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The Breaking of Bread
The second of five broadcasts during Lent, centred on the rite of Holy Communion and its meaning in various traditions of the universal Church. Today Sunday Mass from the Church of St Thomas More, Bradford-on-Avon
Celebrant: FR ROBERT E. HALL
Preacher: FR JOHN HARRIOTT , SJ Readings: James 3, vv 13-18; John 17, vv 21-26
Hymns: Alleluia! sing to Jesus; Praise to the Lord, the Almighty; Let all mortal flesh keep silence: Praise to the Holiest. Organist and choir-master HERBERT REES

Contributors

Unknown:
Fr John Harriott
Unknown:
Herbert Rees

Introduced by Jim Pestridge
The Geneva International Motor Salon: report by Brian Robins.
Keep on Motoring: Norman Turner on the importance of maintenance.
Road Safety Training: the RAC symposium looks at the future.
Assessing the Injury: a Hospital Consultant talks about the medical problems.
At 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Presenter:
Jim Pestridge
Reporter:
Brian Robins
Reporter:
Norman Turner
Producer:
John Haslam

visits Worcs
Members of the Pershore and District Gardening Club put their questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS , ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tuesday 4.5 pm)
Gardeners' Question Time 3, 40p from bookshops

Contributors

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

by the 17th-century biographer and antiquarian John Aubrey: the Radio Premiere to celebrate the 350th anniversary of his birth
Starring Roy Dotrice as John Aubrey

BBC Birmingham
(medium wave only)

Contributors

Compiled by:
Patrick Garland
Producer:
Roger Pine
John Aubrey:
Roy Dotrice

' You need to be a fighter
ARTHUR CARR , who runs an employment agency for the disabled, talks to PETER WHITE about ways in which blind people can help to find themselves jobs.
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Carr
Introduced By:
David Scott Blackhall
Producer:
Thena Heshel

The quiz game about what famous people said and what Larry Adler , Lynn Barber
Richard Boston. Alan Coren think they ought to have said instead. Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees. Producer JOHN LLOYD

Contributors

Unknown:
Larry Adler
Unknown:
Lynn Barber
Unknown:
Richard Boston.
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Presented By:
Nigel Rees.
Producer:
John Lloyd

BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN
Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Haydn Symphony No 99
Liszt Symphonic Poem: Les preludes
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. Llandaff, in July 1975) BBC Wales

Contributors

Conducted By:
Brian Priestman

by THOMAS HARDY dramatised for radio in six parts by DESMOND HAWKINS
5: Mrs Yeobright Makes a Journey
' A trip-wire over which he fell one night should have been a plain enough signal to Wildeve that, in continuing to haunt the neighbourhood of Eustacia's home, he did so at an increasing peril to himself ... '
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
Desmond Hawkins
Producer:
Brian Miller
Eustacia Vye:
Susan Penhaligon
Diggory Venn:
Patrick Mower
Clym Yeobright:
Richard Warwick
Wildeve:
Alan Moore
Thomasin:
Susan Bovell
Mrs Judd:
Peggy Tether
Mrs Yeobright:
Peggy Ann Wood
Sam:
John Barker
Retty:
Margaret Barrars
Johnny:
Wakely Cox
Fairway:
Robert Brown
Granfer Cantle:
Hedley Goodall
Oily Dowden:
Pauline Letts
Susan Nunsuch:
Margot Young
Doctor/Christian:
Douglas Leach
Humphrey:
Kit Thacker

Britain and America over two centuries: a series of eight programmes written and presented by Ian McIntyre

Speakers: SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, ALISTAIR COOKE, RONALD DWORKIN, E. M. FORSTER, LORD FRANKS, MARGARET GOWING, LORD HAILSHAM OF ST MARYLEBONE, HAROLD LANGLEY, SELWYN LLOYD, HAROLD MACMILLAN, BRUCIE MORROW, SIR ANTHONY NUTTING, FORREST CARLISLE POGUE, EUGENE ROSTOW. ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR., MICHAEL STEWART, HOWARD TEMPERLEY and HAROLD WILSON.
Historical consultant ALEC CAMPBELL, Professor of American History in the University of Birmingham
Producer MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Writer/Presenter:
Ian McIntyre

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