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from Punshon Memorial Church, Bournemouth
Preacher REV BRIAN COLEMAN Organist and Choirmaster DEREK MOODY
Hymns (MHB): Let earth and heaven agree (Millennium): The Lord Jehovah reigns (Adoration); Crown him with many crowns (Diademata)
Anthem: The spacious firmament on high (Parry)
Readings: Job 8, vv 1-11; Philippians 2, vv 1-13

Contributors

Organist:
Brian Coleman

TERRY WOGAN on behalf of the British Epilepsy Association, which aids research, advises sufferers and fights the stigma which still attaches to epilepsy. Donations, by crossed po or cheque, to: Terry Wogan , British Epilepsy Association, [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Terry Wogan

Introduced by jim PESTRIDGE
Holiday Motoring in Scotland: new roads and old hazards by GRAHAM GAULD
Drive with More than Hope: some emergency recommendations by FRANCES HOWELL
Motorway to Blackpool: NORMAN TURNER tries the new M55. Continental Accidents: the motor insurance situation by JOHN GASELEE
Producer KEN PRAGNELL at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Frances Howell
Unknown:
John Gaselee
Producer:
Ken Pragnell

Timothy Bateson, Albert Finney, Clare Austin and Lyndon Brook in The Milk of Paradise translated and adapted by Barbara Bray from the novel Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier

Contributors

Unknown:
Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Albert Finney
Unknown:
Clare Austin
Unknown:
Lyndon Brook

by THOMAS MANN translated by H. LOWE-PORTER abridged and read in eight Instalments by Gabriel Woolf 6: The House of Buddenbrook-Centenary with Music
The firm of Buddenbrook has lasted 100 years and yet another fresh generation is growing up to take over the reins. Surely this is a time for celebration? Why should Senator Thomas Buddenbrook be smitten with doubts?

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Mann
Translated By:
H. Lowe-Porter
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Thomas Buddenbrook

The Egg
' Spheroidal body produced by female of birds, etc, containing germ of a new individual. The dictionary makes it sound so simple, but in fact a bird's egg is a complicated structure, showing an amazing variety of size, shape and colour.
DR COLIN HARRISON discusses some of the British Museum's remarkable collection.
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) (Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Colin Harrison
Producer:
Dilys Breese

The Glorious Sound of King's
DAVID WILLCOCKS. the Director of the Royal College of Music, plays and gives the background on some of the recordings he made when he was conductor of the King's College Choir. Producer LAURENCE STAPLEY
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Willcocks.
Producer:
Laurence Stapley

Terry Wogan invites personalities to join him in conversation. This week his guests at the National Agricultural Centre, Warwickshire, are
Judith Chalmers , Ted Moult and Robert Powell
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
(Repeated: Thursday 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Ted Moult
Unknown:
Robert Powell

London v N Ireland (Round 3) London:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas
Professor John B. Mays who look North and West, East and South to discover those qualities on which all other qualities depend. Northern Ireland:
Jack Longland (Chairman) with Dr Michael Dewar John D. Stewart who gets a bonus for knowing which sack is the same as which little apple.
Producer TREVOR HILL
(Rptd: Wednesday 11.5 ant)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Professor John B. Mays
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Dr Michael Dewar
Unknown:
John D. Stewart
Producer:
Trevor Hill

Introduced by Sir John Betjeman who explores the treasures of English hymn-writing and talks about the writers.
4: Reginald Heber and James Montgomery
Producers DAVID WINTER and ANGELA TILBY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sir John Betjeman
Unknown:
Reginald Heber
Unknown:
James Montgomery
Producers:
David Winter

VIVIEN TOWNLEY (soprano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by MARK ELDER
Haydn Symphony No 89, in r
8.21* Beethoven Scena and aria: Ah! perfido
8.35* Dvorak Symphonic Variations

Contributors

Soprano:
Vivien Townley
Conducted By:
Mark Elder
Unknown:
Beethoven Scena

by DAPHNE DU MAURIER dramatised for radio in four parts by BRIAN GEAR. Part 4
'And suppose he is there, he ain't likely to give you a very fond welcome, is he? - No, I ain't lettin' you go into that there house alone ... '
(For cast see Tuesday 3.5 pm)
(Starting next Sunday: Rape of the Fair Country, by Alexander Cordell )

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Gear.
Unknown:
Alexander Cordell

Six programmes on the impact of white ' civilisation on native cultures.
1: The Heart of Darkness Written by DONALD THOMAS Narrated by Richard Bebb
The fatness of the soil and its inexhaustible fertility, the perpetual spring-like verdure of the vegetation and the dazzling sunshine contain inhabitants who are in fit accord with these scenes.
(HENRY MORTON STANLEY)
These savages would consider a whole congress of bishops and missionaries from only one point of view: roast beef.
(JOHN HANNING SPEKI ) with the voices of: PETER LEABOURNE. HAYDN JONES
NIGEL GRAHAM. CLIFFORD NORGATE WILFRID CARTER , ALAN BARRY
TOMMY EYTLE and EDDIE MATTHEWS Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Written By:
Donald Thomas
Unknown:
Richard Bebb
Unknown:
John Hanning Speki
Unknown:
Peter Leabourne.
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
Nigel Graham.
Unknown:
Clifford Norgate
Unknown:
Wilfrid Carter
Unknown:
Alan Barry
Unknown:
Tommy Eytle
Unknown:
Eddie Matthews
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

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