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The first of five broadcasts during Lent, centred on the rite of Holy Communion and its meaning in various traditions of the universal Church.

Family Communion (Series III) from Hexham Abbey, Northumberland
Celebrant: Rev Malcolm Jones
Preacher: The Rector, Rt Rev Anthony Hunter

Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6, vv 1-10
Gospel: Matthew 4, vv 1-11
Hymns (A and M Rev): Father, hear the prayer we offer (182); O thou, before the world began (395); Be thou my guardian and my guide (300)

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Celebrant:
Rev Malcolm Jones
Preacher:
The Rector, Rt Rev Anthony Hunter
Director of Music:
Terry Atkinson
Assistant Organist:
Ron Lani

COMMANDER TED ALDINGTON appeals on behalf of Bristol Old People's Welfare which provides a variety of services for elderly people in the Bristol area, including sheltered housing and rest homes for more than 900 old people.
Donations to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Aldington
Unknown:
Ted Aldington

Introduced by Jim Pestridge
Long Life Tyres: Ken Garrett explains a new method of making tyres.
Fitness to Drive: Dennis Chambers talks about his new book on the subject.
In Good Running Order: some cautionary comments on mechanical care by Norman Turner.
Bumper Crop: a round-up of motoring news by Clive Jacobs.
Producer JOHN HASLAM
at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Ken Garrett
Unknown:
Norman Turner
Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Producer:
John Haslam

MICHAEL BARRATT invites
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. Questions, on postcards please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX
Producer KENNETH FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesda* 4.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Barratt
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Woodhouse Lane

A magazine of special interest to the visually handicapped.
Open Education: a report on an experiment to integrate blind children in an ordinary secondary school in Sheffield. Introduced by JANE FINNIS Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jane Finnis
Producer:
Thena Heshel

The quiz game about what famous people said and what Michael Frayn. Germaine Greer Jonathan Miller. Ned Sherrin think they ought to have said instead. Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer JOHN LLOYD

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Frayn.
Unknown:
Germaine Greer
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller.
Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Producer:
John Lloyd

ANNE QUEFFELEC (piano)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD Lalo Overture: Le roi d'Ys
8.14* Debussy Prélude a l'aprèsmidi d'un faune
8.27* Franck Symphonic Variations
8.43* Saint-Saens Symphonic Poem: Phaeton
8.53' Chabrier Rhapsody Espafia BBC Manchester

Contributors

Conductor:
Raymond Leppard

by THOMAS HARDY dramatised for radio in six parts by DESMOND HAWKINS with 4: Gambler's Luck
The decision of Clym Yeobright to marry, coming so soon after Thomasin's wedding with Damon Wildeve , filled the house at Blooms-End with a sad and lonely atmosphere ...
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
Desmond Hawkins
Unknown:
Clym Yeobright
Unknown:
Damon Wildeve
Producer:
Brian Miller
Eustacia Vye:
Susan Penhaligon
Diggory Venn:
Patrick Mower
Clym Yeobright:
Richard Warwick
Wildeve:
Alan Moore
Thomasin:
Susan Bovell
Mrs Yeobright:
Peggy Ann Wood
Christian:
Douglas Leach
Sam:
John Barker
Fairway:
Robert Brown
Humphrey:
Kit Thacker
Oily Dowden:
Pauline Letts
Pedlar/William:
Rex Holdsworth
Charley:
John Curry
Retty:
Margaret Barrars

Britain and America over two centuries: a series of eight programmes to mark the American Bicentennial.
Written and presented by Ian Mclntyre
7: Over There - World War II Speakers: ALFRED CHANDLER SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL GENERAL JOSEPH COLLINS MRS MARGARET GOWING
GOVERNOR AVERILL HARRIMAN SIR IAN JACOB , R. V. JONES
HAROLD LANGLEY , PIERS MACKESY FIELD-MARSHAL LORD MONTGOMERY FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT EUGENE ROSTOW and ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR
Historical consultant ALEC CAMP -BELL. Professor of American History in the University of Birmingham
Producer MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Presented By:
Ian McLntyre
Unknown:
Alfred Chandler
Unknown:
Sir Winston Churchill
Unknown:
General Joseph Collins
Unknown:
Mrs Margaret Gowing
Unknown:
Averill Harriman
Unknown:
Sir Ian Jacob
Unknown:
R. V. Jones
Unknown:
Harold Langley
Unknown:
Piers MacKesy
Unknown:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Unknown:
Eugene Rostow
Unknown:
Arthur Schlesinger
Unknown:
Alec Camp
Producer:
Michael Mason

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