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VAL HUDSON on behalf of the Woodfield Parent Teachers Association who are providing a therapy swimming pool for the children at Woodfield School for Mentally and Physically Handicapped Children.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: [address removed].
8.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Val Hudson
Unknown:
Val Hudson

medium only
Sung Mass from the church of Christ the King, Amesbury. Celebrated by the Parish Priest THE REV T. CURTIS HAYWARD
Hymns (Celebration Hymnal): This joyful Eastertide (328); All that I am (11); Rejoice in the Lord always (269); Peace, perfect peace (257); Jesus Christ is risen today (153)
Readings (Jerusalem Bible): Acts 2, vv 42-47: Psalm 117, vv 2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Peter 1, w 3-9; John 20. vv 19-31 Organist KEITH FOSTER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
T. Curtis

Presented by Peter Hobday and Louise Botting
The programme that aims to help you follow the ins and outs of personal finance. Featuring each week
The Man Behind Your Money A Financial World Tonight production (Rptd): Tues 3.35 pm medium only)

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Louise Botting

Peter Ustinov reads extracts from his best-selling autobiography, abridged by JACK SINGLETON
6: ' When we filmed Private Angelo in a Tuscan village, the unions decided the toilets were inadequate to meet the high standards set for the reception of British waste matter. So we built a couple of conveniences which we formally presented to the commune when we left. They were unveiled officially in their civic form by a priest.' Producer ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Abridged By:
Jack Singleton
Producer:
Rosemary Hart

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

Contributors

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

Tony Davis , Mick Groves Cliff Hall and Hugh Jones with John McCormick (bass) sing some songs and tell the odd story - in the company of a few friends.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday 8.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Davis
Unknown:
Mick Groves
Unknown:
Cliff Hall
Unknown:
Hugh Jones
Bass:
John McCormick
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson

visits Hertfordshire, where members of the Abbots Lang ley and District Horticultural Society put their questions to GEOFFREY SMITH , BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Abbots Lang
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Professor Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Ken Ford

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Francis Matthews in Supper with Satan by MICHAEL PAYNE
A comedy thriller in which Paul Winchester, private eye, is called to the house of the late Sir Hereward to protect an attractive young heiress and investigate a murder - or two. Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Matthews
Unknown:
Michael Payne
Directed By:
Alfred Bradley

The Public Records Office contains a class of records marked ' Baga de Secretis '. It is the historical equivalent of a top secret file, holding records of the proceedings of state trials and other ' classified ' information. James Webb begins the history of the Bag and of the treasons it recorded.
1: The Secrets of Power (1477-1535)
The trials of the Duke of Clarence, Perkin Warbeck and Anne Boleyn.
Producer BRIAN COOK

Contributors

Unknown:
James Webb
Unknown:
Perkin Warbeck
Unknown:
Anne Boleyn.
Producer:
Brian Cook

'Quite easy when you know how'. JANE FINNIS has been meeting some blind people who have taken up judo, and MARGARET FORD has been finding out about syringes suitable for use by blind diabetics. Presented by David Scott Blackball Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Finnis
Unknown:
Margaret Ford
Presented By:
David Scott Blackball
Producer:
Thena Heshel

Sir Bernard Lovell presents his personal choice of poetry and prose with Patience Collier and Patrick Troughton
Sir Bernard Lovell is Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester, and Director of the Experimental Station at Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank, Cheshire. The programme was recorded before an invited audience in The Planetarium at Jodrell Bank. Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs at 11.5 am)
5.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Bernard Lovell
Unknown:
Patrick Troughton
Unknown:
Sir Bernard Lovell
Producer:
Brian Patten

direct from the Corn Exchange, Bedford BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BRADBURY conductor Ashley Lawrence with soloists
Cynthia Glover (soprano) and Jack Brymer
(saxophone and clarinet)
Music by Vaughan Williams , Lionel Monckton , Montague Phillips and Eric Coates.
(Part of a concert presented by the BBC in association with the Bedford Society)

Contributors

Leader:
John Bradbury
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Soprano:
Cynthia Glover
Soprano:
Jack Brymer
Music By:
Vaughan Williams
Music By:
Lionel Monckton
Music By:
Montague Phillips
Music By:
Eric Coates.

News. comment and opinion from the world of archaeology, including new thoughts about an underground tunnel of the Iron Age in Scotland; evidence for earliest man in Australia; milk production in Bronze Age Britain.
Presented by Malcolm Billings Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Malcolm Billings
Producer:
Roy Hayward

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