life in the coal-mining communities, all daylight in summer and all darkness in winter, at the delicate relationship with the Soviet Union because of Spitsbergen's strategic position, and at the sudden flourishing of wildlife and plants each year in its hard and beautiful landscape.
Presented and produced by John Arnolt
7.0 Travel; programme news
In the last of ten programmes,
Johnny Morrisrecallssomeof the people, places and happenings in a quarter of a century of jaunting. Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Details: Thurs 4.15 pm)
Six conversations with The Rt Rev John Taylor , Bishop of Winchester 2: The Rt Hon Shirley Williams , mp talks with Bishop Taylor about the Church's involvement in politics. Should there be an attempt to arrive at ' a Christian approach ' to political and social issues or should the Churches restrict themselves to devotion and doctrinal matters and let the individual conscience decide on the great public issues?
Producer PETER firth BBC Bristol
JACQUES KLEIN (piano) Beethoven Sonata in E flat, Op 7
(First broadcast on R3)
by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised in eight episodes by BETTY DAVIES
starring and
'I lay ill through several weeks. and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. In falling ill, I seemed to have crossed a dark lake, and to have left all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore.' (Esther)
With NICHOLAS COURTNEY and STEPHEN GARLICK
Directed by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Thurs 3.2 pm)
(Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player; Brenda Blethyn is in "Steaming" at the Comedy Theatre, London; Sylvia Coleridge is in "The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B" at the Duke of York's Theatre, London)
Moonshine is an unreliable, non-committal, unsentimental and inconsistent light, such as is shed by this inconclusive and distracting assemblage of verse, songs, stories and archival oddments on dancing.
Presenter Judi Dench with additional readings by Joss Ackland Music from
CAMBRIDGE CITY JASSBAND Vocal refrains
DAVE SKITAM AND THE RHYTHM BOYS
Written and compiled by PETE ATKIN , RUSSELL DAVIES Producer
JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
The evening office of Compline
Westminster committees at work - extracts and discussions.
Presenter David Coss Producer PETER ROBINS
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
