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GEOFFREY WHEELER visited a holiday camp at Minehead, Somerset, to talk to visitors to a Christian holiday week, and to ask them to choose a favourite hymn to be sung in the camp ballroom
Produced by Michael Shoesmith

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Produced By:
Michael Shoesmith

from the Church of the Resurrection, Belfast conducted by CANON BRIAN HARVEY ,
Canon Theologian of St. Anne's Cathedral. Belfast
Theme: Freedom in Christ
Hymns (I.C.H.): Hark what a sound (420); Through all the changing scenes of life (485)
Psalm 124
Lessons: Micah 6, vv. 3-8
St. Matthew 15, vv. 29-39
Anthem: Comfort, 0 Lord, the soul of thy servant (Crotch) a section of the Ulster Singers conducted by Havelock Nelson

Contributors

Conducted By:
Canon Brian Harvey
Conducted By:
Havelock Nelson

or 'I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again' - Again!
Selected repeats from the award-winning series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
with The Dave Lee Group
Written by Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden
Produced by David Hatch and Peter Titheradge
Broadcast May 19, 1968 (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Bftooke-Taylor
Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Jo Kendall
Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Written By:
Bill Oddie
Written By:
Graeme Garden
Produced By:
David Hatch
Produced By:
Peter Titheradge

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

FRANKLIN ENGELMANN invites FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post
Produced by Kenneth Ford
Questions, on postcards, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC. Wood-house Lane. Leeds. [Postcode removed].

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Produced By:
Kenneth Ford

The Cathedral by Hugh Walpole adapted for radio in three parts by BRIAN GEAR with The Cathedral is one of Walpole's most popular ' Glebeshire ' novels. The first of a sequence, it is about cathedral in-fighting and politics in the world at the turn of the century, centring round that fearsome defender of the Faith, Archdeacon Adam Brandon.
Part 1: which tells of the coming to Polchester of his new potential rival Canon Ronder, and of the significant Affair of the Garden Roller ...
Time: Jubilee Year, 1897
Produced by BRIAN MILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Walpole
Unknown:
Brian Gear
Unknown:
Adam Brandon.
Produced By:
Brian Miller
Archdeacon Adam Brandon:
Stephen Murray
Aunt Alice:
Thelma Barlow
Canon Frederick Ronder:
Michael Kilgarriff
Falcon Brandon:
Frank Barrie
Amy Brandon:
Clare Austin
Joan Brandon:
Louise Pajo
Ellen Stiles:
June Barrie
Miss Milton:
Angela Brooking
Johnny St Leath:
Andrew Simpson
Mrs Combermere:
Daphne Heard
Arthur Morris:
Esmond Rideout
Annie Hogg:
Hilary Newcombe
Canon Ryle:
Rex Holdsworth
Canon Beutinck-Major:
Ronald Russell
Canon Foster:
Norman Tyrrell
Dean Sampson:
Hedley Goodall
Archdeacon Witheram:
Bernard Padfield

A weekly magazine programme about archaeology and history introduced by TONY RAYMONT
Industrial Archaeology: the machines and buildings of the Industrial Revolution are disappearing daily. Are they worth preserving and. if so. how?
Silbury: BRUCE PARKER on the fourth week of the dig
Your Questions: PETER FOWLER
Produced by Roger Laughton
Questions to: The Changing Past. BBC. Bristol. [Postcode removed].

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tony Raymont
Unknown:
Bruce Parker
Unknown:
Peter Fowler
Produced By:
Roger Laughton

Approved Schools: ELIZABETH MITCHELL explains the present position and takes a look at some forthcoming changes
All Kinds of Remedies: LAURIE SAPPER talks about the different orders the Courts can make
From Here and There: JOAN YORKE with some more useful information
Introduced by JOHN WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Mitchell
Talks:
Laurie Sapper
Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Introduced By:
John Webster

Part 2
CYCLING
National Professional Road Race Championship: JOHN BURNS from Cheddington, Bucks
SHOW JUMPING
Royal International Horse Show: RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD from Wembley
Player's County League: further reports and scoreboard

Contributors

Unknown:
John Burns

Brook Advisory Centres by LORD RITCHIE-CALDER
The Centres aim to prevent the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy by educating young unmarried people in matters of sex and contraception, and by helping them to develop a sense of responsibility regarding sexual behaviour.
Donations, preferably by crossed P.O. or cheque, to: [address removed]

Still life
A portrait of a dancer, a remarkable woman who, though now totally paralysed, still teaches dancing and paints dancers and dancing scenes holding the brush in her mouth
Compiled and introduced by LESLIE SMITH
Produced by Paul Stephenson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leslie Smith
Produced By:
Paul Stephenson

by William De Morgan dramatised for radio in thirteen parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM with Norman Shelley
Brian Hewlett , and John Hollis
13: The Parting and the Meeting
Other parts, Jan Edwards
James Thomason. Wilfrid Carter
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Brian Hewlett
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Jan Edwards
Unknown:
James Thomason.
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Joseph Vance:
Norman Shelley
Joe Vance:
Brian Hewlett
Jane Vance:
Margaret Wolfit
Christopher Vance:
John Hollis
Peter Gunn:
Francis de Wolff
Magistrate:
Godfrey Kenton
Lossie Desprez:
Gudrun Ure
Aunt Isabella:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Dr Randall Thorpe:
Lockwood West
Mrs Vance:
Hilda Fenemore
Father Paul:
David March
Hugh Desprez:
Victor Lucas
Bony Macallister:
Nigel Graham
Lady Henrietta:
Eva Haddon
Jeannie Macallister:
Rosalind Shanks

with KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
FFRANGCON DAVIES (piano)
TREORCHY MALE CHOIR
Conductor, John Cynan Jones
ALUN MOLD SINGERS
Conductor, Brian Hughes
THE SEIRIOL SINGERS
Conductor, John Hywel
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader. John Bacon
Conducted by RAE JENKINS
Introduced by IFAN WYN WILLIAMS
Written and produced by J. Alwyn Jones

Contributors

Tenor:
Kenneth Bowen
Piano:
Ffrangcon Davies
Conductor:
John Cynan Jones
Conductor:
Brian Hughes
Conductor:
John Hywel
Conducted By:
Rae Jenkins
Introduced By:
Ifan Wyn Williams
Produced By:
J. Alwyn Jones

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