A reading taken from 'Tower Hill 12.30' by DONALD SOPER
Reader, RICHARD LEECH
Introduced by MICHAEL BROOKE
Eccentrics I have known: A. S. RUSSELL, a former Oxford Don
Life with....: MRS. HARRY SECOMBE describes her life with the comedian
Anne Scott-James exercises a Royal prerogative
Why do people emigrate?: an investigation by BARRY CARMAN
A request programme of gramophone records
Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. 1695 (Purcell)
THE GERAINT JONES SINGERS and ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GERAINT JONES
Cello Concerto in D major (Haydn)
MAURICE GENDRON (cello) with the LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA
Conducted by PABLO CASALS
Movements from the Incidental Music to The Ruins of Athens (Beethoven)
THE BEECHAM CHORAL SOCIETY and the ROYAL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Chairman, JOHN METCALF
Broadcasting : LIONEL HALE
Book: RICHARD MAYNE
Art: EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
Film: EDGAR ANSTEY
Theatre: BARBARA BRAY
Repeated on Thursday at 3.0
Forecast for land areas. DetaUed forecast for the South-East
Island Zoo
DAVID ATTENEOROUGH is shown round Jersey Zoo by GERALD DURRELL
A casebook of operatic gullibility
5: I am led to believe ...
Gramophone records introduced by SPIKE HUGHES
Gardening in Switzerland
A series of five programmes of horticultural reports from Switzerland
3: Roy HAY , ARTHUR BILLITT , and WILL INGWERSEN visit an Alpin-, Garden, the Schynige Platte near Interlaken, and then travel on to Geneva to see the Botanic Garden and Horticultural School
Friday's broadcast in Network
Three
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Part 1
Sunday is so often circumscribed and set-by tradition and by habit-but most of us, at some stage, have a chance to break and make a pattern of our own.
DAVID BEAN found checkmate on his Sunday
Part 2
The Witch Family by ELEANOR ESTES abridged by Naomi Lewis in five instalments read by PATRICIA HAYES
5: Amy's splendid idea
The little broomstick took Amy to Old Witch's house at the top of the bare glass hill-so all she could do was to get into Little Witch's bed, and hope she would not be discovered.
The story of The Three-Cornered Hat told by PHILIP CUNNINGHAM to the music of Manuel dc Falla on gramophone records
Script by Ursula Roseveare
Produced by PEGGY BACON
Well-known writers talk about the part of the country in which they were born or for which they have a special affection
4: D. WATKINS-PITCHFORD (B.B.)
Northamptonshire
Words in praise of God and hymns sung by people from different parts of the world
4: Austria and Portugal
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
A summary of last week's events
JACK SALISBURY
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Visiting artist.
KENNETH MACDONALD
From the De la Warr Pavilion. Bexhill-on-Sea
A WAY OF LIFE programme which reports on a Conference held at Downside Abbey
Theology for many people, if not a dead word, is a rather anaemic one, but if lay people are to take their part in Pope John's call to the Church to minister more directly to our society, then they must become more theologically literate. For theology is the science of applying the Gospel message to the world of today.
THE ABBOT OF DOWNSIDE
FATHER LAURENCE BRIGHT, O.P.
DANIEL CALLAHAN
JOHN COULSON
FATHER CHARLES DAVIS
PERE R. P. FRANSEN, S.J.
THE REV. DAVID JENKINS
CANON ALAN RICHARDSON
Produced by COLIN JAMES
See page 11
Appeal on behalf of the 4 Lest We Forget ' Association by POLLY ELWES
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The purpose of this voluntary Association is to provide entertainment for disabled service men and women in hospitals and in their homes. Using specially designed vehicles, it also enables them to visit the seaside and to enjoy sports meetings and other outings. Funds are urgently needed for this work.
(piano) i!
Travellers under the Sea HONOR FROST
KENDALL McDONALD and STUART SIM discuss the pleasures and perils of skin-diving with DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
Jesus said: Feed my sheep
Ezekiel 34, vv. 11-16
Psalm 23 (Broadcast psalter) St. John 21, vv. 1-19
The Lord my pasture shall prepare (BBC H.B. 477)
St. John 10, vv. 27-28
played by the MELOS ENSEMBLE
Peter Graeme (oboe)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Ivor McMahon (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)
Lamar Crowson (piano)