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A selection of music for early-morning listening
7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye
For Asian listeners BBC Birmingham long wave only
7.4S Bells long wave only
7.50 Sunday Reading
FR GERARD MEATH reads from Guides to Hidden Springs by MARK GIBBARD long wave only
7.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Gibbard

LORD SUDELEY appeals on behalf of St Peter's Church. Winchcombe. Gloucestershire, a 15thcentury Cotswold church, which needs £ 62,000 to replace its roof.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to Lord Sudeley, [address removed] long wave only
8.55 Weather; programme news
8.59 Continental Travel Information

Holy Communion (Series 3) from the Parish Church of All Saints, Whitstable, Kent. Celebrant and Preacher THE REV T. R. CHRISTIE , assisted by THE REV J. R. SLATER and THE REV A. J. ALLAN
Epistle: 2 Corinthians S, v 14 to 6, v 2 (Jerusalem Bible)
Gospel: John 17, vv 20-26 (NEB)
Hymns (English Hymnal): God of mercy. God of grace (395): 0 King enthroned on high (454): Draw nigh and take the body of the Lord (307); Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (English Praise 319); Be thou my vision (75)
The service sung to Crichton in flat
Organist ALLEN HAWKINS long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
T. R. Christie
Unknown:
J. R. Slater
Organist:
Allen Hawkins

starring Kenneth Horne with Kenneth Williams Hugh Paddick Betty Marsden and THE MAX HARRIS CROUP Written by BARRY TOOK JOHNNIE MORTIMER and BRIAN COOKE
Producer JOHN simmonds (First broadcast in 1968) Preview; page 19

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Written By:
Barry Took
Written By:
Johnnie Mortimer
Written By:
Brian Cooke
Producer:
John Simmonds

The Trumpet Shall Sound by JOHN FLETCHER
In 1866 at Walsingham in Norfolk, the revolt of the old church orchestra against the installation of a new organ led to the blowing up of the church with gunpowder. In 1873, in his attempt to set up an agricultural labourers union, the Primitive Methodist preacher Joseph Arch addressed farm workers from all over Somerset. In 1881, thousands of poor folk gathered on top of Ham Hill in Somerset, to await the end of the world. Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
John Fletcher
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Jacob Stone:
Nigel Stock
his wife Mary:
Mary Wimbush
his son David:
Peter Pacey

A celebration of six churches
4 York Minster
The central tower of our largest Gothic cathedral dominates this city famous for hams. sweets and railways. Louis Allen and Patrick Nuttgens explore the medieval architecture and remarkable modern restoration of the building and Jeremy Haselock and David O'Connor discuss its famous stained glass, including the East window containing ' the whole company of heaven '.
A Kaleidoscope production by CHRIS SWANN

Contributors

Unknown:
Louis Allen
Unknown:
Patrick Nuttgens
Unknown:
Jeremy Haselock
Unknown:
David O'Connor
Unknown:
Chris Swann

Brian Johnston recently visited Burlington Arcade Producer SARAH PITT
BBC Bristol t Revised rpt of last Friday's broadcast)
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Producer:
Sarah Pitt

In the first of two on-the-spot reports Bill Breckon investigates why, in 1979, the vast majority of people in the Third World are denied the drugs they desperately need. 1: The Diagnosis
Why are drugs, at best irrelevant and at worst dangerous, still promoted by pharmaceutical companies in developing countries? Why do Bangladeshi village parents starve to buy vitamin pills for their children? Why are drugs, banned in the West, readily available over the counter in the poorest countries of the world? Why, in the words of the Director General of the World Health Organisation, does 'drug colonialism ' still survive.
Research SHARON BANOFF Producer RITCHIE COGAN
(Repeated: Mon 11.40 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Breckon
Producer:
Ritchie Cogan

by JOHK LE CARRE adapted for radio in five parts by RENÉ BASILICO
Part 3
Smiley has to conduct his investigation into the Fennan case from a hospital bed, leaving Mendel to do the ' leg-work ' - which includes a visit to the theatre.
Adam Scarr. ..GEORGE INNES Ludo Oriel....SHIRLEY DIXON Elizabeth... ..JANE KNOWLES Doctor PAUL MEIER Directed by JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
A BBC World Service production.

Contributors

Unknown:
Adam Scarr.
Unknown:
Shirley Dixon
Unknown:
Jane Knowles
Unknown:
Doctor Paul Meier
Directed By:
John Fawcett Wilson
George Smiley:
George Cole
Mendel:
Alfred Burke
Peter Guillam:
Douglas Blackwell

Sir John Gielgud talks to John Miller about his life in the theatre.
9: Speak the Speech
' I never had trouble with my speaking, my voice, although in nearly every play I've been in, somebody's said they couldn't hear me, which has upset me very much because I'm supposed to speak very well. Taxi-drivers can never understand me and I gabble tremendously off the stage, but I've never had to have voice lessons.'
Producer JOHN POWELL

Contributors

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

Everyday life from the 1580s to the 1620s, shown ir. ballads, fantastickes, letters, verse, dances and consort music
' Buy a mousetrap, a mousetrap, or a tormentor for a flea! - Buy some gingerbread! Ballads, ballads, fine new ballads! ' with Jon Rollason Jenny Quayle and Pethick Edwards and music from
RODERICK SKEAPING
(viols, violins, rebecs)
LUCIE SKEAPING (soprano) DOUG WOOTTON (lute, cittern) KEITH THOMPSON
(curtal, recorders)
Devised by PETHICK EDWARDS and PETER HOLMAN with suggestions from the hand
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Jon Rollason
Unknown:
Jenny Quayle
Unknown:
Pethick Edwards
Unknown:
Roderick Skeaping
Soprano:
Doug Wootton
Unknown:
Keith Thompson
Unknown:
Peter Holman
Producer:
Jenyth Worsley

The Bionic Blob and the Case of the Stolen Wavelengths by JAMES FOLLETT with Ed Bishop as Slim Chance, and Sandra Dickinson as Amy Have you ever found it difficult to tune your radio on to the right wavelength? Think of the confusion that would be caused if a wavelength were hijacked - by educationalists for instance.
Slim Chance and his partner investigate such a problem. In America, of course.
Arthur Mow BRIAN HAINES
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (John Bay is in A Day in Hollywood - A Night in the Ukraine ' at the May Fair Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Follett
Unknown:
Ed Bishop
Unknown:
Sandra Dickinson
Unknown:
Amy Have
Unknown:
Arthur Mow
Unknown:
Brian Haines
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Directed By:
John Bay
Al Cinzano:
John Bay
Bugsy:
Ramsay Williams
Radio announcer:
Brian Carroll

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