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A Service of Holy Communion (ASB) from St Andrew 's Parish Church, Chippenham conducted by the Vicar THE REV MICHAEL TAYLOR
Readings: Isaiah 6, w 1-7 (NEB); I Corinthians 15, w 1-11 (NEB); John 21, w 1-14 (bsv)
Hymns (a&m New Standard):
King of glory, King of peace
(194); Praise we now the word of grace (417); Come risen Lord
(349); Now let us from this table rise (403)
Communion setting: Peter Jezard
Organist and Master of the Choristers PETER JEZARD BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
St Andrew
Unknown:
Michael Taylor
Organist:
Peter Jezard
Unknown:
Peter Jezard

Today's programme on DIY matters around the house comes from Lancashire.
Marjorie Lofthouse and this week's team, Tony Wilkins ,
Jack Widgery and Peter Harper are guests of the members of the Reformed Church in Bury. Producer DAVID WELSBY BBC Birmingham Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Wilkins
Unknown:
Jack Widgery
Unknown:
Peter Harper
Producer:
David Welsby

The Prime Minister.The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher , mp
British Prime Minister since 1979 and now one of the most experienced leaders in the West, Mrs Thatcher answers questions from around the world in an international phone-in chaired by Sue MacGregor and broadcast simultaneously with the BBC World Service. Producers LIZ MARDALL for the Woman's Hour unit and MARGARET HILL and DAN ZERDIN for the World Service
Lines open from 10.30am
(Starting next Sunday evening: The Thatcher Phenomenon)

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Thatcher
Unknown:
Mrs Thatcher
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Producers:
Liz Mardall
Producers:
Margaret Hill
Producers:
Dan Zerdin

visits Kent, where members of the Orpington Horticultural Society put their questions to Geoffrey Smith
Daphne Ledward and Dr Stefan Buczacki
Questionmaster Les Cottington BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward
Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Questionmaster Les Cottington

Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre by STEVE MAY with John Hartoch as Percy Having had enough of the stifling respectability of middle-class marriage, driving instructor Percy Longridge runs away to safety in an inner city red-light district. He soon finds, however, that it is not quite the refuge he imagined.... Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBCBristol
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hartoch
Unknown:
Percy Having
Unknown:
Percy Longridge
Directed By:
Brian Miller

In 1808 a British expeditionary force under the young
Arthur Wellesley landed in Portugal to tackle the invading French. Some 176 years later a rather smaller British force - consisting mainly of David Bean - made the same trip for rather different reasons. BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Wellesley
Unknown:
David Bean

A thriller serial in six parts by BERKELY MATHER
Paul Mettold , the 'Meisterspringer', has been blackmailed by British agents into arranging the escape from prison of James Carter , a convicted Russian spy. Carter thinks he's going home, but it is planned to exchange him for a captured British spy in China. 2: Spring in the Dark
Producer GRAHAM GAULD
Directed by CAROLINE RAPHAEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Mettold
Unknown:
James Carter
Producer:
Graham Gauld
Directed By:
Caroline Raphael
Charles Wainwright:
Christopher Good
Dena:
Melinda Walker
Paul Mettold:
Cyril Shaps
Carter:
Graham Blockey
Arthur Moulton:
Michael Kilgarriff
MOgger:
Malcolm James

Britain now has about two million black citizens, many bom and educated here. A few
Asians and Afro-Caribbeans are now local councillors and in 1983 18 stood for Parliament. None was elected. Why? And will the next general election see the first black MP at
Westminster since the 1920s? Reporter Nakib Narat Producer MAGGIE REDFERN

Contributors

Reporter:
Nakib Narat
Producer:
Maggie Redfern

'There was even a story about profiteers in London bumping up the price of window-seats along the route where the victory parade was expected to go. Victory parade! What victory? We hadn't had one yet.' Alastair Borthwick looks back at what it was like to be in action at the front-line during the cruelly exasperating final days of the Second World War. BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Alastair Borthwick

Dick Taveme , qc, chairs the series in which issues of controversy and concern are put on trial before an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House. The motion:
Teachers Shouldn't Strike Proposed by Ann Sofer Opposed by Fred Jarvis
The two advocates will each call supporting witnesses to be questioned and cross-questioned; the jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Researcher RUTH BEN-OR
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Taveme
Unknown:
Fred Jarvis
Producer:
Maggie Redfern

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