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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)
8.26 (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 Cartmel Priory conducted by the Vicar, THE REV T. C. LEDGARD
Hymns (A and M Rev): Bright the vision (161); Immortal, invisible (372): Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem (222) Psalm 29
Lessons: Isaiah 6, vv 1-8; St Mark 1, vv 1-13
Organist and Master of the Music ERIC HEMERY

visits ' Drivers Week in Harlow. Essex
Questions from an audience of local motorists are answered by JOHN GOTT , Chief Constable of Northampton and County MRS ELWYN REED. a registered driving instructor
MAXWELL BOYD. Motoring Correspondent of the Suitday Times JOSEPH LOWREY , a writer on automobile engineering
Chairman RAYMOND BAXTER
(ReeordedintheTownHall) Produced by JIM PESTRIDGE
11.43' the latest traffic report

Contributors

Unknown:
John Gott
Unknown:
County Mrs Elwyn Reed.
Unknown:
Maxwell Boyd.
Unknown:
Joseph Lowrey
Unknown:
Raymond Baxter
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

A selective look 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 PATRICIA BRENT and ROSEMARY HART
12.55 Weather: programmenews

Contributors

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

The One O'Clock News leads off this 60-minute up-to-the-minute report on the world around us, with the latest news. the background to the news, and the people in the news: presented by David Jessel
Editor HARRY BROWN

Contributors

Presented By:
David Jessel
Presented By:
Editor Harry Brown

1: Hampton Court by JOHN MORTIMER
The first of four dramatised documentaries about Tudor England tells the story of Cardinal Wolsey who built Hampton Court and Henry VIII who took it from him. with Michael Bryant and Michael Hordern Lute played by ROBERT SPENCER
Produced by NESTA PAIN
The second programme in this series is Elizabeth's Admiral by Alison Plowden. It is an account of the events of the two years after the death of Henry VIII in 1547 leading to the execution of the Lord High Admiral, Thomas Seymour.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Mortimer
Unknown:
Henry Viii
Unknown:
Michael Bryant
Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Played By:
Robert Spencer
Produced By:
Nesta Pain
Unknown:
Alison Plowden.
Unknown:
Henry Viii
Unknown:
Thomas Seymour.
Henry VIll:
Michael Bryant
Cardinal Wolsey:
Michael Hordern
Katherine of Aragon:
Irene Prador
Builders:
Anthony Hall
Builders:
Nigel Anthony
Venetian Ambassador:
Noel Howlett
Cavendish:
Allan McClelland
Skelton:
Henry Stamper
Anne Boleyn:
Penelope Lee
Lord Percy:
Henry Stamper
Duke of Suffolk:
Preston Lockwood
Master Kingston:
Nigel Anthony
Master Seymour:
Wilfred Babbage
Thomas Cromwell:
Ian Thompson
Jane Seymour:
Beth Boyd
Smeaton:
Anthony Hall
Ladies of the Court.:
Carole Boyd
Ladies of the Court.:
Barbara Mitchell
Ladies of the Court.:
Betty Huntley-Wright

Gilbert White of Selborne
This year is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the well-loved parson-naturalist.
DEREK JONES visits some of White's favourite haunts in the company of BRUCE CAMPBELL , ERIC JONES , and ANTHONY RYE
Produced by DILYS BREESE
(Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 ami

Contributors

Unknown:
Gilbert White
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Unknown:
Bruce Campbell
Unknown:
Eric Jones
Produced By:
Dilys Breese

Giving a Reference: some warnings from a Solicitor
Society Now-cutting off essential services: JOAN YORKE finds out when this is likely to happen and what can be done about it
Safeguards for Children - both careless and naughty: TOM WILMOT of the British Insurance Association
Employment Problems: listeners' questions answered by LAURIE SAPPER
Introduced by JOHN STOCKBRiDGE
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Tom Wilmot
Introduced By:
John Stockbridge

With PAT DOODY
Cycling: Milk Race - Tour of Britain: preview of this evening's Individual Time Trial at Blackpool
Cricket: reports on selected matches in the Player's Sunday League
Hockey: report on the Final of the Club Championship of Great Britain and Ireland
Racing in France: report on the day's racing at Long-champ, including the Prix du Cadran
Results and latest news of the rest of the day's sport
Produced by JOHN FENTON

Contributors

Produced By:
John Fenton

ANGUS OGILVY appeals on behalf of Toc H
Toc H. started by Tubby Clayton , offers help and friendship to thousands in need, and gives young people a Christian insight into voluntary work of all kinds.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Tubby Clayton
Unknown:
Angus Ogilvy

BRUNO LEONARDO GELBER (piano) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS conducted by EDWARD DOWNES Part 1
George Newson Twenty-seven Days (first performance)
7.58* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor

Contributors

Piano:
Bruno Leonardo Gelber
Leader:
John Georgiadis
Conducted By:
Edward Downes
Unknown:
George Newson

Vivien Merchant and Harold Pinter read a programme of poetry of their choice before an invited audience
Produced by guy VAESEN
(Vivien Merchant is in ' Flint ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Vivien Merchant
Unknown:
Harold Pinter
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen

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