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from St James 's Roman Catholic Church, Hebburn, Co Durham. Celebrant FR GEORGE DOLAN , the Parish Priest. Preacher RT REV HUGH LINDSAY , Auxiliary Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.
Readings: Zechariah 12 vv 10-11; Galatians 3. vv 26-29; Luke 9, vv 18-24
Music: Gloria (Vermulst): Psalms 66. 41 (Mawby); Sanctus (Baxter)
Choirmaster GERARD MCNALLY Organist MARY O'CONNOR
Action of the Mass described by FR LAWRENCE TINNION

Contributors

Unknown:
St James
Unknown:
Fr George Dolan
Unknown:
Hugh Lindsay
Choirmaster:
Gerard McNally
Organist:
Mary O'Connor
Unknown:
Lawrence Tinnion

Introduced by ERIC TOBITT
New Mersey Tunnel: NEVILLE POWLEY visits Liverpool
Car Warranties: GEOFFREY HAN-COCK of the Birmingham Mail forecasts some changes
The Grouping of Cars for Insurance: by JOHN GASELEE. Editor of Insurance Record
Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS together with topical news and at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Eric Tobitt
Unknown:
Neville Powley
Unknown:
Geoffrey Han-Cock
Unknown:
John Gaselee.
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

with Jacky Gillott who this week sees Pirandello s play The Rules of the Game, films of Black Beauty and Wuthering Heights, and an exhibition of jewels by Salvador Dali.
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON and MIRIAM RAPP
12.55Weather; programmenews

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacky Gillott
Unknown:
Salvador Dali.
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson
Produced By:
Miriam Rapp

by Ian Rodger
This, the second of three plays by Ian Rodger on the nature of dissent in society, concerns the Peasants Revolt of 1381.
with David Spenser as Richard II, Mary Wimbush as Princess Joan

(Broadcast in 1969)
[Repeat]
(Next Sun: 'The True Sir John')
Radio Times People: page 4

Contributors

Writer:
Ian Rodger
Music:
The Yetties
Producer:
John Tydeman
Richard II:
David Spenser
Princess Joan:
Mary Wimbush
Wat Tyler:
Anthony Jackson
John Ball:
Clive Swift
Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury:
Denys Blakelock
Earl of March:
Lockwood West
Lord Salisbury:
Peter Pratt
Courtenay, Bishop of London:
Rolf Lefebvre
Robert Fiennes:
Michael Spice
Bampton:
John Baddeley
Lord Mayor:
Wilfrid Carter
Sir John Newton/Burley:
Peter Bartlett
Other parts:
David Brierley
Other parts:
Antony Viccars
Other parts:
Frederick Treves

TONY SOPER and MARGARET HOWARD introduce this weekly programme about pets and the people who are concerned with them.
Produced by ROY HAYWARD
(Letters to ' Pets and People.' BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Soper
Unknown:
Margaret Howard
Produced By:
Roy Hayward

Magazine edition including: Nightingales' Choice Animal Maps
Nature Trail for the Blind Introduced by DEREK JONES Produced by DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
(Shortened version: Wed, 9.5 am) (Natural enough: pages 52-54)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Produced By:
Dilys Breese

A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
The Long Cane: DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL visits the National Mobility Centre for the Blind in the Midlands.
Produced by JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH (from Birmingham)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Scott
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith

with NORMAN CUDDEFORD
Cricket: three of today's John Player League matches
Motor Racing - Dutch Grand Prix: MAXWELL BOYD from Zandvoort on the fourth round of the World Fl Championship
Golf - Carrolls International Tournament: TOM SCOTT on play in this 72-hole stroke-play event from Woodbrook Golf Club, Co Wicklow, Eire
6.56* Cricket Scoreboard
Produced by JACOB DE VRIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Cuddeford
Unknown:
Maxwell Boyd
Unknown:
Tom Scott
Produced By:
Jacob de Vries

ERIC MORECAMBE appeals on behalf of the British Heart Foundation which finances research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of heart diseases, including thrombosis, stroke, and congenital heart disease which yearly afflicts 5,000 newborn babies.
Donations (preferably crossed PO or cheque) to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Morecambe

CLIFFORD CURZON (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS conductor ANDRÉ PREVIN from the Royal Festival Hall, London Part 1
Tragic Overture
7.45* Symphony No 4, In e minor

Contributors

Piano:
Clifford Curzon
Leader:
John Georgiadis
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André Previn

In the last of three talks CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON speaks about the characteristic attitudes of the Roman people, their cynic-ism, gusto and irreverence, their ingrained distrust of authority, learned from centuries of oppression. He relates these to present conditions, to the phenomenal expansion of the city, the impact of the ' new affluence,' and to the idea of Rome itself as a city of extremes,

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hampton

Sir Tyrone Guthrie man of the theatre died on 15 May this year
A few weeks before his death he recorded his personal selection from the literature of the Bible.
' The Bible is a great treasury, not only of legend and myth, but also of poetry, philosophy, history, as well as religious thought and doctrine. Once the Bible was familiar to every literate person in Christendom, and to tens of thousands who. not themselves literate, heard its words read aloud and told by heart.' with MARGARET D'ARCY
Produced by MAURICE LEITCH (Radio Times People: page 5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Tyrone Guthrie
Produced By:
Maurice Leitch

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