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7.10 Sunday Paper*
7.15 Apna HI
Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians BBC Birmingham
7.45 Belli
7.50 The Shape of God The Rev Judith Smart with a meditation for the 22nd Sunday after
Pentecost: John 4, vv 19-29

Contributors

Unknown:
Ghar Samajhiye
Unknown:
Judith Smart

from the Methodist
Central Mission Albert Hall , Nottingham led by THE REV JOE GIBBON assisted by SISTER JEAN COWTOK
Hymns (Methodist Hymn Book): The day of resurrection! (208); When all thy mercies, 0 my God (413): Jesus! the name high over all (92); My heart Is full of Christ (27.0)
Readings: Isaiah 2, vv
1-4; Ephesians 1, w 1-10 Organist PHILIP MASON BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Joe Gibbon
Assisted By:
Sister Jean
Organist:
Philip Mason

Take It From Here starring Jimmy Edwards Dick Bentley
June Whitfield
With WALLAS EATON AND THE KEYNOTES, BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA, conducted by HARRY RABINOWITZ
Written by FRANK MUIR and DENIS NORDEN
Producer CHARLES maxwell
(First broadcast in 1958)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Dick Bentley
Unknown:
Wallas Eaton
Conducted By:
Harry Rabinowitz
Written By:
Frank Muir
Written By:
Denis Norden

Back for Its fifth year. the programme that celebrates good food and drink and Investigates the bad. From the producers to the processors; from supermarket shelf to kitchen slab,
Derek Cooper takes a healthy Interest In all aspects of the International food chain.
Producer JOY HATWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper

Armistice by LOUISE PAGE At the outbreak of the First World War,
Evelyn Zimmermann , a teenager, wishes to help the war effort. But she has a German name and the petitions will eventually read: ' We demand the eradication of the enemy in our midst.' Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Zimmermann
Directed By:
Vanessa Whitburn

The last of six programmes in which Stanley Ellis sets out on some of Britain's linguistic B-roads to discover the wealth of ways in which people talk about their lives, their landscape and their local language.

They say that in Glasgow you can pin-point the line of demarcation between broad Glaswegian and genteel Kelvinside to a particular spot in some streets....

(long wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stanley Ellis
Field Researcher:
Cliff Hanley
Producer:
Simon Elmes

. . .can come from the skies, the roads.
Industrial machinery or the neighbours.
Clive Jacobslistenstosome everyday noises and examines their effect on our hearing and our sanity, and what can be done to make life quieter. Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE Noise consultants RUPERT TAYLOR and HARRY KENYON

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobslistenstosome
Unknown:
Rupert Taylor
Unknown:
Harry Kenyon

The Savill Garden which
Professor Alan Gemmell visits today Is set In Windsor Great Park In Surrey. No matter the timeofyear,visitors cannot fall to be impressed by the sheer botanical splendour of the place. Producer
MURDOCH M. MCPHERSON BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Murdoch M. McPherson

A six-part thriller for radio by COLIN SHAW
2: The Proposition Accepted
Steven Emmett , farmer and smuggler. is being blackmailed by an American. To prevent his exposure, Steven must find a way to steal Sir Marcus's collection of Goya sketches. But how? Maybe, at a concert.
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERMAN
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Shaw
Unknown:
Steven Emmett
Directed By:
Michael Hefferman
Actor:
Freddie Jones
Helen Summers:
Kate Binchy
Tim Lloyd:
James Bryce
Steven Emmett:
Nigel Anthony
Jane Fleming:
Amanda Murray
George Crossman:
David Healy
JakOb:
Alex Jennings
Mr Baxter:
Nigel Graham
Sam Pryce:
Stephen Garlick
Julie:
Moir Leslie
Leo Roeters:
Geoffrey Collins

Hunter Davies Introduces Radio 4's book programme. This week: ife under the shadow of Henry VIII 's axe: a collection of letters tells the story of the Tudor family. And a new concept in broadcasting - topless radio.
Producer KATE FENTON
(Repeated: Thurs 4.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Viii
Producer:
Kate Fenton

by Graham Greene dramatised for radio in three parts by Gregory Evans

1: Havana, Cuba, in the late 1950s was a paradise or a sink of iniquity, depending on one's point of view. In this over-ripe atmosphere of the pre-Castro era, a mildly unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman from England, Wormold struggles to bring up his ripening daughter Milly. One of his problems is cash - until one day a certain gentleman comes along ...

BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Friday 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Based on the novel by:
Graham Greene
Dramatised by:
Gregory Evans
Director:
Brian Miller
Wormold:
Jack Watling
Hasselbacher:
George Pravda
Milly:
Julia Hills
Hawthorne:
James Kerry
Chief:
Geoffrey Matthews
Miss Jenkinson:
Elizabeth Havelock
Lopez:
Scott Cherry

with Alec McCowen The second of three programmes compiled and written by BARRY CARMAN Narrator JOHN ROWE After his first idyllic years In Egypt Joseph McPherson was caught up tn the Middle East conflicts of the Great
War. He served as a Red Cross officer at Galllpoli and then as a lieutenant In the Camel Transport
Corps In the Sinai desert. In his letters to relatives In England, now published for the first time, he describes these experiences and concludes with a moving farewell to his life as a soldier and to his beloved horse Tammuz: ' My day's delight Is past. my horse Is gone.'
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Alec McCowen
Written By:
Barry Carman
Producer:
Alan Haydock

A special edition of the musical panel game devised by EDWARD j. MASON and TONY SHRYANE to celebrate 300 years of a theatre at Sadler's Wells.
Frank Muir and John Amis challenge Denis Norden and Ian Wallace
Chairman Steve Race Questions complied by STEVE RACE
Producers TONY SHRYANE and PETE ATKIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Steve Race
Producers:
Tony Shryane
Producers:
Pete Atkin

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