Programme for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.45 Sunday Programmes Bells and Sunday Reading BETTY HARDY reads from The Christian Life -
Lived Experimentally by KATHLEEN LONSDALE
7.55 Weather
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by DAVID MELLOR Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer LESLIE MITCHELL BBC Manchester
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
9.10 Sunday Papers
BBC Birmingham
from Second Comber Presbyterian Church, Co Down, Northern Ireland, conducted by REV SAMUEL WILSON
Organist HUGH HARRIS
Readings: Genesis S3, w 1-12; Acts 9, vv 10-22
Hymns (CH 3): Awake, my soul (42); God of grace (88); Father eternal (507); Lord of creation (428)
BBC Northern Ireland
MICHAEL BENTINE appeals on behalf of the Esher Association for the Prevention of Addiction, for their Cranstoun Project, a pilot scheme to help solve the problems of young people and society in their involvement with drugs.
Donations to: [address removed]
Introduced by Jim Pestridge
Selling the Petrol: a discussion about prices and sales methods. Novel Economy: STUART BLADON describes a journey from
Land'sEndtoJohno'Groat's on one tankful.
The European Drivinglicence: GEOFFREY HANCOCK reviews the position on the Continent.
Bumper Crop: a gleaning of the latest motoring news by CLIVE JACOBS.
Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues, presented from Glasgow by George Scott Producer DONALD MONRO BBC Scotland
Ring [number removed]
Presented by George Luce
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor HARRY BROWN
A year of Gardeners' Question Time
KEN FORD recalls some of the places visited, and some of the questions asked during the past year.
With FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS, ALAN GEMMELL Producer KENNETH FORD
John Hurt , Judi Dench and David Buck in The Last Temptation translated and adapted in two parts from the novel by NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS , by ANDREAS STAVROU and HALLAM TENNYSON
' Jesus himself has shared fully in all our experience of temptation, except that he never sinned.' (HEBREWS 4, v 14.1 A powerful, human interpretation of the roles of Mary Mag dalene and Judas Iscariot in fulfilling Christ's destiny. 2: Not to Bring Peace
Music specially composed by ELIZABETH POSTON and conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH Produced and directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Seven weekly programmes, introduced by Professor Colin Renfrew , that examine what is now known about the origin of man and his social development in the light of the most recent archaeological evidence, 1: Earliest Man
Hand tools, skulls and skeleton fragments recently discovered in East Africa are building up a picture of the earliest known kind of human being of about seven million years ago. DR PAUL MELLARS , DR GLYN ISAAC and PROFESSOR MICHAEL DAY diSCUSS hOW these signs of the past may be interpreted. BBC Bristol
' A Rose by any Other Name ...': PETER WHITE muses about some of the euphemisms which describe blindness.
Presented by JANE FINNIS Producer THENA HESHEL
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Aberfeldy in Perthshire Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
presents a selection of her favourite poems and excerpts from some of her favourite plays. Producer HALLAM TENNYSON
(Rptd: Thursday 11.5 am) Preview:'p 11
Sir John Betjeman introduces a selection of hymns, and talks about their writers. 7: Four Rectors with GEOFFREY SHAW (SOlOiSt) and the LONDON EMMANUEL CHOIR conducted by MURIEL SHEPHERD Research by BERNARD c. MARTIN Devised by DAVID WINTER Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
(Tuesday 9.40 pm: Kaleidoscope u'ith Sir John Betjeman )
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by ERICH SCHMID Wagner Prelude to Act 1 (Lohengrin)
8.12* Brahms Serenade No 1, in D major, Op 11
by Victor Hugo
(Full details: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
(Starting next Sunday: John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope)
9.58 Weather
Five programmes about famous books and their authors.
'One day I saw a little boy driving a huge carthorse along a narrow path.... It struck me that.... men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.' An account of the writing of George Orwell's satire Animal Farm, and of the problem he met in persuading anyone to risk publishing it.
With Michael Spice as Orwell, Paul Webster as the Reader, Wilfred Harrison as Old Major
In Commemoration of St Helena and the True Cross
Devised and narrated by H. COLIN DAVIS
Music BBC SINGERS
preceded by Weather
