A reading from Selected Sermons of St. Augustine translated by Quincy Howe Jr.
Reader, JOHN FORREST
and Programme News
Hymns and sacred music
Introduced by SANDY MACPHERSON with MICHAEL Rippon , HAZEL HUNT
CHARLES SMART at the organ
A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting, and art
This week:
BARBARA BRAY. PETER PORTER BRYAN ROBERTSON
KATHARINE WHITEHORN
In the chair, JOHN HOLMSTROM
Produced by Carl Wildman
and Programme News
Sir Compton Mackenzie chooses a period soon after the Second World War when. having accepted an invitation to write the history of the Indian Army at war, he travelled extensively and for the first time in his life East of Suez.
He talks to PATRICK HARVEY
Archaeologists talk about their work in the field this summer
4: Reminders of the Venerable Bede
The civilisation which flourished in Northumbria during the eighth century has left a remarkable literature. Its most memorable achievement is Bede's History. Now ROSEMARY CRAMP—excavating on the sites of the monasteries at Monkwearmouth and Jarrow where Bede worked and wrote—has found exciting traces of the architecture of this period. She describes her discoveries and CHARLES Thomas talks about other evidence of early Christianity in Northumbria.
Introduced by VINCENT WAITE
Produced by Roger Laughton from the South and West
A magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Star Housing: ANGELA PAIN meets some of the first tenants to benefit from a scheme to house blind workers
International Centre: JOHN JARVIS reports on a Swiss idea for blind holidaymakers
Compressed Speech: PETER SALT describes a new technique for faster reading
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKBALL
Produced by Thena Heshel
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited
Carnoustie, Angus
Produced by Phyllis Robinson
News of the weekend sporting events
Introduced by JACOB DE VRIES including:
World Cycling Championships
The Professional Road Race
JOHN BURNS with the result of today's Men's Professional Road Race Championship ridden over twenty-two laps of the eight-and-a-quarter-mile Heerlen circuit in the south of the Netherlands
Broadcast by arrangement with Netherlands Radio Union
Yachting
Little America's Cup
KEN SYKORA reports on the International Catamaran Trophy from Thorpe Bay Yacht Club, Essex
and Programme News
by ALISTAIR COOKE
ANTONY HOPKINS introduces gramophone records of Beethoven's Fidelio
3: Dancing Away the Years
The third of four programmes in which IWAN THOMAS retells the magical and glamorous Novello story with memories from former friends and colleagues and music from
ELIZABETH SIMON , STUART BURROWS with PAULINE JONES
HENRY ELLIS EVANS
THE GLENDOWER SINGERS
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader, Colin Staveley
Conducted by RAE JENKINS Script by FRANK BAKER
Produced by ARNOLD LEWIS
Broadcast on February 6
Up then, gird thee like a man, and speak out all the message I give thee. Meet them undaunted, and they shall have no power to daunt thee
A study of Hilaire Belloc by HOWIESON CULFF
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Lord of the Harvest
Genesis 8. v. 22
Psalm 65 (Broadcast psalter)
A reading from God's Time and Ours by Leonard Griffith
Sing to the Lord of Harvest (BBC
H.B. 442)
St. John 4. vv. 34, 35
St. Matthew 9, vv. 37, 38
Schubert Piano Duets
MARY and GERALDINE PEPPIN
First Characteristic March (D.886) Variations on a theme by Herold
(D.908)
Second Characteristic March (D.886) Rondo in A major (D.951)
