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from Sutton Coldfield Baptist Church: conducted by REV STEPHEN WINWARD
Hymns: God is good (BHB 10); All who worship God in Jesus (Praise for Today 4): Thou, Lord, hast given thyself (BHB 396); Lord Jesus Christ (PFT 52) Readings: 2 Kings 5, vv 1-14; Mark 1, vv 35-45
Organist JOHN MITCHELL

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rev Stephen Winward
Organist:
John Mitchell

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
An Alternative to Petrol: MIKE KEMP talks about gas as a fuel. Dear Reader ... : a motoring correspondent's mailbag, by GEOFFREY HANCOCK
Oil Additives: by LAURIE SULTAN. Bumper Crop: CLIVE JACOBS gathers the motoring news.
Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Talks:
Mike Kemp
Unknown:
Geoffrey Hancock
Unknown:
Laurie Sultan.
Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Producer:
John Haslam

Presenter Derek Cooper
Are you filling in that competition on the cornflake packet? Wait till you've heard BERNARD JACKSON 'S advice on how to win. With a chance to hear again the items you thought the best of the week, and your letters.
12.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Bernard Jackson

West of Offa's by ALAN DOWNER (with apologies to the Weilsh) Between the mountains, fish hang in the still waters of the reservoirs Where once were leafy valleys there are now only reservoirs ... in the Wetlands West of Offa's.
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Downer
Producer:
Roger Pine
Narrator:
Alan Downer
Tom Rees:
John Rowe
Mrs Rees:
Christine Pollon
Dewi Rees:
Peter King
Die Williams:
Douglas Blackwell
Eirtys Lewis:
Sian Davies
Dai Spy:
Talfryn Thomas
Prof Dafydd ap Richard:
Aubrey Richards
Prof Schmidt Eisenhardt:
Manning Wilson
Howell:
David Valla
Powell:
Robin Browne
First lady:
Olwen Griffiths
Second lady:
Jan Edwards
Third lady:
Dorothea Phillips
Fourth lady:
Kate Binchy
Mr Dimmock:
John Samson

James Stewart. the American film star, reads one of his favourite EDGAR ALLAN POE stories, abridged by NEVILLE TELLER.
Producer GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
James Stewart.
Unknown:
Edgar Allan Poe
Abridged By:
Neville Teller.
Producer:
Graham Gauld

ARTHUR NEGUS and BERNARD PRICE discuss listeners' questions with HUGH SCULLY
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol) Questions to Talking about Antiques, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR Going for a Song: English Furniture, £1.75, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Negus
Unknown:
Bernard Price
Unknown:
Hugh Scully
Producer:
Pamela Howe

JAN ALBERS. the blind master of the carillions of Amsterdam, plays to listeners to In Touch. Report compiled by LYNN TEN KATE . Presented by PETER WHITE
Producer MARLENE PEASE
In Touch, practical advice for the blind, 60p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Jan Albers.
Unknown:
Lynn Ten Kate
Presented By:
Peter White
Producer:
Marlene Pease

Terry Wogan invites personalities from the world of literature, show business, sport and other fields to join him in conversation. This week:
Alan Randall , Patrtc Walker and Mary Peters
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Alan Randall
Unknown:
Patrtc Walker
Unknown:
Mary Peters
Producer:
Jock Gallagher

A cycle of 12 plays on The Life of Jesus Christ by Dorothy L. Sayers.
A new version adapted for stereo and produced by Raymond Raikes with music specially composed by Roberto Gerhard played by the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rae Jenkins.

Contributors

Writer:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Music Composed By:
Roberto Gerhard
Conducted By:
Rae Jenkins
The Evangelist (John Bar-Zebedee):
Gabriel Woolf
The Steward:
Raf de la Torre
Issachar, servant:
Hugh Dickson
Susannah, mother to the Bride groom:
Betty Baskcomb
Mary, the Mother of Jesus:
June Tobin
Rebecca, friend to Susannah:
Gladys Spencer
The Bridegroom of Cana:
Ian Frost
The Bride:
Janette Richer
Jesus:
John Westbrook
Benjamin Ben-Hadad, 'certain nobleman':
Ralph Truman
James Bar-Zebedee:
John Glen
Andrew Bar-Jonah:
John Boxer
Simon Bar-Jonah (Simon Peter):
Stephen Jack
First elder:
John Wyse
Second elder:
Malcolm Hayes
Third elder:
Howieson Culff
Dorcas, servant to Benjamin:
Janette Richer

LINDA BUSTANI (piano)
BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA led by ROBERT ST JOHN WRIGHT conducted by YUVAL ZALIOUK
Beethoven Symphony No 2, in D
8.18' Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1. in B flat minor

Contributors

Piano:
Linda Bustani
Unknown:
Robert St John Wright
Conducted By:
Yuval Zaliouk

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatised in three parts by Peggy Wells and Barry Campbell
With Francis de Wolff, Kevin McHugh, Gerald Harper, Carleton Hobbs.
It was in May 1907 that a small party set out from London in search of the lost world of the Amazon. After travelling by land and by sea, through dense forests, almost impenetrable jungle and sinister swamplands, we finally found ourselves on the very threshold of that lost world.
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)

9.58 Weather

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by:
Peggy Wells
Dramatised by:
Barry Campbell
Producer:
Betty Davies
Professor Challenger:
Francis de Wolff
Edward Malone:
Kevin McHugh
Lord John Roxton:
Gerald Harper
Professor Summerlee:
Carleton Hobbs
Gomez:
Trader Faulkner
Zambo:
Tommy Eytle

Last in a series of programmes presenting questions and controversy concerning science, scientists and the public. 3: The Electronic War
Presented by Farooq Hussaln
We can detect anything [on a battleReldl that perspires, moves, carries metal, makes a noise or is hotter or colder than its surroundings (UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE). Is the truly electronic war a pipe-dream, or might it be possible?
Producer DAVID PATERSON
Waging war with whales: p 4

Contributors

Presented By:
Farooq Hussaln
Producer:
David Paterson

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