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Parish Mass for Low Sunday from St Edward's. Sutton Park, Guildford. Surrey
Celebrant and Preacher CANON GORDON ALBION
Choirmaster FR JOHN STAPLETON Organist MONICA MARTLAND
Readings: Acts 2, vv 42-47; 1 Peter 1, vv 3-9; John 20, vv 19-31
Hymns: This joyful Easter-tide; The King of Love my Shepherd is: Take our bread; Lord Jesus Christ; Battle is o'er

Contributors

Choirmaster:
Fr John Stapleton

ANDREW CRUICKSHANK appeals on behalf of St Giles' Centre. which offers immediate friendship and temporary shelter, day or night, to people in distress, particularly young girls adrift in London.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Cruickshank
Unknown:
St Giles

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
Motoring in Cities: DICK TRACEY discusses the future with motoring, freight and Local Authority representatives.
Motorway Wolf: MARI GRIFFITH encounters a present-day pest. Simple Servicing-1: Wipers, by DOUGLAS MITCHELL of Popular Motoring.
New Car Review: the latest release described by STUART BLADON of Autocar.
Producer JOHN HASLAM at 11.41* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Dick Tracey
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Producer:
John Haslam

visits Stroud
Members of the Stroud and District Floral Society put their questions to FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS ,ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
(Repeated: Tuesday 4.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Loads
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Michael Barratt
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

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[Starring] Peter Egan as Larry Deans in The Green Pack
Adapted and produced by Raymond Raikes
This play has never been heard before. When it was produced at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in 1932, on the day before Edgar Wallace died, it had been very much altered for the stage by the producer, Sir Gerald du Maurier.

(Peter Egan is in 'What Every Woman Knows' at the Albery Theatre, London)
(Last Monday's broadcast) [Repeat]

Contributors

Author:
Edgar Wallace
Adapted by/Producer:
Raymond Raikes
Larry Deans:
Peter Egan

John Amis blows away another layer of dust from his past and this week recalls what happened when he was
2: Let Loose in a Record Shop It was a time of perpetual discovery, from Debussy's La mer and Paderewski's Piano Concerto to Jack Teagarden 's Junkman.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Jack Teagarden
Producer:
Derek Drescher

Talking Point
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer JOHN HARRISON. Series producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) (Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison.
Producer:
Dilys Breese

Presenter DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL David in the Kitchen
The first of a new series with JILL ALLEN in which David discusses the best way of tackling basic kitchen chores, which we hope listeners with failing sight will find helpful.
Producer MARLENE PEASE

Contributors

Presenter:
David Scott Blackhall
Unknown:
Jill Allen
Producer:
Marlene Pease

A widow of four months says: How am I to get on my feett I find I miss my husbqnd more and more as the days go by. One of the problems to be discussed in the studio by DR WENDY GREENGROSS and DR JAMES HEMMING
Chairman Jean Metcalfe Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am) If you have a problem you would like discussed by the panel write to If you think You've got Problems ... !, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Wendy Greengross
Unknown:
Dr James Hemming
Unknown:
Jean Metcalfe
Producer:
Sally Thompson

London v West Round 1 London:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John B. Mays who discover ' operatic ' connections between 5, 10, 20, 30, 36 and 43 - taking a clue from the figure 1003, and why in the same week pigs at Blandings and most animals at the zoo were wearing black collars. West:
Jack Longland (Chairman) with Lord Foot, Alan Gibson one of whom scores a bonus mark for not having read the later novels of Anthony Powell 's Music of Time sequence. ProducerTREVOR HILL (Manchester)
(Rptd: Wednesday 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Professor John B. Mays
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Alan Gibson
Unknown:
Anthony Powell
Producer:
Trevor Hill

The novel by CLEMENCE DANE about the theatre and theatre people, freely adapted for radio in nine parts by VAL GIELGUD
3: Alarums and Excursions with Rachel Gurnev , John Pullen Margaret Wolfit and John Rowe Producer
DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Novel By:
Clemence Dane
Unknown:
Rachel Gurnev
Unknown:
John Pullen
Unknown:
Margaret Wolfit
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
David H. Godfrey
Narrator:
Mary Wimbush
Stephen:
John Rowe
Donna:
Margaret Wolfit
Harry:
John Pullen
Lady Lettice:
Rachel Gurney
Adelaide:
Elizabeth Proud
Stage Manager:
David Sinclair
Staines:
Kenneth McClellan
Miss Portman:
Carole Boyd
Madeleine:
Hilda Schroder

Six programmes on the present plight and future shape of town and country.
4: Is Modern Farming Out of Control?
The second of two programmes on the impact of modern farming on the English countryside. If existing landscapes are thought worth conserving or new ones worth creating. whose responsibility is it? With farming and forestry largely outside planning control, can landscape and conservation be planned?
Malcolm MacEwen. author of a forthcoming book on the English landscape, in conversation with farmers and with DEREK BARBER , former Head of Gloucestershire Farming Advisory Service: NORMAN BUCHAN , mp. former Minister for Agriculture; JOHN DUNNING. Chairman of the Lake District Upland Management Experiment: REG HOOKWAY, Director of the Countryside Commission: DEREK LOVEJOY , landscape architect: MRSHANNELORE SCHMIDT. Farming Correspondent of Bavarian Radio: and GERALD WIBBERLEY. Professor of Countryside Planning in the University of London. *
ProducerLEONIE COHN
The Energy Trap

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm MacEwen.
Unknown:
Derek Barber
Unknown:
Norman Buchan
Unknown:
John Dunning.
Unknown:
Derek Lovejoy
Unknown:
Mrshannelore Schmidt.
Unknown:
Gerald Wibberley.
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

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