A reading from
Interpreting the Cross by Max Warren
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
Book: JOHN WEIGHTMAN
Art: EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
Film: ROBERT ROBINSON
Theatre: MILTON SHULMAN
Broadcasting: ERIC RHODE
Producer, Philip French
Repeated: Thursday, 3.30 p.m.
and Programme News
Alfred Hitchcock
+ The film director who for forty years has kept film-Koers on the edge of their seats talks to GEORGE ANGELL about some serious and humorous moments of his life.
Repeated: Friday, 3.0 p.m.
See facing page
Seven programmes reporting on excavations taking place in Britain this summer
3: Roman Towns
Roman town life was more sophisticated than anything seen before in Britain. BARRY CUNLIFFE talks about this new civilisation-and introduces recordings made at sites being currently investigated in the City of London, Cirencester, and Gloucester
Introduced by JOHN KING
Series adviser, Barry Cunliffe
Producer, Roger Laughton
A magazine of special interest to blind listeners
A Day in the Life of a Home Teacher, by ANGELA PAIN
The Enfield Microphone ' Centenary ': GORDON SNELL reports
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
+ Produced by Thena Heshel
Introduced by JACOB DE VRIES
CYCLING
World Cycling Championships JOHN BURNS reports on this afternoon's World Professional Road Race Championship in which Tommy Simpson will be riding in the British team and attempting to retain his World Professional Road Race Championship: from the Nurburgring Broadcast by arrangement with South-West German Radio
RUGBY UNION
British Isles Tour of New Zealand
BRYNTHOMAS of the Western Mail gives the latest news of the Lions' tour: from Christchurch
Broadcast by arrangement with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corp.
MOTOR CYCLING
The T.T. Races
A report from the Isle of Man by MURRAY WALKER
See facing page
ATHLETICS
VIII European
Athletics Championships
Preview of the Championships by HAROLD ABRAHAMS and NORMAN CUDDEFORD from Budapest Broadcast by arrangement with Hungarian Radio
GOLF
The Carroll Sweet Afton Tournament
A report from Royal Dublin Golf Club by Tom SCOTT on the final day's play
Broadcast by arrangement with Radio Eireann
and Programme News
+ by ALISTAIRCOOKE
Repeated: Monday, 9.5 a.m.
JACK SALISBURY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Visiting artist, HAROLD BLACKBURN
(piano)
Suite No. 14, in G major
(Handel)
9.45* Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (Bach) on gramophone records
and Weather forecast
- the New World
With the recent publication of the controversial Vinland Map and The Guardian's expedition by sea in search of the Vinland of the old Norse sagas, the experts have bewan seriously to question once awain the traditional claim that Columbus was the first to introduce the New World to the Old.
In search of the truth, ALAN GIBSON sifts evidence from J. R L. ANDERSON of The Guardian: PROFESSOR DAVID QUINN of Liverpool University; Dr. THOMAS MARSTON Of Yale University: MICHAEL RICHEY of the Institute of Navigation: R. A. SKELTON and GEORGE PAINTER of the British Museum: and LAURENCE WITTEN , antiquarian bookseller
Produced by John Blunden
Last of the present series
The illustration is a detail from the Vinland Map (Yale University)
Maker of heaven and earth
Psalm 96, vv. 9. 11, 12
Psalm 33 (Broadcast psalter) 1 Chronicles 16, vv. 23-36 Hebrews 1, vv. 10-12
The duteous day now closeth
(BBC H.B. 427)
2 Peter 3, vv. 11-13
Debussy
Quartet in G minor
DELME STRING QUARTET
Granville Jones (violin) Jiirgen Hess (violin)
John Underwood (viola) Joy Hall (cello)
Second broadcast
11.30' Sonata in G minor
JOSEPH SZIGETI (violin)
BELA BARTOK (piano)
on a gramophone record
