Richard Hines

2016-02-28: It's the Oscars tonight: we're led onto a 'red carpet of the mind', where we hobnob with stars past and present. Jarvis remarks that his personal Best Film award would go to Kes (dir. Ken Loach, 1969). His guest is Richard Hines, brother of A Kestrel for a Knave author Barry Hines. Richard has written a memoir, No Way But Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life. He reveals how his boyhood fascination for falconry inspired the story, shares anecdotes about working as an advisor on the film, and talks eloquently about his love of hawks and his passion for education. On This Day: the final episode of M*A*S*H aired. Birthdays: Harry H Corbett, Brian Jones and Mike Figgis. 

News Time: Jarvis will be away from the Sunday Service for a few months and he will return in October.

This Is Water

2016-02-21: Jarvis talks about last week's BBC 6 Music Festival; and tells us that artist Elizabeth Peyton is in the studio painting him at work. The first Polaroid camera was revealed today in 1947. We hear the traits of Pisces. As David Foster Wallace was born on this day, Jarvis reads excerpts from This Is Water, a speech that he made in 2005 about living a compassionate life. There's a section about the humble telephone, in honour of the first phone directory being issued this day in 1878. Today in 1958, the CND peace symbol was designed. And with the Brit Awards approaching, Jarvis recalls the notorious 1996 ceremony and tells us how David Bowie intervened to restore his reputation. Plus, what piece of music scared or unsettled the listeners when we were children? Birthdays: Johnny Echols, Douglas Bader, WH Auden (Lindsay Duncan recites Stop All the Clocks), Matthew Herbert, Léo Delibes, Alan Rickman (reciting Shakespeare's Sonnet 130) and Jean-Jacques Burnel.

6 Music Festival 2016

2016-02-14: No Sunday Service this week. Instead, Steve Lamacq presents coverage of the 6 Music Festival in Bristol.