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from St Andrew 's Church, Plymouth: conducted by THE REV JOHN CAVELL assisted by THE REV D. S. PAINTER Introit: We will be merry far and wide (Michael Praetorius ) Hymns: Good Christian men (A and M Rev 603); Awake, awake (100 Hymns For Today 9); Lord of all power (100 Hymns For Today 62)
Reading: St Luke 24, vv 13-35 Organist and Choirmaster PHILIP LIDDICOAT

Contributors

Unknown:
St Andrew
Unknown:
John Cavell
Unknown:
Rev D. S. Painter
Unknown:
Michael Praetorius
Choirmaster:
Philip Liddicoat

Introduced by jim PESTRIDGE
Caravanning today and the British Caravan Road Rally
The Motor Insurance Business: by JOHN GASELEE
Keeping in Touch: a survey of radio telephone systems for motorists by ANNE HOPE
Watch That Spanner: a warning to strong men by ERIC TOBITT together with topical news and at 11.43* the latest traffic report Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
John Gaselee
Unknown:
Eric Tobitt
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

Introduced by Michael Billington , who this week discusses the BBC2 serial Sunset Song with ANDREW CRUICKSHANK ; visits the Dulwich College Picture Gallery; interviews JOAN PLOWRIGHT about her role in A Woman Killed with Kindness at the National Theatre; and talks about One at Night at the Royal Court Theatre, starring Roy Dotrice. Produced by PATRICIA BRENT and MIRIAM RAPP
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Billington
Unknown:
Andrew Cruickshank
Unknown:
Joan Plowright
Unknown:
Roy Dotrice.
Produced By:
Patricia Brent
Produced By:
Miriam Rapp

The Court Martial of the Bounty Mutineers in 1792 by STANLEY MILLER
By Naval Regulations in force at the time of the Bounty mutiny (28 April 1789) any man failing to take active steps to oppose a mutiny was considered equally guilty with proven mutineers. Courts Martial were empowered to find only two verdicts: acquittal or sentence of death. Principal characters
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Miller
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
Lord Hood:
Carleton Hobbs
Captain Hamond:
Noel Howlett
Captain Colpoys:
Wilfred Babbage
Captain Montagu:
Peter Pratt
Captain Bertie:
Arthur Lawrence
Judge Advocate:
Eric Anderson
Mr Graham:
David March
John Fryer:
Patrick Barr
John Smith:
Hamlyn Benson
William Purcell:
Russell Napier
Lieut Ward:
Gordon Gardner
Midshipman Heywood:
Peter Marinker
James Morrison:
Henry Stamper
William Muspratt:
John Dearth
John Millward:
Garardgreen

A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Aids in the Kitchen: blind housewives tell GEORGE MILLER about gadgets they find particularly helpful. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Produced by THENA HESHEL †

Contributors

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

DAME FLORA ROBSON appeals on behalf of Hamilton Lodge School for Severely Deaf Children
Hamilton Lodge, Brighton, is a coeducational boarding school which prepares deaf children for a wide range of trades and professions. Funds are needed for a Sick Bay extension.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Dame Flora Robson
Unknown:
Flora Robson

David Franklin introduces a programme of favourite operatic music
MARGARET CURPHEY (soprano) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) BBC CHORUS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by DAVID LLOYD JONES
Produced by ANTHONY PHILPOTT
This is the last of six public concerts (presented by the BBC in association with the Directors of Sadler's Wells Trust). Excerpts from
Verdi La Traviata
Mozart Cosi fan tutte
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Berlioz The Trojans
Borodin Prince Igor Part 1

Contributors

Introduces:
David Franklin
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conducted By:
David Lloyd Jones
Produced By:
Anthony Philpott

A look at the present plight and the future shape of town and country: compiled and introduced by NICHOLAS TAYLOR The Plight of the Young Architect
The last two years have been the most difficult in peace time since the Great Slump for providing private architects with jobs. How can the bright young architect contribute to our environment? Are we wasting the talent and energy available?
Speakers include:
John DARBOURNE , architect of housingin Westminster; NORMAN FOSTER , architect of award-winning factories; DAVID HUT-CHISON, architect of Paisley
Civic Centre: ERIC LYONS , architect of many Span estates; J. M. RICHARDS , former editor of the Architectural Review. Produced by LEONIE COHN
(25 April: Motorways and the Public Interest)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nicholas Taylor
Unknown:
John Darbourne
Unknown:
Norman Foster
Unknown:
Eric Lyons
Unknown:
J. M. Richards
Produced By:
Leonie Cohn

Vanessa and Corin Redgrave take a revolutionary approach to life, literature and music before an audience at the Commonwealth Institute, London - and the audience responds wholeheartedly.
' Lear is a very revolutionary play - dramatised in such a way that if a censor were to raise awkward questions, well there was always the answer that these were the ideas of beggars and madmen.'
Produced by HALLAM TENNYSON †

Contributors

Unknown:
Corin Redgrave
Produced By:
Hallam Tennyson

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