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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

Parish Communion (series 3) from Holy Trinity Church, South Shore. Blackpool: conducted by REV STANLEY FINCH Readings: Galatians 6. vv 11-18; Matthew 6, vv 24-34
Hymns (A and M): Let all the world (375); Thou whose almighty word (266); Just as I am (349); Praise ye th-e Lord (376) Organist and choirmaster ARTHUR LINGINGS

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Finch
Choirmaster:
Arthur Lingings

SAM HEPPNER appeals on behalf of the Council for Music in Hospitals Live music is of medical benefit as well as of great enjoyment to patients. The Council arranges concerts by professional musicians in hospitals all over the country.
Donations, preferably crossed po or cheque to: Sam Heppner , Council for Music in Hospitals. [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Heppner
Unknown:
Sam Heppner
Unknown:
Raymond Buildings.

Talkabout ... : a discussion between residents of Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, and GEOFF SHEPPARD , Manager of Retail Division. BP Marketing Ltd: JAMES H. BROWNLOW , Assistant Chief Constable (Operations), Hertfordshire Constabulary: ERIC TOBITT. motoring commentator and writer: with .iim PESTRIDGE. chairman. Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Sheppard
Unknown:
James H. Brownlow
Unknown:
Eric Tobitt.
Producer:
John Haslam

MICHAEL BARRATT invites
FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL 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:
Alan Gemmell
Producer:
Kenneth Ford
Unknown:
Woodhouse Lane

The Balkan Trilogy by OLIVIA MANNING : dramatised for radio by ERIC EWENS with Anna Massey as Harriet Jack Shepherd as Guy and Aubrey Woods as Yakimov 2: The Spoilt City
Harriet Pringle. married to a young university lecturer, Guy. finds herself in Bucharest as the storm clouds of war gather around the city. Beyond these problems she also has to come to terms with marriage and her over-charitable husband. Producer JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Olivia Manning
Unknown:
Eric Ewens
Unknown:
Anna Massey
Unknown:
Harriet Jack Shepherd
Unknown:
Aubrey Woods
Unknown:
Harriet Pringle.
Producer:
John Tydeman

The last programme in the series about archaeology in Britain today: Peter Fowler talks with PROFESSOR COLIN RENFREW , PROFESSOR ALAN SMITH and DR HUGH MCKERRELL about the methods used to date the past and how adjustments in the interpretation of dating could produce a new understanding of our ancient past. Producer ROY HAYWARD (Bristol)

Contributors

Talks:
Peter Fowler
Unknown:
Professor Colin Renfrew
Unknown:
Professor Alan Smith
Unknown:
Dr Hugh McKerrell

The Tiger, the Elephant and the Dam
170 miles north east of Delhi lies Corbett National Park. sanctuary for tiger, elephant and over 200 other species of India's birds and mammals.
But now the Kalagrah Dam has been constructed at the edge of the Park. and a sizeable part of the elephants' favourite hiunt will be submerged.
A report by PRAKASH MIRCHANDANI Producer dilys breese (Bristol) (Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kalagrah Dam
Unknown:
Prakash Mirchandani

Terry Wogan invites personalities from showbusiness, sport. literature to talk about themselves, and everything from cabbages to kings.
Today's guests: Tommy Steele Patrick Lichfield
Research by PAT MIFFLIN Producer JOCK GALLAGHER (Birmingham)
(Repeated: Thursday, 11.5 am) Next week at this time: If you think You've got Problems.... !

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Tommy Steele
Unknown:
Patrick Lichfield

The final programme in the 1974 series: London v Wales Resident London team:
Anthony Quinton (chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John Mays who attempt to sort out asphodel from umbles and naranja.
1973 Winners - Wales:
Dr Mostyn Lewis , Fred Nicholls with Jack Longland (chairman) who attempt to discover what Luther might have said in May 1944 if asked to lead the attack on the monastery where Aquinas went to school.
The series ends with the announcement of the 1974 winners. Producer TREVOR HILL (Repeated: Wednesday, 9.0 pm)

Contributors

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

A weekly miscellany of music. people and places to celebrate Sunday
Presenter Martin Muncaster With THE TANGENT
On this day. some parts of the Church pray for their clergy and for more clergy. Do we need more full-time parsons or should more responsibility be shared by ' the whole people of God '?
Producer COLIN SEMPER

Contributors

Presenter:
Martin Muncaster
Producer:
Colin Semper

APRIL CANTELO (soprano)
DEREK HAMMOND-STROUD (baritone) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
This operatic Music to Remember includes excerpts from Luuise, Andrea Chenier , Mac-beth, and Eugene Onegin.
Introduced by Bryan Martin Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT
Part of a concert presented by the BBC in association with Rother District Council from the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea.
(Derek Hammond-Stroud broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Unknown:
Andrea Chenier
Unknown:
Eugene Onegin.
Introduced By:
Bryan Martin
Producer:
Anthony Philpott
Unknown:
Derek Hammond-Stroud

by EVELYN WAUGH : dramatised in 11 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Part 8 with Hugh Dickson Michael Brvant
Jennifer Hilary. Philip Bond and Hugh Burden as Narrator Guy stood between his friends. isolated. And aU the deep sense of isolation which he had sought to cure overwhelmed him as of old. Philoctetes set apart from his fellows by an old festering wound: Philoctetes without his bow. Sir Roger without his sword. Producer JANE GRAHAM
(For cast see Tuesday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh
Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Unknown:
Michael Brvant
Unknown:
Jennifer Hilary.
Unknown:
Philip Bond
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Producer:
Jane Graham

A book has been published here of the travels of one Gulliver, which has been the conversation of the whole town ever since. 'Tis said you are the author, but I am told the bookseller declares he knows not from what hand it came
(JOHN GAY to DEAN SWIFT: 1726)
An account of the writing and reception of Gulliver's Travels by JONATHAN SWIFT with Michael Spice as Swift and John Franklyn-Robbins as Gulliver
Other parts GEOFFREY BANKS
RONALD HARVI , RONALD HERDMAN and GRAHAM ROBERTS
Narrator DAVID MAHLOWE
Written and produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON (Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Unknown:
Geoffrey Banks
Unknown:
Ronald Harvi
Unknown:
Ronald Herdman
Narrator:
Graham Roberts
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson

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