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Holy Communion from Sander-stead United Reformed Church. Presiding Minister REV NOEL SHEPHERD
Introit: Let all our voices (Bach)
Readings (NEB): 1 Kings 17, vv 17-24; Romans 10, vv 8-17
Hymns (Pilgrim Praise): This is the day (40): (Cong Praise): Great God of wonders (67); From all that dwell below the skies (746). Anthems: We are here (Parsonage); Let us break bread together (Faith, Folk and Clarity)
Organist RICHARD JENKINSON

Contributors

Organist:
Richard Jenkinson

Churchill Centenary
In this commemorative year, WINSTON CHURCHILL, mp, appeals on behalf of the Churchill Memorial Trust, an award scheme which enables men and women from all walks of life in the English-speaking world to widen their experience through travel.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Winston Churchill, MP, Churchill Memorial Trust, [address removed]

Introduced by jim PESTRIDGE
Cut the Jack-knife: articulated lorries can be made safe. ERIC TOBITT learns how and asks why not?
Les Routiers: ARTHUR PHILLIPS tries accommodation recommended by the French Transport Drivers Association.
Little Neddy: a new look at garage services explained by MICHAEL KEMP.
Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Eric Tobitt
Unknown:
Arthur Phillips
Unknown:
Michael Kemp.
Producer:
John Haslam

MICHAEL BARRATT invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and GEOFF SMITH to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post Producer KENNETH FORD
(Repeated: Tuesday, 4.5 pm)
Questions (on postcards) to Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Barratt
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Geoff Smith
Producer:
Kenneth Ford
Unknown:
Woodhouse Lane

Wuthering Heights by EMILY BRONTË dramatised for radio in two parts by CONSTANCE cox with Paul Daneman
Patricia Gallimore , Gudrun Ure ' My name is Ellen Dean , and I, perhaps, of all the folk who lived there in the year 1781. am best fitted to tell the story of that strange, gaunt farmhouse called Wuthering Heights.....
Harpsichord ALAN PAUL
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT (1967) Part 2, Heathcliff: next Sunday at 2.30 pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Daneman
Unknown:
Patricia Gallimore
Unknown:
Gudrun Ure
Unknown:
Ellen Dean
Harpsichord:
Alan Paul
Producer:
Norman Wright
Ellen Dean:
Hilda Schroder
Joseph:
Walter Fitzgerald
Catherine Earnshaw:
Patricia Gallimore
Heatheliff:
Paul Daneman
Hindley Earnshaw:
Nigel Graham
Frances Earnshaw:
Jo Manning Wilson
Edgar Linton:
Douglas Hankin
Isabella Linton:
Gudrun Ure
Dr Kenneth:
Denys Hawthorne
Voice:
Ian Thompson

by L. P. HARTLEY
Read by Nigel Stock Part 1
Another chance to hear this story of a 12-year-old boy's entanglement in a web of adult passion and intrigue. The setting is a country-house in Norfolk; the time, summer 1900. Abridged and produced in eight parts by PAMELA howe

Contributors

Unknown:
L. P. Hartley
Read By:
Nigel Stock
Unknown:
Pamela Howe

Talking Point
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) (Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 am. Wildlife, including sound requests: Monday. 10.5 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
In the mind's eye?: an eye specialist discusses why some blind people experience optical illusions.
Introduced by JANE FINNIS Editor THENA HESHEL
In Touch, 60p, from bookshops

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jane Finnis
Editor:
Thena Heshel

Is it fair for a man to tie himself down to an estranged wife who because of an incurable disease is reduced to a human vegetabler His doctor thinks it is inhuman to put her into a home, but I love him and would like to give him some happiness in our old age.
One of the problems to be discussed by PAULINE CRABBE , DR JAMES HEMMING and CANON BRYAN
GREEN
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe Producer THENA HESHEL
(Repeated: Thursday, 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Crabbe
Unknown:
Dr James Hemming
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe
Producer:
Thena Heshel

London v Wales (Round 1) London:
Anthony Quinton (chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John Mays Wales :
Jack Longland (chairman) with Dr Mostyn Lewis Fred Nicholls
Producer TREVOR HILL
(Rptd: Wednesday, 9.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Professor John Mays Wales
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Dr Mostyn Lewis
Unknown:
Fred Nicholls
Producer:
Trevor Hill

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD
Stravinsky Scherzo a la russe
8.5* Liszt Symphonic Poem: Orpheus
8.17* Mozart Serenade in c minor (K 388)
8.41* Ravel Suite: Mother Goose

Contributors

Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conductor:
Raymond Leppard
Conductor:
Stravinsky Scherzo
Unknown:
Mozart Serenade

by HENRVK SIENKIEWICZ translated by C. J HOGARTH adapted for radio in ten parts by FELIX FELTON , SUSAN ASHMAN with Felix Felton , William Fox Peter Howell , Anthony Jacobs David March , John Ruddock
Hilda Schroder , Ralph Truman and Patrick Barr as Storyteller Marcus , in trying to carry off Lygia, has been beaten up by her bodyguard Ursus, and the Christians at their deadly peril have given him shelter. 6: The Angry Sky
Producer R. D. SMITH
<Rptd: Tuesday. 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Henrvk Sienkiewicz
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Susan Ashman
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
William Fox
Unknown:
Peter Howell
Unknown:
Anthony Jacobs
Unknown:
David March
Unknown:
John Ruddock
Unknown:
Hilda Schroder
Unknown:
Ralph Truman
Unknown:
Patrick Barr
Unknown:
Storyteller Marcus
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Marcus:
Peter Howell
Lygia:
Hilda Schroder
Paul of Tarsus:
Ralph Truman
Poppaea:
June Monkhouse
Petronius:
Felix Felton
ChiiO:
Anthony Jacobs
Nazarus:
Brian Hewlett
The Apostle Peter:
John Ruddock
Ursus:
Michael Kilgarriff
Nero:
David March
Lucan:
Anthony Hall
Tigellinus:
William Fox
Phao:
Len Jackson

No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit
Kenneth Williams presents a personal anthology in which he sets out to prove that all poetry worth the name has been about the speaking of the truth.
The poetry ranges from Chaucer to Chesterton, from Pope to Tennyson.
Given before an invited audience. Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams

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