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
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BBC Birmingham
Holy Communion (Series 2) from St Thomas' Parish Church, St Anne's on the Sea, Celebrant and Preacher REV OWEN VIGEON
Readings (rsv): Philippians 1, vv 1-11; Luke 17, vv 5-10
Hymns (A and M): Love divine, all loves excelling (520); Son of God (677); Faithful Shepherd, feed me (730); 0 praise ye the Lord! (308)
Organist HARRY WRIGLEY BBC Manchester
JEREMY CARRAD appeals on behalf of Bristol Children's Help Society. which has given thousands of deprived children their only holiday. Funds are now urgently needed for new camp buildings.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]
Introduced by Jim Pestridge
A Car in the Making - 2: On the Drawing Board. GEOFFREY HANCOCK talks to the Director of Styling of Leyland Cars.
The Natural History of Lay-Bys: by ERIC SIMMS
Heat Hazards: the common causes of trouble by DOUGLAS MITCHELL of Popular Motoring.
Coping with Trouble - Are We Losing the Ability?: asks GEORGE BISHOP.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues, presented from Glasgow by Kenneth Roy
BBC Scotland
Ring [number removed]
Presented by Nancy Wise
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor HARRY BROWN
Spin a Loving Thread by ALICK ROWE with Steven Pacey as Andy and Betty Hardy as Mrs Deans An adolescent boy, in ' taking on ' Mrs Deans as part of a scheme to help old people, comes under a considerable influence. 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.
2: The Earliest Farmers
After many thousands of years of hunting and gathering, Man began to settle in social groups and started to grow his own food crops. Why this happened, at roughly the same time in the Near East, In Europe and the New World, about 10,000 years ago. is discussed by PROFESSOR JOHN D. EVANS With JAMES MELLAART , DR JOHN NANDRlS and DR WARWICK BRAY. BBC Bristol
' Bus numbers, pools coupons and price tickets MARGARET FORD reports on an experiment to see if low-vision aids can help visually handicapped people to see some everyday objects. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKBALL Producer THENA HESHEL
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Wldccombe - in - the - Moor In Devon. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
presents his personal choice of poetry and prose and talks of his love of language that has meaning and music.
JOHN SAMSON joins him in the readings before an invited audience in Broadcasting House, London
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)
(For details see Wed 11,5 am'.
Sir John Betjeman introduces a selection of hymns, and talks about their writers. 8: Scottish Hymn-writers
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
(Poetry Prom: Wed 8.0 pm)
An evening in a 19th-century Viennese ballroom with music by the Strauss family. Introduced by Piers Burton-Page gramophone records
by Anthony Trollope, dramatised in eight parts by D. G. Bridson
with Jeremy Clyde as John Caldigate, Jeffrey Segal as his father, Daniel and Patrick Barr as Anthony Trollope, the Narrator
A lesser-known Trollope novel set in the 1870s concerning a young man, John Caldigate. who leaves home to seek his fortune in Australia, and the unfortunate repercussions that result from his travels.
FATHER: How much do you owe this man - this usurer, Davis - anyway?
CALDIGATE: I'm afraid - somewhere around £3,000 ...
FATHER: £3,000?! Twice the annual value of this entire estate! Thrown away on wild living and gambling debts!
Capt Munday.DOUGLAS BLACKWELL Concertina player TERRY LYNCH Produced and directed by DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
(Margaret Wolfit talks about her father: Tues 11.45 am) Preview: page 15
9.58 Weather
Five programmes about famous books and their authors.
3: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
' Squalls swept incessantly ever the loch, and Davies, at my own request, gave me no rest. Backwards and forwards we tacked, reefing and unreefing, now stung with rain, now warmed with sun, but never with time to breathe or think.' An account of the background to the spy story which is unrivalled for its evocation of the jovs of sailing; and of its author. Erskine Childers , the Englishman whose involvement with Irish politics brought him death from a firing squad. with John Rowe as Carruthers Other parts read by GEOFFREY BANKS , JOHN LINSTRUM GRAHAM ROBERTS , BRIAN TRUEMAN and ANTHONY WINGATE
Narrator David Mahlowe Written by RONALD FAUX
Produced and directed by STANLEY WILLIAMSON -BBC Manchester
Devised and narrated by H. COLIN DAVIS
Music BBC SINGERS
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