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7.15 Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye
For Asian listeners BBC Birmingham long wave only
7.45 Bells long wave only
7.50 Sunday Reading
FG. 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 WOLFENDEN appeals on behalf of Family Service Units which promote the welfare of families and communities throughout England and Scotland who are seriously disadvantaged through lack of personal, social or economic resources.
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to: [address removed]long wave only
8.55 Weather; programme news
8.59 Continental Travel Information

from the Fairfield Moravian Church settlement in Droylsden, Manchester. including a celebration of the Lord's Supper.
The service is conducted by the Minister
THE REV JOHN SMITH
Reading: Mark 2, vv 1-12 (GNB)
Hymns (Moravian Hymn Book): My Shepherd is the Lamb (525); All my hope on God is founded (323); Once he came in blessing (249); Crown him with many crowns (125); Jesus Christ our Saviour (520); Jesus makes my heart rejoice (533); We who here together (552) Organist
ALFRED STONEHEWER BBC Manchester long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
John Smith
Organist:
Alfred Stonehewer

Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject ...
'Festival: (a) One week's cricket at Scarborough: (bi One month's Wagner atBayreuth'. (J.B. MORTON ) with the voices of VICTOR BORGE , WOODY ALLEN. TONY HANCOCK and PETER cook. Written by FRANK MUIR. SIMON BRETT Producer
GEOFFREY PERKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
J.B. Morton
Unknown:
Victor Borge
Unknown:
Woody Allen.
Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Unknown:
Peter Cook.
Written By:
Frank Muir.
Written By:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Geoffrey Perkins

Open-Ended Prescription by LELAND BARDWELL
MYRA: Joan's my friend. And I know what she's going through. Locked in this huge house with a crazy, dying mother. So don't you go making it worse for her.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Leland Bardwell
Directed By:
Robert Cooper

Vincent Kane launches a new series of short programmes in which it appears that with the aid of gentle satire and parody, even the most weighty matters of politics, economics, art, learning, morals (public and private) sport, history - all of them have their lighter side.
Written and produced by VINCENT KANE
Programme assistant
MARIA SOBEY. BBC Wales long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Vincent Kane
Produced By:
Vincent Kane
Unknown:
Maria Sobey.

Should a White Stick Give its User the Right of Way* PAT HART , who is a lawyer, comments on this suggestion from a blind pedestrian.
Presented by Jane Finnis Producer THENA HESHEL long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Hart
Presented By:
Jane Finnis
Producer:
Thena Heshel

Brian Johnston recently visited Inverness in Scotland
Producer ANTHONY SMITH
BBC Bristol (Revised rpt 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

by JOHN LE CARRE adapted for radio in five parts by RENÉ BASILICO
Part 5: A chance incident - the memory of a defecting agent's tradecraft - the baiting of a trap. And always the unexpected - before Smiley finally meets up with an old friend from the past.
Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON A BBC World Service production. (Alec Guinness plays Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: starting tomorrow
9.0 pm
BBC2)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
René Basilico
Unknown:
John Fawcett Wilson
as George Smiley starring:
George Cole
as Mendel and:
Alfred Burke
as Peter Guillam with:
Douglas Blackwell
as Maston and:
Richard Hurndall
Elsa Fennan:
Hilda Kriseman
Dieter Frey:
Stephen Greif
Jill:
Frances Jeater
Newsagent:
Rod Beacham

CHICAGO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR GEORG SOLTI
Liszt Symphonic Poem: Festklange
Bartok Rhapsody No 1 VICTOR AlTAY (violin)
Mahler Das irdische Leben: Rheinlegendchcn (Des Knaben Wundeihorn); YVONNE MINTON
(mezzo-soprano) (record) Wagner Prelude and Licbcstod (Tristan und Isolde)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Georg Solti
Violin:
Mahler Das
Horn:
Yvonne Minton

by HENRY JAMES adapted in six parts by BETTY DAVIES with Maureen O'Brien Prunella Scales
Part 2: Olive Chancellor, one of the leaders of the women's movement in America in the 1870s, has met a young girl - Verena Tarrant - whom she sees as a symbol of all that womanhood stands for. Alas, so does Basil Ransom, her cousin, and Olive is driven to take definite action.
Pianist MARY NASH
Directed by KAY PATRICK
(Repeated: Tues 3.35 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry James
Unknown:
Betty Davies
Unknown:
Maureen O'Brien
Pianist:
Mary Nash
Directed By:
Kay Patrick
as the Narrator and:
Ian Richardson
Verena Tarrant:
Maureen O'Brien
Olive Chancellor:
Prunella Scales
Adeline Luna:
Madi Hedd
Mrs Tarrant:
Sheila Grant
Di Tarrant:
David March
Matthias Pardon:
Garrick Hagon
Mr Burrage:
Peter Marinker
Mrs Burrage:
Margaret Robertson
Mr Gracie:
James Patrick
Maid:
Josie Kidd

A voyage around the life of Frank Handle
' I am a simple man. born of simple folk, a man of the industrial North of England. Simple people of our kind understand the facts of life in a way that our critics do not. You will know my little bits of fun are founded upon the facts of life ..."
When Randle died in 1957. he was almost unknown to Southern audiences. Yet in the North of England, he was a star accorded the privileges of royalty. But off stage, he became notorious as the wild man of showbusiness, smashing dressing rooms, burning scenery and fighting many battles with the police on obscenity charges.
Jeff Nuttall looks at his extraordinary career with Arthur Askey. James Casey. Ronné Coyles. Billy Dainty , Bunny Lewis and Fred Roy
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Handle
Unknown:
Jeff Nuttall
Unknown:
Arthur Askey.
Unknown:
James Casey.
Unknown:
Billy Dainty
Unknown:
Bunny Lewis
Unknown:
Fred Roy
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

by Robert Davis
with Nigel Anthony as Peter Bates
Peter Bates is a sixth form teacher with a problem. Is he in love with one of his pupils? Is it fantasy day-dreaming?

(Stereo/Binaural)
(The full binaural effect can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Davis
Director:
Richard Wortley
Peter Bates:
Nigel Anthony
Sue:
Lolly Cockerell

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