Music selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford
BBC Birmingham. Stereo
LW only from 6.45
6.45 Devotional Hinduism
7.5 Magnetic Circuits
7.25 Technology: Sound and Signals
7.10 L W Sunday Papers
7.15 LW Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves THE REV ROBERT FOXCROFT reviews Butler's Lives of the Saints, concise edition, edited by MICHAEL WALSH.
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer STEPHEN LYNAS BBC Bristol
talks, for the Week's Good Cause about help for parents whose babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth.
Donations: SANDS (Still Birth and Neo-natal Death Society), [address removed]
9.10 Sunday Papers
on St Patrick's Day, for the Fourth Sunday in Lent from St Eugene's Cathedral, Londonderry, on the Lenten theme The Living God. 4: God's Love
Celebrant and Preacher The Bishop of Derry,
THE MOST REV DR EDWARD DALY Organist and choirmaster DONAL DOHERTY
Readings: Jeremiah 1, w 4-9; Acts 13, vv 46-49; Luke 10, w 1-12,17-20
Mass for peace (T. C. Kelly); Padraig Aspal (Aherne); Be thou my vision (Slane); A
Gaelic blessing (Rutter); Dochas linn Naomh Padraig (trad) BBC Northern Ireland
Omnibus edition
Directed by PETER WINDOWS
Producer WILLIAM SMETHURST Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
in which Cliff Morgan invites four of a kind to discuss a subject in common.
Produced by VANESSA HARRISON for the Woman 's Hour unit
Life with The Lyons
The first of two programmes starring Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon with Barbara Lyon
Richard Lyon , Hugh Morton
Horace Percival , Doris Rogers Molly Weir , Clive Baxter and David Enders
BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL FENOULHET Incidental music by ARTHUR WILKINSON
Written by BEBE DANIELS , BOB BLOCK and BILL HARDING
Producer TOM RONALD (First broadcast in 1952)
On St Patrick's Day Derek Cooper discovers Ireland's contribution to modern eating. Meanwhile, as the new vintages are declared in France, the wine money-go-round spins again.
with Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
visits Avon, where members of the Winford Amateur Gardening Society put questions to Geoffrey Smith Daphne Ledward and Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
Spoiling Egypt by MIKE WALKER
What did Tom Lee expect when he joined Special Branch? He didn't expect to be hunted down, terrified and locked up alone in his own nightmare. Electronic music composed and played by david CHILTON Directed by PETER KING
Stereo
(Details on Thursday at 9.30 am)
Brian Johnston visits the small market town of Cleobury Mortimer in Shropshire. Its population is under 2,000, agriculture predominates, but there is some light industry including pen manufacturing. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
With DAVID HITCHINSON
with Colin Semper
Hunter Davies presents Radio 4's good books programme, including this week an interview with Philip Ziegler , official biographer of Mountbatten.
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD
A serial in six parts by COLIN SHAW
When James Hamilton finds a body on the beach and it's got a bullet through the head, you'd think he'd be justified in suspecting foul play. But the Doradan police are convinced that the man died of a heart attack.
2: A Summons to Table Eight
With JOHN BULL . CARLOS DOUGLAS
DAVID SINCLAIR and ALAN THOMPSON Directed by JANE MORGAN
Stereo
George Petrie was a song collector, artist and antiquarian. In 1855 the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland published The Petrie
Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland which included the now well-known 'tune from the County of Londonderry'. Readers ANTHONY FINIGAN and PATRICK BRANNIGAN Producer DAVID BYERS
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster) Stereo
A series of six Lent talks in which speakers look at how the writings of the Biblical prophets have influenced their understanding of Christian discipleship.
4: Where the Flowers Die Speaker Ruth Etchells BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by Joshua Rozenberg
A series of six programmes 5: Nicaragua
'A Communist totalitarian state' was President Reagan's recent description of Nicaragua, but how far is this borne out by the facts?
Hugh O'Shaughnessy examines the Sandinista revolution and finds out how the Nicaraguans are coping with shortages of food and fuel, a war going on within their territory and opposition from one of the world's most powerful countries.
Producer MICK WEBB
For booklist, send sae to: [address removed]
by SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH Dramatised in three parts Episode 2
(Details: see Friday at 3.0pm) Stereo
by RICHARD MULLEN
'We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.' A portrait of one of the best loved of English writers,
Charles Lamb , who died 150 years ago.
Michael Tudor Barnes Gwen Cherrell, David Garth and Colin Starkey
Narrator John Rowe
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
In a series of five talks
The Rev Richard Harries follows in the footsteps of some well-known but perhaps unexpected pilgrims on the road to Calvary. 3: Edwin Muir
Westminster committees at work - extracts and discussions.
Presented by John Sergeant Producer PETER ROBINS
followed by an interlude
