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Holy Communion (Rite A) for Hospital Sunday from St Marks Church, Broom-hill, Sheffield. Celebrant THE REV JOHN GILES
Preacher eric WILKES , OBE, Professor of Community Medicine, Sheffield University
Readings: Isaiah 35, vv 3-6; II Timothy 4, vv 5-13; Luke 10. vv 1-9
Psalm 103, vv 1-6
Anthem: Jesu, the very thought of thee (Barstow) Hymns (A and M Rev): Light's glittering morn (602); Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness (393); 0 praise ye the Lord (376) Organist and Choirmaster ROBERT JOHNSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
John Giles
Unknown:
Eric Wilkes
Choirmaster:
Robert Johnson

At midnight, the Royal Yacht Britannia sailed from Naples Harbour at the end of a crowded five-day visit by HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh to Italy.
John Stuart Roberts introduces a review. Commentaries by Peter Jones
A Radio OB production

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Jones

Devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason

Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden. In the chair John Julius Norwich

(Repeated; Wed 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Chairman:
John Julius Norwich
Panellist:
Dilys Powell
Panellist:
Frank Muir
Panellist:
Antonia Fraser
Panellist:
Denis Norden
Devised by:
Tony Shryane
Devised by:
Edward J. Mason
Questions compiled by:
Peter Moore
Executive Producer:
Bobby Jaye

visits Exeter as part of the ' 1900 ' celebrations.
Members of the Horticulture and Allotment Associations put their questions to GEOFFREY SMITH
BILL SOWERBUTTS and PROFESSOR ALAN GEMMELL Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.2 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Professor Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Ken Ford

Jane Lapotaire as Electra A new verse translation of Sophocles' play by DEREK COLTMAN
To spend one's days mourning your father and having to live with his murderers is an unendurable way of life. Electra is only sustained by the hope that one day her brother will return and avenge their father's death. But why doesn't he come? Directed by JANE MORGAN. A World Service production

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Lapotaire
Play By:
Derek Coltman
Directed By:
Jane Morgan.
Orestes:
Michael Pennington
Clytemnestra:
Margaret Tyzack
the Mentor:
Jeremy Kemp
Chrysothemis:
Cheryl Campbell
the Nurse:
Pauline Letts
Aegisthus:
Philip Voss

Brian Johnston recently visited Portmeirion in Gwyncdd. North Wales Producer ANTHONY SMITH
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tues 12.20 pm) 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

Current and controversial issues are put on trial before Dick Taverne , qc and an audience of jurors in Broadcasting House, London.
Tonight's motion: Heart Transplants are a Luxury we Should do Without
It is proposed by Alastair Mackie , Director General of the Health Education Council, and opposed by Tam Dalyell , mp.
Each advocate calls supporting witnesses who are questioned by each protagonist. The jury votes at the beginning and the end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured and a verdict reached.
Producer JENNY DE YONG (Repeated: Mon 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Taverne
Unknown:
Alastair MacKie
Unknown:
Tam Dalyell

This week from Yorkshire Marilyn Alan goes north to meet the Gaskell family in Doncaster - three of them in wheelchairs-and Baroness Masham of Ilton. Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Mon 2.0-4.0 pm, [number removed]. Ext 2531 Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Correspondence address: BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Marilyn Alan
Reporter:
Kevin Mulhern

Six programmes
4: International Law
The most elusive of all branches of law is International Law. It has no visible sanctions and virtually no courts. Yet it turns out to be a flourishing growth. How does it work? Who believes in it? Hugo Young explores these questions with the Chairman of the International Law Commission in Geneva, CHRISTOPHER PINTO, its British member SIR FRANCIS VALLATT, its Soviet member NIKOLAI USHAKOV, SIR IAN SINCLAIR , legal adviser to the Foreign Office, and other distinguished international lawyers.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugo Young
Unknown:
Sir Ian Sinclair
Producer:
Anne Sloman

BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, led by PETER MOUNTAIN, conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD
Copland Ballet Suite: Billy the Kid
Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919)
BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Mountain
Unknown:
Maurice Handford

Fiction of the 1950s
In the late 50s, novels such as Room at the Top and A Kind of Loving brought their writers from obscurity into the best-seller lists, and spawned characters who became heroes to a generation.
Frank Delaney looks back at the books' and their authors with JOHN BRAINE , STAN BARSTOW, ALAN SILLI -TOE, LYNN REID-BANKS and PETER LEWIS
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON (Repeated: Thurs 4.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Unknown:
John Braine
Unknown:
Alan Silli
Unknown:
Lynn Reid-Banks
Unknown:
Peter Lewis
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

by Alan Sillitoc
'I once saw a bloke try to kill himself. I'll never forget the day because I was sitting in the house one Saturday afternoon, feeling black and fed-up because everybody had gone to the pictures, except me who'd for some reason been left out of it.'
Drawn from the prizewinning collection, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. Read by Norman Rossington
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Thurs 4.35 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Sillitoc
Read By:
Norman Rossington
Producer:
John Knight

A continuation of a history in 26 parts, in the words of those who have made the history.
10: Size, Steel and Steam The Industrial Revolution, the steel shipyard and the scientific naval architect create ships and sea-faring of a totally new kind; and new kinds of worker to design, build and power them. It is the age of the hammers of the Clyde and Tyne.
Readers ANTHONY HALL , DAVID CASEY , NIGEL LAM BERT, MALCOLM TERRIS , DAVID MARCH, ROBERT TROTTER, LEONARD MAGUIRK , RONALD HERDMAN , GARARD GREEN, RONALD BADDILEY , GORDON GOSTELOW , DAVID ASHFORD and TIMOTHY BATESON.
Special sound by DICK MILLS. BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Programme Consultant and presenter Ewan Cor lett, Chairman, Burness, Corlett and Partners, Naval Architects.
The series composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON. in collaboration With the NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
The British Seafarer it published by BBC Publications and Hutchinson at £5 95 paperback and £9.95 hardback

Contributors

Readers:
Anthony Hall
Readers:
David Casey
Readers:
Nigel Lam
Unknown:
Malcolm Terris
Unknown:
Leonard Maguirk
Unknown:
Ronald Herdman
Unknown:
Ronald Baddiley
Unknown:
Gordon Gostelow
Unknown:
David Ashford
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson.
Unknown:
Dick Mills.
Presenter:
Ewan Cor
Directed By:
Michael Mason.

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