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medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Trevor Phillips. President Elect of the National Union of Students,.
2.0-2.2 News
Relax with Laura Mitchell - 2: your face.
Oh to Tiptoe Throuoh the Tulips: LORETTA WHITCOMB lives with the blooming tulip fields. Poems by Jo Manning Wilson : 4 -Old People.
Science in the Kitchen: SUSAN GOODMAN looks at detergents. Quartet in Autumn (5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Phillips.
Unknown:
Laura Mitchell
Unknown:
Loretta Whitcomb
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson
Unknown:
Susan Goodman

The Visitors by PAULINE MACCAULAY
Joe was good, a professional, then came bad luck. Now ' The Visitors ' have arrived.
Directed by GERRY JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline MacCaulay
Directed By:
Gerry Jones
Joe Collins:
Rod Beacham
Alice Collins:
Norma Ronald
Ron Collins:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Mr A:
John Rye
Mr B:
Ronald Herdman

from Winchester Cathedral
Introit: 0 taste and see (Vaughan Williams); Responses (Ayleward); Psalms 53-55 (chants: Weldon, Ley, Naylor, Neary)
Lessons: Exodus 18. vv 13-27; Revelation 21, vv 9-21
Canticles (Murrill in E)
Anthem: Antiphon (Britten)
Organist and Master of the Music MARTIN NEARY
Sub-organist JAMES LANCELOT BBC Bristol

Contributors

Music:
Martin Neary

Vincent Kane tells the story of the businessman who became a martyr to Women's Lib; in verse, a political atlas of Great Britain; and the story of an armed robbery, 1978 style. BBC Wales
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Vincent Kane

John Bird. Germaine Greer
Roy Hudd and Richard Stllgoe are quizzed on sayings. Reader Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees. Producer JOHN LLOD (Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm)
(Roy Hudd is in ' Oliver ' at the Albery Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Bird.
Unknown:
Germaine Greer
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Unknown:
Richard Stllgoe
Reader:
Ronald Fletcher
Presented By:
Nigel Rees.
Producer:
John Llod
Unknown:
Roy Hudd

A portrait of John Bunyan to celebrate the tercentenary of The Pilgrim's Progress
Presented by Michael McClain
[Starring] Bernard Miles as John Bunyan

The struggle for religious freedom in England was won by the courageous stand of the Nonconformists in the 17th century. The tinker John Bunyan went to prison for his beliefs for 12 years. There he discovered himself as a gifted writer, and began to write the great book for which he is famous.
Preview: p 15

Contributors

Special music and sounds:
Roger Limb, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Flautist:
David Butt
Treble:
Christopher Walker
Written and produced by:
Monica Furlong
Presenter:
Michael McClain
John Bunyan:
Bernard Miles
Charles Doe/Justice Snagg:
Edward Cast
Parson Hall/Justice Hales:
Preston Lockwood
Christ/Foster/Chester:
Garard Green
First woman:
Jean Trend
Second woman:
Carole Boyd
Elizabeth Bunyan:
Sally Miles
John Gifford/Justice Twisdon:
Lewis Stringer
Tempter/Apollyon:
Carleton Hobbs
Judge/Justice Kelling:
Hugh Dickson

Serious Music
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject. and the voices of VICTOR BORGE , MICHAEL FLANDERS and DONALD SWANN , PETER SELLERS, STANLEY UNWIN and JOHN GOULD Producers SIMON BRETT and JOHN DAVIS

Contributors

Music:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Victor Borge
Unknown:
Donald Swann
Unknown:
Stanley Unwin
Unknown:
John Gould
Producers:
Simon Brett
Producers:
John Davis

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