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from Emmaus Chapel, Llanishen, Cardiff conducted by DICK SAUNDERS
Jesus. what a friend for sinners
(Alexanders No. 3. 46); There is a name I love to hear (Golden Bells 415); Like a river glorious (Alexanders No. 3. 333): All to Jesus I surrender (Billy Graham S.B. 72); hear thy welcome voice (Golden Bells 240)
Reading: St. Luke 19. vv. 1-10
Organist, Charles Hallett
Pianist, John Hall

Contributors

Conducted By:
Dick Saunders
Unknown:
Billy Graham
Organist:
Charles Hallett
Pianist:
John Hall

Radio's correspondence programme, which reflects listeners' own views on current topics, presents a special Sunday selection of letters with all the family in mind
Introduced by WALTER TAPLIN
For either the weekday or Sunday editions send your letters to: Listening Post. BBC. P.O. Box 1AA, London. W.I.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Walter Taplin

The One O'Clock News leads off this sixty-minute up-to-the-minute report on the world around us
The latest news, the background to the news, and the people in the news: presented by William Hardcastle
Editor, ANDREW BOYLE
A World at One production

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

as Sir Giles Overreach in A New Way to Pay Old Debts
A comedy by Philip Massinger adapted for radio by Raymond Raikes
The scene: the country near Nottingham. The year: 1625
Servants to Lady Allworth:
Music composed by ANTHONY BERNARD
Played by the LONDON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Lionel Bentley conducted by the COMPOSER
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Broadcast on May 6. 1960 (Third)
This is the last of three plays which the BBC is repeating as a tribute to the late Sir Donald Wolfit.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Giles Overreach
Comedy By:
Philip Massinger
Unknown:
Raymond Raikes
Composed By:
Anthony Bernard
Leader:
Lionel Bentley
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Unknown:
Sir Donald Wolfit.
Frank Wellborn, a prodigal:
David Peel
Timothy Tapwell, an alehouse keeper:
Philip Cunningham
Froth, Tapwell's wife:
Cecile Chevreau
Tom AUworth, page to Lord Lovell:
John Rye
Order (steward):
Charles Simon
Amble (usher):
Ion Rollason
Furnace (cook):
Ronald Baddiley
The Lady Allworth, a rich widow:
Rosalind Iden
Justice Greedy:
Norman Shelley
Sir Giles Overreach, a cruel extortioner:
Donald Wolfit
ack Marrall, a creature of Sir Giles Overreach:
Derek Smith
Lord Lovell:
Gabriel Woolf
Margaret, Overreach's daughter:
Mary Duddy
Willdo, a parson:
Jonathan Scott

A Mixed Bag: listeners' questions answered by EDDIE WILLIAMS
Preparing for D-Day-2: ARCH LOUGHTON looks at problems facing the small shopkeeper
The older house: MILDRED COOPER talks about the increases in improvement grants and the landlord's responsibility for maintaining older property
Introduced by ROBIN Holmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Eddie Williams
Talks:
Mildred Cooper
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Topics and personalities from the world of natural history introduced by CHARLES COLES
Rare Birds in the News:
PETER DRIVER visits the head-quarters of the R.S.P.B. and learns the latest news from PETER CONDER and his staff about the rare breeding birds under their care: avocets, black-tailed godwits, kites, ospreys, snowy owls
Muntjacs on the Move:
PHIL DRABBLE discusses the recent spread of the introduced muntjac deer and plays sound recordings of it and other British deer. both introduced and native
An ' extinct ' British moth found again:
CHARLES COLES tells the story of the rediscovery of the Rosy Marsh Moth thought to have become extinct in 1851 Produced by John Burton

Contributors

Introduced By:
Charles Coles
Unknown:
Phil Drabble
Unknown:
Charles Coles
Produced By:
John Burton

A discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting, and art
This week: RICHARD FINDLATER EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
ROGER MANVELL , KARL MILLER
In the chair, T. C. WORSLEY
Produced by Oleg Kerensky

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Findlater
Unknown:
Edward Lucie-Smith
Unknown:
Roger Manvell
Unknown:
Karl Miller
Unknown:
T. C. Worsley
Produced By:
Oleg Kerensky

Pearson's Fresh Air Fund by ANDREW CRUICKSHANK
Every year some 5000 poor or handicapped city children depend for their holidays upon financial help from the Fund.
Donations, preferably by crossed P.O. or cheque, to: Andrew Cruickshank [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Cruickshank

Profile of a Parson
The Rev. David Sheppard
Cambridge University, Sussex, and England cricketer: now warden of the Mayflower Family Centre. Canning Town seen by himself and others
Produced by Ronald Allison

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. David Sheppard
Produced By:
Ronald Allison

A play for radio in thirteen parts by HOWARD AGG based on the novel by CHARLES DICKENS
7: The Great Day
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Novel By:
Charles Dickens
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Solomon Daisy:
David March
Bamaby Rudge:
Nigel Graham
Mrs Rudge:
Betty Hardy
John Chester:
James Thomason
Hugh:
Denys Hawthorne
Geoffrey Haredale:
Simon Lack
Lord George Gordon:
Ronald Herdman
Gashford:
Rolf Lefebvre
Dennis:
Harold Kasket
General Conway:
Geoffrey Wincott
Colonel Gordon:
Henry Stamper
An Officer:
Jonathan Scott

British migrants to Australia talk about their hopes for the future as they leave Britain; and three months later, in Perth, they describe the extent to which these hopes have been realised
Written and narrated by BARRY CARMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Carman

Liszt and Bartok played by PETER KATIN (piano)
Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 17, In D minor
AUK cyprès de la Villa d'Este,
Threnodie 2 (Troisieme année de pelerinage)
Bartok Sketches. Op. 9
Sonatine
Liszt
Consolation No. in D flat major
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11, in A minor
The la-st of a weekly series

Contributors

Piano:
Peter Katin

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