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Holy Communion (Series 3) from the Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, St Peter and St Cedd, Chelmsford
Celebrant: The Provost, VERY REV H. M. CONNOP-PRICE
Preacher: The Bishop of Chelmsford, RIGHT REV A. j. TRILLO. Introit: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood) Hymns (from A and M Rev): Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem (28); Jesus Lives! thy terrors now (Gradual) (140); The Lamb's high banquet called to share (Offertory) (129); Jesus Christ is risen today (134). Gloria (The Chelmsford setting by John Jordan ). Motet: Most glorious Lord of Life (Armstrong Gibbs). Communion anthem: Here, while the Cherubim (John Jordan ). Old Testament Lesson: Isaiah 12, vv 1-6 (NEB). Epistle: 1 Cor 15, vv 12-20 (NEB). Gospel: Mark 16, vv 1-8 (NEB). Master of the Music JOHN w. JORDAN. Assistant Master of the Music DAVID L. SPAR ROW. Ringing Master: Mr L. CLARKE

Contributors

Unknown:
John Jordan
Unknown:
John Jordan
Music:
David L. Spar
Unknown:
Mr L. Clarke

DERYCK GUYLER appeals on behalf of the Handicapped Children's Pilgrimage Trust, which each year takes over 1,000 children, of various denominations, in family groups, to visit Lourdes; they are accompanied by doctors, nurses and voluntary helpers,;
Donations to: Deryck Guyler , HCPT, [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler

Northangcr Abbey by JANE AUSTEN
Arranged as a play by CONSTANCE COX and adapted for broadcasting by SEAN MACLAUGHLIN
The year is 1808; and the action passes between .Mrs Allen's Lodgings in Bath, and a Hall at Northanger Abbey.
ANNA BERENSKA plays the Square Piano of the period. Produced and directed by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen
Play By:
Constance Cox
Broadcasting By:
Sean MacLaughlin
Directed By:
Norman Wright
Mrs Allen:
Sheila Mitchell
Susan, her maid:
Helen Worth
The Morlands: Catherine Morland:
Rosalind Shanks
James, her brother:
Fraser Kerr
The Thorpes: Mrs Thorpe ..:
Fabia Drake
Isabella, her daughter:
Frances Jeatbr
John her son:
Robin Browne
The Tilneys: General Tilney:
Geoffrey Wincott
Henry, his son:
John Rye
Eleanor:
Jane Knowles
Captain Frederick, his eldest Son:
Anthony Hall

The Most Crowded Lonely Place A radio nature trail in Morecambe Bay where huge flocks. of waders are gathering before making their way to the Arctic breeding grounds - so many that on the wing they look like clouds of smoke.
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

A series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before
Dick Taverne , qc and an invited audience assembled, this evening, in Northern Ireland. The proposition:
Northern Ireland's Best Hope for Peace is the Peace Movement
It is proposed by Ciaran McKeown , a founder and leader of the Peace People and opposed by John Hume , Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. Each advocate will call his witnesses, cross-question his opponent's, and argue his case. The jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial so that a swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached. Producers
MALCOLM MCALLISTER and HUGH PURCELL BBC
Northern Ireland (Rptd: Thursday
11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Taverne
Unknown:
Ciaran McKeown
Unknown:
John Hume
Unknown:
Malcolm McAllister

The antidote to panel games, being a bout of verbal fisticuffs between Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor and William Rushton with a blind eye turned by Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and coats held by Colin Sell at the piano.

Contributors

Panellist:
Graeme Garden
Panellist:
Barry Cryer
Panellist:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Panellist:
William Rushton
Chairman:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Pianist:
Colin Sell
Producer:
Simon Brett

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

COLIN DORAN introduces the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY I.AWRENCE With THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS directed by JOHN MCCARTHY in a programme of operatic choruses and dances, including excerpts from 'Aida', 'Eugene Onegin ', ' The Fair Maid of Perth 'Faust' and ' Prince Igor'.

Contributors

Introduces:
Colin Doran
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Ashley I.Awrence
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Unknown:
Eugene Onegin

A portrait of the Irish poet taken from his Autobiographies and the recorded memories of his contemporaries.
With Harry Webster as W. B. Yeats
'I think that all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other self; that all joyous or creative life is a rebirth as something not oneself, something which has no memory and is created in a moment and perpetually renewed.' With the voices of Max Beerbohm , Sean O'Faolain Madame Gonne MacBride
Iseult Stuart , Frank O'Connor Brinsley MacNamara Austin Clarke
St John Ervine. Anne Yeats and Mrs W. B. Yeats
Linking material read by GEOFFREY COLLINS
Compiled and produced by MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Webster
Unknown:
W. B. Yeats
Unknown:
Max Beerbohm
Unknown:
Sean O'Faolain
Unknown:
Madame Gonne MacBride
Unknown:
Iseult Stuart
Unknown:
Frank O'Connor
Unknown:
Brinsley MacNamara
Unknown:
Austin Clarke
Unknown:
St John Ervine.
Unknown:
Anne Yeats
Unknown:
Mrs W. B. Yeats
Read By:
Geoffrey Collins
Produced By:
Maurice Leitch

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