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JOYCE GRENFELL appeals on behalf of The House of St Barnabas in-Soho, which provides a refuge for 40 women and girls who for a variety of reasons are homeless, friendless and in need of sanctuary and advice. Donations to: [address removed]
S.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell

medium only from All Saints' Church, Breadsall, Derbyshire
The last of four services for Lent on the theme ' Deliver us from evil '
4: Who Will Deliver Us! Conducted by THE REV PETER PURNELL
Preacher THE REV PHILIP CROWE Hymns (A and M Rev): The God of Abraham praise (631): The King of love (197): My song is love unknown (102); Dear Lord and Father of mankind (184)
Readings: Job 23, vv 1-15; 2 Corinthians 1, vv 3-11 Organist WILLIS CARTER BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Purnell
Unknown:
Philip Crowe
Organist:
Willis Carter

Presented by Peter Hobday and Louise Botting
Including a special report on the pros and cons of retiring to sunnier climes in Europe - how the British are faring in Spain and Portugal.
A Financial World Tonight production

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Hobday
Presenter:
Louise Botting

Peter Ustinov reads extracts from his best-selling autobiography. Adapted in nine parts by JACK SINGLETON
2: I had a choice, said my parents, who couldn't afford either, between St Paul 's and Westminster Schools. The farmer wore straw hats, like Harold Lloyd ; the latter, top hats like Fred Astaire. I opted for Westminster and Fred Astaire. '
Producer ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
St Paul
Unknown:
Harold Lloyd
Unknown:
Fred Astaire.
Unknown:
Fred Astaire.
Producer:
Rosemary Hart

The Sunday phone-in offers you the chance to debate with the men or women in the news or with other Radio 4 listeners... This week's guest:
The Rt Hon Dr David Owen , mp, the Foreign Secretary
In the Chair Michael Charlton Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
Lines open from 10.30 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr David Owen
Unknown:
Michael Charlton
Producer:
Jenny de Yong

Richard Mayne with an unpredictable selection of comment and humour, prose and poetry. music, performers and personalities.
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW assisted by SARAH DUNANT and (music) GEOFFREY SIMON
(Repeated: Tuesday 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Mayne
Producer:
Louise Purslow
Assisted By:
Sarah Dunant
Music:
Geoffrey Simon

A four-part series in which Anne Suter investigates the profession of public speaking. 3: The Transatlantic Circuit
Ginette Spanier , Peter Bull , Lady Barnett and Penny Drink-water on the life of the long-distance lecturer.
Producer MADEAU STEWART
(Repeated: Friday 8.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Suter
Unknown:
Ginette Spanier
Unknown:
Peter Bull
Producer:
Madeau Stewart

medium only
Dark: a drama of fear. possession and the paranormal by VICTOR PEMBERTON. withand
A lover murdered ... her husband hanged ... Then inexplicable events occur in the room in which, years ago, the murder took place. A young man called in to explore the happenings becomes possessed by people from the past. Can the dead really return to control the lives of the living? Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Pemberton.
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Virginia Preston:
Honor Blackman
her mother:
Bessie Love
Simon Elliott:
Nigel Anthony

500th Edition
' Henpecked ' blackbirds. with squeaking ants and cows as weather-forecasters - three of the topics discussed today by PHIL DRABBLE. JIM FLEGG and STEPHEN SUTTON
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Questions to Talking Point. The Living World, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Phil Drabble.
Unknown:
Jim Flegg
Unknown:
Stephen Sutton
Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

What rights have parents got? KEVIN MULHERN finds out if a blind child has to go to a special school. Presented by David Scott Blackhall Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

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

Sue MacGregor meets Baron Philippe de Rothschild , owner of the Chateau Mouton Roths child, to talk about his life and work and to invite him to reflect a little on both. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Baron Philippe de Rothschild
Unknown:
Mouton Roths

Eartha Kitt with Richard Rodney Bennett (piano) and The Nash Ensemble conducted by Marcus Dods
Stravinsky Suite : The Soldier's Tale
Kurt Weill Extracts from The Threepenny Opera and Happy End

Contributors

Unknown:
Eartha Kitt
Piano:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Conducted by:
Marcus Dods

A monthly magazine of news, views and comment from the archaeological world. Including a brief reflection on the work of the great German archaeologist Gerard Bersu by PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER HAWKES : an exhibition of objects from ancient Peru: and nautical archaeology in Poland today.
Presented by Malcolm Billings Series producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard Bersu
Unknown:
Christopher Hawkes
Presented By:
Malcolm Billings
Producer:
Roy Hayward

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