long wave only from 6.45
long wave only
7.10 Sunday Papers long wave only
7.15 Apna Hi
Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians BBC Birmingham long wave only
7.45 Bells
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves
Fr Benedict O'Donohoe of Ealing Abbey selects readings from Seeking God by ESTHER DE WAAL.
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer JOHN NEWBURY
talks about the work of the Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled (251051) for the Week's Good Cause.
Donations can be sent to the Foundation at [address removed]
9.10 Sunday Papers
by Alistair Cooke
from Caterham School, Surrey conducted by THE REV RONALD W. LEWIS Preacher
THE REV BARRIE D. SCOPES
Readings: Deuteronomy 7, w 6-12; I Corinthians 12, vv 1, 4-18, 26-27
Hymns: (With One Voice): God of grace (543); Christ is made the sure foundation (343); Christ is the world's light (191); Jesus shall reign (136) Anthem: Good Christian men (Bullock)
Organist and Director of Music A. D. LEACH
Omnibus edition Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
with Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - The Wonder Show starring Tim Brooke -Taylor, John Cleese
David Hatch , Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie
Written by DAVID HATCH and BILL ODDIE
Music THE DAVE LEE GROUP Producer HUMPHREY BARCLAY (First broadcast in 1967)
Join Derek Cooper as he assesses the British at table. On today's bill of fare: catering studies. Producer JOY HATWOOD
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
visits North Humberside where members of the Market Weighton Group of Women's Institutes put their questions to Geoffrey Smith
Daphne Ledward
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.0 am)
by Elizabeth Troop adapted by the author from her novel
with Fiona Walker as Claudiah Palmer, Michael Graham Cox as Howard Palmer, John McAndrew as Sam Palmer and Peter Whitman as Tom Vermeer
Howard Palmer, a film director, has taken his wife Claudia and son Sam to Italy in an attempt to finish a failing film script with his American writer, Tom Vermeer. But the melancholy quiet of a Tuscan village in August proves to be no escape from the crises of middle age - and in their isolation they indulge in reckless and dangerous games.
(Broadcast last Monday)
Arthur Negus and Bernard Price discuss your questions with Hugh Scully.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol long wave only
The Winged Blood-drop Rarely more than an irritation to us in Britain, the mosquito is, over much of the globe, a very important insect which has a profound affect on man. Peter France visits the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine to get up to date with mosquito research. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs 9.30 am) long wave only
long wave only
from Ramsgate in Kent. Brian Johnston visits its busy harbour and marina, its model village and hoverport, a school of English and RAF Manston. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 11.0 am) long wave only
with EUGENE FRASER
with Simon Bates
Where and what is the 'real' Sweden? Julian Hale visits the small paper-making factory town of Lilla Edet to see if he can find the answers there. What are the preoccupations and hopes of modem Swedes living in the most traditional of settings?
Producer JULIAN HALE
by John Masefield
A new serial in six parts adapted by Colin Finbow
1: The great China tea-clipper races provide the background to this
19th-century story of the sea. The Captain of the Blackgauntlet pushes his crew to breaking point in an attempt to win the homeward bound race - then out of the black fog, danger looms in the shape of a huge steam ship.
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
Hunter Davies presents Radio 4s good book programme.
Featuring an interview with historian Sir Arthur Bryant on his 85th birthday.
Producer JULIAN hale
(Repeated: Thurs 4.10 pm)
A portrait of Dame Isobel Baillie , who died in September last year aged
88. She was, for more than 30 years, one of Britain's leading oratorio sopranos, particularly renowned for her singing in Handel's Messiah.
Among those contributing are DAME EVA TURNER.
MARY JARRED .SIR KEITH FALKNER.
BERYL REID. BRYAN CRIMP .
JOHN GRIERSON. and pupils and friends from her adopted city of Manchester. Presented by Richard Baker
Producer RAY ABBOTT
The fourth extract from the forthcoming novel by NEIL BOYD , continuing his new story about the unknown years in the life of Jesus. Rabbi Ezra, now an old man, is determined to go to Jerusalem for his last
Passover, and Jesus agrees to go with him.
Read by Simon Cadell
Producer SHIRLEY PENROSE BBC Bristol
(Simon Cadell is in 'Hide-Hi!' at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London)
The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. WELLS dramatised in five parts by MICHELENE WANDOR Music by ILONA SEKACZ with Paul Daneman
Mark Straker
Nickolas Grace
Christopher Biggins and Christopher Good
2: Kipps Learns Something to His Advantage
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS (Repeated: Fri 3.0 pm)
In the centenary year of the Fabian Society David Watt presents his views on Socialism in Britain today with contributions from The Rt Hon Tony Benn , Bernard Crick ,
Martin Jacques , The Rt Hon Neil Kinnock , mp,
The Rt Hon Len Murray and The Rt Hon
Shirley Williams. Producer
ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
Fr William Hewett , sj, takes a personal pilgrimage of rediscovery and renewal through Ireland.
4: The Road
Producer HUGH FAUPEL BBC Manchester
Presenter
Michael Fairbairn
Producer PETER ROBINS
12.23-12.28* am The Chip Shop Takeaway Service
(Details: Sat 12.23* am)