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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
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves: John Coutts selects readings from Fear No Evil by DAVID WATSON.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ghar Samajhiye
Unknown:
John Coutts
Unknown:
David Watson.

Community Mass from the Chapel of Thornhill Convent in the Diocese of Derry
Celebrant and preacher FR JOHN MCCULLAGH
COLMCILLE LADIES' CHOIR conductor PATRICK CARLIN Organist TONY CARUN
Readings (JB): Acts 1, vv 12-14; I Peter 4, vv 13-16; John 17, vv 1-11
Hymns: 0 praise ye the Lord (Parry); Lift thine eyes (Mendelssohn); Dona nobis pacem (Carlin);
Panis Angelicus (Franck); God be in my head (Davies)
Responsorial Psalm: Sing praise (Haan)
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Fr John McCullagh
Conductor:
Patrick Carlin

Dad's Army based on the original TV series by JIMMY PERRY and DAVID CROFT starring Arthur Lowe
John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
Room at the Bottom featuring John Laurie Arnold Ridley with JOHN RINGHAM
JACK WATSON and JOHN SNAGGE adapted for radio by HAROLD SNOAD and MICHAEL KNOWLES
Producer JOHN DYAS
(First broadcast in 1974)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Perry
Unknown:
David Croft
Unknown:
Arthur Lowe
Unknown:
John Le Mesurier
Unknown:
Clive Dunn
Unknown:
John Laurie
Unknown:
Arnold Ridley
Unknown:
John Ringham
Unknown:
Jack Watson
Unknown:
John Snagge
Unknown:
Harold Snoad
Unknown:
Michael Knowles
Producer:
John Dyas

Sir Robert Muldoon , Prime Minister of New Zealand
Described both as an extreme right Tory and a patriotic pragmatist,
Sir Robert Muldoon has called the EEC's Common Agriculture Policy
'economic lunacy'. An accountant by training, he is strongly in favour of new international initiatives to formulate long-term remedies to the world's economic problems. In a programme chaired by Michael Charlton , he answers your questions and those of listeners to World Service.
Producers
ELISABETH MARDALL for the Woman's Hour unit, DAN ZERDIN for World Service
Lines open from 10.30 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Robert Muldoon
Unknown:
Sir Robert Muldoon
Unknown:
Michael Charlton
Unknown:
Elisabeth Mardall

Orlando by VIRGINIA WOOLF dramatised for radio by PETER BUCKMAN withand
Orlando was born in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and lived into that of George V. He entered life as a boy and she left it as a woman. Who was this strange creature?
Music composed by JAMES WALKER and played by JAMES WALKER and SIMON WALKER
Directed by PENNY GOLD
(Jennie Stoller is in 'Cries from the Mammal House' at the Royal Court Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Buckman
Composed By:
James Walker
Played By:
James Walker
Played By:
Simon Walker
Directed By:
Penny Gold
Unknown:
Jennie Stoller
Orlando:
Jennie Stoller
the Narrator:
Vivian Pickles

Seven programmes in which Malcolm Billings explores the world of archaeology.
4: Gods and Goddesses of the Roman Cotswolds
Gloucestershire is one of the richest areas for the study of Roman religious practice in Britain. This summer the Corinium
Museum in Cirencester - the second largest town in Roman Britain - presents an exhibition which, for the first time, explains religious beliefs held in this area during the Roman occupation.
Producer JOHN knight BBC Bristol long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Billings

Each week a current issue is sounded out for its moral and religious implications.
Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
(JOHN WESLEY )
Is this true? Can we save both God and mammon? Trevor Barnes talks to people - rich and poor - for whom money matters ... and wonders about his own expense account.
Producer JUUA BARSNAN
Series editor JOHN NEWBURY

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wesley
Talks:
Trevor Barnes

Hunter Davies presents Radio 4's good book programme.
This week a medieval murder mystery, a Japanese love story and a new anthology of Gwyn Thomas.
Producer KATE FENTON
(Repeated: Thurs 4.10 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hunter Davies
Unknown:
Gwyn Thomas.
Producer:
Kate Fenton

Continuing the series of talks by BBC foreign correspondents,
David McNeil takes a new look at life in the Holy City. From the rooftops of Old Jerusalem, he savours the smells and sounds of an Arab street market, looks out over the lovingly renovated Jewish quarter just behind, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre just ahead, and admires the Dome of the Rock, gleaming gold in the distance.
Producer ZAREER MASANI

Contributors

Unknown:
David McNeil
Producer:
Zareer Masani

An investigation into the emotional and spiritual consequences of imprisonment, featuring the experience of a man who served a life sentence for murder and armed robbery.
Producer DAVID PEET (First broadcast on Radio Wales)

Contributors

Producer:
David Peet

The story of the Crusades as told in the words of those who lived through them by JOHN SCOTNEY 5: The Queen of Cities
'Now begins the crime the nations of the West committed against Christ's people - the evil the barbarian Franks did us with their bronze collars, their raised eyebrows, their proud and insolent eyes, their shaven faces, their hands always ready to spill blood.'
The events of the fourth Crusade 1198-1204, the sacking of Constantinople.
Music by PHILIP PICKETT and the NEW LONDON CONSORT Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
John Scotney
Music By:
Philip Pickett
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
William of Tyre:
Cyril Cusack
Nicetas Choniates:
Steve Plytas
Villehardouin:
Jack Watson
Robert of Clari:
Geoffrey Bateman
Dandolo:
Haydn Jones
Procopius:
Peter Copley
Anna Comnena:
June Barrie
Joinville:
John Rowe
James of Vitry:
Timothy Bateson
Emperor Alexius:
David March
Emperor Isaac:
Hedley Goodall
Pope Innocent:
Stephen Thorne

... And so we came to the end of the world, where the Patron Saint of Wales sleeps by the Western Sea ...
(Kilvert's Diary, 17 October 1871)
Paul Vaughan makes a pilgrimage to St David's Cathedral, on the coast of Pembrokeshire, to explore its architecture, its music and its history. Producer JOHN POWELL
A Kaleidoscope production

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
John Powell

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