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from Cleveleys Park Methodist Church, Thornton Cleveleys, Blackpool: conducted by the Minister, THE REV WILFRED GREEN Hymns (MHB): Now thank we all our God (10: Nun Danket): 0 for a thousand tongues to sing (1: Lyngham); Lead us. heavenly father (611: Mannheim)
Lessons: Genesis 1, vv 26-31; Mark 10, vv 13-16: Luke 24, vv 50-53
Organist DOUGLAS KING

MRS E. GORDON PHILLIPS appeals on behalf of Cecil Houses and Clubs
Funds are urgently needed for building a residential club with single rooms for women pensioners.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to Mrs E. Gordon Phillips , Secretary, Cecil Houses Inc. [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs E. Gordon Phillips
Unknown:
Mrs E. Gordon Phillips

Introduced by Jim PESTRIDGE
Rust - Reason and Remedy: a discussion between MARCUS JACOBSON Of the AA, MICHAEL SEER of Vauxhall, and joss JOSELYN of Car Mechanics; chairman NEVILLE POWLEY
On Tow: practical and legal aspects by PAT GREGORY
Don'Smoke and Drive: by DONALD NORFOLK at 11.43* the latest traffic report Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Marcus Jacobson
Unknown:
Joss Joselyn
Unknown:
Neville Powley
Unknown:
Pat Gregory
Unknown:
Donald Norfolk
Producer:
Arthur Phillips

Cliff Michelmore invites you to ring him on [number removed]to exchange ideas live by phone on any subject bar party politics with studio guests. This week: Brigid Brophy, author, play-wright and literary prize. winner whose interests range from Mozart to Beardsley
Dr James Hemming, whose work and books are mainly concerned with the psychological. social and moral aspects of human development
Professor John Vaizey, economist, education expert and author of The Type to Succeed
[number removed](16 lines) will take calls from 11.0 am onward. Or send your question in advance on a postcard with your telephone number to Whatever You Think, Room 4066, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
12.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Michelmore

A portrait of Jane Austen by ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON Producer
CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
Rosemary Anne Sisson
Unknown:
Christopher Venning
Jane:
With Annette Crosbie
James Austen-Leigh:
Alba
Caroline:
Jane Knowles
Captain Wentworth:
Geoffrey Matthews
Cassandra:
Sheila Grant
Mrs Austen:
Kathleen Michael
Eliza de Feuillade:
Katebinchy
Mr Austen:
John Samson
Henry Crawford:
Christopher Good

A series of four programmes 4: A Mountebank BeyondQuestion by ERIC TWINAME
With PETER MARINKER as Jim Fisk
Born in 1835 and assassinated at 37 by a jealous rival. Fisk rapidly worked his way through several fortunes but was always able to recoup by mastering Wall Street with a combination of blockade-breaking, smuggling and bribery. He was known to the New York public as Prince Erie, Jubilee Jim. the Admiral, the Colonel. Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Twiname
Unknown:
With Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Jim Fisk
Unknown:
Jubilee Jim.
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

Edgar Lustgarten reconstructs six of the most famous murder trials of this century
4: The Chalk Pit Murder
' Two days after the non-existent party ... Mudie's dead body was discovered. In a deserted chalk pit ... Discovered with clean shoes on ... though the surrounding ground looked like a swamp. Discovered with a cord around the neck ...'
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten

Talking Point: discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the country-side. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol. Repeated Wed. 9.5 am) Questions to Talking Point, The Living World, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
' Let him take your arm': MOLLY SCOTT has some hints about the best way for a sighted person to guide a blind man
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKRALL Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Molly Scott
Introduced By:
David Scott Blackrall
Producer:
Thena Heshel

The courtship and marriage of Robert and Clara Schumann retold by HERBERT CHAPPELL in the setting of Schumann's music
A parody of one of those Hollywood movies about a romantic composer? The hero, a dashing, neurotic music student with a damaged hand: the heroine, an international concert pianist. barely in her teens; the villain, her harsh father who keeps them apart. But the people were real: the music still is. Producer RICHARD KEEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Clara Schumann
Unknown:
Herbert Chappell
Producer:
Richard Keen
Schumann:
Martin Jarvis
Clara:
Cherie Lunghi

Another chance to hear Michelangelo 'Ancock with Tony Hancock, Sid James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques, and Kenneth Williams.
Script by RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON
Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT
Producer DENNIS MAIN WILSON
The first of a special series of four Hancock's Half-Hour programmes from the 50s.

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Unknown:
Sid James
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Hattie Jacques
Script By:
Ray Galton
Script By:
Alan Simpson
Music By:
Wally Stott
Producer:
Dennis Main Wilson

Delegates at the World Assembly of Youth Conference in Manchester put their questions on religious, moral and social issues to:
THE RT HON JUDITH HART. MP
THE VERY REV ALFRED JOWETT , Dean of Manchester
JYOTI SINGH, Secretary-General of the World Assembly of Youth, Brussels
Chairman GEOFFREY SMITH Producer JACK SINGLETON

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Hart.
Unknown:
Alfred Jowett
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Producer:
Jack Singleton

' I discovered he was a poet when he died because everyone made such a fuss. but I didn'read his poetry till I was 23 ... I felt it was very unfair that I'd been burdened with a father who was that famous ... Reading his poetry, first to myself and then In public. has helped exorcise the anger I felt against him.'
Aeronwy Thomas , daughter of the poet Dylan Thomas , revisits The Boathouse. Laugharne, where she lived till her father died when she was 10, and talks to one of his oldest friends, artist and critic
- MERVYN LEVY.
Producer ELIZABETH SMITH (Repeated: Wed. 3.50 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Aeronwy Thomas
Unknown:
Dylan Thomas
Unknown:
Mervyn Levy.
Producer:
Elizabeth Smith

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