7.10 Sunday Papers
7.15 Apna HI Ghar
Samajhlye: for Asians BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 The Shape of God THE REV JUDITH SMART with a meditation for the 21st Sunday after
Pentecost: Luke 9. vv 51-62
8.10 Sunday Papers
A weekly look at religious news from home and abroad.
Presenter Clive Jacobs
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester
LORD DAVID CECII. talks about the Hospice Care
Trust. Salisbury (Reg No 282484) which undertakes home-care nursing for the terminally ill. Donations to:
[address removed]
9.10 Sunday Papers
For the Festival of St
Luke the Physician, from tho Chapel of Westminster Hospital and Medical School in London. The celebration follows the shortened hospital Eucharist for the sick Rite
B. Celebrant and preacher THE REV ROBERT CLARKE
Introit: Locus lste a Deo factus est
Hymns (English Hymnal) : Son of God. eternal
Saviour (529); Teach me, my God and King (485); Strong son of God. immortal love (eh 483) Readings: Isaiah 35. vv 3-6 (rsv); Luke 11. vv 9-13 (Jerusalem Bible); Anthem: Ave verum corpus (Byrd)
Assistant Chaplain
DEACONESS A»N« RICKAROSON Organist J. P. NICHOLSON with the CHAMBER CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER MEDICAL SCHOOL. directed by N. J. RAMPLEY
Omnibus edition
Director PETER WINDOWS Producer
WILLIAM SMETHURST
Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN
BBC Birmingham
in which Sue MacGregor invites you to share some of the highlights from Woman's Hour.
The Goon Show
10: The Mountain Eaters starring Peter Sellers Harry Secombe Spike Milligan
Written by SPIKE MILLIGAN Producer JOHN BROWELL
(First broadcast in 1958)
Six programmes on treasure and treasure-hunting, written and introduced by Derek Wilson
6: The Unending Quest In the final programme. DEREK WILSON lOOkS into the economics and the othics of treasure seeking. and the long-standing conflict between treasure-hunters and archaeologists. with DAVID ALLEN ,
DR HENRY CLERE , GERRY VAN NIEKERK, COLIN SIMPSON and the voices of EDWARD CAST. JAMES KERRY and DAVID PEART
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Presenter Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
(Details: Wed 10.0 am)
Marjorie Westbury stars in the play of her choice to mark her
Golden Jubilee In Radio Waters of the Moon by N. C. HUNTER adapted for radio by MOLLIE HARDWICK with Mary Wimbush Patricia Hayes
Rosalind Shanks and Martin Jarvis
The Christmas festivities of 1950 are over, and those who live in a small, remote hotel on the edge of Dartmoor settle back into their unchanging and tedious routine. Until three unexpected visitors arrive....
Pianist MARY NASH
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
(Martin Jarvis is a National Theatre player)
Six programmes
Stanley Ellis sets out on some of Britain's linguistic B.roads.
5: Tyneside and Beyond In the North East there are at least 12 different accents that vary from
Ashington, where it's very Northumbrian, down to Durham, where it gets a bit softer, but with that accent everybody knows you come from the North East.' (BOBBY HOOPER ) Field research by ROLAND BIBBY
Producer SIMON ELMES long wave only
(Details : Thurs 9.30 am) long wave only
long wave only
Holmflrth, W Yorkshire (Details: Mon 11.0 am) long wave only
With HARRIET CASS
At the time of Malawi's independence in 1964 Donald Trelford. now
Editor of The Observer, was Editor of the country's national newspaper. This year he returned with his
Malawi-born 18-year-old daughter Sally.
Producer maggie REDFERN
Wafcehurst Place
Today Professor Alan Gemmell visits these gardens near Ardingly in West Sussex, which are leased from the National Trust as an addition to the Royal
Botanic Gardens Kew. The magnificent collection of trees and shrubs has in particular been built up at Wakehurst Place over the last 60 years. and gives great pleasure to all who visit them. Producer
MURDOCH M. MCPHERSON
A six-part thriller for radio by Colin Shaw
with Freddie Jones as Sir Marcus Marten, Kate Binchy as Helen Summers, James Bryce as Tim Lloyd, Nigel Anthony as Steven Emmett and Amanda Murray as Jane Fleming
Sir Marcus Marten, archaeologist and television pundit, has a secret collection of sketches, hidden in a locked room of his house. His neighbour, Steven Emmett, whose private plane disturbs the Lincolnshire peace, has things of his own to hide. Their secrets come together in this thriller of smuggling and theft.
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)
with Hunter Davics
This week: the quest for a hi-tech ghost and a touch of Peter Tinniswood. Producer KATE FENTON
(Repeated: Thurs 4.10 pm)
The Metropolitan Opera, New York, celebrates its centenary this week. All the greatest singers of the time have performed there: Caruso sang over 600 times In the original house, and in our own day the ' new ' Met has seen some of the greaitest triumphs of Pavarotti,
Sutherland, Nilsson and Domingo. The move from the old house to the new in 1966 was only one of several major upheavals in a colourful 100-year history. The story of the Met is told in words and music by many of those who know it best.
Presented and produced by Daniel Snowman
by ANTHONY SMITH The first of ten programmes
by ELIZABETH GASKELL (9) (Details: Friday 3.0 pm)
with Alec McCowen
The first in a new series of three programmes by BARRY CARMAN
Narrator John Rowe
In 1901 at the age of 35 Joseph McPherson went out to Egypt to take up a teaching post. He fell
Instantly In love with the country and lived there for the rest of his long life. From Egypt he wrote regularly to his relatives in England. Now published for the first time. the letters comprise an autobiographical portrait of a remarkable man.
In this first instalment of his story we share with McPherson the pleasure of his first encounters with Egypt and its people. Producer ALAN uaydock
Six programmes in which speakers describe experiences which have changed their faith and the course of their lives. 4: Rabbi Michael Boyden Producer ROGER hutchings BBC Manchester
Letters from The Maimle Papers, edited by RUTH ROSEN and SUE DAVIDSON Compiled, read and introduced by Carole Hayman
Maimie Pinzer was a Jewish prostitute from
Philadelphia. In 1910 she started writing to a Bostonian lady of letters. Fanny Quincy Howe , who was encouraging her to leave her Hfe of prostitution.
Musical adviser DIANA CAPPLEMAN
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester