Music selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo
LW only from 6.45
6.45 A Jewish Testimony
7.5 Views of One Environment
7.25 Rome Engineering: The Work of Agrippa
7.10 LWSunday Papers
7.15 LW Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves Bernard Jackson reviews and selects readings from Halfway to Heaven - The Hidden Life of the Sublime Carthusians by ROBIN BRUCE LOCKHART.
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by Clive Jacobs Producer DAVID COOMES
talks, for the Week's Good Cause, about the joy and benefits that the physically handicapped of all ages can obtain by having a seaside holiday.
Donations to: Help the Handicapped Holiday Fund [address removed]
9.10 Sunday Papers
Matins from the Church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich conducted by THE REV DAVID SHARP Cantor THE REV DAVID CLARK Introit: Jesus Christ, Lord Almighty (H. G. Ley )
Hymns (A&MR): Spirit of mercy, truth and love (153); How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (192); Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (382); Psalm 1; Lessons: Joshua 1 vv1-8;Mark1,vv21-28;TeDeum and Jubilate: Stanford, in B flat Anthem: Sanctus. Sanctus, Sanctus (Mozart)
Master of the Music KENNETH RYDER
Organist ROGER RAYNER BBC Birmingham
Omnibus edition
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
Producer WILLIAM SMETHURST BBC Birmingham
by STANLEY SADIE
Though George Frideric Handel came from Halle in what is now East Germany, he regarded
England as his home, and when he died in 1759 he was buried among the greatest of his adopted compatriots in Westminster Abbey.
The first of three programmes celebrating the life and work of the composer who was bom 300 years ago.
Narrator John Rowe with Carl Duering as Handel and WILLIAM EEDLE , NIGEL GRAHAM , GARARD GREEN and JOHN RYE Producer ALAN HAYDOCK Stereo
Marjorie Lofthouse introduces her team of DIY experts to the audience in the Pebble Mill Studio in Birmingham:
Tony Wilkins , Consultant
Editor, Do it yourself magazine; John Armitage , architect; and Jack Widgery , colour consultant, ICIjDulux Producer MICHAEL FORD BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Cereal crops provide the staple food for every nation.
Derek Cooper looks at the grains that feed both the Old World and the New. Producer JOY HATWOOD
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
visits Norfolk, where members of the Wymondham and District Horticultural Society put their questions to Geoffrey Smith ,
Daphne Ledward and Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Les Cottington BBC Manchester
Last Friday in Jerusalem by SAM JACOBS with and Israel 1985, and British-born Eve faces up to the challenge and confusions of living there. Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Stereo
Mike Chaney is in the auction rooms this week bidding for some of his four-footed furry friends and other creatures. Producer SALLY LUNN
Stanley Ellis sets out on more of Britain's linguistic B-roads. 4: Broad Talk in Belfast 'Belfast people are very spontaneous and that is part of our trouble: they fall out quickly but they make it up quickly. The accent, too, is paradoxical: in one sense it is aggressive and harsh; in another, warm and humorous and friendly.'
(BELFAST HEADMASTER)
Field research by MICHAEL BARRY and SHARON MILLAR
Producer SIMON ELMES
A portrait of Sir Thomas Beecham
The last of six programmes about British conductors compiled and written by BRYAN CRIMP
Narrated by John Rowe
Most musicians who played under Sir Thomas Beecham agree that he was some kind of magician.
Despite his erratic use of the baton he was able to conjure from them some of the greatest performances of their lives. In this programme Beecham is also heard on what was for him an always fascinating subject - Beecham himself.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK. Stereo
Presented by CLIVE ROSLIN
with Susan Marling
Radio 4's good books programme enjoys a brief sentence inside as Hunter Davies visits Wormwood Scrubs, home of the Prison Service's first writer-in-residence and one of the country's finest bookbinding workshops.
by LEN DEIGHTON dramatised in eight parts by MICHAEL BAKEWELL with Trevor Nichols as Boyd Stuart
Bruce Boa as Charles Stein and featuring Barry Morse as Colonel Pitman and George Coulouris as Shumuk
2: The House in Geneva
After the war a lorry full of treasures from the Kaiseroda mine went missing.
Charles Stein visits Switzerland to talk with his old Colonel.
Directed by PETER KING
(Details tomorrow at 11.0am)
An occasional series in which Edward Blakeman presents portraits of some of the world's great flute players, illustrated with some of their recordings. Today Jean-Pierre Rampal plays music by Mozart, Leclair, Yamada, Bolling and Poulenc. Producer ANDREW LYLE
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)
Rachel Billington , Professor
Tony Eccles and Canon Barney Milligan in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester. Stereo
6: The Legacy
(Details on Friday at 3.0pm) Stereo
By 1962 the tramcar had all but disappeared from British streets. For many it had been a noisy, cumbersome and old-fashioned mode of transport. For the few it was not only the vehicle of the future, but a thing of love and beauty that had enchanted their adolescence. Martin Jenkins meets fellow enthusiasts, their wives, tram drivers and transport officials. With the sounds oftramcars here and abroad.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS. Stereo .HEAR THIS! page 16
A series of meditations on the Beatitudes by Stanley Brinkman
2: Blessed are you - who show mercy
Producer NOEL VINCENT BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presented by David Coss Producer PETER ROBINS
followed by an interlude
