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from St Pauls Church, Sketty, Swansea conducted by the Vicar,
REV CHANCELLOR GARFIELD JAMES Hymns (Church Hymnal Service Book): Immortal, invisible (St Denio): 0 Christ, our hope (Metzler's Redhead); King of glory (Gwalchmai) Lessons: Isaiah 35 St Matthew 5
Organist CLIFFORD H. TROTMAN Choirmaster JOHN M. DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Garfield James
Organist:
Clifford H. Trotman
Choirmaster:
John M. Davies

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
North across the North Sea: an easy way to the Continent
Totting-up - does it work?: by CHARLES BRANDETH Of the AA
Traffic Wardens: COLIN DRYDEN finds the facts
Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS together with topical news and at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Charles Brandeth
Unknown:
Colin Dryden
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

with Jacky Gillott who this week sees Hugh Leonard 's farce The Patrick Pearse Motel ; an exhibition of the Ceramic Art of China at the Victoria and Albert Museum: and visits Penshurst Place. Lord De Lisle home in Kent.
Produced by JOCELYN FERGUSON and MIRIAM RAPP
12.55 Weather: programmenews

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacky Gillott
Unknown:
Hugh Leonard
Unknown:
Patrick Pearse Motel
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson
Produced By:
Miriam Rapp

The True Sir John by IAN RODGER
This, the last play in a trilogy by Ian Rodger concerning the nature of dissent in medieval England, is an account of the true character of Sir John Oldcastle who is thought to be the basis of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff.
No man so loose but he is tied with a luyne
(LYDGATE. LONDON LICKPENNY) with Joseph O'Conor
David Buck. John Hollis
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Rodger
Unknown:
Ian Rodger
Unknown:
Sir John Oldcastle
Unknown:
John Falstaff.
Unknown:
Joseph O'Conor
Unknown:
David Buck.
Unknown:
John Hollis
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury:
Carleton Hobbs
Henry V:
David Buck
Clifford, Bishop of London:
Noel Howlett
Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester:
Malcolm Hayes
John Badby, a tailor:
David Brierley
Ned Poins, the King's fool:
Henry Woolf
Bardolph, a soldier:
John Hollis
Sir John Oldcastle:
Joseph O'Conor
Eleanor, a whore:
Kathleen Helme
Lady Cobham, Sir John's wife:
Grizelda Hervey
Bishop of Bangor:
Leonard Fenton
William Fisher, a parchment maker:
James Thomason
Mrs Fisher:
Hilda Kriseman

Extinction was a biological reality long before early man appeared. But since the advent of shot-gun man the extinction rate of animal species has trebled, and today technological man looks like bringing about his own extinction.

A discussion chaired by Jeffery Boswall and recorded at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature HQ by courtesy of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. (From Bristol)

Contributors

Chairman:
Jeffery Boswall
Producer:
Dilys Breese

A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Telephone Selling: TONY HASTRICK talks about the new career he has made for himself since losing his sight Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Produced by THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Talks:
Tony Hastrick
Introduced By:
David Scott Blackhall
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

A novel-sequence (1914-1968) arranged for radio in 29 parts 15: The Self-Defeated
Winter 1942. Lewis Eliot 's relationship with Margaret Davidson reaches an impasse. George Passant joins him in Whitehall. At Barford the atomic pile is ready to be tested.
(For cast see Tuesday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lewis Eliot
Unknown:
Margaret Davidson
Unknown:
George Passant

with NORMAN CUDDEFORD
Cricket: four of today's John Player League matches
Racing from France: news of this afternoon's racing at Long-champ including the Prix de Malleret
6.56* Cricket'Scoreboard Produced by JOHN HASLAM

Contributors

Produced By:
John Haslam

KATIE BOYLE appeals on behalf of The National Society for
Mentally Handicapped Children One in every hundred babies is born mentally handicapped. NSMHC is urgently in need of funds for their research into teaching aids and methods.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Katie Boyle
Unknown:
Katie Boyle.

Part 2 Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
CHRISTA LUDWIG , (contralto) LUDOWIC SPIESS (tenor)
HORST LAUBENTAL (tenor)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN

Contributors

Contralto:
Christa Ludwig
Tenor:
Ludowic Spiess
Tenor:
Horst Laubental
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

DONALD NICHOLL. who teaches history at the University of Keele. recently went to try out his self-taught Russian on holiday in Russia. He gives a group of thumbnail sketches of Russians whom he talked to. and some of the unexpected things he learned through them.
Produced by MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Nicholl.
Produced By:
Michael Mason

Patric Dickinson chooses the poet and storyteller as his companion.
' He knew that life is precious, that saving life at sea is a matter of skill, discipline and split seconds, and this gives to his poems their gravity. tautness, and compassion.' Reader RONALD PICKUP
Produced by HALLAM TENNYSON (Ronald Pickup is a National Theatre Player)

Contributors

Unknown:
Patric Dickinson
Produced By:
Hallam Tennyson

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