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Make Yourself at Home
Programme for Asian listeners
7.45 Bells; programme news
7.50 Sunday Reading from
The Beatitudes. Text compiled by RICHARD TATLOCK
Readers PETER FIRTH , ANGELA TILBY
7.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Tatlock
Unknown:
Readers Peter Firth
Unknown:
Angela Tilby

from Horfield Baptist Church, Bristol
The Easter Hope
Hymns (BHB): Lord of aU hope-fulness (631): Christ is risen (152): In heavenly love abiding (581); All my hope (492); Thine be the glory (164) Psalm 67 (BHB 813)
Anthems: This is the day; Lift up thine eyes (Mendelssohn)
Preacher and Leader of Worship REV ARTHUR LISTON
Organist A. w. TOWNSHEND COLSTON GIRLS SCHOOL CHOIR conduotor BARBARA LEWELLEN

Contributors

Organist:
Arthur Liston
Unknown:
Townshend Colston
Unknown:
Barbara Lewellen

MRS PAULINE CRABBE , OBE, JP. appeals on behalf of the Children's Country Holidays Fund, which enables thousands of London children from drab and overcrowded areas to have a fortnight's seaside or country holiday.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Pauline Crabbe
Unknown:
Mrs Pauline Crabbe
Unknown:
Baker Street

Talkabout ...
A discussion of motoring matters between Hampshire Constabulary Headquarters Staff and LADY JANNER, CBE, JP, Of the Magistrates' Association; COURTENAY EDWARDS , Motoring Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph, and HARRY HEYWOOD , Editor of Practical Motorist with JIM PESTRIDGE as Chairman Producer ANTHONY SMITH
at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Unknown:
Courtenay Edwards
Unknown:
Harry Heywood
Unknown:
Jim Pestridge
Producer:
Anthony Smith

Presenter Derek Cooper
Old battles refought. new ones planned: JANE FINNIS investigates the losing of the Battle of Waterloo and the skirmish before Armageddon: in fact, she finds out what causes people to play war games and what they achieve from victory or defeat.

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Jane Finnis

visits Enderby. Leics
Members of the Brockington Flower and Garden Club put their questions to FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
Book: Gardeners' Question Time 3. 40p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Michael Barratt

in The Mask and the Face by LUIGI CHIARELLI translated by NOEL DE VIC BEAMISH
Written in 1913 and first performed three years later, this passionate comedy of marital infidelity strips away the follies and pretensions of masculine ' honour ' with a sensitivity and wit which ring as true today as they did 70 years ago. Adapted for radio and produced by DICKON REED

Contributors

Unknown:
Luigi Chiarelli
Translated By:
Noel de Vic Beamish
Duced By:
Dickon Reed
Actor:
Anna Cropper
Actor:
Savina Grazia
Count Paolo Grazia:
David Buck

John Amis thumbs through more of his files and discovers he was very busy and rather involved with the practicalities of music in the early 40s. 3: Philharmonics
This week he recalls working for London's two Philharmonic Orchestras, and working for Beecham. The magic of French songs was revealed by Maggie Teyte.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER ‡

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Maggie Teyte.
Producer:
Derek Drescher

The Wild Geese of Wexford Down on the Wexford Slobs, on the south-east coast of Ireland, over 5,000 Greenland white-fronted geese have been passing the winter, one-third of the world's whole population. But soon they will he heading north to their breeding grounds in the north west of Greenland. Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)

Contributors

Producer:
Dilys Breese

A weekly magazine of* special interest to blind listeners Introduced by JANE FINNIS
This week Jane visits a class for blind gardeners at Nor-wood Hall and PETER WHITE finds out why piano tuners are suddenly very much in demand. Producer MARLENE PEASE
In Touch, practical advice for blind and partially sighted people and those who care for them, 60p, from bookshops

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jane Finnis
Unknown:
Peter White
Producer:
Marlene Pease

