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The order of Service is changed this week to include pupils' responses to the last four programmes on 'Word and Action'
Opening prayer
Pupils' responses, part 1
Be thou my vision (Tune, Slane-
C.H. 477)
Pupils' responses, part 2
Closing prayers written by pupils
Wednesday's broadcast

Every Friday this programme looks at educational opportunities for housewives and some of the possibilities for women returning to work.
Introduced by CAROLINE NICHOLSON and MICHAEL SMEE
Produced by Peter Jarvis

Contributors

Introduced By:
Caroline Nicholson
Produced By:
Peter Jarvis

A family magazine
Introduced from the North by BARRY CHAMBERS and including:
Children Painting:
HAROLD RILEY , the Salford artist, spends his Saturday mornings teaching the local children to paint. Barbara McDonald joins them at their art class
Spicy Chutney: an experiment by MARY DOROTHY SMITH which started when three sons hated cold meat
The Last Shot: by ARTHUR BARTON , who recalls one particular day in his Tyneside childhood

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Riley
Unknown:
Barbara McDonald
Unknown:
Mary Dorothy Smith
Unknown:
Arthur Barton

The Flight of the Heron
The novel by D. K. Broster abridged for reading on radio in eight parts 4: The Ebb
' Halfway up the southern slope of Beinn Bhreac, about a hundred paces to the right of the little waterfall, there is a cave, long disused. There you would be safe.'
Storyteller, DAVID STEUART
* with BRYDEN MURDOCH as Ewen Cameron and Hilary Thomson , John Shedden and Ian Halliburton reading the other parts
Produced by IAN WISHART

Contributors

Novel By:
D. K. Broster
Unknown:
David Steuart
Unknown:
Bryden Murdoch
Unknown:
Ewen Cameron
Unknown:
Hilary Thomson
Unknown:
John Shedden
Unknown:
Ian Halliburton
Produced By:
Ian Wishart

Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling-Weekend: what's on in the region-Sports Spot—FRED STREETER on Gardening
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Streeter
Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin

Contributors

Written By:
Edward J. Mason
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Aunt Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Fred Barratt:
Tommy Duggan
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones

A weekly magazine of discovery and invention
News and views of the men and women whose achievements are going to affect our daily life
Introduced by PETER FAIRLEY Science Correspondent of the London Evening Standard
A Science Unit production

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Fairley

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by † COLIN VALDAR

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Valdar

Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE
Book 1: The Hunt Begins abridged and read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Produced by John Cardy
Last of fifteen instalments
Book 2, The Reckoning: March 11

Contributors

Unknown:
Moby Dick
Unknown:
Herman Melville
Read By:
Gabriel Woolf
Produced By:
John Cardy

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