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Peter Firth beside a Devon stream reflects on the significance of water as a religious symbol.

11.10 Wilfred Pickles tells the story of Jonah Without the Whale
With Robert Macleod, Peter Copley, Martin Jarvis and The Small Hundredweight

From St Mary's Parish Church, Ware, Hertfordshire.

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Firth
Storyteller:
Wilfred Pickles
Reader:
Robert Macleod
Reader:
Peter Copley
Reader:
Martin Jarvis
Singers:
The Small Hundredweight
Producer:
R.T. Brooks

A series of ten films about the Cold War in Europe

Their experience in Berlin after the war, ending with the Blockade in 1948/9, finally convinced the Western Allies that they would have to support their former enemies against the Soviet Union.

Introduced by John Tusa, with Wolfgang Leonhardt, Ella Kay, Franz Neumann.
(Repeat)
Book (same title), £1.50, from bookshops

Contributors

Presenter:
John Tusa
Interviewee:
Wolfgang Leonhardt
Interviewee:
Ella Kay
Interviewee:
Franz Neumann
Script Consultant:
Professor Roger Morgan
Director:
John Eidinow
Producer:
Howard Smith

Starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald

Ernst Lubitsch, Hollywood's top director of the era, transforms Lehar's operetta into a lavish, spectacular and enormously expensive film - re-uniting Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier who had previously starred in Lubitsch's early talkie, The Love Parade.

Films: page 8

Contributors

Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Danilo:
Maurice Chevalier
Sonia:
Jeanette MacDonald
Ambassador:
Edward Everett Horton
Dolores:
Una Merkel
General Achmed:
George Barbier
Marcelle:
Mina Gombell
Zizipoff:
Herman Bing
Lulu:
Ruth Channing
Orderly:
Sterling Holloway
Valet:
Donald Meek

from Hickstead
featuring The Lambert and Butler Masters#

On this, the fourth day of the July meeting, Britain's top professional riders, including David Broome and Harvey Smith, will be among an international field competing for prize money of £2,000.
Introduced by David Vine

Contributors

Presenter:
David Vine
Commentator:
Raymond Brooks-Ward
TV Presentation:
Johnnie Watherston
TV Presentation:
John Shrewsbury

Words and letters with Donald Gee, Bob Hoskins
and Patricia Hayes, Norman Rossington, Nigel Stock

(Repeated: Thurs 12.20 pm, Sat 10.0 am)
Adults wanting help with reading can ring [number removed] or send their name, address and telephone number to: [address removed].

Contributors

[Actor]:
Donald Gee
[Actor]:
Bob Hoskins
Performer:
Patricia Hayes
Performer:
Norman Rossington
Performer:
Nigel Stock
Script:
Barry Took

A series of four television seminars in which Don Cupitt, Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, confronts an invited audience with his own views on questions that divide Christians today.

This week: Jesus the Jew
In real life, was Jesus a superhuman miracle-worker who came down from heaven to save mankind? Or was he a wandering Jewish teacher who spoke of God in much the same way as other rabbis of his time?

Contributors

Presenter:
Don Cupitt
Studio Director:
John Wilcox
Producer:
Dennis Sullivan

A miscellany of music and poetry to praise this world of ours and its Creator for:

Who has not found the Heaven below
Will fail of it above.

Introduced by Glyn Houston with Iris Williams, Bryn Williams, Chwarae Teg Gentlemen Songsters

BBC Cymru/Wales

Contributors

Presenter:
Glyn Houston
Singer:
Iris Williams
Singer:
Bryn Williams
Singers:
Chwarae Teg Gentlemen Songsters
Conductor:
Richard Williams
Musical Director:
Benny Litchfield
Designer:
Michael Wright
Director:
Bryn Richards
Producer:
Jack Williams

In the centre of the swirling madness of London traffic there is a sort of sanctuary - a green oasis which has intrigued and aroused the curiosity of thousands of Londoners and visitors alike. Not quite 40 acres, yet perhaps for many reasons more precious than any jewel in the crown... The Queen's Garden at Buckingham Palace.

A film written, produced and directed by Bill Travers and James Hill

Contributors

Narrator:
Virginia McKenna
Writer/Director/Producer:
Bill Travers
Writer/Director/Producer:
James Hill

Starring Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman

When playboy Bob Merrick becomes the indirect cause of the death of Helen Phillips's husband, he tries to erase the memory with his attention to Helen.

Films: page 8

Contributors

Director:
Douglas Sirk
Helen Phillips:
Jane Wyman
Bob Merrick:
Rock Hudson
Joyce Phillips:
Barbara Rush
Nancy Ashford:
Agnes Moorehead
Randolph:
Otto Kruger
Tom Masterson:
Greg Palmer
Valerie:
Sara Shane
Dr Giraud:
Paul Cavanagh
Judy:
Judy Nugent

BBC One London

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