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Parish Mass from the Church of St Edmund and St Frideswide, Oxford Celebrant and preacher FR PASCHAL BURUNSON
Readings: Proverbs 12, v 13 and 16-19; Psalm 85; Romans 8, vv 26-27; Matthew 13, vv 24-30
Hymns: The church of God a Kingdom is; The church's one foundation
Organist JOHN BRENNAN BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Fr Paschal Burunson
Organist:
John Brennan

The glossy new Sunday magazine presented by Sarah Kennedy and reporter Nigel Farrell.
One hundred minutes to reflect on some of the serious issues of the past week and to smile at some others.
Today's edition includes:
Private Lives: Derek Jameson visits the Hampstead home of the former leader of the Labour Party, The Rt Hon Michael Foot , MP and his wife Jill Craigie.
A Muse with the News: The week in verse by Roger Woddis.
A Year of My Own:
Tom Robinson , musician and singer has selected 1977 - the year he stopped 'signing on' and began signing autographs.
Sunday Beef: The Rt Hon Shirley Williams ,
President of the SDP beefs about why looks are unimportant
High Noon: The Colour
Supplement's issue of the week. Showbiz Column: Man with binoculars and hidden microphone - Peter Noble.
International Exchange: A live link-up between radio stations around the world.
The Tribes of Britain: Nigel Farrell continues to infiltrate.
Plus the week's guest who has a Right to Reply
Producers PETER ESTALL
VIRGINIA HENRY and SIMON SHAW

Contributors

Presented By:
Sarah Kennedy
Reporter:
Nigel Farrell.
Unknown:
Derek Jameson
Unknown:
Michael Foot
Unknown:
Jill Craigie.
Unknown:
Roger Woddis.
Unknown:
Tom Robinson
Unknown:
Shirley Williams
Unknown:
Peter Noble.
Unknown:
Nigel Farrell
Unknown:
Simon Shaw

Campus Blues by ANDREW DAVIES with at Westchester Campus was to be one of the high points of Karl's career. Anything, after all, is a step up from Michigan State. Or is it? Learning is not something they have a lot of time for in Westchester. But the extra-curricular activities can be fun, as his wife Sally-Anne discovers.
'Campus blues' sung and performed by MITCH DALTON
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Davies
Unknown:
Mitch Dalton
Directed By:
Jeremy Mortimer
Karl:
Garrick Hagon
Sally-Anne:
Shelley Thompson
Arthur:
Christopher Godwin
lecturer:
Coming To England

A further series of the urbane quiz, described as English beyond the dreams of Wodehouse - and utterly unintelligible in which the resident London team of Irene Thomas and Eric Korn challenge six regional teams. This week LONDON v WALES
Fred Nicholls and Jack Jones flex their lobes on, among other things, the glittering connection between Jean-Paul Sartre and half a pound of butter
Chairmen Gordon Clough and Louis Allen
Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Eric Korn
Unknown:
Jack Jones
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Louis Allen
Unknown:
Researcher Bernice
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

On the eve of the Olympics, the BBC's New York correspondent James Cox , explores the city of the Angels where the Russians fear to tread. He finds it in many ways a lotus-land, but the lotus-eaters seem oblivious of how they're destroying their own version of the American dream. The golden Californian sunshine is all too often obscured by a purple smog, and the dream factory of Hollywood is built on the hard reality of slums like the Watts ghetto.

Contributors

Unknown:
James Cox

by EVELYN WAUGH dramatised in 11 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL withand
4: Nine weeks of 'flap' of alternating chaos and order.
The Halberdiers were far from the battle, but delicate nerves stretched to them from the front where the Allied armies were falling apart; each new shock carried its small painful agitation to the extremities. with PETER BALDWIN ,
SANDRA CLARK , SAM DASTOR , ALAN DUDLEY , TONY MATTHEWS , SION PROBERT and HUGH ROSS
Title music played by the BAND OF THE ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT Director of Music
MAJOR WILLIAM ALLEN
Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh
Unknown:
Barry Campbell
Unknown:
Peter Baldwin
Unknown:
Sandra Clark
Unknown:
Sam Dastor
Unknown:
Alan Dudley
Unknown:
Tony Matthews
Unknown:
Sion Probert
Unknown:
Hugh Ross
Unknown:
Major William Allen
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Guy Crouchback:
Hugh Dickson
Apthorpe:
Norman Rodway
Brigadier Ritchie-Hook:
Patrick Troughton
Mr Crouchback:
Carleton Hobbs
the Narrator:
Hugh Burden
Major Erskine:
William Eedle
Col Tickeridge:
Vernon Joyner
Nameless Major:
Cuve Swift
Sarum-Smith:
John Bull
de Souza:
Sean Arnold
Leonard:
David Timson
Daisy Leonard:
Carole Boyd
Brig Jameson:
Hugh Sullivan

Cecil Lewis , in a scripted conversation with Joy Harrison , recalls the life and ideas of the philosopher-mystic Gurdjieff, who had a great influence on many of his contemporaries in the period between the two World Wars. 3: A vain thing

Contributors

Unknown:
Cecil Lewis
Unknown:
Joy Harrison

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