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7.10 Sunday Papers long wave only
7.15 Apna HI Ghar Samajhlye for Asian listeners BBC Birmingham long wave only
7.45 Bells: long wave only
7.50 The Shape of God
THE VEN PAUL BARBER With a meditation for the 12th Sunday of Pentecost Matthew 5, vv 13-16 long wave only
7.55 Weather: travel: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Ghar Samajhlye

DANA appeals on behalf of the Northern Ireland Association of Youth
Clubs, which helps young people to help themselves. regardless of background or religious persuasion. Donations by PO or cheque to: NIAYC,[address removed]
8.55 Weather: travel; programme news: continental travel

Contributors

Unknown:
GlenmacHen Park

from Bethany Baptist
-Church, Pembroke Dock conducted by the Minister, THE REV DAVID HUGHES
Readings (Living Bible): Job 1; John 9. vv 1-9 Hymns (Baptist
Hymnbook): Ye servants of God (37); Love of God how strong and true (69): Courage, brother, do not stumble (563); All my hope on God Is founded (492)
Organist WILLIAM J. LEWIS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hughes
Organist:
William J. Lewis

Introduced by Chris Mohr who meets some people who have taken time out from life in the ' middle ' - middle years, middle class and middle management. They are part of a scheme for using people's skills to help the community: plus highlights from Woman's Hour.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Mohr

By popular request, another chance to hear some of the most successful comedy shows from the BBC Light Entertainment Radio Department.
Round the Horne The second of 13 programmes starring Kenneth Horne with Kenneth Williams Hugh Paddick , Betty Marsden , Bill Pertwee
Announcer DOUGLAS SMITH THE FRASER HAVES FOUR THE HORNBLOWERS conducted by EDWIN BRADEN Written by BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN
Producer JOHN SIMMONDS (First broadcast in 1966)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Conducted By:
Edwin Braden
Written By:
Barry Took
Written By:
Marty Feldman
Producer:
John Simmonds

DIY tips and techniques to save time and money from David Holloway ,
Editor Handyman Whicht , Jill Blake. Design
Consultant, Lionel Baxter , City and Guilds Leisure Course Director, responding to questions frommembersofthe
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS (and husbands) in COVENTRY.
In the Chair Libby Purves Producer CLIVE RICHE Editor JIM BLACK
12.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
David Holloway
Editor:
Handyman Whicht
Editor:
Jill Blake.
Unknown:
Lionel Baxter
Unknown:
Libby Purves
Producer:
Clive Riche

It's in the Post
Listeners' letters dealing with summer gardening problems answered by Geoffrey Smith Chris Brickell and Daphne Ledward
Questlonmaster Ken Ford BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.2 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Chris Brickell
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward
Unknown:
Questlonmaster Ken

That Which Was Lost by FRANCOIS MAURIAC dramatised by JOAN O'CONNOR with Anthony Higgins as Hervg and Tom Wilkinson as Marcel Loyalty in friendship is something that neither Hervé nor Marcel seem able to understand: they bolster each other up on occasions but are always ready to betray each other, just as they're ready to betray their wives - and themselves. Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Anthony Higgins is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Unknown:
Francois Mauriac
Dramatised By:
Joan O'Connor
Unknown:
Anthony Higgins
Unknown:
Tom Wilkinson
Unknown:
Marcel Loyalty
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Unknown:
Anthony Higgins

The second in a series of ten programmes
HazeltonLong Barrow
Five thousand years ago a large bump in a cornfield In
Gloucestershire was a monument. built by local farmers to bury their dead. This year the long barrowwillbetakento pieces, stone by stone, and demolished by archaeologists - giving them a rare chance to study every aspect of Its construction and its use. Presented by Malcolm Billings
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol long wave only

Contributors

Presented By:
Malcolm Billings

Is it still possible to believe In life after death? In the second of three programmes, Philip Crowe looks at the reasons why belief in a God of justice seems to go hand-in-hand with belief in a world to come.
Producers
MICHAEL SHOESMITH and HUGH FAUPEL
DBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Crowe
Unknown:
Michael Shoesmith

A series of eight programmes
6: Georgia: Champagne in the Morning
Travelling across the Soviet Union Joseph Hone arrives in the southern
Republic of Georgia. There is champagne at the races outside Tbilisi but also big dark Zil limousines all the way from Moscow.
7.0 Travel: programme news

1 In religion a Scotchman Is grave and abstracted: In politics serious and deliberate: it is in the power of harmony alone to make him an enthusiast..... wrote an 18th-century visitor.
Tom Fleming Introduces some music associated (In one way or another) with Edinburgh, from the 17th to the 20th century, played by the SCOTTISH BAROQUE ENSEMBLE director LEONARD FRIEDMAN arr Elliott Airs and Dances of Renaissance Scotland Barsanti Overture in G
Schetky Quartetto in E flat Thomas Erskine Two Minuets arr Johnson The Hen's March o'er the Midden Nielsen Little Suite for strings arr Dorward Reel: The Flowers o' Edinburgh (Given in April at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh) BBC Scotland

Contributors

Introduces:
Tom Fleming
Director:
Leonard Friedman
Unknown:
Thomas Erskine

A dramatisation in eight parts by Frederick Bradnum of Books Do Furnish a Room, Temporary Kings and Hearing Secret Harmonies, the final trilogy of Anthony Powell's 12 novels.

While attending a cultural conference in Venice, Nicholas Jenkins heard of Lord Widmerpool's complicity in an Eastern European State trial. Pamela was also causing more concern than usual by her pursuit of Russell Gwinnett.
(Repeated.- Tues 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Author:
Anthony Powell
Dramtised by:
Frederick Bradnum
Title music composed by:
Antony Miall
Director:
Graham Gauld
Nicholas Jenkins:
Noel Johnson
Widmerpool:
Brian Hewlett
Moreland:
Sion Probert
Odo Stevens:
John Baddeley
Pamela:
Jo Manning Wilson
Short:
Alan Dudley
J.G. Quiggin:
Gordon Dulieu
Isobel:
Elizabeth Proud
Ada:
Frances Jeater
Trapnel:
Steve Hodson
Louis Glober:
Alan Tilvern
Dr Emily Brightman:
Margot Boyd
Bill Truscott:
Jeffry Wickham
Jimmy Stripling:
Charles Hodgson
Norman Chandler:
Andrew Branch
L.O. Salvidge:
John Forbes Robertson
Mrs Erdleigh:
Betty Baskcomb
Audrey Maclintick:
Jenny Lee
Polly Duport:
Patience Tomlinson

Willy Russell presents his personal choice of poetry and prose
Readers ELIZABETII ESTENSEN and MARK KINGSTON
' When I began making this selection I took down all my books from the shelves and discovered that in my lifetime I've borrowed, but failed to return, an awful lot of books.'
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Willy Russell
Unknown:
Mark Kingston
Producer:
Brian Patten

Six programmes
3: Learning to See Again A selection of poetic
Meditations chosen by Keith Clements from the writings of the 17th-century priest, Thomas Traherne.
Readers FRANK DUNCAN and PATRICK MALAHIDE Producer PETER FIRTH BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Clements
Readers:
Thomas Traherne.
Readers:
Frank Duncan

To the Golden Triangle In the third of a series of seven travellers' tales, Bernard Jackson journeys up-country from Bangkok through rural Thailand to learn about traditional village life and religion. His destination is the region close to the Burmese border, where the government Is campaigning to stamp out opium growing, and he visits the remote hill tribes of the area to find out how their way of life Is being changed.
Producer BRIAN COOK

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Jackson
Producer:
Brian Cook

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