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7.10 Sunday Papers long wave only
7.15 Apna Hi
Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians
BBC Birmingham long wave only
7.45 Bells long wave only
7.50 The Shape of God
FR ANTHONY SACRE with a meditation for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost: Luke 10, w 25-37. long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Ghar Samajhiye
Unknown:
Fr Anthony Sacre

from Teignmouth Baptist Church. Devon
Led by the Rev Ian Burley

Reading: Luke 19, vv 1-10 (RSV)
Hymns (Baptist Hymn-Book): Great is Thy Faithfulness (576); Immortal, Invisible God Only Wise (61); What a Friend We Have in Jesus (343); And Can It Be (426)

BBC Bristol

Contributors

Service led by:
Rev Ian Burley
Organist:
Joan Elston

The Goon Show
3: The Moon Show starring Peter Sellers Harry Secombe Spike Milligan with MAX GELDRAY and the RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET
Orchestra conducted by WALLY STOTT
Written by SPIKE MILLIGAN and LARRY STEPHENS Producer PAT DIXON
(First broadcast Jan 1957)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Sellers
Unknown:
Harry Secombe
Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Unknown:
Max Geldray
Conducted By:
Wally Stott
Written By:
Spike Milligan
Written By:
Larry Stephens
Producer:
Pat Dixon

Tips and techniques to help you save time and money, if you do-it-yourself, from: PamelaDonald Jack WIdgery Tony Wilkins
In response to questions fromdiyenthusiastsat
Hamilton House. Bangor, Northern Ireland, as guests of Northdown Borough Council.
In the Chair Bill Breckon Producer CATHY STEWART Editor JIM BLACK
●HOME-ING IN: page 71

Contributors

Unknown:
Pameladonald Jack Widgery
Unknown:
Tony Wilkins
Unknown:
Bill Breckon
Producer:
Cathy Stewart
Editor:
Jim Black

It's in the Post
Listeners' letters dealing with summer gardening problems answered by Geoffrey Smith
Dr Stefan Buczackl and Daphne Ledward
Questionmaster KEN FORD BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wed 10.0 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczackl
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward
Unknown:
Questionmaster Ken Ford

Revelations by PAUL THAIN
A quantity of plutonium, sufficient to make a small atomic bomb, has been stolen by a group of terrorists threatening to blow up a nuclear power station in East Anglia.
Hammond, director of UK Internal Security, needs details of the terrorists and their whereabouts. Tobol can supply such information,but refuses to co-operate on moral grounds.... with Charles Gray as Charles Hammond
Ann Morrish as Mary and Michael Tudor Barnes as Tobol
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Thain
Unknown:
Charles Gray
Unknown:
Charles Hammond
Unknown:
Ann Morrish
Unknown:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman

In a series of ten programmes Malcolm Billings explores the world of archaeology
8: Pompeii - the Insulo of Menander
A British team of archaeologists, working in Pompeii, has been making a detailed study of an ' insuta ' or city block. One house seems to have belonged to a carpenter, another was owned by a retired gladiator and an upstairs flat probably served as a brothel. This is the first time such a study has been undertaken and it greatly adds to our knowledge of the way of life in this ancient City. Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol long wave only

Brian Johnston visits Rochdale in Greater Manchester. It Is famous as the place where the Co-operative Movement began, as a textile town and as the birthplace of Gracie Fields.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 11.0 om) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Producer:
Anthony Smith

Five programmes
Finlay J. Macdonald continues the story of a boyhood in the Hebrides as the Second World War approaches.
3: Taking the High Rood and Tying Loose Ends
Before leaving the village for High School, the young Finlay has to tie up fragments of the past; and finds a partner for Old Hector.
Producer LESLIE ROBINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Finlay J. MacDonald
Producer:
Leslie Robinson

by TED ALLBEURY
The ninth of ten parts adapted by the author from his latest novel
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm) (Barry Foster is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Allbeury
Directed By:
Christopher Venning
Unknown:
Barry Foster
as Jimmy Boyd:
Barry Foster
as Otto Schultz:
Robert Beatty
as Tony Symons and Michael:
J Shannon
Healey:
Leslie Heritage

At the end of 1955, Anthony Smith mounted a small motorcycle In Cape Town and rode north to Cairo.
In the ninth of 12 talks. ANTHONY smith continues the story of his journey. This year he took the machine out of storage and with his son Adam set off to retrace his path. but this time from Cairo to Cape Town.
The text of this talk is in THE LISTENER, Thurj 1 Sept

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Smith
Unknown:
Anthony Smith

by ELIZABETH GASKELL dramatised in nine parts by BARRY CAMPBELL , With
2: A Crisis
1 All I know is, that It's a very dangerous thing to shut two young men of one and three and 20 up in a country house likethiswithagirlof17 (- choose what her gown may be like, or her hair, or her eyes). And I told you particularly I didn't want Osborne, or either of them, indeed, to be falling in love with her.'
MUSiC bV RACHEL PORTMAN Directed by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Friday 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Gaskell
Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Molly:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
as Squire Hamley:
Robert Lang
Clare:
Angela Pleasence
as Mr Gibson:
Tom Wilkinson
as Mrs Gaskell and:
Thelma Whiteley
Mrs Hamley:
Lillias Walker
Roger Hamley:
Michael Trouchton
Lady Cumnor:
Paullne Letts
Lord Cumnor:
Kerry Francis
Lady Harriet:
Marian Diamond
Lady Cuxhaven:
Anna Fox
Lord Hollingford:
Geoffrey Collins
Mary:
Pauline Siddle
Robinson:
Nigel Graham
Butler:
David Peart

The Rt Hon Denis Healey , mp, and Mrs Edna Healey present a selection of their favourite poetry and prose withNormanRodway
, It surprises many people to know how well Yeats wrote about politics and how interested he was In them. He understood politicians very well because he reatised that in many ways they are like poets.'
Recorded before an invited audience at The
Stables Theatre. Hastings. Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thurs 11.0 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Healey
Unknown:
Mrs Edna Healey
Producer:
Brian Patten

Pendle Hill is a Quaker centre for study and contemplation in Pennsylvania, where people come-often at a period of personal crisis such as retirement, redundancy or a marriage breakdown -to try to recycle their lives.
June Rose has spent a term teaching at Pendle Hill With the help of her taped diary of conversations with staff and students she assesses the extent to which this experimental community succeeds In helping people from all over the world.
Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Producer:
Thena Heshel

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