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What Britain's getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer for the Day With CANON ERIC JAMES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRIAN PERKINS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Canon Eric James
Read By:
Brian Perkins

3: Clunton and Clunbitry,
Clungunford and Clun,
Are the quietest places
Under the sun.
Tom Vernon visits the county of The Shropshire Lad, Wilfred Owen and Mary Webb. and talks to Edith Pargeter about her historical novels.
Readers sheila ALLEN and PETER TUDDENHAM
Producer francks DONNELLY long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon
Unknown:
Wilfred Owen
Unknown:
Mary Webb.
Unknown:
Edith Pargeter

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: David Girling, Editor, Everyman's Encyclopedia
New York Report - Helene Hanff.
Reading Your Letters.
Always an Audience?: on the eve of BBC television's new panel game 'Blankety Blank' Tony Barnfield investigates the popularity of radio and television 'games'.
The Last Place Left (7) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
David Girling

by John Graham
Gerald thought the party had gone well. Then he stepped out on to the balcony and saw Morris.
GERALD: Morris, my dear chap, what are you doing? Trying to end it all? - plucking up courage to jump?
MORRIS: Yes.

Contributors

Writer:
John Graham
Director:
Gerry Jones
Gerald:
Peter Jeffrey
Esme:
Shirley Dixon
Miranda:
Karen Archer
Alastair Chambers:
David Freedman
Morris Cato:
John Rye
Miss Livingstone:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Ruth:
Eva Stuart

from Leeds Parish Church Responses (Reading)
Psalm 89 (Wolstenholme, Elvey, Atkins)
Lessons: Amos 2, vv 6-16; I Timothy 3, vv 1-16 (av) Canticles (Brewer in D)
Anthem: 0 God, thou art my God (Henry Purcell)
Office Hymn: In stature grows the Heavenly Child (eh 46)
Organist and Master of the Music SIMON LINDLEY
Sub-organist TOM CORFIEL. BBC Manchester

Contributors

Music:
Simon Lindley
Unknown:
Sub-Organist Tom Corfiel.

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE John Amis and Frank Mulr challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STKVE RACE
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Mulr
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden

A programme fer the Bicentenary of the death of David Garrick
420 January 1779)
For three days in September 1769 the King of English Theatre master-minded the Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon in a storm of publicity, praise and detraction.
A Jubilee, as it hath lately appeared, is a public invitation to go to an obscure borough to celebrate a great poet whose own works have made him immortal, by an ode without poetry, music without harmony, dinner without victuals and lodging without bed...... (SAMUEL FOOTE) For all its splendid chaos, the Shakespeare Jubilee put Stratford on the map; and Garrick's s near-disaster became a personal triumph when he re-staged its golden moments at Drury Lane. He probably did more than anybody else to bring Shakespeare to the people. Today's programme recreates a remarkable occasion from copious eye-witness accounts. with Edward Kelsey as Narrator
Gabriel Woolf as David Garrick and various contemporaries recreated by KATHERINE PARR , GORDON GARDNER. HAYDN JONES, EDWARD MCCARTHY , CLIFFORD NORGATE, GORDON REID and JAMES THOMASON.
Compiled and produced by COLIN SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
David Garrick
Unknown:
Edward Kelsey
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
David Garrick
Unknown:
Katherine Parr
Unknown:
Edward McCarthy
Unknown:
James Thomason.
Produced By:
Colin Smith

Michael Edwardes , Chairman and Cliief Executive of BL Ltd. in conversation with Mary Goldring about his pre-occupations as one of the foremost industrial leaders in this country.
Producer Caroline THOMSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Edwardes
Unknown:
Mary Goldring
Producer:
Caroline Thomson

Actors Hugh Dickson. David Brierley and Valerie Sarruf present an evening of poetry on the subject of God and the Devil.
Reading his own poems will be Brian Patten, and there will be a poet from the 'floor'.
Recorded at the Pindar of Wakefield public house, North London.
Producer alec rf.id

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Patten

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