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from St Catharine's Church, Gloucester conducted by the Vicar, CANON H. C. M. POTTS
Preacher FR NORMAN BROWN Psalm 111
Lessons: Ecclesiasticus 44, vv 1-15; Revelation 7, vv 9-17
Anthem: 0 thou, the central orb (Charles Wood)
Hymns (100 Hymns for Today): Glory to thee, 0 God (30); All my hope on God is founded (3): Ye holy angels bright (A and M Rev 371)
Organist W. MARTIN Choirmaster
D. G. WILLIAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon H. C. M. Potts
Unknown:
Preacher Fr Norman Brown
Organist:
W. Martin
Choirmaster:
D. G. Williams

A weekly survey for all who drive
Introduced by Jim PESTRIDGE
Profile of a Champion: Jack Brabham
The Advanced Motorist: COLIN DRYDEN of the Daily Telegraph takes the IAM Driving Test
Child Safety Systems: JEAN AMES describes some new developments
The Diamond Jubilee of the British School of Motoring: PAT GREGORY interviews the BSM Chairman together with topical news and at 11.43* the latest traffic report Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Jack Brabham
Unknown:
Colin Dryden
Unknown:
Jean Ames
Unknown:
Pat Gregory
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

A selective look at the arts
Philip Oakes 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 ROSEMARY HART and ALAN HAYDOCK
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduces:
Philip Oakes
Produced By:
Rosemary Hart
Produced By:
Alan Haydock

by LESLEY STORM adapted for radio by MOLLIE HARDWICK with Flora Robson
Stephen Murray and John Glen The action takes place in the drawing-room of the Christies' house on Chelsea Embankment during three days in October in the late 1940s.
Shortly before her son Roy's wedding Alicia Christie , for reasons she hardly understands, is faced with the most serious problem of her life.
Robert Christie. STEPHEN MURRAY Dr Bennett Hawkins. ..JOHN GLEN Produced by JOE BURROUGHS

Contributors

Unknown:
Mollie Hardwick
Unknown:
Flora Robson
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
John Glen
Unknown:
Alicia Christie
Unknown:
Robert Christie.
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Dr Bennett Hawkins.
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
Louise:
Rosalind Shanks
Roy:
Alexander John
Thea:
Gabrielle Blunt
Alicia Christie:
Flora Robson
Nannie:
Marjorie Westbury

A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Worth Hearing: HONOR WYATT presents another selection of Talking Books
Here, There, and Everywhere: GEORGE MILLER 'S report on events of special interest to blind people
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT-BLACKHALL
Produced by THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
George Miller
Introduced By:
David Scott-Blackhall
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

A serial for radio in 12 parts based on the novels of L. P. HARTLEY and adapted by ARCHIE CAMPBELL with and Time: the early 1920s.
Fourteen years have passed. Eustace, now a young man of 24 and, thanks to ,Miss Fothergill's legacy, of comfortable means, is enjoying life as an undergraduate at Oxford-in the years immediately following the Great War.
5: Concerto for Two Violins
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL (For cast see Tuesday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
L. P. Hartley
Adapted By:
Archie Campbell
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Eustace:
Paul Gregory
Hilda:
Penelope Lee
Stephen Hilliard:
Kenneth Fortescue

David Franklin introduces a programme ot favourite operatic music PAULINE TINSLEY (soprano) GREGORY DEMPSEY (tenor) BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by VILEM TAUSKY
Produced by ANTHONY PHILPOTT
This is the first of six public concerts presented by the BBC in association with the Directors of Sadler's Wells Trust. Wagner Tannhauser Mozart Don Giovanni
Puccini Madam Butterfly Beethoven Fidelio
Donizetti La Favorita Part 1

Contributors

Soprano:
Pauline Tinsley
Tenor:
Gregory Dempsey
Conducted By:
Vilem Tausky
Produced By:
Anthony Philpott

Ulick O'Connor in conversation with WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Biographer of Brendan Behan. natural poet. with a remarkable grasp of other men's poetry, former star footballer and pole - vaulter, Ulick O'Connor is that rare phenomenon. the Dublin-born Irish-man who chooses to live on in Dublin, does not drink, yet thrives on the effervescent company of fellow writers in that small, tight literary world. Produced by ANDREW BOYLE
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Ulick O'Connor
Unknown:
William Hardcastle
Unknown:
Brendan Behan.
Unknown:
Ulick O'Connor
Produced By:
Andrew Boyle

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