PATRICK GARLAND reads from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
7.55 Weather: programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
9.5 Sunday Papers
9.30-10.30 VHF Open University
from the Parish Church of St Wilfrid, Harrogate. to mark the opening of the Harrogate Festival of Arts and Science conducted by the Vicar THE REV WALTER DILLAM
Preacher CANON DAVID RUTTER
Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral Lesson: Ecclesiasticus44, vv 1-15 Psalms 121 and 122 Hymns (EH): Rejoice, 0 land (475); Let all the world (427): Bright the vision (372)
Anthem: Come. my way, my truth, my life (W. H. Harris) Organist and Choirmaster ROBERT CRINALL
Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
Speeding Fines: by E. RONALD HORSMAN, editor of the journal of the Magistrates' Association Motoring in Sweden: by GRAHAM CAULD
Uniformity in Cars: ROBIN RICHARDS on design problems
A Very Serious Business: OLGA FRANKLIN looks at motoring in Russia at 11.43* the latest traffic report Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
A countrywide look at politics from outside Westminster Presented from Bristol by GEORGE SCOTT
Producer ANTHONY SMITH
Michael Billington takes a look at what's going on in the arts this week including:
Show Boat, the Jerome Kern musical now back in the West End: a river cruise on the Thames, noting London's changing skyline; Enemies Gorky's play in a new production by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre. Producers ROSEMARY HART and ALAN HAYDOCK
12.55 Weather; programmenews
leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report presented by Nicholas Woolley
Editor HARRY BROWN
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recalls a year of Gardeners' Question Time
(Repeated: Tuesday, 4.0 pm)
A family saga by JACK JONES adapted by WILLIAM INGRAM Ray Smith as Harry Tewdwr
Part 2: To look at, Harry Tewdwr was handsome and well dressed, and the money he was worth lent him distinction. It was little he ever read - practically illiterate, yet he knew his way about and had a way with women.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
by J. B. PRIESTLEY : arranged for radio in 13 episodes by NEVILLE TELLER
Reader Wilfred Pickles
5: A Chapter of Troubles
Success did not come at once to the Good Companions, but it came in the end. They seemed all set for a rosy future. How could they foresee the troubles brewing? Producer TREVOR HILL %
TONY SOPER and MARGARET HOWARD introduce the last programme in the present series about pets and the people who are concerned with them Producer ROY HAYWARD (from Bristol)
(Nextweek: TheChangingPast)
Talfcina Point
A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Playing is important, too!: JUNE ROSE reports on toys and games for blind children. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Producer THENA HESHEL
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the Royal National Rose Society at St Albans, Herts
Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON (Extended version: Wed, 7.30)
A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts
1955. Lewis Eliot, now an experienced senior civil servant, finds his aid being sought by Roger Quaife, a promising young Conservative minister with definite views on Britain's nuclear role.
(For cast see Tues, 3.0 pm)
with BRIAN JOHNSTON
Cricket: selected John Player League matches
Racing from France: news of this afternoon's racing at Deauville including the Prix Kergorlay
Motor Racing - German Grand Prix: Maxwell Boyd from Nurburgring on the seventh round of the World Fl Championship
6.56* Cricket Scoreboard Producer JACOB DE VRIES
Think on These Things 1: Your Friends
THE REV DR ERIK ROUTLEY conducts the service in St James 's Congregational Church, New-castle-upon-Tyne
Organist RAYMOND HALL
ALEC MCCOWEN appeals on behalf of International Neighbours' Housing Association which caters for families of all nationalities lacking a proper home. Funds are urgently needed for the conversion of more houses.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]
conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN with DAVID OISTRAKH
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH and SVIATOSLAV RICHTER
Mozart Serenade in G (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)
7.47* Beethoven Concerto in c, for violin, cello, piano and orchestra
8.25* Sibelius Symphonic Poem: Tapiola
MAURICE TEMPLE SMITH asks: Why is real change so hard? and tries to define the nature-and the price - of real progress
Part 2
Delibes Ballet Suite: CoppSlia gramophone records
Dame Margery Perham , author of many books on Africa, recalls some of her personal adventures in four talks
3: Basutoland - a Mountain Kingdom at Risk
' I saw from my train a towering citadel of blue mountains. Moshesh had gathered together the tribes broken by the bloody Zulu tyranny and had welded them together into a miniature nation backing up on these mountains. From his dramatic table-shaped stronghold he had called a halt to Boer invasion.'
"Poetry. Keats said "should surprise by a fine excess." But if we've known them for as long as we can remember, how can we be surprised? '
Christopher Fry. the playwright, undertakes his own voyage of rediscovery. Readers RICHARD PASCO SEAN BARRETT
Producer RICHARD KEEN
Thy Word is a lantern unto my feet
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