TVand Radio

SUNDAY
Sunday Worship (BBC I, 12.25 pm). Jesus's death and the story of the Empty Tomb are taken from "The Book of Witnesses" in the final programme of the series `Kossoff and Company'. David Kossoff is joined by Heather Canning and John Carrie. Robert Spencer sings some more songs based on the Psalms.
Credo (ITV, 6.25 pm). A film report investigating faith healing, which is reputed to be practised by as many as one in four clergymen.
Songs of Praise (BBC I, 6.40 pm). A new series begins with a programme to commemorate the Battle of Britain. People who were involved in the Battle of Britain join the local community for hymn-singing in St Andrew's Church. RAF Henlow, Bedfordshire.
Everyman (BBC I, 10.25 pm). The first of a new series. A reporter, Peter France, talks to sportsmen about "The Inner Game", and the philosophy that sport is the ideal means of fusing body, mind and spirit. Sport is frequently a competition for physical supremacy but many leading athletes are discovering that it can be their path to enlightenment.
Taking part in the programme are Ian Thompson, Arthur Ashe. Jackie Stewart. Mike Brearley and David Hemery. The technique of the inner game is demonstrated by the tennis coach Tim Gally,.ay, whose instructions have a remarkable effect on performance.
MONDAY Open Door (BBC 2. I 1.40 pm). A new season of programmes, in which the BBC hands over air-time to the public, begins with a presentation by the Life-Line Project. They describe their day centre as "a concerned and caring environment offering advice and support to people involved in the use of drugs."
. In this programme, the Life-Line Project attempts to look at the wider perspective of drug-taking in Britain and examines some of the reasons why people use mood-changing drugs.
The picture that emerges is one of an undermanned Health Service and harassed family doctor. often remote from the immediate community environment, with severely limited access to impartial information on mood-changing drugs. TUESDAY The Story Beneath The Sands (BBC I. 5.10 pm). In the Bible story Jonah was swallowed by a whale and after three days was thrown up on dry land. He then went to the great city of Nineveh to teach the King of Assyria to repent. While at Nineveh he climbed a hill where he sat and looked down on the city and its people.
In this programme, John Coston tells of the archaeological searchfor the city which was carried out in the 19th century after a British agent in Baghdad found what he thought W3.3 Jonah's hill.
FRIDAY Padre Pie (BBC 2. 8 pm). On September 23. 1968. Padre Pio died and the marks of crucifixion that he had carried for more than 50 years died with him — for photographs taken only minutes after his death show no evidence of the scars. The life of this most unusual man and those rare photographs are featured in this updated film.
In 1968, just before Padre Pio's death, Misha Scorer made a film about the remarkable priest and the extraordinary stigmata of the cross he carried. which periodically would bleed.
Since the original film was first shown, material has been added about the process of collecting evidence for the beatification of the priest and the question-mark raised by the total disappearance of the marks from his body.
Radio Telefis Eireann
SUNDAY Sunday (RTE 1, 6.55 pm). A nes: series en religious matters. Tit: fact programme is called "The National Seminary, Etcetera."
St Patrick's College, Maynooth is at one and the same time the National Seminary for Ireland, a Pontifical University and a recognised college of the National University of Ireland. There is a plan to give it independent university status in the near future. How all these things came about and what they mean in practice is the sabject of this programme.