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DEREK NIMMO appeals on behalf of Handicapped
Children in Hackney, which is converting part of a large Victorian church in the East End of London into a centre for handicapped children and their families.
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to [address removed] long wave only
8.55 Weather; programme news
8.59 Continental Travel Information

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

Sunday Mass from the west Indian Catholic Chaplaincy, Birmingham
Celebrant and Preacher FR DANIEL MCHUGH Conductor
GWENDOLINE CAESAR
Leader of the steel band PAULINE RICHARDS
Readings: 2 Kings 4, VV 42-44; John 6, vv 1-15
Mass set to West Indian music from Jamaica and Trinidad.
BBC Birmingham long wave only

Contributors

Conductor:
Fr Daniel McHugh
Leader:
Gwendoline Caesar
Unknown:
Pauline Richards

visits Gloucestershire where members of the Royal Forest of Dean Flower Club put their questions to FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD
BBC Manchester (Repeated: Wed 9.5 am) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Ken

by John Whiting
with Michael Bryant, Billie Whitelaw, Alan Webb, Nigel Stock and Frances Jeater

The play centres around the enigmatic figure of General Forster who, following his country's defeat, has been imprisoned for seven years. Now he has been released. Why did he lose the war? Should he be subjected to a public trial or, should he, for the sake of the state, agree to kill himself?
(First broadcast in 1974)
(long wave only)

Contributors

Writer:
John Whiting
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Harry Lancaster:
Nigel Stock
Dido Morgen:
Frances Jeater
Matthew Sangosse:
Alan Dudley
Fr Ansel:
Manning Wilson
Catherine de Troyes:
Billie Whitelaw
Rupert Forster:
Michael Bryant
John Cadmus:
Alan Webb
Bruno Hurst:
David Timson

Flight
The most inspiring aspect of a bird's way of life is its ability to fly. We look at their flight from the undulating bob of the blue tit to the graceful glide of the gull. Introduced by Peter France
Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol
(Repealed: Wed 10.5 am) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter France
Producer:
Brian Leith

A magazine of special interest to the visually handicapped.
Presented by Peter White A Change from School
Some suggestions for holiday diversions for blind children.
Producer THENA HESHEL long wave only

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White
Producer:
Thena Heshel

Brian Johnston recently visited Wisbecli in Cambridgeshire
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Revised repeat of last Friday's broadcast) long wave only
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Producer:
Anthony Smith

Since 1971 the Triang toy factory in Merthyr Tydfil has been in a condition of expensive decline, alternating between imminent closure and last-minute rescue. Men whose jobs may vanish for ever struggle for the support to stave off redundancy. But does the promise of State aid just encourage lame ducks to limp with greater pathos? Which alternative can we least afford, financially and socially? Jeremy Bugler reports on the chances of Triang and other factories like it.
Producer KAY EVANS
(Repeated: Mon 11.0 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Bugler
Producer:
Kay Evans

Fit the Fifth: sent to find the Ultimate Question to Life, The Universe and Everything, Arthur Dent and his companion have been cornered by two humane cops who, nevertheless, have left them in a certain death situation. starring at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe
Special effects by the DBC Radiophonic Workshop
Written by DOUGLAS ADAMS with the assistance of JOHN LLOYD
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Dent
Written By:
Douglas Adams
Unknown:
John Lloyd
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins
The Book:
Peter Jones
Garkbit and Zarquon:
With Anthony Sharp
' Compere:
Roy Hudd
Arthur Dent:
Simon Jones
Ford Prefect:
Geoffrey McGivern
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
Mark Wing-Davey
Trillian:
Susan Sheridan
Marvin:
Stephen Moore

Sir John Gielgud talks to John Miller about his life in the theatre.
5: Hamlet Tomorrow or Next Thursday - But Just Not Tonight!
' sort of threw myself into the part, like someone trying to swim, and found it sort of held me up, if I really was truthful in it.'
... some of the greatest enjoyment radio current-by offers. (THE TIMES) Producer JOHN POWELL (licpeat)

Contributors

Talks:
Sir John Gielgud
Unknown:
John Miller
Producer:
John Powell

SANDRA DUGDALF , (soprano) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DENNIS SIMONS conducted by HUBERT SOUDANT
Rossini Overture: La gazza ladra
Mozart Aria: Ah! non sai qual pena (K 416); Aria: Chi sa, chi sa, qual sia (K 582)
Schubert Symphony No 4. in c minor (Tragic) BBC Manchester

Contributors

Soprano:
Sandra Dugdalf
Leader:
Dennis Simons
Conducted By:
Hubert Soudant

by ANTHONY POWELL
A dramatisation in six parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM of the first three books Of ANTHONY POWELL'S sequence of 12 novels.
2: A Question of Upbringing (2)
Nicholas Jenkins has left school and, before going up to Oxford, is to spend the summer in France partly with a view to learning the language, partly as a solution to that urgent problem of the disposal of the body of one of those uneasy, stranded beings, no longer a boy and hardly yet a man.
(For cast see Tues 3.35)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Powell
Unknown:
Anthony Powell
Unknown:
Nicholas Jenkins

(A Nine Daies Wonder
On 11 February 1599. Will Kemp set off on a remarkable 125-mile dance from London to Norwich. He was a famous Elizabethan actor and a shareholder with Shakespeare in the Company of the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The roles of Touchstone, Dogberry, and Launcelot Gobbo were probably written with Kemp in mind. But Kemp's bawdy interpretations of Shakespeare's characters eventually led to his dismissal from the Company - and to this historical jig.
This bawdy frolicsome one-man show is performed by Chris Harris
Compiled by CHRIS HARRIS and JOHN DAVID
Producer NICK HUGHES

Contributors

Unknown:
Launcelot Gobbo
Unknown:
Chris Harris
Unknown:
John David
Producer:
Nick Hughes

The Trafalgar Terrace Lepidopterist by DAVID HOPKINS
Les believes in the free concept of nature roaming wild. He wants his children to witness it-hence butterflies! But nature threatens to be wilder and freer than he is prepared to accept:
Directed by KAY PATRICK

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hopkins
Directed By:
Kay Patrick
Les and:
Norman Bird
Marjorie:
Josie Kidd
JOSie:
Tammy Ustinov
Ronnie:
Ian Hoare
Mr Smithers:
Michael McStay

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