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Holy Communion Series 2 from the Parish Church of St John, Glastonbury, Somerset
Officiant and Preacher the ViCar, THE REV PETER HAYNES , assisted by THE REV STANLEY RYCROFT Introit: Psalm 95, vv 1-7
Hymns (English Hymnal Service Book): God of mercy: My God, how wonderful thou art: Ye holy Angels bright
Anthems: Jesu. Lamb of God (Mozart): 0 Holy Spirit (Tye)
Readings: Galatians 6, vv 11-18: Matthew 6, vv 24-34 Organist SYLVIA HAWKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Haynes
Unknown:
Stanley Rycroft
Organist:
Sylvia Hawkins

JIMMY SAVILE , OBE appeals on behalf of the British Epilepsy Association
Some 300,000 people in this country have epilepsy. The Association campaigns to change public attitudes and thus make a full life possible for the majority of them.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Jimmy Savile. British Epilepsy Association. [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Savile
Unknown:
Jimmy Savile.

Introduced by jim PESTRIDGE
Jaguars - 50 years of achievement introduced by RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS
Motoring into Winter: aids and advice
The Driving Licence: some legal points by motoring lawyer CHARLES BRANDRETH
VAT and the Motorist: by PROFESSOR SYDNEY URRY at 11.43* the latest traffic report Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Charles Brandreth
Unknown:
Sydney Urry
Producer:
Arthur Phillips

Cliff Mlchelmore invites you to ring him on [number removed]to exchange ideas live by phone on any subject bar party politics with studio guests:
Kingsley Amis, novelist and poet whose recreations include music and films
Mary Warnock , Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall specialising in philosophy
Nicolas Stacey , social services director, author of Who Carest and an Olympic runner in 1952 [number removed](16 lines) will take calls from 11.0 am onward. Or send tiour question to Whatever You Think. Room 4066, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1.1.4
12.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Mlchelmore
Unknown:
Mary Warnock
Unknown:
Lady Margaret Hall
Unknown:
Nicolas Stacey

I belong to a country that I have abandoned
A portrait based on her writings by DOROTHY BAKER with Mary Wimbush as Colette Colette was born in Burgundy in 1873 and died at the age of 81 in Paris.
Throughout her life she never stopped writing although she had many other activities to occupy her: three husbands, a daughter, innumerable animals, a beauty salon, and a music-hall career.
Much of Colette's fiction and non-fiction is rooted in autobiography, especially the two periods of her life to which she continually returned, her childhood and adolescence. Narrator GARY WATSON
Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy Baker
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Colette Colette
Narrator:
Gary Watson
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

A character in one of Evelyn Waugh 's novels denied the people of Wales any achievement. 'They just sing,' he said with disgust, ' Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.'
René Cutforth examines how much truth there is in this extreme statement and considers how the Welsh reputation as a musical nation measures up to reality.
Producer GERRY MONTÉ

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh

Edgar Lustgarten reconstructs six of the most famous murder trials of this century 5: Return Ticket
'... there teas a man, there must have been a man - who'd travelled with Nisbet in the same compartment. For that man - it stands to common-sense, to reason - that man and the murderer, they weren'two, they were one.'
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten

Bank Holiday Outing
Summer Bank Holiday-the time when beaches are packed to bursting-point. This month's Radio Nature Trail picks its way between sunbathers and sandcastles to see what wildlife can still be found there. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (from Bristol)
(Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 am)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Better than a Stainsby- GEORGE MILLER talks to STEPHEN MORRIS of the Trent Polytechnic who has constructed a prototype of a new braille writing machine. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Talks:
George Miller
Unknown:
Stephen Morris
Unknown:
Trent Polytechnic
Introduced By:
David Scott Blackhall
Producer:
Thena Heshel

with Eric Porter as Frederic Chopin On 16 November 1848 Chopin played for the last time in public, at London's Guildhall. He had arrived in England earlier that year and had spent six months teaching and giving recitals, most of them in private houses.
PEGGY BRANFORD has compiled an account of the visit from Chopin's letters to his relatives and friends.
The piano music is played by TAMAS VASARY : on records Narrator GARY WATSON
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Porter
Unknown:
Frederic Chopin
Unknown:
Peggy Branford
Played By:
Tamas Vasary
Narrator:
Gary Watson
Producer:
Alan Haydock

Another chance to hear .Sid's Mystery Tours with Tony Hancock Sid James, Bill Kerr Warren Mitchell
Errol McKinnon, Mavis Villiers Script by RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON
Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT
Producer TOM RONALD
Second of a special series of four Hancock's Half-Hour programmes from the 50s.

Contributors

Script By:
Ray Galton
Music By:
Wally Stott

PAULINE WEBB , vice-chairman of the World Council of Churches, RENFORD BAMBROUGH. University lecturer in philosophy, and GEOFFREY PARRINDER , Professor of Comparative Religion, King's College, London, answer questions put by members of the Workers Educational Association in the School of Pythagoras. St John's College, Cambridge
Chairman GEOFFREY SMITH Producer JACK SINGLETON

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Webb
Unknown:
Geoffrey Parrinder
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Producer:
Jack Singleton

HELEN WATTS (contralto) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader COLIN STAVELEY conducted by ERICH SCHMIDT
Mendelssohn Overture: Fingal's Cave
8.10* Brahms, orch Sargent Four Serious Songs
8.27' Schubert Symphony No 1, In D major

Contributors

Contralto:
Helen Watts
Leader:
Colin Staveley
Conducted By:
Erich Schmidt

Better by far
For Johnny-the-bright-star
To keep your head
And see his children fed
(John Pudney)

A radio version of a staging of the Battle of Britain in which all the parts are taken by the authors, John Burrows and John Harding

Contributors

Writer/Performer:
John Burrows
Writer/Performer:
John Harding
Producer for radio:
John Scotney

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