Programme for Asian listeners
7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading from
Tales of the Hasidim by MARTIN BUBER. Read by ALFRED PLAUT
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by GERALD PRIESTLAND Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
9.10 Sunday Papers
Family Communion (Series 3) from St Mark 's Church, Bilton, Rugby
Celebrant REV ROBERT PIKE Preacher, the Rector REV DAVID CALLARD
Hymns (A and M Rev): Jesus, where'er thy people meet (245); God of mercy (264); We have a gospel to proclaim (100 Hymns for Today, 98)
Anthem: Ave verum (Mozart) Epistle: Philippians 2, vv 1-5 Gospel: St John 15, vv 1-5 Organist and Choirmaster PETER BOURTON
Rr HON LORD ROBENS OF WOLDINGHAM, a Governor, on behalf of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled, for money for Lulworth Court, their special holiday home for severely disabled men and women.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]
Introduced from Birmingham by JIM PESTRIDGE
Motoring Festival 75: GEOFFREY HANCOCK reports.
A Season of Mists ... : TOM COYNE visits the Midland Links Motorway Police at ' Spaghetti Junction.'
... and Mellow Fruitfulness: TONY PARKIN on the hazards of country roads.
What's Happened to the Motorcycle industry? GEOFFREY GREEN forecasts the future.
Producer RICHARD MADDOCK at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues.
Presented from Birmingham by George Scott
Producer DAVID SHUTE Ring [number removed]
Presented by Derek Cooper
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Nicholas Woolley , Editor HARRY BROWN
(Fur details see Tues 4.5 pm)
Our Roman Cousins by BRUCE STEWART with Duncan Lamont , Timothy West and Aubrey Woods
In 1766 Charles Stuart was no longer the ' Bonnie Prince ' of the 45, but a boisterous tippler whose manners and morals were the despair of his younger brother Henry.
Peter Fowler visits sites and current excavations.
Bare Bones of the Past
The scientific study of burials and skeletal remains is revealing new information about the life, the health and the social background of people in the past, and shows the regard the living have had for the dead. Series producer ROY HAYWARD
Full Fathom Five
This month a seaborne Radio Nature Trail, trawling the seabed off the coast of Essex. Up comes the trawl, with flat-fish, crabs, prawns, starfish-and we don't yet know what else!
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) (Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)
Is it better to be born blind or to lose your sight in later life? PETER WHITE tries to get some definitive answers to this perennial problem.
Producer THENA HESBEL
Joan Sutherland
The night of 17 February 1959 saw one of the greatest operatic triumphs in the history of Covent Garden, Joan Suther land's debut in the coloratura title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Overnight the girl from Sydney. Australia, became an international star.
EDWARD GREENFIELD recalls this and other highlights of her extraordinary career, with extracts from recorded performances.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
Terry Wogan talks to
John Maldwyn Thomas Norman Thelwell and Gwyneth Dunwoody , MP Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
Sir John Betjcman explores the treasures of English hymn-writing. 11: More Victorians Producers DAVID WINTER and ANGELA TILBY
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor BORIS BROTT
Debussy Prelude a l'apresmidi d'un faune
8.11* Ravel Suite: Mother Goose
8.29* Schumann Symphony No 4
by JOHN BUCHAN adapted for radio in three episodes by ANTONY KEAREY and produced by NORMAN WRIGHT with Noel Johnson
Michael Deacon , David March and Geoffrey Matthews
3: The Riddle of the Tablet
Technical assistants MARSAIL MC-
CUISH, ANNE HUNT. DAVID HITCHINSON (For cast see Tuesday 3.5 pm)
A personal profile of the conductor by his daughter Avril Wood
The voice of SIR HENRY WOOD describing the joy and thrill of the first Promenade Concerts, and DAME MYRA HESS , DAVID FRANKLIN , ROY HENDERSON , ADA FORREST and CLIFFORD CURZON recalling amusing and memorable associations with the great conductor, and BERNARD SHORE remembering playing the viola under the baton of Sir Henry.
Music by Eric Coates , Vaughan Williams , Bach, Handel, Mozart and Shostakovich conducted by SIR HENRY WOOD Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
for Battle of Britain Sunday devised by MONICA FURLONG Narrator GARARD GREEN Music: BBC SINGERS
preceded by Weather
