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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: Pauline Webb reads from True to Experience by HARRY WILLIAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Ghar Samajhiye
Unknown:
Pauline Webb
Unknown:
Harry Williams

for Whit Sunday from Lansdowne Baptist
Church, Bournemouth Hymns: Sing to God new songs of worship; Holy
Spirit, hear us; 0 breath of life; 0 how the grace of God
Reading: Acts 2, vv 1-21 Pastor
THE REV MICHAEL BUSS Organist NIGEL FORD

Contributors

Organist:
Michael Buss
Organist:
Nigel Ford

Dad's Army based on the original TV series by JIMMY PERRY and DAVID CROFT starring Arthur Lowe John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
The King was in his Counting House
When a bomb falls on the strong-room of Mainwaring's bank, the platoon are set to guard the money. But first they must count it - every penny. featuring John Laurie Arnold Ridley Ian Lavender with BILL PERTWEE.
LARRY MARTYN. WENDY RICHARD and JOHN SNAGGE adapted for radio by HAROLD SNOAD and MICHAEL KNOWLES Producer JOHN DYAS
(First broadcast in 1975)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Perry
Unknown:
David Croft
Unknown:
Arthur Lowe
Unknown:
John Le Mesurier
Unknown:
Clive Dunn
Unknown:
John Laurie
Unknown:
Arnold Ridley
Unknown:
Ian Lavender
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee.
Unknown:
Larry Martyn.
Unknown:
Wendy Richard
Unknown:
John Snagge
Unknown:
Harold Snoad
Unknown:
Michael Knowles
Producer:
John Dyas

President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia
Since its independence in 1964, President Kaunda has played an important role in seeking to resolve conflicts in Angola,
Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Today, linked to London via satellite from Lusaka, he answers your questions and those of listeners around the world. In the Chair Michael Charlton Producers ELISABETH MARDALL
for the Woman's 's Hour unit; DAN ZERDIN for World Service
Lines open from 10.30 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Kaunda
Unknown:
Michael Charlton
Producers:
Elisabeth Mardall

Paradise Garden Attained by DOUGLAS SLATER
Specially commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Delius's death on 10 June 1934, this play deals with his early life in Bohemian Paris and the meeting with the woman who was to become his wife.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Slater
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
as Fritz Delius with:
Charles Dance
as Jelka Rosen:
Anna Massey

Seven programmes with Malcolm Billings 5: The Great Hall of the Archbishop's Palace at Canterbury
Archbishop Hubert Walter began the Great Hall at the end of the 12th century and Archbishop Langton completed it by July 1220, when the Palace was visited by a number of important guests for the Translation of the body of St Thomas a Becket to the new shrine in the Cathedral. Never before the subject of detailed study, the Great Hall has now been excavated for the first time.
Reader HUGH DICKSON Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Billings
Unknown:
Hubert Walter
Reader:
Hugh Dickson
Producer:
John Knight

On the first Whit Sunday the disciples found themselves speaking a common language which all their listeners could understand. In this conversation with Philip Crowe , Sister
Joan Chittister , an American Benedictine nun and Pastor Michael Zhidkov of Moscow Baptist
Church, meet for the first time and look for common experiences and hopes which they can share as Christian believers from two vastly different cultures. Producer
MICHAEL SHOESMITH
Series editor JOHN NEWBURY BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Crowe
Unknown:
Joan Chittister
Unknown:
Michael Zhidkov

The BBC's Southern Africa correspondent,
Graham Leach , describes the stark contrasts in a city where South Africa's richest whites come face to face with the country's largest black workforce. Racially mixed by day, Johannesburg reverts to apartheid at night, when the blacks have to return to their Group Areas and the whites, in their affluent, garden suburbs, give barbecue and 'sundowner' parties.
Producer zareer MASANI

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Leach

Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,
And lighten with celestial fire!
A meditation upon the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost by H. Colin Davies with the BSC SINGERS directed by JOHN POOLE
Organist THOMAS TROTTER Producer DAVID CRAIG

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Colin Davies
Directed By:
John Poole
Organist:
Thomas Trotter
Producer:
David Craig

byW. SOMERSET MAUGHAM dramatised in four episodes by JEFFREY SEGAL
2: Loose in Paris
Freed from the strait-jacket of respectability, Strickland is prepared to starve for his art. Those who befriend him, it seems, are required to suffer too.
Directed by JOHN CARDY (Repeated: Fri 3.0 pm)
(Margaret Whiting is in 'Number One' at the Queens Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
W. Somerset Maugham
Unknown:
Jeffrey Segal
Directed By:
John Cardy
Unknown:
Margaret Whiting
as Maugham with:
Ronald Pickup
as Charles Strickland:
Patrick Allen
as Amy Strickland:
Margaret Whiting
as Dirk Stroeve:
Ronnie Stevens
as Blanche Stroeve:
Rosalind Ayres
Dealer:
James Bryce
Jouvert:
William Hope

The story of the Crusades as told in the words of those who lived through them by JOHN SCOTNEY
6: The Rivers of Babylon 'Heavenly comfort will bear us up. Either we will thrust these people back into hell, or if we are conquered, we ourselves will go to the Lord as martyrs.'
The Crusade of St Louis, King of France, and the final loss of the Holy Land.
Music by PHILIP PICKETT and the NEW LONDON CONSORT, with plainchant by CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS and DAVID WALLJS AND ANTHONY WALLJS Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
John Scotney
Music By:
Philip Pickett
Unknown:
Christopher Francis
Unknown:
David Walljs
Unknown:
Anthony Walljs
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughun
William of Tyre:
Cyril Cusack
Joinville:
John Rowe
St Louis:
Steve Hodson
Queen Blanche:
Penelope Lee
St Alban's chronicle:
Geoffrey Coluns
Oliver the Scholastic:
Geoffrey Matthews
St Francis:
William Eedle
James of Vitry:
Timothy Bateson
Messenger:
Henry Stamper
Sultan of Egypt:
Garard Green
Ibn Al-Athir:
Sam Dastor
Ibn Wasil:
Renu Setna
Emperor Frederick:
Bill Walljs

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