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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 The Shape of God THE KEV GUY GOODALL (Matthew 6. vv 24-34) long wave only
7.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Ghar Samajhiye.

JOHN Hillary appeals on behalf of Universities Federation for Animal
Welfare. UFAW studies and investigates animal problems, arranging symposia, and produces books and leaflets on the care and management of wild and domesticated animals. Donations to: UFAW [address removed] long wave only
8.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hillanv

from the Parish at the Centre. Skelmersdale's Ecumenical Centre in Lancashire which takes the form of Holy Communion. Celebrant
THE REV BOB ANDREWS Preacher
THE REV NORMAN WINTER Reading: (GNB) John 17, vv llb-23
Hymns: Angel voices ever singing (Angel Voices); King of glory. King of peace (Gwalchmai); God, make us your family; Make me a channel of your peace
BBC Manchester

A timely look at contemporary Welsh life through the peep-toes of Enfys Pugh Bowen and her matching accessory, Muriel Morris: including a chance to enjoy
Denzil's funeral, a Paris lavatory and a chiropodist's surgery.

BBC Wales

Contributors

Announcer:
Frank Lincoln
Writer/Producer:
Richard Thomas.
Enfys:
Sion Probert
Muriel:
Myfanwy Talog

The Woolworth Madonna by ELIZABETH TROOP adapted by the author from her novel with \ and ' She was a sort of Woolworth Madonna, hundreds like her, their faces looming out of tower-block windows all over Europe." Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Woolworth Madonna
Unknown:
Elizabeth Troop
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Julie Barnes:
Miriam Margolyes
Terry Barnes:
David Daker
Edward Rayburn:
John Rowe

Brian Johnston visits Colne in east
Lancashire, originally the town with a prosperous centre for the wool trade, then came cotton, which is still a principal industry.
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

The great political orators have moved and entertained vast audiences even though their skills have rarely changed the course of politics. Patrick Hannan looks at the wav some of them have built their reputations, including: LLOYD GEORGE ;
ANEURIN BEVAN ; THE RT HON MICHAEL FOOT , MP; THE RT HON
HAROLD MACMILLAN ; THE RT HON ENOCH POWELL. MP and THE RT HON MICHAEL HESELTINE , MP.
Producer PATRICK HANNAN BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Hannan
Unknown:
Lloyd George
Unknown:
Aneurin Bevan
Unknown:
Michael Foot
Unknown:
Harold MacMillan
Unknown:
Enoch Powell.
Unknown:
Michael Heseltine
Producer:
Patrick Hannan

This week
Marilyn Alan visits
Lancashire to meet Ann Stansfield , whose life revolves around the association she founded for the relief of Paget's Disease, and the PALATINE STRING QUARTET talk about taking music to those who can't get to concerts.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Marilyn Alan
Unknown:
Ann Stansfield
Producer:
Gillian Hush

3: Canterbury Tales
' The great influence on me was Charles Ricketts and I remember one night, as a rather callow student, asking Ricketts who he thought were our greatest landscape painters and in a flash he said, " Tennyson and Wagner! " To me
Masefield was, I suppose, the supreme marine painter.'
In a series of six conversations with John Miller , Laurence Irving looks back over his career in theatre and films and explains what the Irving tradition has meant to him.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Ricketts
Unknown:
John Miller
Unknown:
Laurence Irving
Producer:
John Knight

An anthology of new words and music which this week looks at the process of growing up. Introduced by Brian Thompson with music by SUE CASSON Producer
KAY JAMIESON BBC Manchester
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Thompson
Music By:
Sue Casson
Unknown:
Kay Jamieson

2: The Road to Wigan Pier In 1936 the Left Book
Club published George Orwell 's account of conditions in the depressed areas of the industrial north. This programme sets his words alongside voices from Wigan today.
' In the " dirt " that is sent up from the pits there is a certain amount of broken coal, and unemployed people spend a lot of time in picking it out of the slag heaps.'
(GEORGE ORWELL , 1936)
' In winter you can either keep warm and go without food. or you have something to eat and the electricity's cut off and you have to freeze.'
(UNEMPLOYED WOMAN,
Wigan 1981)
Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
George Orwell
Unknown:
George Orwell
Producer:
Peter Everett

Colin Semper explores, hi the last programme of the series, the lives and writings of some who have claimed a special knowledge of the divine. 6: Teilhard de Chardin
Extracts from his writings read by CRISPIAN HOLLIS Series devised by PENELOPE WALLACE
Producer CRISPIAN HOLLIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Semper
Read By:
Crispian Hollis
Unknown:
Penelope Wallace
Producer:
Crispian Hollis

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