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Make Yourself at Home
Programme for Asian listeners (Correspondence to Make Yourself at Home, BBC, Broadcasting Centre, Pebble Mill Road, Birmingham B5 7SA)
7.45 Bells followed by programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading
DR COLIN MORRIS with the final reading from his book The Hammer of the Lord
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire
7.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Colin Morris

for Whit Sunday from Memorial Methodist Church, Mow Cop, Cheshire Led by REV MICHAEL SPEED
Hymns (Methodist HB): 0 thou who earnest from above (386); Thou shepherd of Israel (457); A charge to keep I have (578); On all the earth thy spirit shower (301)
Reading: Acts 2. vv 37-47 Organist ENOCH HANCOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev Michael Speed
Organist:
Enoch Hancock

JOYCE GRENFELL appeals on behalf of Pearson's Fresh Air Fund which helps to provide holidays for needy children away from the depressing environment of city slums. Every year more than 7000 benefit.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Joyce Grenfell[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell

Talk about ...
MICHAEL KEMP of the Daily Mail EVELYN HOME of Woman
JOHN MILES of BSM High Performance Course with JIM PESTRIDGE as Chairman visit the City of London Guild-hall to discuss with members of Motor Clubs and Organisations current motoring topics Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Kemp
Unknown:
Evelyn Home
Unknown:
John Miles
Unknown:
Jim Pestridge
Producer:
John Haslam

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:
Andrew Shonfirld , economist and Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs: Mary Warnock , Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford, specialising in philosophy; Brian Connell , writer and commentator
12.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Michelmore
Unknown:
Andrew Shonfirld
Unknown:
Mary Warnock
Unknown:
Lady Margaret Hall
Unknown:
Brian Connell

Foundation Trilogy Author ISAAC ASIMOV
A series of eight programmes
Book 2: Foundation and Empire Programme 6:
Flight from the Mule
The Foundation is conquered. To a small band of people the only hope appears to be to discover the Second Foundation of Hari Seldon and enlist its help against the Mule. But no-one knows where the Second Foundation is.
Of the Foundation:
Of the Trade'rs:
Of the Mule:
Encyclopedic read-out DAVID VALLA
Adaptation MIKE STOTT ProducerDAVID CAIN
BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Contributors

Unknown:
Isaac Asimov
Unknown:
David Valla
Unknown:
Mike Stott
Producer:
David Cain
Bayta Darell:
Angela Pleasence
Ebling Mis:
Maurice Denham
Han Pritcher:
John Justin
Orum Palley:
Robin Browne
Toran Darell:
Gary Watson
Franssart:
Nigel Graham
Of the Empire:Dagobert IX:
Rolf Lefebvre
Of the Empire:Prince Dagobert:
Nigel Anthony
Magnifico:
Wolfe Morris

Arthur Askey looks over his years as an entertainer and the friends and colleagues amongst whom he has spent, and continues to spend, his very active life.
He recalls: 'HUTCH' WILL HAY MARIO DE PIETRO
STAINLESS STEPHEN , NOEL COWARD RONNIE BARKER , JUNE WHITFIELD
ANNE ZIEGIER. and WEBSTER BOOTH
MRS SHUFFLEWICK
DEREK FRANCIS , FRANCIS DE WOLFF , and DAVID FALLON in The Embassy Lark Producer AI.ASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Mario de Pietro
Unknown:
Stainless Stephen
Unknown:
Noel Coward
Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
June Whitfield
Unknown:
Anne Ziegier.
Unknown:
Webster Booth
Unknown:
Mrs Shufflewick
Unknown:
Derek Francis
Unknown:
Francis de Wolff
Unknown:
David Fallon

by RICHARD HAYDN abridged in five parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by Alec McCowen
Edwin Carp, a bachelor in his 40s. has for nine years been engaged to the widowed Mrs Maude Phelps. He resides with Mother who has lived long and intends to live longer and who becomes mysteriously ill whenever Edwin broaches the subject of his long-delayed plunge into matrimony.
1: The Journal is Commenced Producer JOHN CARDY
(Part 2: next Sunday. Broadcast as A Book at Bedtime, 1970)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Haydn
Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Alec McCowen
Producer:
John Cardy

A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Who Will Help Me?: spotlight on a Department of Social Services, and what it offers to the visually handicapped, Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH

Contributors

Duced By:
David Scott Blackhall
Producer:
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith

by ROBERT BARR
A six-part serial continuing the story of Jim Nicholson in which he undertakes a vital mission to rescue or kill a captured agent. with Edward de Souza and Geoffrey Frederick 5:The Search
Producer CHARLES MAXWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Jim Nicholson
Unknown:
Geoffrey Frederick
Producer:
Charles Maxwell
Jim Nicholson, EDWARD:
De Souza
Paul O'Donnell:
Geoffrey Frederick
Sgt Kelly:
Derek Seaton
JOSCf:
Andrew Sachs
Alex Mathieson:
Alex Scott
Anton:
David Nettheim
Doctor:
David Graham

for The Gift of the Holy Spirit Tom Fleming introduces John Le Mesurier and Morag Hood BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE organist BARRY ROSE soloists ROGER HEATH FRANCES GREGORY
The music includes plainsong and hymns for Whit Sunday Producer ANGELA TILBY

Contributors

Introduces:
Tom Fleming
Unknown:
John Le Mesurier
Conductor:
John Poole
Organist:
Barry Rose
Soloists:
Roger Heath
Soloists:
Frances Gregory
Producer:
Angela Tilby

by ANTHONY TROLLOPE adapted for radio in 20 parts from six of his novels
Book 2: Barchester Towers Episode 4: Love and Wrath dramatised by CONSTANCE cox
Executive producer NORMAN WRIGHT
(For full cast see Tues, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Trol.Lope
Dramatised By:
Constance Cox
Producer:
Norman Wright
Archdeacon Grantly:
Robert Harris
Mr Harding:
Carleton Hobbs
Bishop Proudie:
George Howe

A discussion in six parts about mainstream political philosophy in Britain today. Four eminent Members of Parliament, Michael Foot, Roy Jenkins, Reginald Maudling and Enoch Powell, talk about the political motives and assumptions of the 70s.
Michael Foot, MP
Rt hon Enoch Powell, MP
Chairman Robin Day

Mixed doubles Westminster style: pages 6-7

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Jenkins
Unknown:
Reginald Maudlins
Unknown:
Enoch Powell.
Unknown:
Michael Foot
Unknown:
Enoch Powell
Producer:
Roland Challis

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