7.50 Turning Over New
Leaves: Mary Craig reviews and selects readings from The Only Problem by MURIEL SPARK
8.10 Sunday Papers
Presented by Ted Harrison Producer DAVID COOMES
talks for the Week's Good Cause about research into the causes of blindness so that better means to alleviate and cure eye disease may be devised.
Donations: Fight for Sight, [address removed]
9.10 Sunday Papers
Comes from the Greek
Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Manchester. Readings: I Corinthians 15, w 1-11; Matthew 19, w 16-24
Celebrant: FR sophronios HARRIS Introduced by David Melling BBC Manchester
Omnibus edition
Written by GRAHAM HARVEY Directed by PETER WINDOWS
Producer WILLIAM SMETHURST Agricultural story editor ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Private Lives:
Janet Street-Porter visits Peggy Braithwaite , Britain's only lady lighthouse-keeper
A Muse With The News: Roger Woddis ' Rhyming Times
A Year of My Own: Lucy
Irvine reflects on the year she was a castaway on the remote island of Tuin. with Voice of the Year: MacDonald Hobley
Sunday Beef: Author Kingsley Amis speaks out
High Noon: Issue of the week
International Exchange
The Tribes of Britain: Nigel Farrell infiltrates.
Plus Right to Reply
Producers
PETER ESTALL. VIRGINIA HENRY and SIMON SHAW
Woddis On: page 83
with Gordon Clough
(Details: Wednesday 10.0 am)
by Colin Thubron
Music composed and conducted by CHRISTOS PITTAS
Gaius Constantine was a 26-year-old Roman General, and a worshipper of the sun, when he was proclaimed Augustus in York in AD 306. Six years later he was suddenly converted to Christianity. This play explores the private pressures and the spiritual dilemma of the Emperor during his bloody but brilliant campaign against his wife's brother.
Music performed by ANNE COLLIS (percussion) MICHAEL DORE (hom)
CHRISTOPHER O'NEAL (oboe/cor anglais)
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
(Juliet Stevenson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. John Church is in 'Morning's at Seven' at the Westminster Theatre) Stereo
(Details: Tuesday 8.30 pm)
3: Bridgnorth to Worcester Tom Salmon continues his journey down the River Severn.
He travels on a ferry powered only by the current of the river, on a steam train on the Severn Valley Railway and on the steamer River King. Producer ANTHONY smith BBC Bristol
LONDON V WEST OF ENGLAND
The resident London team of Irene Thomas and Eric Kom battle with Jessica Mann and Derek Robinson
Chairmen Louis Allen and Gordon Clough
Researcher AUDREY ROBINS Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester
with Colin Semper
Dramatised in six parts from his novel by TED willis
The hunt for the kidnapped
Prime Minister and his wife is on. Hundreds of extremists have been rounded up and questioned. Because it seems that the victims have been flown out of the country - possibly to Eastern Europe - the Security Services have begun to make their own enquiries.
3: The Anonymous Man
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
(Details: Thursday 4.10 pm)
A documentary by ALAN HAYDOCK and DAN KELLEHER Early on 6 June 1944, the largest invasion fleet ever assembled began landing Allied troops on the Normandy beaches. Already, overnight, thousands of men had been flown in by gliders or dropped by parachute. The long-awaited Second Front had begun. D-Day: 6 June 1944 tells the story of that momentous beginning of the final phase in the defeat of Hitler through the voices of some of the men and women who were part of it.
Narrator Frank Windsor Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (Revised repeat) Stereo
by EVELYN WAUGH dramatised in 11 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL
In his heart Guy felt stirring the despair in which his brother, Ivo had starved himself to death. Half an hour's scramble on the beach near Dakar; an ignominious rout in Crete. That had been his war.
With JOHN RAY , BRIAN GRELLIS
DENIS MCCARTHY , PETER PACEY
EMILY RICHARD and MANNING WILSON Title music played by the BAND OF THE ROYAL CORPS OF
TRANSPORT
Director of Music
MAJOR WILLIAM ALLEN
Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo
(Starting next Sunday)
For the people of Wessex the waters of the western ocean have been their living, their adventure and their peril. To go to sea from a Devon farm or a Dorset village was no great step and no surprise.
Desmond Hawkins continues his journey through Hardy's partly-real, partly-dream country. with Nigel Stock as Thomas Hardy
Readers PAULINE WYNN and DOUGLAS LEACH
Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Friday 11.0 am) Stereo Binaural
The full binaural effect can only be heard through stereo headphones
Rosemary Hartill talks to
American women who have made a radical break from traditional approaches to spirituality. Tonight
Susan Griffin talks about her natural 'thea-logy' which embraces both the ecology and women's movements.
Producer SUE DAVIES
by JULIA KEAY
In 1610 the navigator Henry Hudson set out on his dream of discovering the elusive
North-West Passage. It was to prove an ignominious and tragic voyage.
Other parts played by RON BAIN , ARTHUR BOLAND
JOHN BUICK , MARTIN CLUNES and GERARD SLEVIN
Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland