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Richard BRIERS appeals on behalf of the Ealing Autistic Trust which needs £30,000 to complete additional accommodation at Somerset Court, their training centre and home for life for autistic adolescents.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Richard Briers , Ealing Autistic Trust, [address removed] long wave only
8.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
Richard Briers

Family Communion from Holy Trinity Church, in the Parish of Holy Trinity with St Columba, Fare-ham. Celebrant
THE REV BRUCE CARPENTER Preacher
THE REV BRUCE SAUNDERS
Communion setting (Series III: Joseph Gelineau ) Motet: God be in my head (John Rutter )
Readings (NEB): Isaiah 25. vv 6-9; Luke 24, vv 13-35 Hymns (HH): We have a gospel to proclaim (98); The Son of God proclaim (94); Thine be the glory (95)
Organists ALLEN COLE and JOHN DIMMER BBC Bristol long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Carpenter
Unknown:
Bruce Saunders
Unknown:
Joseph Gelineau
Unknown:
John Rutter
Organists:
Allen Cole
Organists:
John Dimmer

Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject.... ' How are you at Mathematics? '
' I speak it like a native
(SPIKE MILLIGAN) with the voices of WOODY ALLEN , WILL HAY, BOB NEW-HART, CARL REINER and MEL BROOKS
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Woody Allen
Unknown:
Carl Reiner
Unknown:
Mel Brooks
Written By:
Frank Muir
Written By:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

In November 1978, Arno Penzias and Robert Wil son shared the Nobel Prize for Physics. These two scientists, unlike most Nobel Prize winners, do not work in a university but in a commercial research organisation - the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey. Peter Evans visited the laboratories to find out how Bell can reconcile the flights of fancy of aspiring Nobel Prize winners with the reality of developments for telecommunications.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
Arno Penzias
Unknown:
Robert Wil
Unknown:
Peter Evans
Producer:
Geoff Deehan

' I didn't make a selective choice r 7 I sat down at my desk and wrote down 19 or 20 things straight off and then decided why they had come into my head.'
William Douglas Home presents his personal choice of poetry and prose, with readings by Hugh Dickson and Margot Van Der Burgh
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Shortened repeat)
I2.55Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
William Douglas Home
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Unknown:
Margot Van Der
Producer:
Brian Patten

(In other words:
Nigel Perrin , Alastair Hume , Bill Ives , Anthony Holt , Simon Carrington , Brian Kay ) introduce and sing some of the songs The King's Singers sing.
Today: A Fcif Folk Songs Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Perrin
Unknown:
Alastair Hume
Unknown:
Bill Ives
Unknown:
Anthony Holt
Unknown:
Simon Carrington
Unknown:
Brian Kay
Unknown:
John Fawcett Wilson

visits Cornwall where members of the St Mawes and District Garden Society put their questions to FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD
BBC Manchester (Revised rvt: Wed 10.5 am) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Ken

The Sea Road West by SALLY RENA dramatised for radio by SIMON BRETT with David Collings Norman Rodway Stephen Murray Tammy Ustinov and Georgine Anderson
' I have the only job in the world which finishes here tonight if you stay with me. I can't get up tomorrow and go on with it.' Fr James is a young Catholic priest, recently appointed to a small parish on the West Coast of Scotland. Meriel is one of his parishioners; a beautiful young girl desperate to escape from her isolated life and find emotional fulfilment. They are drawn together, at first only spiritually . . . Directed by CHERRY cookson long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Sally Rena
Unknown:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
David Collings
Unknown:
Norman Rodway
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Tammy Ustinov
Unknown:
Georgine Anderson
Unknown:
Fr James
Directed By:
Cherry Cookson

England v Denmark Round 1
England: Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Denmark: Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Søren Sørensen. Professor of Music at Aarhus University and Malin Lindgren , a leading Danish woman journalist
Question researcher BERNICE COUPE
Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester
(Rev rpt: Wed 10.40 pm) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
John Julius
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Malin Lindgren

The Lungs of London
A guided tour around two acres of young deciduous woodland, wet peat meadow, gorse scrub, and even a sand dune - all in the shadow of Tower Bridge.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Brian Leith

Presenter
David Scott Blackball
It's Never too Late to Learn
KATHY ETHRINGTON , Who is 89, talks tO PHYLLIS FLOYD about the pleasure she gets from reading books in Moon.
Producer THENA HESHEL long icave only

Contributors

Unknown:
David Scott
Unknown:
Kathy Ethrington
Unknown:
Phyllis Floyd
Producer:
Thena Heshel

Brian Johnston recently visited Whitehaven in Cumbria
BBC Bristol
(Rev rpt of last Fri's broadcast) (long wave only)

5.50 Shipping forecast (long wave only)

5.55 Weather; programme news (long wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Johnston
Producer:
Sarah Pitt

A conversation in which guests contribute their own experiences dealing with personal, moral and spiritual issues.
5: Decisions, Decisions!
Devised and presented by John Newbury
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 11.0 am)

Contributors

Presented By:
John Newbury
Producer:
Roger Hutchings

ANDREI GAVRILOV (piano) LENINGRAD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by ALEXANDER DMITRIEV
Schumann Symphony No 4 Ravel Piano Concerto in D (left hand)
Ravel Alborada del gracioso
(Czechoslovak Radio recording from the 1978 Prague Spring Festival)

Contributors

Piano:
Andrei Gavrilov
Conducted By:
Alexander Dmitriev

David Simmons , using his own and rare commercial recordings from Africa, Cuba, Haiti, the Caribbean and the United States, follows a musical and personal trail across three continents. It's a trail of detection, unravelling a tangled knot of styles and influences of cultural and political backgrounds, to discover the rhythmic threads that led to the Latin ' craze ' in America and recrossed the Atlantic to become in Britain, both staple diet for such innocuous entertainment as Come Dancing and later a driving force for the restless dynamics of today's disco scene. Producer
RITCHIE COGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
David Simmons
Unknown:
Ritchie Cogan

A series of plays for late-night listening.
The Jealous One by GILES GORDON with Valentine Dyall
A wedding reception - champagne flowing and toasts for a happy future. But there is someone present who deeply resents the marriage . . .
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Giles Gordon
Unknown:
Valentine Dyall
Directed By:
Cherry Cookson
First wedding guest:
John Rye
Second wedding guest:
David McAlister
Cole:
Philip Voss
Female wedding guest:
Anna Nygh
Cat:
Valentine Dyall
Angela:
Frances Jeater
Mrs Ankarah:
Margot Boyd
Vicar:
Peter Tuddenham
Det-Insp Flesh:
Roger Hammond
Edward/Police Constable:
Adrian Egan

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