Programme for Asian listeners
7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading from
The Beatitudes. Text compiled by RICHARD TATLOCK
Readers PETER FIRTH , ANGELA TILBY
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by CAVE JACOBS Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
9.10 med wave only Papers
from the Central Methodist Church, Bacup, Lancashire, conducted by REV ALBERT HOLLAND Preacher: REV CLIFFORD BUCKROYD Readings: Jeremiah 1, vv 1-12; John 10, vv 1-10
Hymns (MHB): Lord of all being, throned afar (32); Holy. holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! (36); Come, sinners, to the gospel feast (323); Thou God of truth and love (716) Organist LILY BARRETT
Choirmaster PERCY MOTT
MRS PATRICIA THOMAS , Director, appeals on behalf of the Family Welfare Association. which aims to help troubled families avoid breakdown and separation.
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to: [address removed]
Introduced by CLIVE JACOBS
Safety Glass - Laminated or Toughened?: JIM PESTRIDGE talks to DR M. MACKAY of Birmingham University and the Glass Manufacturers.
Simple Servicing: 3 - Sparking-Plugs, by DOUGLAS MITCHELL of Popular Motoring
Payment for Lifts: a reminder by RON NAYLOR
Bumper Crop: a round-up of unusual motoring news. Producer GEOFF DOBSON at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues: presented from Bristol by Alan Watson Producer CAROLE STONE Ring 0272-39432/3
Presenter Derek Cooper
Never enough but how can I make more?: MICHAEL GILLIAM meets people who found the answer when it comes to money.
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Nicholas Woolley Editor HARRY BROWN
Samson Agonistes by JOHN MILTON
Adapted and produced by RICHARD WORTLEY
Stepnen Thorne as Samson Stephen Murray as Manoah Anna Massey as Dalila Trevor Martin as Harapha Martin Jarvis as the Messenger This dramatic poem takes its subject from the Bible and its form from Greek tragedy. It was almost certainly Milton's final work, published in 1671. Special music composed and recorded by RON GEESIN
(Anna Massey is a National Theatre player)
recalled by John Amis 5: Knowing Composers
In particular, Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER gramophone records
Snakes Alive
Did you know that Britain contains the only reserve in the world managed for the benefit of snakes? Could you identify a snake simply by the sound it makes gliding off through the undergrowth? Today's programme looks at our three British species of snake but especially the rarest, the smooth snake.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
In Touch, in a studio discussion introduced by PETER WHITE , asks whether the much debated integration of Worchester College for boys and Chorley School for girls would work. Producer MARLENE PEASE
Gracie Fields
One of the most famous stars in showbusiness, for more than 50 years Gracie Fields has enchanted millions. Comical in the broad, earthy idiom of Lancashire, she could sing with the true purity of a nightingale.
STEVE RACE introduces songs and stories in celebration of ' Our Grade's ' rise from the mills of Rochdale to a permanent place in the sun. Producer JOHN bridges
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
With MARGARET BRAMALL , DR WENDY GREENGROSS and DR JAMES HEMMING. introduced by Jean Metcalfe
Producer SALLY THOMPSON
London v North, Round 1 London:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John B. Mays who discover their own identity, but fail to link the London Questionmaster with a suburb of Birmingham. North of England:
Jack Longland (Chairman) with Dr Patrick Nuttgens Professor Harry Armytage who make a quick meal of it, having unravelled a bit of string. Producer TREVOR HILL (Rptd: Wednesday 11.5 am)
for The Gift of Prophecy
An anthology in words and music introduced by Andrew Cruickshank with PETER FIRTH , MADELEINE CEMM
ST.MARGARET'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS conducted by RICHARD HICKOX Organist IAN WATSON
Producer ANGELA TILBY
CLIVE LYTHGOE (piano) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT Weber Overture: Euryanthe
8.9* Mozart Piano Concerto No 16, in D (K 451)
8.34* Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)
The novel by CLEMENCE DANE about the theatre and theatre people, freely adapted for radio in nine parts by val GIELGUD
6: Elinor Broome with Margaret Wolfit
John Rowe and Michael Harbour
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas has been watching the season go by on his farm on the Pembrokeshire coast and introduces a tribute to the late C. Gordon Glover ; and reports on: lambing in Surrey and Yorkshire: a gentleman-tramp in the Scottish Border Hills; trawl-fishing on the mud-flats of Bridgewater Bay; the bird-life of the Lleyn Peninsula; and woodland and river activities in the Wye Valley, with ARTHUR PHILLIPS. MARTIN MUNCASTER. NORMAN TURNER , COLIN LUCKHURST , BOB DANVERS-WALKER , ERIC SIMMS and PAUL HUMPHREYS Producer JOHN HASLAM
Words and music on a Christian theme, devised by MONICA FURLONG
Music contributed by the BBC SINGERS
Narrator GARARD GREEN
preceded by Weather
