6.55 Weather; travel; programme news
7.10 Sunday Papers
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye
for Asian listeners
BBC Birmingham
(long wave only from 7.35)
7.45 Bells
(long wave only)
7.50 The Shape of God
with The Rev Peter Sutcliff
John 16, vv 12-24
(long wave only)
7.55 Weather; travel; programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Religious news from home and abroad.
Presenter Clive Jacobs
Gerald Williams appeals on behalf of The Girls' Brigade National council for England and Wales (reg no 206877), a Christian youth organisation which trains girls to become useful citizens: encouraging leadership, initiative and integrity, giving service to the home, the church and the community.
Donations by crossed PO or cheque, to Gerald Williams [address removed]
8.55 Weather: travel: programme news
9.10 Sunday Papers
by Alistair Cooke
from Walcot Methodist Church, Bath
Officiant The Rev Martin Broadbent
Readings (Jerusalem Bible): Mark 5, vv 25-34; James 5, vv 13-16
Hymns: Good Christian men rejoice and sing (Hymns and Songs 29); For the beauty of the earth (Methodist Hymn Book 35); O Christ, the healer (H and S 51); Fill thou my life (MHB 604) Anthems: O taste and see that the Lord is good (Vaughan Williams); God be in my head (Walford Davies)
Organist and choirmaster Maurice Houghton
BBC Bristol
Omnibus edition
BBC Birmingham
Introduced by June Knox-Mawer, who meets singer/songwriter Peter Skellern and his wife Diana at home.and presents some highlights from Woman's Hour.
A ten-part adventure serial by James Follett
The crew of the starship Challenger have awoken from 15 years' suspended animation to discover that their two children, Bran and Elka - who were not allowed to join them have aged naturally and are now in their late teens. Both are under the influence of the 'Guardian Angels' - Bran has taken over command of the Challenger and threatens to kill anyone who stands in his way.
Derek Cooper's seasonal guide includes a took at fresh asparagus. How has a vegetable, which at the beginning of the 19th-century was more widely grown in England than in any other country of the world, now become such a rare luxury?
12.55 Weather; programme news
Presenter Susannah Simon with voices and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
visits Co Durham, where members of the Ethertey and Loft Hill Women's Institute put their questions to Professor Alan Gemmell, Geoffrey Smith and Daphne Ledward
Questionmaster Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
Questions on a postcard to: Gardeners' Question Time, [address removed]
Book, Down the Garden Path, £3.50 from booksellers
by Dorothy Charbaoui
with Aingeal Grehan and Sam Dastor
When Judith McKenna meets Aziz Ghennouni at a Belfast party, a new life begins - but she enters another 'hidden world'.
BBC Northern Ireland
(Broadcast last Monday)
A You and Yours special
Thousands of school children are preparing for the most important examinations of their lives. Margaret Percy seeks guidance from teachers and examiners on how you can prepare your child for this most taxing of trials.
(long wave only)
Midlands
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with John Julius Norwich and Peter Oppenheimer London
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and Eric Korn
BBC Manchester
(long wave only)
British bats are declining rapidly but conservation groups are being formed to help these maligned but harmless creatures. We join the Northants Bat Group for an evening's work. Presented by Caroline Parsons
BBC Bristol
(Repeated, Thurs 9.30 am)
(long wave only)
followed by Travel: programme news (long wave only)
(long wave only)
5.50 Shipping forecast (long wave only)
5.55 Weather: programme news (long wave only)
A true story of the sea
(Details: Thurs, 3pm)
7.0 Travel: programme news
(Details: Wed 12.27pm)
Frank Delaney introduces the magazine programme about the books you read, borrow and buy.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti
With Murray Perahia (piano) and Leontyne Price (sop)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 in C, Op 15
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
(WFMT recording; overseas broadcast made possible by a grant to the orchestra from Amoco (UK) Ltd)
(Repeat)
by Allan Prior
(Details: Tues 3.2pm)
From the end of the 19th-century till the late 1930s, Midlothian mining villages such as Newtongrange and Rosewell were dominated by the Lothian Coal Company and its manager, Mungo Mackay. Veteran miners and their famines recall stories that reveal a community in which the company owned houses, shops, the pub... exerting influence on every facet of the people's lives.
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
H. Colin Davis visits his own holy ground and records what the places say to him.
Reader David Davis
Westminster committees at work; extracts and discussions.
Presenter David Coss
Weather report: forecast followed by an interlude
