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with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6 45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CABS
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Harriet Cabs

with Richard Baker.

Call Thursday Exchange on [number removed] and cross-question the guests as they examine one of the week's main talking points with Peter Hobday.

As usual at 10.30 Morning Story read by Peter Adamson as Harry Kemp, a northern photographer
3: The Hammock Tree by Jill Norris
Produced by the Rollercoaster unit

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Baker
Presenter (Thursday Exchange):
Peter Hobday
Reader (Morning Story):
Peter Adamson
Author (The Hammock Tree):
Jill Norris

at the Service in Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire Order of Service
Hymn: Praise to the Holiest in the height
Mandatum: The Lord High Almoner, the Bishop of Rochester
Opening Responses: The Vicar Choral Psalm 138
Responses and prayers: CANON DAVID KEENE
Anthem: Lord, for thy tender mercies' sake (16th century anon)
Lesson: John 13, w 1-16 read by Canon Leslie Morley
First Distribution of Maundy Gifts, during which the following anthems are sung:
0 pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Howells) Wash me throughly (S. S. Wesley)
Lesson: Matthew 25, vv 31-45, read by HRH
The Duke of Edinburgh
Second Distribution Ave Verum (Byrd)
Zadok the Priest (Handel) Prayers and thanksgiving: THE PROVOST OF SOUTHWELL Hymn: All my hope on God is founded
The National Anthem Blessing:
THE BISHOP OF SOUTHWELL Service conducted by The Provost, THE VERY REV MURRAY IRVINE and members of the Chapter CHOIRS OF HER MAJESTY'S CHAPEL ROYAL. ST JAMES'S PALACE and SOUTHWELL
MINSTER
Organist PETER WOOD Directors of Music
RICHARD POPPLEWELL and KENNETH BEARD Scene described by PETER JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon David Keene
Read By:
Canon Leslie
Organist:
Peter Wood
Unknown:
Richard Popplewell
Unknown:
Peter Jones

Ian Carmichael presents a tribute to the late Alan Melville, the great master of Intimate Revue. A nostalgic journey through his words and music with the memories of Dame Anna Neagle, Hermione Gingold, Dora Bryan, Hermione Baddeley, Beryl Reid, Dulcie Gray and Dickie Henderson.
Written and researched by JOHN PRESTON
Producer ANDY ALIFFE (Rev rpt: Sat 5.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Carmichael
Unknown:
Alan Melville
Unknown:
Dame Anna Neagle
Unknown:
Hermione Gingold
Unknown:
Dora Bryan
Unknown:
Hermione Baddeley
Unknown:
Beryl Reid
Unknown:
Dulcie Gray
Unknown:
Dickie Henderson.
Unknown:
John Preston
Producer:
Andy Aliffe

with Sue MacGregor
A God of Many Colours: Mountstuart Primary School in Cardiff can boast 23 nationalities among its pupils. SESI
MCCOMBIE reports on the way they are learning to work and pray together. A Loving Mistress by ROSEMARY FRIEDMAN abridged in six parts by MEG CLARKE
Read by EVE KARPF (6)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Friedman
Unknown:
Meg Clarke
Read By:
Eve Karpf

Agnus Dei by LOUISE PAGE with Margaret Tyzack Rosalind Shanks and Philip Voss
AGNES: He called me in the same way he did to be a nun....
What makes my certainty about the priesthood so different? Except that the church won't give me a chance to test it?
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Tyzack
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Unknown:
Philip Voss
Directed By:
Vanessa Whitburn
Agnes:
Margaret Tyzack
Tess:
Rosalind Shanks
Gerald:
Philip Voss
Lucia:
Carole Hayman
Brother Simon:
John Gillett
Fr Paul:
Frank Gatuff
Nigel:
David Straun

Meteorologists tend to describe their forecasting ability as 'skill' - an indication of the part still played by intuition and experience in predicting the weather. Reasonable forecasts can now be made days, weeks and even years in advance. But will they ever be completely accurate?
In the second of two programmes, Anthony Smith explores the obstacles in the path of the perfect forecast.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Smith
Producer:
Geoff Deehan

A series of ten montage documentaries
3: American Airways - Boston to Mobile
Try the Guido's pizza blindfold test: eat a Guido pizza then eat a blindfold. Today's Nugget o' Truth is brought to you by the Living Waters Community Fellowship ...
Have you ever done it in a helicopter?
See if your can tell the difference.
Three 17-year-old boys admitted yesterday they had shot a man with a bazooka. They said they were out to get vagrants, commies and welfare recipients....
The first of two programmes tracing a journey through the USA in the sound of some of her 9,698 radio stations. Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester

Contributors

Producer:
Peter Everett

One day in May 1913, 81 cadets, including the young Louis Battenberg , stood on the quay at Portsmouth Docks awaiting the arrival of the Admiralty launch which would take them across the Solent to Osborne Naval College.
Each year the surviving members of the 'Exmouth Term 1913' meet for an anniversary lunch at a Salisbury hotel.
Narrator Tom Salmon
Compiled by BRIAN HAWKINS Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Louis Battenberg
Unknown:
Brian Hawkins
Producer:
John Knight

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