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8.10 Sunday Papers
8.20 Apna Hi Char Samajhiye (Make Yourself at Home)
A programme for listeners from India and Pakistan
8.20 (On VHF and Ramsgate)
Sing Alleluia: introduced by ANDREW CRUICKSHANK
Young people sing hymns and songs both old and new
Produced by STEWART CROSS
8.50 Programme news
8.55 Weather
Whit Sunday hymn

Contributors

Introduced By:
Andrew Cruickshank
Produced By:
Stewart Cross

from Downside Abbey, near BNith, Somerset. Celebrant, The Abbot of Downside, THE RT REV DOM WILFRED PASSMORE , OSB Preacher DOM AELRED WATKIN , OSB (Headmaster)
Ordinary of the Mass DOM GREGORY MURRAY
Readings: Acts 2, vv 1-11; 1 Corinthians 12. vv 3-7, 12-13
Hymns: When God of old came down (Winchester Old); Come down, 0 love divine (Down Ampney); Factus est repente de caelo sonus (Aichingeri
Director of music ROGER BEVAN Organist PETER MATTHEWS
Action of the Mass described by FR PATRICK MCENROE

Contributors

Unknown:
Dom Wilfred Passmore
Unknown:
Dom Aelred Watkin
Organist:
Roger Bevan
Organist:
Peter Matthews
Unknown:
Fr Patrick McEnroe

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
A Complete Giveaway: NEVILLE POWLEY probes petrol companies' free offers
For Those on Foot: SAM HENRY Two Wheels Today: a discussion between COLIN DRYDEN of the Daily Telegraph and HARRY louis of Motor Cycle
Parkers Please Pay Up: CHARLES BRANDRETH gives a warning with letters and news and at
11.43* the latest traffic report Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Neville Powley
Unknown:
Sam Henry
Unknown:
Colin Dryden
Unknown:
Harry Louis
Unknown:
Charles Brandreth
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

A selective took at the arts
Peter Porter 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 PARRICIA BRENT and ROSEMARY HART
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduces:
Peter Porter
Produced By:
Parricia Brent
Produced By:
Rosemary Hart

by LEO TOLSTOY
A dramatisation in 20 parts from the translation by LOUISE MAUDE and AYLMER MAUDE edited by MICHAEL BAKEWELL with David Buck. Kate Binchy Martin Jarvis
Christopher Guinee Elizabeth Proud and Denys Hawthorne as Tolstoy 20: An Epilogue adapted by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Directed by RONALD MASON
Series adapted for radio by VAL GIELGUD , MICHAEL BAKEWELL and CONSTANCE FOX
Programme Operations team HARRY CATLIN. LESLIE PITT PETER NOVIS , MARY WYSE DAVID GREENWOOD JANET MITCHELL
LLOYD SILVERTHORNE, DAVID WILSON Special effects in collaboration with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Series directed by JOHN POWELL , NESTA PAIN and RONALD MASON
Executive producer RONALD MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo Tolstoy
Translation By:
Louise Maude
Translation By:
Aylmer Maude
Edited By:
Michael Bakewell
Unknown:
David Buck.
Unknown:
Kate Binchy
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Christopher Guinee
Unknown:
Elizabeth Proud
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Adapted By:
Michael Bakewell
Directed By:
Ronald Mason
Unknown:
Val Gielgud
Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Unknown:
Harry Catlin.
Unknown:
Leslie Pitt
Unknown:
Peter Novis
Unknown:
David Greenwood
Unknown:
Janet Mitchell
Unknown:
David Wilson
Directed By:
John Powell
Directed By:
Ronald Mason
Unknown:
Ronald Mason
Count Ilya Rostov:
David March
Countess Rostova:
Ilona Ference
Vaska Denisov:
Nigel Lambert
Count Nicolai Rostov:
Christopher Guinee
Marya Bolkonskaya:
Elizabeth Proud
Sonya:
Patricia Gallimore
Countess:
Natasha Bezukhova
Countess:
Kate Binchy
Mile Bourienne:
Patricia Gallimore
Little Andrei Rostov:
Peter Bartlett
Little Natasha Rostova:
Kate Binchy
Count Pierre Bezukhov:
David Buck
Young Nicolai Bolkonsky:
Martin Jarvis
Desalles:
John Pullen

A magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Advice for Parents: JUNE ROSE talks to some of the experts who help families with blind children
About the Kitchen: SHELAGH WOODLEY gives some hints to housewives
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Produced by THENA HESHEL
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Shelagh Woodley
Introduced By:
David Scott Blackhall
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

With PAT DOODY
Cricket: reports on three of today's matches in the Player's Sunday League
Racing in France: ST JOHN DONN-BYRNE reports on the day's racing at Longchamp, including the Prix Lupin
World Cup Rally: the latest news from ROBIN RICHARDS
Produced by GEOFF DOBSON

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Unknown:
Robin Richards
Produced By:
Geoff Dobson

SPIKE MILLIGAN appeals on behalf of the National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital This is an organisation concerned with the well-being and happiness of all children who have to go to hospital.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Spike Milligan.

A concert of recordings made available by courtesy of West German. Austriar S-W German, and West Berlin Radios
Part 1
Romance in G major
CHRISTIANE EDINGER (violin)
WEST GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHRISTOPH VON DOHNANYI
7.37' Cantata on the accession of Leopold II (WoO 88) ARLEEN AUGER (soprano) ALFRED WINKLER (tenor) WALTER PODUSCHKA (bass) GEORG WEINHENGST (flute) LEONARD WALLISCH (cello) AUSTRIAN RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MILAN HORVAT
8.4* Concerto in c major, for piano. violin, cello, orchestra TRIO DI TRIESTE
SOUTH-WEST GERMAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST hour

Contributors

Violin:
Christiane Edinger
Conducted By:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Tenor:
Alfred Winkler
Conducted By:
Milan Horvat
Conducted By:
Ernest Hour

One man's reaction to the texture of life in our time. A transfer of his Personal Column from East Anglia to a national audience, and the first of seven weekly talks to be given on Sunday evenings during the concert interval.

Contributors

Speaker:
Rene Cutforth

Jack Dash communist and former dockers' leader, presents his personal choice of prose and poetry before an invited audience in Broadcasting House, London. Readers SEAN BARRETT and PETER TUDDENHAM
Produced by JACK AMOS

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Dash
Readers:
Sean Barrett
Produced By:
Jack Amos

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