BRIAN HAINES reads from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(from Birmingham)
on the Feast of the Transfiguration from St Margaret's Church, King's Lynn. Norfolk Celebrant and Preacher
CANON DENIS RUTT assisted by THE REV PETER FARROW
Lessons: Exodus 34, vv 29-35; Luke 9, vv 28-36
Hymns I and M Rev and Supplement): We have a gospel to proclaim (98s); 0 wondrous type. 0 vision fair (558); 'Tis good, Lord, to be here! (560); Let aU mortal flesh keep silence (390)
Organist AUBREY HOOD
JOHN SNAGGE OBE appeals on behalf of the Project Trust which provides school-leavers with further education overseas by sending them on practical work projects in various parts of the world.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: John Snagge. Project Trust. [address removed]
Introduced by Jim PESTRIDGE
Comfort and Service: NEVILLE POWLEY investigates petrol station improvements
Recreational Motoring: by DONALD NORFOLK
How Do You Plead? -2: by CHARLES BRANDRETH
Ten Years of Running Costs reviewed by SYDNEY URRY at 11.43* the latest traffic report
A special series taking a countrywide look at people at work Presented from Manchester by JEFFREY PREECE
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
With Cliff Michelmore on holiday Derek Cooper this week invites you to ring him on [number removed] to exchange ideas live by phone on any subject bar party politics with guests:
Nicolas Stacey, social services director, author of Who Cares?, and an Olympic runner in 1952
Juliet Mitchell, author of Woman's Estate, and a specialist on English literature
Edgar Lustgarten, author, student of crime, who numbers among his enthusiasms the theatre and league football
[Number removed] (16 lines) will take calls from 11.0 am onward. Or send your question in advance on a postcard with your telephone number to Whatever You Think, [address removed]
12.55 Weather, programme news
leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report: presented by Nicholas Woolley
Editor HARRY BROWN
visits Nottingham Radio Week
Summer with Flowers that Fell The fourth part of a childhood autobiography by R. c. SCRIVEN with Complete in itself, the play describes the author's time at school, how his life was saved only by the determination of the Matron, how he first fell in love and what came of it.
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX
The Roy Command Performance
Talking Point
A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
You don'need to see to know the answers: BERT WARD , Information Officer in Leeds Education Department, describes his job.
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer THENA HESHEL
PADDY FEENY recently visited Great Baddow, Essex
Producer Richard BURWOOD
5.55 Weather: programme news
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader COLIN STAVCLEY conducted by RAE JENKINS
Stuart Burrows , the distinguished Welsh tenor, was born 38 years ago in Cilfynydd. Tonight's programme outlines a career which has already taken him to many of the world's great opera houses and looks at the demands made on top artists in this jet age. Stuart Burrows is heard singing excerpts from opera and oratorio. a Welsh folk song and ballads in a programme which also includes some orchestral music of his choice. Presented by MORFUDD MASON LEWIS
Written and produced by J. ALWYN JONES
A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker also featuring TERENCE BRADY and PAULINE YATES
With GORDON LANGFORD at the piano and DICK ABELL (banjo) The lines are contributed by: TERENCE BRADY. PETER N. CHRISTIE DONALD CHURCHILL , BERT FISHER JOHN GRAHAM
CHRISTOPHER LANGHAM
ROY LOMAX , CHRIS MILLER KATIE MOSS
MYLESRUDGE and GORDON LANGFORD ALLAN SCOTT and CHRIS BRYANT
GERALD WILEY
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
Four programmes of ' gospel mission music, old and new. 1: Sankey and Moody
Introduced by Leonard Pearcey with the UPPER NORWOOD BAND and SONGSTER BRIGADE OF THE
SALVATION ARMY conductor COL BERNARD ADAMS Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
BBC NORTHERN SYMPUONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFTHS conductor BRYDEN THOMSON
Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
(conducted by ANTHONY PIERCE )
8.16* Brahms Symphony No 4
by W. M. THACKERAY The adaptation by JOHN KELR CROSS rearranged in five parts by BRIDGET MARROW with Judy Parfitt and Michael McClain
5: God Save the Kino 1714
In which Henry Esmond and his beloved Rachel champion a lost cause and find, in its vicissitudes, true and abiding happiness at last.
Great houses and great people A series of five programmes
3: William Morris at Kelmscott Manor presented by Sir Hugh Casson. RDI, FRIBA and Sir John Betjeman With and SEAN BARRETT
William Morris , poet, designer, novelist, author of News from Nowhere, rented the medieval Kelmscott in Oxfordshire, by the banks of the Thames, as his country home from 1871.
At first he and his wife Janey shared it with their friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti, until relations became strained. Morris didn'spend a lot of time there; but in his dream of the future it was a most important symbol.
Producer RICHARD KEEN
Praise be to God