I know I will never get married like my brothers and sister and my old friends. At 37 1 am obviously not going to appeal to any woman now.
One of the problems to be discussed in the studio by DR WENDY GREENGROSS , NORMAN INCRAM-SMITH and DR ELIZABETH STANLEY
Chairman Jean Metcalfe Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Wendy Greengross
Unknown:
Norman Incram-Smith
Unknown:
Dr Elizabeth Stanley
Unknown:
Jean Metcalfe
Producer:
Sally Thompson

London v Midlands Round 1 London
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John B. Hays who partner each other as the resident London team, and have no trouble in finding partners for Sutcliffe, Damon and Tenzing Norkay. The Midlands
Jack Longland (Chairman) with John Julius Norwich Dr Frederick Milson who discover a somewhat fishy link between a Czech reformer burned in 1414, and something displayed on a slab. Producer TREVOR HILL (Manchester)
(Rptd: Wednesday 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Professor John B. Hays
Unknown:
Tenzing Norkay.
Unknown:
John Julius Norwich
Unknown:
Dr Frederick Milson

For the Risen Life
An anthology of words and music introduced by Andrew Cruickshank with PETER FIRTH , MADELEINE CEMM
ST MARGARET 'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS conducted by RICHARD hickox. Organist IAN WATSON Producer ANGELA TILBY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Andrew Cruickshank
Unknown:
Peter Firth
Unknown:
Madeleine Cemm
Unknown:
St Margaret
Conducted By:
Richard Hickox.
Organist:
Ian Watson
Producer:
Angela Tilby

BRYAN MARTIN introduces
Music to Remember Part of a concert presented this afternoon by the BBC in association with the Aldeburgh Festival.
Elizabeth Tippett (soprano)
ANTHONY ROLFE - JOHN SON (tenor) BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by VILEM TAUSKY This operatic programme in. cludes excerpts from Prince Igor. Don Pasquale, Gloriana and Eugene Onegin.
Producer ANTHONY PHILPOTT
(Another concert from The Maltings: Monday 3.0 pm R3)

Contributors

Soprano:
Elizabeth Tippett
Soprano:
Anthony Rolfe
Conducted By:
Vilem Tausky
Unknown:
Eugene Onegin.
Producer:
Anthony Philpott

The novel by CLEMENCE DANE about the theatre and ttfeatre people, freely adapted for radio in nine parts by VAL GIELGUD
4: Further Stages with Rachel Gurney , John Pullen Margaret Wolfit. John Rowe and Michael Harbour
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Novel By:
Clemence Dane
Unknown:
Rachel Gurney
Unknown:
John Pullen
Unknown:
Margaret Wolfit.
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Michael Harbour
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Narrator:
Mary Wimbush
Madeleine:
Hilda Schroder
Stephen:
John Rowe
Russel:
David Brierley
Geoffrey Angers:
Peter Marinker
Donna:
Margaret Wolfit
Harry:
John Pullen
Lady Lettice:
Rachel Gurney
Miss Portman:
Carole Boyd
Adelaide:
Elizabeth Proud
Mr Chadwick:
Fraser Kerr
Eustace:
Peter Pacey
Edmund:
Michael Harbour

Six programmes on the present plight and future shape of town and country.
5: The Energy Trap
Britain's energy policy is to concentrate on the rapid extraction of North Sea oil and on reducing energy consumption, in order to cope with the immediate problem - the huge deficit in the balance of payments. Are we setting a trap for ourselves?
Malcolm MacEwen in conversation With BERNARD DELAPALM , director of a French oil company; DR RICHARD EDEN , author of the NEDO report on energy conservation; HENRYK HARBOE, Danish engineer, expert on coal combustion technology; LORD HINTON OF BANKSIDE, former Chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board; AMORY LLOVINS , physicist of Friends of the Earth: DR NIGEL LUCAS , Lecturer in Energy Policy, Imperial College, London; and SEAN MULCAHY , heating and ventilating engineer. Producer LEONIE COHN

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm MacEwen
Unknown:
Bernard Delapalm
Unknown:
Dr Richard Eden
Unknown:
Amory Llovins
Unknown:
Dr Nigel Lucas
Unknown:
Sean Mulcahy
Producer:
Leonie Cohn

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