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Community Mass from St Pat rick's College, Armagh
Celebrant and Preacher
FR PATRICK COLLINS , CM Choirmaster
FR ADRIAN EASTWOOD , CM Organist PAT MCCOURT
Readings: Jeremiah 17, vv 5-8; Luke 6, vv 17, 20-26
Hymns: We are gathering together; Deus meus adiuva me: Jesus Chrrst he came to save us

Contributors

Unknown:
St Pat
Unknown:
Fr Patrick Collins
Choirmaster:
Fr Adrian Eastwood
Organist:
Pat McCourt

Introduced by Jim Pestridge
The Motor Show Year: BRIAN ROBINS visits the Amsterdam Show and talks about this year's Continental Motor Shows. Motor Cyclist's Training: RICHARD MADDOCK investigates developments for the training of two-wheeled riders. Am I Wrong?: PEGGY MAKINS makes some deductions about drivers. Bumper Crop: A round-up of motoring news by CLIVE JACOBS. Producer GEOFF DOBSON at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Brian Robins
Unknown:
Richard Maddock
Unknown:
Peggy Makins
Unknown:
Clive Jacobs.
Producer:
Geoff Dobson

medium ware only The Candidates by BERNARD SHRIMSLET dramatised for radio by WILLIAM ABNEY , With and The Member of Parliament for Norton, a safe Labour Constituency, has died. Who will the local party choose as a candidate to replace him?
Produced and directed by HARRY CATLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
William Abney
Directed By:
Harry Catlin
John Bradbury:
Alan Rowe
Helen Sadler:
Eleanor Bron
Eric Dodd:
Leslie Sands

On the Level
A Radio Nature Trail across the low-lying Somerset Levels where the pollarded willows, grazing cattle and the wading birds may have to give way to arable farming and open water. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE
BBC Bristol (Rptd: Wed 9.5 am)

Contributors

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

'It's down there ... you can't miss it '. Well-meaning instructions don't always help. Kevin Mulhern examines some ways in which blind people can make simple maps.
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
. Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Kevin Mulhern
Introduced By:
David Scott Blackhall
Producer:
Thena Heshel

In a series of three programmes John Bird considers
Discovery, Communication and War
This week he goes into the BBC Sound Archives and looks under:
D for Discovery - mankind's ceaseless quest for the Unknown.
I would be very happy to live in the same surrounding all the time; the same house. I can never put anything out.
(MARLENE DIETRICH )
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
John Bird
Unknown:
Marlene Dietrich
Producer:
Gwyneth Henderson

6: DyingtoLiveAgain
His investigations into the health of the British Churches has led Anglican clergyman James Bentley to conclude that many of them are slowly dying, but he asks. is their death a prelude to some kind of resurrection?
In this final programme JAMES BENTLEY shares some of his conclusions, some of his hopes in his Search for the Kingdom. Researcher STUART MEWS Producer LESLIE MITCHE ]LL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
James Bentley
Unknown:
James Bentley
Producer:
Leslie Mitche

MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BOHM
Mozart Overture: The Magic Flute; Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4, in G; Johann Strauss Emperor Waltz; Annen-Polka: records

Contributors

Piano:
Maurizio Pollini
Piano:
Vienna Philharmonic
Conducted By:
Karl Bohm
Unknown:
Johann Strauss

A dramatic chronicle of the English Crown through 200 years of its history by the Elizabethan playwrights Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their contemporaries adapted in 26 episodes by Martin Jenkins
Music by Christopher Whelen

1: The King's Favourite in which Gaveston returns from exile and sows the seeds of destruction.
John Hurt as Edward II with James Laurenson, Sarah Badel, Cyril Luckham, Mark Dignam and John Shrapnel
The story is told by Richard Burton

Produced and directed by Martin Jenkins. (Rptd: Tues 3.5pm)
For free booklet send large SAE to Vivat Rex, [address removed]

Contributors

Written By:
Christopher Marlowe
Music By:
Christopher Whelen
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Narrator:
Richard Burton
King Edward II:
John Hurt
Piers Gaveston:
James Laurenson
Young Mortimer:
John Shrapnel
Lancaster:
Mark Dignam
The Elder Mortimer:
Douglas Blackwell
Young Mortimer:
John Shrapnel
Duke of Kent:
Michael Harbour
Warwick:
Michael Spice
Bishop of Coventry:
David Graham
Archbishop of Canterbury:
Cyril Luckham
Queen Isabella:
Sarah Badel
Beaumont/Messenger:
Andrew Seear
Baldock:
Jonathan Scott
Young Spenser:
Christopher Bidmead
Niece:
Jane Knowles
Arundel:
Geoffrey Beevers
James/Guard:
Howard Benbrook

An entertainment for St Valentine's Eve, written and devised by IVAN HOWLETT Susannah York Terence Morgan and Edward Chapman
With PAMELA GRACE, MICHAEL WELLS JANET HUGHES (mezzo-soprano)
ROBERT SPENSER (lute and guitar) THE TERRY WHITNEY TRIO, with DANNY moss (tenor-saxophone). Technical assistant CHRISTOPHER TANDY
Produced and directed by KEITH SLADE. BBC Radio Brighton

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Howlett
Unknown:
Susannah York
Unknown:
Terence Morgan
Unknown:
Edward Chapman
Unknown:
Michael Wells
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Hughes
Unknown:
Terry Whitney
Tenor-Saxo:
Danny Moss
Directed By:
Keith Slade.

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