A reading from The Plain Man Looks at the Commandments by William Purcell
Reader, RAF de LA TORRE
and Programme News
Hymns of your choosing sung by school choirs from all over the country
Introduced by RONALD ALLISON
Chairman, JOHN METCALF
Theatre: RICHARD FINDLATER
Broadcasting: ERIC RHODE
Book: JOHN WEIGHTMAN
Art: EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
Film: ROBERT ROBINSON
Producer, Carl Wildman
Repeated: Thursday at 3.30
and Programme News
William Hardcastle
The world at one time for William Hardcastle was Washinnton. He was a newspaper correspondent there from 1945 to 1952-the whole of the Truman era in the U.S.A. Today's programme looks back on personal experiences which range from the story of the dropping of the first atomic bomb to a comic opera incident in which Hardcastle was thrown out of Guatemala as an English spy.
Compiled and produced by Nicholas Barrett and Eleanor Ransome
Repeated: Friday, 3.0 p.m.
Seven programmes reporting on excavations taking place in Britain this summer
1: The Neolithic Age
What was life like in Britain two thousand years before Christ?
NICHOLAS THOMAS talks about the problems which surround any enquiry into the customs of Neolithic Man. and introduces reports on digs in progress now at Llandegai in North Wales and St. Nicholas in Pembrokeshire
Introduced by JOHN KING
Series adviser, Barry Cunliffe
Producer, Roger Laughton
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Summer Round-Up
BRUCE CAMPBELL talks to
C. DOUGLAS DEANE (Belfast)
DICK BAGNALL-OAKELEY (Norwich)
GEORGE WATERSTON (Edinburgh) and BILL CONDRY (Bangor) about the latest events on the wildlife scene
1 Produced by John Sparks
Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 a.m.
Introduced by JACOB DE VRIES
ATHLETICS
VIII British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Recorded commentaries and reports from the BBC's team of commentators on the final day's events, from Kingston, Jamaica
CRICKET
Northants v. Leics.
Commentary on the second days play by NEIL DURDEN -Smith from Northampton
MOTOR CYCLING
International Hutchinson '100' sponsored by the Evening News
A report on today's races by GEORGE CARR from Brands Hatch
and Programme News
by ALISTAIR COOKE
REGINALD LEOPOLD AND THE PALM COURT ORCHESTRA
Visiting artist. ROWLAND JONES
Appeal on behalf of The Catholic Prisoners' Social Service by FR. AGNELLUS ANDREW
Contributions, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed].
When a man is sent to prison the wife is left to cope with debts and to feed, clothe. and house the children. Eviction often follows. The Catholic Prisoners' Social Service aims to house destitute families and to establish a hostel for men during the difficult days immediately after leaving prison. The projects are inter-denominational and will cost 1100.000.
(piano)
Impromptu in G flat major
(D 899 No. 3) (Schubert)
9.36* Sonata in B flat minor
(Chopin) on gramophone records
and Weather forecast
A series of seven programmes 5: Behind the Great Wall
The Great Wall of China was once a physical barrier to the invading hordes from across the steppes of Asia. Today China is entrenched behind an ideological barrier that restricts the traveller from the West and makes real contact with the people difficult.
MARY ADAMS. ROBERT BOLT DELIA JENNER. and PROFESSOR JOAN ROBINSON have recently been in that country, where they succeeded in observing much more than the ordinary tourist
They discuss their impressions with LESLIE SMITH
Produced by John Blunden
Temples of God
Introit: Ye are the temple of God (N.E.M., page 47)
Acts 17, vv. 24-32
Ephesians 2, vv. 13-21
Blest are the pure in heart
(BBC H.B. 318)
A reading from Prayers of Life by Michel Quoist
May the grace of Christ our
Saviour (BBC H.B. 375)
LONDON CZECH Trio
Jack Rothstein (violin) Karel Horitz (cello)
Lisa Marketta (piano)
Second broadcast
