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: Bernard Jackson reads from Personal Mark by ALEC MCCOWEN.
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID COOMES
talks, for the Week's Good Cause, about the challenges facing autistic children when they leave school. Donations: [address removed]
9.10 Sunday Papers
Sung Eucharist (ASB Rite A) from St Mary's Church, Billingshurst, Sussex Celebrant and preacher
THE REV FRANK MITCHINSON Lessons: Romans 8, vv 28-39; John 16, vv 12-24
Hymns: Ye servants of God; Come. Lord to our souls; Blow thou cleansing wind from heaven; Lord that descendest, holy child; 0 praise ye the Lord Service Setting
Terence Wheeler
Organist and choirmaster TERENCE WHEELER BBC Bristol
Omnibus edition Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST. Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
with Derek Cooper
The 16th-century book Dyetary refers to strawberries and cream as 'the poor mannes banket'. Today the commercial strawberry market in Britain is worth 135 million a year and much of our 'cream' comes courtesy of the Malaysian palm forests.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
Tony Lewis takes a trip to Alderney and encourages John Arlott to look back at the good and bad times of an extraordinarily varied life and career that has encompassed work in a mental home, being a 'bobby' on the beat, BBC producer, writer, broadcaster and wine correspondent. Producer
DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
Sonny Ramphal , Commonwealth
Secretary-General
His Excellency Shridath S. Ramphal has been Commonwealth
Secretary-General since
1975 and one of his major concerns has been to try to use the strength of the Commonwealth to protect the smaller member nations. He answers your questions and those of listeners around the world. The programme is chaired by Michael Charlton. Producers
ELISABETH MARDALL for the Woman's Hour unit; DAN ZERDIN for World Service
Lines open from 10.30 am
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
Ken Ford invites Geoffrey Smith
Daphne Ledward and Dr Stefan Buczacki to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post.
BBC Manchester
The Labyrinth by VALERIE GEORGESON with Evelyn has reached a crisis in her life. Deeply unhappy, she is fighting against being dragged down into depression. This is the story of how she wins through and comes to terms with herself and her life.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
Seven programmes in which Malcolm Billings explores the world of archaeology. 3: Stonehenge
Built of 162 stone blocks, Stonehenge stands on the rolling chalk downland of Salisbury Plain. It is the ruin of a single prehistoric building which has presented archaeologists with an as-yet unsolved puzzle. Almost a million people visit the site each year and the maze of wild opinion about the monument has become more complex than the ruin itself, which stands as one of the greatest memorials to the people of a vanished age.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol
A Stereo/Binaural edition
Ne Nes to Hawaii, white-winged wood duck to Thailand and white-headed duck to
Hungary. The Wildfowl Trust at Slimbridge has been responsible for returning endangered ducks and geese back into the wild and safe from extinction. Curator Mike Ounsted guides Derek Jones around the incubators, enclosures and aviaries as the breeding season gets underway.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tues 8.30 pm)
(The full binaural effect can only be received by listening with stereo headphones)
Brian Johnston is in Oswestry in Shropshire. He visits its famous orthopaedic hospital, a Museum of Childhood and discovers a factory making penny whistles and tambourines.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
with CUVE ROSUN
Flanneled fools waving handkerchiefs on a village green - an instant image of rural England, used for selling butter, beer or England itself. Jim Lloyd looks behind the advertising cliches at the 20th-century revival of a pagan ritual, when he joins a thousand morris men from all over England for the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Morris Ring.
Producer GEOFFREY hewitt
BBC Birmingham
HELPLINES: page 75
Woddis on ... page 81
with Colin Semper
by JOHN FLETCHER (2)
The religious scene in England this year will be dominated by a national campaign of Evangelism by veteran American preacher Billy Graham.
Mission England is a joint effort by many churches to present the good news of the gospel to thousands of potential believers through rallies in different centres across England.
Soundings joins the crowd live at Roker Park,
Sunderland, to hear Dr
Graham speak. Rosemary Hartill sets the scene at the rally and presents a profile of the famous
Evangelist, introducing the man behind the message and exploring the changes in his preaching style and outlook over the years. Producer NOEL VINCENT
Series editor JOHN NEWBURY BBC Manchester
by Charles Dickens.
The last of ten episodes dramatised by Betty Davies.
With Michael Kitchen as John Rokesmith, Janet Maw as Lizzie Hexham, Pippa Guard as Bella Wilfer, Michael Cochrane as Eugene Rayburn, Robert Lang as Rogue Riderhood, Tom Wilkinson as Bradley Headstone, Michael Graham Cox as Mr Boffin, Megs Jenkins as Mrs Boffin, Douglas Livingstone as Silas Wegg, Angela Pleasance as Jenny Wren and Simon Cadell as the Narrator.
'"My dear friend, Mr Eugene Wrayburn, is dying. He is sinking under injuries received at the hands of a villain who attacked him in the dark."'
(Stereo)
(Repeated: Friday 3.0pm)
The story of the Crusades as told in the words of those who lived through them by JOHN SCOTNEY
4: The Lion of the North
'A few years ago the realm of Jerusalem met with great misfortune. The
Sepulchre of Christ was lost to us. Then great and humble alike were cast down and forgotten were dances, song and every earthly joy.'
The Crusade of the Kings, 1187-92, Richard of England, Philip of France and Frederick, Emperor of Germany. The attempt to retake Jerusalem. The honour and the mutual respect of Richard and Saladin.
Music by PHILIP PICKETT and the NEW LONDON CONSORT Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol
The Rev
Stanley Brinkman continues his exploration of the Christian experience of healing.
Reconciliation and Forgiveness
Producer HUGH FAUPEL BBC Manchester
Westminster committees at work - extracts and discussions.
Presented by David Coss Producer JULIAN COLES