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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
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 Bath Abbey conducted by THE REV PREB GEOFFREY LESTER assisted by THE REV ERIC NORMINGTON Psalm 84 (Bairstow)
Jubilate (Stanford in E flat)
Anthem: Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Bairstow)
Hymns (A and M Rev): Christ is our cornerstone (243); When all thy mercies (177); Jesu, lover of my soul (193)
Organist J. DUDLEY HOLROYD Assistant organist RAYMOND JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Lester
Organist:
J. Dudley Holroyd
Organist:
Raymond Jones

A weekly survey for all who drive
Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE Your Letters Answered
Experts on motoring matters deal with listeners' problems together with topical news and at 11.43' the latest traffic report Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

A selective look at the arts p J Kavanagh introduces this week's choice from what is new and what is always around us, 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:
J Kavanagh
Produced By:
Patricia Brent
Produced By:
Rosemary Hart

by WILKIE COLLINS freely dramatised for radio in four parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM
Andrew Treverton has decided to visit Porthgenna Tower in Cornwall to search for the secret letter which he is convinced lies hidden there. 2: The Haunting
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Andrew Treverton
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Rosamond:
Elizabeth Proud
Dr Chennery:
Peter Williams
Leonard Frankland:
Brian Hewlett
Mr Phippen:
James Thomason
Nancy:
Elizabeth Martin
Mrs Jazeph:
Margaret Wolfit
Ebenezer Izzard:
Basil Jones
Mr Munder:
Wilfred Babbage
Mrs Pentreath:
Margot Boyd
Betty:
Penelope Lee
Andrew Treverton:
Malcolm Hayes
Shrowl:
Alexander John

A selection of items from BBC radio and television
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER Script by JEAN STROUD
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Extended version of last Friday's broadcast)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Martin Muncaster
Script By:
Jean Stroud
Produced By:
Phyllis Robinson

On the Statute Book: LAURIE SAPPER describes the main provisions of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act
Taking the Right Job: advice for office workers from ELIZABETH PEPPERELL. Assistant Director of the Industrial Society, talking to MADGE HART
Who can enter your home? - more people than you think: a barrister explains
Estate Agents: NORMAN MELBURN , a chartered surveyor, on what can reasonably be expected from them
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
5.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Melburn
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

twixt ISOBEL BARNETT
ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD and RICHARD MURDOCH , DAVID NIXON
Tune-twisters from STEVE RACE In the chair ROY PLOMLEY Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE (Repeated: Friday, 4.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
David Nixon
Written By:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
Peter Titheradge

with PAT DOODY
Cricket - The John Player League: reports and results
Racing in France: ST JOHN DONN-BYRNE on the day's racing at Saint-Cloud, including the Prix Eugene Adam
6.57* Cricket Scoreboard
Produced by JOHN HASLAM

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Unknown:
Eugene Adam
Produced By:
John Haslam

PR AGNELLUS ANDREW appeals on behalf of Christopher Grange , a new residential Centre for the elderly blind and for girls suffering from blindness and other handicaps.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Grange

A concert of recordings made available by courtesy of North German
West German and Bavarian Radios Part 1
Overture: The Consecration of the House
NORTH GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WINFRIED ZILLIG
7.43* Symphony No 8. in F major WEST GERMAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER

Contributors

Conducted By:
Winfried Zillig
Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer

MIRA BEN , alias Miss Madeleine Slade , talks about her unusual life.
Miss Slade, the daughter of an English admiral. was for 25 years Mahatma Gandhi 's closest disciple. Her life in India, which included several spells in British jails, had its lighter moments - she once had to cut Gandhi's hair while he was shaving. At 82 Miss Slade is now back in Europe pursuing her first hero, Beethoven

Contributors

Unknown:
Mira Ben
Talks:
Miss Madeleine Slade
Unknown:
Mahatma Gandhi

Part 2
Concerto No 1, in c major GEZA AND (piano)
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
9.4* Symphony No 3, in E flat major (Eroica)
WEST GERMAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by otto KLEMPERER
Beethoven Symphonies by Robert Simpson , another in the series of BBC Music Guides. may be obtained through booksellers or by sending a crossed po to BBC Publications. [address removed]. Price 6s (postage and packing Is 3d).
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Conducted By:
Otto Klemperer
Unknown:
Robert Simpson

Alan Plater who edited the new writing programme The Northern Drift for five years, introduces some of his favourite poems, prose. and songs to an invited audience at the Hull Arts Centre. with STAN BARSTOW , ALEX GLASGOW
HENRY LIVINGS , GEOFFREY WHEELER Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Plater
Unknown:
Stan Barstow
Unknown:
Alex Glasgow
Unknown:
Henry Livings
Unknown:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Produced By:
Alfred Bradley

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