with Marjorie Lofthouse Producer Jane Ward. Stereo
with Stephen Oliver including
Bells on Sunday from St Mary's, Brecon, Powys. Stereo
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with Debbie Thrower and Christopher Morgan Editors David Coomes and Beverley McAinsh including at
8.00am News
speaks for the Week's
Good Cause on behalf of an organisation which promotes understanding between the peoples of Britain and Africa.
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by Alistair Cooke
for the first Sunday in Lent comes from
Hayward's Heath
Methodist Church, led by the Rev
Harvey Richardson. The Rev
Dr Colin Morris delivers the first in a series of special sermons for Lent.
Hymns (H and P): All My Hope on God Is Founded (63); Forty Days and Forty Nights (130);
There's a Spirit in the Air (326); Ye Servant of God (278); Readings:
Deuteronomy 30, w
11-20; Matthew 4, w 1-17. Organist Judith Brigden.
Omnibus edition.
Editor Ruth Patterson
with Andrew Rawnsley Producer Jane Beresford
with Margaret Howard
with Nick Clarke Edttor Roger Mosey
visits west London where members of the Acton Chrysanthemum, Dahlia and Floral Art
Society put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Chairman Clay Jones. Producer Diana Stenson
0 WRITE to: Gardeners' Question Time. BBC, PO Box 27. Manchester M60 1SJ
Alan Bennett's acclaimed series of six monologues on radio for the first time. Performed by Anna Massey. A vicar's wife struggles with various devils including the demon drink.
Julian Roach casts a seasoned eye over trees, timber and forests. He discovers that a few bits of lovingly worked wood, coaxed by four inspired people, can lead to a peak of artistic achievement. Producer John Harrison (R)
Laurie Taylor and guests review the programmes and discuss the politics of UK radio.
Producer Nick Ware. Stereo
Trading Partners
The old world order of trade is crumbling.
Even if an international agreement can be rescued, the emergence of new regional trading blocs is increasing protectionist pressures. Roland Dallas asks: can future trade wars be averted?
Carol Ann Duffy visits the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. Producer Alec Reid. Stereo
If 'home is where the heart is' then home for
Bob Wilson , now a successful sports journalist, is Arsenal
Football Club where for years he was the number one choice goalkeeper. Producer Anthony Smith
Roger Worsley explores four ancient highways. 3: Drovers ' Roads
Producer Penny Afzal (R)
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822): musician, lawyer, critic, civil servant and the teller of fantastic tales. A celebration, written by Christopher Cook. with Jonathan Scott, Alan Barker, Michael Turner, Fraser Kerr, James Greene, Tara Dominick and Jenny Howe.
With the music that Hoffmann inspired - by Offenbach, Delibes, Tchaikovsky and Schumann.
Director John Powell. Stereo
('The Sandman', the first of three tales by Hoffmann, on Friday at 4.05pm)
Tim Sebastian , television journalist and spy novelist, and Frances Fyfield , solicitor and crime-writer, discuss the relationship between their dual professions; a biography of the Victorian essayist, Samuel Butler ; plus classic and contemporary love stories. Presented by Nigel Forde.
The second debate in the series comes from the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel with the proposition that: 'The Government's reforms are damaging the National Health Service'.
Proposing: Harriet Harman, MP, Labour Party Spokesperson on Health; Professor Harry Keen, Chair, NHSÃ Support Federation.
Opposing: David Willets, Director, Centre for Policy Studies; Baroness Cumberlege, SW Thames Regional Health Authority.
Chairman Brian Redhead.
with Dilly Barlow
One hundred years ago Britain was rocked by a political scandal when Charles S Parnell , an eminent Irish MP, was cited in a sordid divorce case. The controversy which followed gave rise to a new phrase -
'The Nonconformist
Conscience'. Dr James Munson , the Oxford historian, looks at what it means in the context of the often fraught relationship between politics and Christianity in Britain.
Producer Noel Vincent. Stereo
with Patrick Bartlett
Producer Peter Robins
A new series of programmes for Lent and Easter in which the composer Francis Grier reflects on seven stories of women in the Bible, illustrated by sections of his Miriam String Quartet. 1: Miriam, Sister of Moses and Aaron
Producer Shirley Scott. Stereo
