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Make Yourself at Home
Programme for Asian listeners
7.45 Bells: programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading from
The English Bible-from Wycliff to William Barnes by Peter Levi Read by PETER FETTES
7.55 .Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
William Barnes
Unknown:
Peter Levi
Read By:
Peter Fettes

Sung Eucharist from Romsey Abbey, Hampshire
Celebrant and preacher REV DAVID SHEARLOCK
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 3, vv 4-9 (NEB); Gospel: Mark 7, vv 31-37 (NEB)
Hymns (EH): Let all the world (427: Luckington): 0 Holy Spirit (453: Tallis' Ordinal); 0 thou who earnest from above (343: Hereford); 0 for a thousand tongues (446: Richmond). Anthem: 0 Lord, give thy Holy Spirit (Tallis) Organist CHARLES PIPER

JOHN ARLOTT appeals on behalf of the London Adventure Play-ground Association
Funds are urgently required to help build new playgrounds.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: John Arlott. London Adventure Play-ground Association. [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arlott

Introduced by CLIVE JACOBS
Know Your Car - ways of learning more about motoring: report by- NEVILLE POWLEY and ERIC TOBITT. '
Dial-a-Ride: a transport experiment in Harlow.
The Caravan Menace by GEORGE BISHOP.
Producer jim PESTRIDGE at 11.43' the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Neville Powley
Unknown:
Eric Tobitt.
Unknown:
George Bishop.
Producer:
Jim Pestridge

visits Hertfordshire
Members of the Great and Little Hallingbury Flower Show Committee put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
(Repeated: Tuesday, 4.5 pm)
Book, Gardeners' Question Time (third series), 40p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Michael Barratt
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

Hindle Wakes by" STANLEY HOUGHTON with Wilfred Pickles as Nathaniel Jeffcote and Billie Whitelaw as Fanny
When Fanny Hawthorn goes off to Llandudno for the weekend with a lad, everybody agrees that he ought to marry her. Well, "nearly everybody. Producer ALFRED BRADLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Houghton
Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Unknown:
Nathaniel Jeffcote
Unknown:
Billie Whitelaw
Producer:
Alfred Bradley

In the fourth of seven weekly programmes about archaeology in Britain today. Peter Fowler visits hill-top settlement sites in England and talks with STAN STANFORD. RICHARD BRADLEY and PHILIP DIXON.
Producer ROY HAYWARD (Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Fowler
Unknown:
Stan Stanford.
Unknown:
Richard Bradley
Unknown:
Philip Dixon.

A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Braille by Post: a report on a correspondence course designed to help blind people in New Zealand. Presented by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Editor THENA HESHEL
In Totich. 60p, from bookshops

Contributors

Presented By:
David Scott Blackhall
Editor:
Thena Heshel

Terry Wogan invites personalities from showbusiness, sport. literature to talk about themselves. and everything from cabbages to kings.
Today's guests: Dick Francis Richard Todd. Sandy Wilson Research by PAT MIFFLIN Producer JOCK GALLAGHER (Birmingham)
(Rptd: Thursday, 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Dick Francis
Unknown:
Richard Todd.

London v N Ireland (Round 4) London:
Anthony Quinton (chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John Mays who identify a three-syllable word, the first two recalling a German prisoner-of-war camp. and the third an unwanted extra bit of protein added to an ageing cheese. Turned upside down, it sounds drunk. Belfast:
Jack Longland (chairman) with Dr Michael Dewar R. Martin McBirney who, in the scrum, sort out a bunch of non-Greeks as conceived by Greeks, the masked and mischievous frustrators of clowns and the least loved of the hymenoptera.
Producer TREVOR HILL
(Repeated: Wednesday, 9.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Professor John Mays
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Dr Michael Dewar
Unknown:
R. Martin McBirney

DANIEL ADNI (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by ANDREW ORTON conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Mozart Piano Concerto No 18. in B Hat major (K 456)
Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian folk song: The peacock

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Orton
Conducted By:
Bryden Thomson

by EVELYN WAUGH : dramatised in 11 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Part 5 with Hugh Dickson Carleton Hobbs
Norman Shelley , Philip Bond and Hugh Burden as Narrator So Guy set out on the second stage of his pilgrimage, which had begun at the tomb of Sir Roger. Now. as then, an act of pietas was required of him: a spirit was to be placated Apthorpe's gear must be retrieved and delivered before Guy was free to follow his fortunes in the King's service.
With PETER BALDWIN
DIANA BISHOP, JOHN BRYNING SAM DASTOR , ALAN DUDLEY BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT
GODFREY KENTON. DAVID TIMSON and DAVID SINCLAIR
Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh
Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Philip Bond
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Unknown:
Peter Baldwin
Unknown:
John Bryning
Unknown:
Sam Dastor
Unknown:
Alan Dudley
Unknown:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton.
Unknown:
David Timson
Unknown:
David Sinclair
Producer:
Jane Graham
Guy Crouchback:
Hugh Dickson
Ian Kilbannock:
Philip Bond
Tommy Blackhouse:
Stephen Thorne
Arthur Box-Bender:
Jeffrey Segal
Nameless Major:
Clive Swift
Mr Crouchback:
Carleton Hobbs
Miss Vavasour:
Hilda Schroder
Jumbo Trotter:
Norman Shelley
Ivor Claire:
Michael Pennington
Trimmer:
Nigel Anthony
Chatty Corner:
Brian Wilde
Laird of Mugg:
Tom Watson
Mrs Campbell:
Diana Olsson
Katie:
Sandra Clark

I have borne witness as an artist: I have written about the times I have lived through. Dr Zhivago is the most important, piece of work I have been able to do in my whole life. An account of the writing of Boris Pasternak 's great novel and its hostile reception in Russia, where it has never been published. with Nigel Stock as Pasternak and Paul Webster as Yuri Zhivago Other parts: DENYS HAWTHORNE GEOFFREY BANKS, LINDA GARDNER RONALD HERDMAN , GRAHAM ROBERTS and MARLENF. SIDAWAY
Narrator DAVID MAHLOWE
Written by NORMAN SWALLOW Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON (Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Boris Pasternak
Unknown:
Nigel Stock
Unknown:
Paul Webster
Unknown:
Yuri Zhivago
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Linda Gardner
Unknown:
Ronald Herdman
Unknown:
Graham Roberts
Written By:
Norman Swallow
Producer:
Stanley Williamson

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