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8.10 Sunday Papers
8.20 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye (Make Yourself at Home)
A programme for listeners from India and Pakistan
(Correspondence, in English or your own language, should be sent to: Make Yourself at Home, BBC, Broadcasting House, Birmingham 15)
8.20 (On VHF and Ramsgate)
Sing Alleluia: introduced by ANDREW CRUICKSHANK
Young people from junior and senior schools and colleges sing hymns and songs both old and new
Produced by STEWART CROSS
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Ghar Samajhiye
Produced By:
Stewart Cross

from The Methodist Central Hall, Coventry
Conducted by the Minister, THE REV DAVID DRIVER
Introit: I was glad when they said unto me
Readings: Psalm 95, vv 1-7; Acts 4, vv 16-31
Anthem: 0 ye who bear Christ's holy name (Godfrey Sampson )
Hymns (MHB): 0 worship the king (8); Lord, we believe to us and ours (274): Crown him with many crowns (271); Ye servants of God (426)
Choirmistress kittie EAMES Organist MARGARET HOWELLS

Contributors

Unknown:
David Driver
Unknown:
Godfrey Sampson
Organist:
Margaret Howells

A weekly survey for all who drive
Introduced by jim PESTRIDGE
Air Pollution: an explanation by GEORGE STOTT of Mobil
Accident Damage: a warning from WALTER PRIEST
Honest Analysis: GEORGE LLOYD Pastimes for Small Passengers: MARGOT LAWRENCE with letters and news and at
11.43* the latest traffic report
Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
George Stott
Unknown:
Lloyd Pastimes
Unknown:
Margot Lawrence
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

A selective look at the arts
Antony Jay introduces this week's choice from what is new and what is always around, and talks to people who have a special interest in what he has seen and heard.
Produced by PATRICIA BRENT and ROSEMARY HART
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduces:
Antony Jay
Produced By:
Patricia Brent
Produced By:
Rosemary Hart

by LEO TOLSTOY
A dramatisation in 20 parts 19: Reluctant Down adapted by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Principal characters:

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo Tolstoy
Adapted By:
Michael Bakewell
Tolstoy:
Denys Hawthorne
Pierre Bezukhov:
David Buck
Natasha Rostova:
Kate Binchy
General Kutuzov:
Felix Felton
Marya Bolkonskaya:
Elizabeth Proud
Makeev:
David March
Ramballe:
Charles Hodgson
Princess Catiche:
Jo Manning Wilson
Tsar Alexander I:
John Pullen

Making a gift to the family: some advice and warnings from a barrister
People and their problems: JOHN STOCKBRIDGE talks to a country ambulance driver, and his wife. who is a district nurse
Signing documents: ELIZABETH MITCHELL on who can be a witness
Landlords and tenants: RUPERT TOWNSHEND-ROSE answers listeners' questions
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Mitchell
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

With PAT DOODY
Cricket: reports on three of today's Player's Sunday League matches
Motor Racing: Monaco Grand Prix-a report on the third of this season's races for the World Championship by MAXWELL BOYD
The World Cup Rally restarts in South America: report by ROBIN RICHARDS
Racing in France: ST JOHN DONN-BYRNE reports on the day's racing at Longchamp, including the Prix Hocquart
Results and latest news of the rest of the day's sport
Produced by JOHN FENTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Richards
Unknown:
St John
Produced By:
John Fenton

AUDREY RUSSELL appeals on behalf of the National Council for the Single Woman and her Dependants
The Council is concerned with every difficulty facing single women who have the care of elderly or infirm dependants. Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Audrey Russell
Unknown:
Audrey Russell.

A concert of recordings made available by courtesy of West German and Bavarian Radios
Part 1
Concerto in E flat major (Woo 4) GAUNA KOWAL (piano) RADIO FRANKFURT
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by IWAN NAGEL
7.59* Oratorio: Christ on the Mount of Olives LOU ANN WYCKOFF (soprano)
DONALD GROBE (tenor)
KARL RIDDERBUSCH (bass) RADIO FRANKFURT CHORUS
RADIO FRANKFURT ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK

Contributors

Piano:
Gauna Kowal
Conducted By:
Iwan Nagel
Soprano:
Lou Ann Wyckoff
Tenor:
Donald Grobe
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik

The last of three talks by GEORGE MIKES , the Hungarian-born humorist
3: The Joke as a Minor Art
George Mikes , author of How to be an Alien and other best-selling books, talks about the subject-matter of his recent book about the future-if any - of the art of the humorist. Reader PETER PRATT

Contributors

Unknown:
George Mikes
Unknown:
George Mikes
Reader:
Peter Pratt

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