Programme for Asian listeners
7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading from
Come, Holy Spirit, written and read by PETER DE ROSA
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by PETER FRANCE Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN ProducerDAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
from Warwick Road United Reformed Church, Coventry conducted by REV ROGER J. HALL Hymns (cp): The Lord is King! lift up thy voice (58); Father of mercies, thy children have wandered (379); 0 brother man. fold to thy heart thy brother (541); Now thank we all our God (42)
Reading: 1 Corinthians 13 Organist SUSAN HILL
ROY HAY appeals on behalf of Cecil Houses and Clubs for money to provide pensioners who are in need of a home with friendly care and comfort. Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]
Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
Motoring Book Review: ERIC TOBITT and PAT GREGORY review some of the latest publications. Anti-hijack Course: CLIVE JACOBS joins a class of chauffeurs and drivers
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents: Director JOHN WESTON interviewed by DICK TRACEY.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON at 11.43* the latest traffic report
The first of four special editions on the EEC Referendum as seen in the Regions.
1: The Referendum in Scotland Presented from Glasgow by George Scott
Producer MALCOLM COUPAR Ring [number removed]
Presenter Derek Cooper
The Archers of Yesteryear: JANE FINNIS turns the pages of the history of this increasingly popular sport and we spend a week in Majorca on a shoestring.
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Nicholas Woolley Editor BARRY BROWN
visits Co Durham
Members of the Gainford Horticultural Society put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
(Repeated: Tuesday 4.5 pm)
Play Mas by Mustapha Matura with Rudolph Walker and Stefan Kalipha
In Trinidad at carnival time the whole island abandons its private affairs to ' Play Mas with whole-hearted zest. Mustapha Matura's play. staged at the Royal Court Theatre in 1974, was praised in The Guardian as 'an endearing, intelligent comedy that manages to be both a celebration of the island's famous carnival spirit and a criticism of its devouring inclusiveness.'
Producer Betty Davies
John Amis recalls more of the many musicians he has met, and their music.
7: Being Instrumental
This week. keyboard revelations: Rubinstein thinks of paying the postman to listen to his new records; Richter throws away his hat in moments of excitement; Cherkassky ...
Producer DEREK DRESCHER gramophone records
A Real Old-fashioned Meadow
A typical country childhood memory is of meadows brilliant with wild flowers - sadly, not often seen today. But this month's Radio Nature Trail visits a meadow nature reserve which is still managed in the traditional way. to preserve the wild flowers, and especially the beautiful snakeshead fritillaries.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) (Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)
A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
The House that Keppy Built: the ultimate in do-it-yourself. PETER WHITE reports.
Producer MARLENE PEASE
100 Years of ' Carmen'
In 1875 Bizet's Carmen opened In Paris to a disastrous reception. which contributed to the early death of the composer only months later. But the opera went on to become one of the most popular in the repertoire all over the world. Celebration looks at Carmen's success and examines some of the reasons for it.
Written by IAN HORSBRUGH
Introduced by BRIAN TRUEMAN Producer GILLIAN HUSH (Manchester)
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
A studio counselling session With DR WENDY GREEKGROSS and PAUL BROWN , introduced by Jean Metcalfe
A chance to talk things over and talk things out is given to people with problems they cannot solve alone.
If you need help in sorting out your difficulties write to ' If you think You've got Problems ... ! ' BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA Producer SALLY THOMPSON
London v Wales London.
Anlhony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John B. Mays who see the dairymaid in a new light as far back as 1881. Wales
Jack Longland (Chairman) with Dr Mostyn Lewis Fred Nicholls who are very much at home with President Wilson's Texan adviser, members of a college founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and a legitimate army gamble. Producer TREVOR HILL (Manchester)
(Rptd: Wednesday 11.5 am)
for The Victory of Christ
Words and music introduced by Tom Fleming
With PETER FIRTH , DELIA PATON ST MARGARET 'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS conducted by RICHARD HICKOX. Organist IAN WATSON Producer ANGELA TILBY
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by BERNHARD KLEE
Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
8.13* Brahms Symphony No 1
The novel by CLEMENCE DANE freely adapted for radio in nine parts by VAL GIELGUD 8: War hath her Victories with Margaret Wolfit
Michael Harbour , John Justin Pianist
ANNA BERENSKA
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
9.58 Weather
A portrait of E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
Written and compiled by DORIS KER with Jill Bennett as E. Nesbit and Maurice Denham as Oswald Bastable
E. Nesbit , the great English children's Writer whose best-known books, The Railway Children and The Treasure Seekers, are read as avidly today as when they were first published almost 50 years ago, once wrote: ' 'When I was a little child I used to pray fervently, tearfully. that when I should be grown up I might never forget what I thought and felt and suffered then.' with the voices of PAUL GAYMON. KATE COLERIDGE MADI HEDD. PETER WOODTHORPE EMILY RICHARD , DAPHNE ROGERS SION PROBERT. LEWIS STRINGER Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Words and music on the theme of the Ascension of Our Lord Devised by MONICA FURLONG Narrator GARARD GREEN BBC SINGERS
Director of music JOHN POOLE Organist BARRY ROSE
preceded by Weather
