Programme for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.45 Sunday Programmes Bells and Sunday Reading w. D. KENNEDY BELL reads the first extract from The Brink of Mystery by AUSTIN FARRER
7.55 Weather
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by CLIVE JACOBS Reporter DOUGLAS BROWN Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
9.10 Sunday Papers
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Sunday Mass from the Roman Catholic church of Our Lady and St Wilfrid, Ventnor, Isle of Wight
Celebrant and Preacher FATHER GERARD REEVE
Hymns (Praise the Lord): All people that on earth do dwell (138): Praise to the Lord (3); Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy (147): Praise my soul, the King of Heaven (152) Psalm No 67
Readings: Ecclesiasticus 3, vv 17-20 and 28-9; Hebrews 12. vv 18-19 and 22-4 Gospel: Luke 14, vv 1 and 7-14 Organist MRS m. KENNY
DAVID JACOBS appeals on behalf of the Westminster Pastoral Foundation, a national charity offering skilled counselling on personal problems to people of all ages and needs.
Donations to: [address removed]
Introduced by John Toogood
The MOT Test: RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS examines the proposed changes.
The Motor Cycle Show: a review of what to see at Earls Court by HAROLD BRIERCLIFFE , Editor of Motor Cycle and Cycle Trader.
If the Brakes Fade?: douglas MITCHELL of Popular Motoring explains the problem.
A Yorkshire Suggestion: NORMAN TURNER visits the byways of the North and East. Producer JIM PESTRIDGE. at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Presented from Glasgow by George Scott. Producer
GEORGE SINCLAIR. BBC Scotland Ring [number removed]
Presented by Nancy Wise
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 BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 4.5 pm)
The Skin of Our Teeth A satirical morality by THORNTON WILDER (1897-1975) edited by BILL MORRISON with Toby Robins as Sabina Don Fellows as Mr Antrobus Betsy Blair as Mrs Antrobus
The Antrobus family live both in prehistoric times and in a New Jersey suburb today.
' Fellow mammals. fellow vertebrates, fellow humans, as your President I thank you. Little did my dear parents think - when they told me to stand on my own feet- that I'd arrive at this place. My friends, we have come a long way. The dinosaur is extinct. the ice has retreated, and the common cold is being pursued by every means within our power.
Special sound sequences by DICK MILLS of the BBC Radio-phonic Workshop
Produced and directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
Seven weekly programmes, introduced by Professor Colin Renfrew , that examine what is now known about the origin of man and his social development.
3: The Earliest Ceremonials
The true purpose of the Henges of Southern Britain, the Neolithic figurines of Central Europe, the elaborately decorated buildings of the Near East of 10.000 years ago, may be Interpreted as the earliest signs of ceremonial activities. PETER FOWLER questions this With JAMES MEBLAART , DR RUTH TRINGHAM , DR GEOFFREY WAIN-WRIGHT and DR MICHAEL ROW-LANDS. BBC Bristol
(For detaits see Wed 9.5 am)
'Ways of Weighing': JILL ALLEN has some suggestions for other blind cooks. Presented by PETER WHITE. Producer THENA HESHEL
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Penlstone In South Yorkshire Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news
Best known of course for his role as Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army. Arthur Lowe has had a surprisingly varied acting career, from American musicals and Coronation Street to John Osborne and Shakespeare. His choice of poetry and prose, presented before an invited audience, reflects his private life as well as his life as an actor.
Reader MARTIN JARVIS Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am) (Arthur Lowe is in Dad's Army at the Theatre Royal, Bath; Martin Jarvis broadcasts by permission of the Chichester Festival Theatre)
London v Midlands (Round 4) London:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and Professor John B. Mays who are on the right track In recognising, collectively, a pyrotechnic device, a common water-bird, an aviating Gael and a name for the planet Venus. Midlands:
Jack Longland (Chairman) with John Julius Norwich and Dr Frederick Milson who find a sonorous similarity between Josip Broz. the Rockefellers of India, the nether garments of Margot Fonteyn and Cleopatra's nanny. Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
(Revised repeat: Wed 11.5 am)
Sir John Betjeman introduces hymns and their writers. 9: Some Bishops
With GEOFFREY SHAW (Soloist) and the LONDON EMMANUEL CHOIR conducted by MURIEL SHEPHERD Producer HUBERT HOSKINS
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GETIFFITHS conducted by GUIDO AJMONE-MARSAN
Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Bias
8.9* Tchaikovsky Symphony No 3. in d major BBC Manchester
by ANTHONY TROLLOPE dramatised in eight parts by D. G. BRIDSON with CALDIGATE: What do you propose to do when we go ashore tomorrow?
DICK: I thought we'd settled all that long ago. But now I suppose you're going to change it all.
CALDIGATE: I'm not going to change anything ...
DICK: Well - that's reassuring. anyhow. This last week or so the betting was that you'd probably got yourself into some - entanglement.
2: Australian Interlude
Produced and directed by DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
Five programmes about famous books and their authors. 4: The Diary of Samuel Pepys ' The manuscript extended to
3.102 quarto pages of shorthand, much of it in minute characters, greatly faded and inscribed on almost transparent paper, very trying and injurious indeed to the visual organs.'
An account of Samuel Pepys. his diary, and the labours of THE REV JOHN SMITH , who transcribed it after it had lain unregarded in a College library for 150 years. with Other parts played by RONALD HARVI , GRAHAM ROBERTS
HERBERT SMITH and PAUL WEBSTER Narrator David Mahlowe
Written by NORMAN LONGMATE Produced and directed by STANLEY WILLIAMSON BBC Manchester
On the Theme of Wedded Love Devised and narrated by H. COLIN DAVtS
Music BBC SINGERS
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