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from Westbourne Park Baptist Church, Bayswater, W London Conducted by the Minister, REV E. H. ROBERTSON
Readings (RSV): Isaiah 49, vv 1-6; Ephesians 2, vv 11-22
Hymns (Baptist Hymn Book): 0 come let us sing unto the Lord (821); Christ for the world! we sing (364); O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother (662); God is love: let heaven adore him (52); Thou whose almighty word (46) The singing led by the BAPTIST STUDENTS' RADIO CHOIR directed by SYLVIA WILLIAMS Organist DAVID GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Unknown:
E. H. Robertson
Directed By:
Sylvia Williams
Organist:
David Griffiths

ESTHER RANTZEN appeals for Children in Need of Help
Many thousands of children are helped each year through this BBC Appeal. Donations are distributed on the advice of the BBC's Appeals Advisory Committees. Charitable organisations requiring further information may write to the [address removed]. Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Esther Rantzen , Children in Need, [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Esther Rantzen
Unknown:
Esther Rantzen

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
Corrosion Conference: ERIC TOBITT reports on the discussions of the European Federation of Corrosion.
Anti-freeze: some useful information from LAURIE SULTAN.
Get-you-home Insurance: by JOHN GASELEE.
Bumper Crop: CLIVE JACOBS gathers the motoring news. Producer JOHN HASI. AM at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Laurie Sultan.
Unknown:
John Gaselee.
Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Producer:
John Hasi.

A Charge on the State by LESTER POWELL with Sion Proberl
Dinsdale Landen , Penelope Lee ' Look, if you were a junkie, an alcoholic, someone who'd been in jail for bashing an OAP over the head for three quid. you'd have no problems. But you're decent. You're self-effacing, unaggressive. You're honest and truthful. You're wildly out of place in a society like this. You're an anachronism.'
Producer HARRY CATLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Lester Powell
Unknown:
Sion Proberl
Unknown:
Dinsdale Landen
Unknown:
Penelope Lee
Producer:
Harry Catlin
Sandra:
Karen Archer
Mr Bole:
Vernon Joyner
Vic Elm:
SiÈŽn Probert
Doctor:
Stephen Thorne
Mrs Shaw:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Dawn Colburn:
Penelope Lee
Macart:
Dinsdale Landen
Cdr Sheldrake:
Timothy Bateson
Evie:
Norma Ronald
Actor:
Clifford Norgate

A magazine for the blind.
JILL ALLEN , the In Touch cookery expert, gives MARGARET FORD some tips on how to cope with steaming. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Producer MARLENE PEASE

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Allen
Unknown:
Margaret Ford
Introduced By:
David Scott Blackhall
Producer:
Marlene Pease

My 3-year-old daughter often wakes up in the night and wants to come into our bed. Should we let herf
One of several problems concerning babyhood and infancy discussed by DR WENDY GREEN -GROSS, a gynaecologist; DR DAVID HARVEY , a paediatrician: and JAMES HEMMING , education psychologist.
Chairman Jean Metcalfe Producer HUGH PURCELL
(Repeated: Thursday, 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Wendy Green
Unknown:
Dr David Harvey
Unknown:
James Hemming
Unknown:
Jean Metcalfe
Producer:
Hugh Purcell

Fear and investigates its humour with the help of Alfred Marks and the voices of TONY HANCOCK , BOB NEWHART MIKE NICHOLS , ELAINE MAY
WOODY ALLEN and DAVID HATCH Producers SIMON BRETT and JOHN LLOYD

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Unknown:
Bob Newhart
Unknown:
Mike Nichols
Unknown:
Woody Allen
Producers:
Simon Brett
Producers:
John Lloyd

By Thomas Hardy, dramatised for radio in four parts by Desmond Hawkins, with Jane Seymour as Bathsheba Patrick Mower as Gabriel Oak, James Grout as Boldwood, John Castle as Sergeant Troy.
Part 1
By making enquiries Gabriel found that the girl's name was Bathsheba Everdene. Bathsheba. He began saying 'Bathsheba' as a private enjoyment instead of whistling. In short, he was hopelessly in love, and... he quickly decided to ask for Bathsheba in marriage ... (For cast see Tuesday, 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Author:
Thomas Hardy
Adapted by:
Desmond Hawkins
Bathsheba Everdene:
Jane Seymour
Gabriel Oak:
Patrick Mower
Boldwood:
James Grout
Sergeant Troy:
John Castle

A panorama of British India recorded by some of those who lived in it.

Speakers: Field Marshal Sir Claude Auckinleck, Lt-Gen Sir Reginald Savory, Spike Milligan, Rupert Mayne, Brig Sir John Smyth, VC and Lady Smyth, Lt-Col L.P. Le Marchand, John Morris, Sir John Cotton, Brig F.J. Dillon, Vere Lady Birdwood, Maj-Gen G. N. Wood, Lady Dring, Iris Portal, Lt-Col Kenneth Mason and Leslie Johnson
Presented by Evan Charlton

Contributors

Presenter:
Evan Charlton
Speaker:
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auckinleck
Speaker:
Lt-Gen Sir Reginald Savory
Speaker:
Spike Milligan
Speaker:
Rupert Mayne
Speaker:
Brig Sir John Smyth
Speaker:
Lady Smyth
Speaker:
Lt-Col L. P. Le Marchand
Speaker:
John Morris
Speaker:
Sir John Cotton
Speaker:
Brig F. J. Dillon
Speaker:
Vere Lady Birdwood
Speaker:
Maj-Gen G. N. Wood
Speaker:
Lady Dring
Speaker:
Iris Portal
Speaker:
Lt-Col Kenneth Mason
Speaker:
Leslie Johnson
Field recordings:
Charles Allen
Field recordings:
Prakash Mirchandani
Composed and produced by:
Michael Mason

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