Programme for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham
7.45 Sunday Programmes Bells and Sunday Reading
Jubilee: prose and poetry in celebration of joy, read by PAT STARR and MICHAEL MCCLAIN
7.55 Weather, programme news
Come down, 0 love divine
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by CLIVE JACOBS Producer DAVID WINTER
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
Come down, 0 love divine
9.10
Sunday Papers
Script editor CHARLES LEFEAUX Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
Mass of Pentecost from St David's Roman Catholic Church, Swansea, West Glamorgan.
Celebrant and Preacher: Father Peter Fell, OSB.
Readings: Acts 2, vv 1-11; John 20, vv 19-23; Hymns: Come, Holy Ghost; Spirit of God; Breathe on me, breath of God; Come down, 0 love divine; Holy Spirit, Lord of light; Organist: Joseph Botting
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, MC, appeals on behalf of the Mental Health Foundation, which is devoted to financing medical and scientific research into all forms of mental disorder and handicap, and which makes grants to voluntary bodies caring for the mentally ill. Donations to: The Duke of Devonshire, MC, Mental Health Foundation, [address removed]
Introduced by Jim Pestridge
Monte Carlo - a motoring capital? BRIAN ROBINS , back from the Monaco Grand Prix, talks about the importance of this tiny state.
How to Start on Two Wheels: suggestions for those considering a money-saving conversion. Mind the Motor Cyclist!: a plea from TONY BOSTOCK for a bit of consideration.
Oil Filters: what they do and how to handle them by LAURIE SULTAN and HARRY HEYWOOD.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON at 11.43* the latest traffic report
Countrywide reactions to current political issues presented from Bristol by George Scott. Producer CAROLE STONE
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Derek Cooper 's
Sunday Supplement
12.55 Weather, programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough
A comedy for radio by David Pinner
with Geoffrey Matthews as Robert Winchall and Anne Stallybrass as Mary Winchall
MARY: If you're not leaving either of us, who are you leaving?
ROBERT: England, dear. The green old bitch has worn me out!
MARY: That's even worse than leaving me!
BBC Birmingham
John Julius Norwich , traveller and writer, presents a mixed bag of international records.
The Otter has won a place in many hearts by its playful antics filmed when in captivity. But today we go along a river in search of the real otter - the shyest of our wild mammals. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Wed 9.5 am)
Terry Warren is a man with a message - or possibly several dozen a day. He's built up a telephone answering service which he operates from home. Jane Finnis finds out how it works - and the kind of calls he has to deal with. Introduced by Jane Finnis.
5.55 Weather, programme news
A series of plays based on the novels of Georges Simenon with Maurice Denham as Jules Maigret and Michael Gough as Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon talking to Hallam Tennyson
Adapted for radio by Frederick Bradnum from the translation by Marianne Alexandre Sinclair
with Sheila Grant as Nathalie
When Nathalie Sabin-Levesque arrived at the Quai des Orfevres to report a missing husband, Maigret was puzzled by her, and as the investigation went on she remained - an enigma.
(Michael Gough is a National Theatre player)
(Rptd: Thursday 11.5 am)
An anthology of words and music for Whitsuntide selected and arranged by Grayston Ives. Music specially written by GRAYSTON IVES , sung by the BBC SINGERS, director JOHN POOLE Readers EUGENE FRASER and THEREVW.D.KENNF.DY-BELL Organist BARRY ROSE
Producer HUBERT HOSKtNS
Mendelssohn
Overture: Ruy Bias
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by MOSHE ATZMON Rondo Capriccioso, Op 14 ILSE VON ALPENHEIM (piano) Violin Concerto in E minor
ARTHUR GRUMIAUX
NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by JAN KRENZ gramophone records
A dramatic chronicle of the English Crown through 200 years of its history by the Elizabethan playwrights Shakespeare, Marlowe and their contemporaries, adapted in 26 parts by Martin Jenkins
Music by Christopher Whelen
The story is told by Richard Burton
In which the Wars of the Roses begin and the French rise against the English.
Produced and directed by Gerry Jones
(Michael Aldridge is in 'The Bed Before Yesterday' at the Lyric Theatre; Clive Swift in 'Dirty Linen' at the Arts Theatre Club, London)
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.50pm)
A feature by Bert Coules on Wagner's four-month visit to London in 1855, at the invitation of the Philharmonic Society.
With David Buck as Wagner
"I am living here like a damned soul in hell! I did not think I should ever again be obliged to sink so low. I realise now that it was simply a sin and a crime to accept this invitation to conduct in this city."
On the Feast of Pentecost. Devised and narrated by RICHARD HARRIES. Music: BBC SINGERS
preceded by Weather
