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from Victoria Methodist
Church, Bristol conducted by THE REV JOHN DUCKER
Hymns (Hymns and Psalms): God is love, let heaven adore him (36); For the healing of the nations (402); Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love (145);
For the fruits of his creation, thanks be to God (342); God is Love, his the care (220)
Lessons: Deuteronomy 15, vv 7-11 (Rsv); Luke 16, w 19-31 (NEB)
Choirmistress MERYL MARKALL Organist HAZEL WICKHAM BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
John Ducker
Organist:
Choirmistress Meryl Markall
Organist:
Hazel Wickham

Presented by Sarah Kennedy and reporter Nigel Farrell Today's edition includes:
Private Lives: Magician Paul Daniels , his parents and magician son Martin talk to Nicholas Parsons at their Buckinghamshire home.
A Muse with the News: Roger Woddis 's Rhyming Times
A Year of My Own: The Rt
Hon Leon Brittan , mp, qc, the Home Secretary, has chosen the 12 months from June 1980. Sunday Beef: Astrologer Russell Grant has a few unpredictable words about county boundaries.
High Noon: issue of the week
International Exchange
The Tribes of Britain: Nigel 'Just the Ticket' Farrell with the traffic wardens of Birmingham.
Plus Right to Reply
Producers PETER ESTALL
VIRGINIA HENRY , SIMON SHAW Woddis On: page 82

Contributors

Presented By:
Sarah Kennedy
Reporter:
Nigel Farrell
Unknown:
Paul Daniels
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Roger Woddis
Unknown:
Leon Brittan
Unknown:
Russell Grant
Producers:
Peter Estall
Unknown:
Virginia Henry
Unknown:
Simon Shaw

Absolute Decline by STEPHEN JEFFREYS
Becky, a very bright young student, is caught between three men and three worlds.
She must choose. Her method of choosing and her final choice are equally surprising. Directed by CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Jeffreys
Directed By:
Caroline Smith
Keith Fuller:
Lewis Fiander
Trueman:
Wyllie Longmore
Becky:
Patience Tomlinson

Potteric Can
Hemmed in by factories, criss-crossed by rail and motorways and undermined by coal pits, Potteric Carr is still a spectacular bit of coot, grebe and mallard ridden Yorkshire marshland. Presenter Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tuesday 8.30 pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison

LONDON V SCOTLAND
The resident London team of Eric Korn and Irene Thomas battle with Robin Duff and Robert Kernohan
Chairmen Gordon Clough and Louis Allen
Researcher BERNICE COUPE Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Korn
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Robin Duff
Unknown:
Robert Kernohan
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Louis Allen
Unknown:
Bernice Coupe
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

Dramatised in six parts from his novel by Ted Willis

Responsibility for kidnapping the Prime Minister and his wife has been claimed by a group calling itself the People's Action Brigade. After the initial shock of his capture, the PM is beginning to challenge his captors. For the first time he has been allowed to see his wife.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Author/Dramatised by:
Ted Willis
Director:
Graham Gauld
Jack Stoddart:
Leslie Sands
Jess Stoddart:
Mary Wimbush
Victor:
Cyril Shaps
Commander Knowles:
Geoffrey Matthews
Hugh Lashwood:
Preston Lockwood
Valchik:
Anthony Daniels
Karel:
Jonathan Owen
Jane:
Moir Leslie
James Lang:
Arnold Diamond
Home Secretary:
Leslie Heritage
Insp Wiley:
Scott Cherry
Det Insp Martin:
Colin Starkey
Ben Tomkins:
David Goudge
Cheryl:
Helen Atkinson Wood
WP Sgt Bellamy:
Ellen McIntosh
Marlow:
Lewis Stringer

Fifty years ago this week, an explosion and fire in the Gresford Colliery in North
Wales claimed the lives of 266 men. Most of the bodies could not be recovered, and the Dennis section where the miners died was sealed, and became their grave. The inquiry that followed sat for nearly two years, but produced no answer as to why the explosion happened. The stars of the inquiry were Sir
Stafford Cripps for the miners and, for the coal owners, Lord Shawcross, who speaks about it for the first time.
Eric Robson tells the story of the disaster and its aftermath, with contributions from the people involved, including one of the survivors.
Dramatised parts played by PHILIP GEORGE , IOAN MEREDITH , ANTHONY MURRAY ,
BRIAN SOUTHWOOD , ADRIAN STOKES and BRETT USHER
Compiled and presented by ERIC ROBSON
Producer LIZ CARNEY BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Stafford Cripps
Unknown:
Eric Robson
Played By:
Philip George
Played By:
Ioan Meredith
Played By:
Anthony Murray
Unknown:
Brian Southwood
Unknown:
Adrian Stokes
Unknown:
Brett Usher
Presented By:
Eric Robson
Producer:
Liz Carney

by CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD dramatised by ERIC EWENS
Part One
In 1930 William Bradshaw, a young teacher of English, is on the train to Berlin. As he nears the German border he asks his fellow passenger for a light. The older man opposite him reveals an obvious state of nervous anxiety. This chance meeting leads to a strange and bizarre friendship. German Official/Policeman
DANNY SCHILLER
Directed by DAVID SPENSER Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Isherwood
Dramatised By:
Eric Ewens
Unknown:
Danny Schiller
Directed By:
David Spenser
Mr Norris:
David March
William Bradshaw:
Michael Maloney
Helen Pratt:
Sheila Grant
Fraulein Schroeder:
Hilda Schroder
Friedrich/Otto:
Haydn Wood
Waiter:
Spencer Banks
Schmidt:
Adrian Egan
Baron von Pregnitz:
Sean Arnold
Whore/Portress:
Denica Fairman
Anni:
Deborah Paige
Bayer:
Wolf Kahler

There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand For thinking, dreaming, dying on, and at crises when I stand, Say, on Ingpen Beacon eastward, or on Wylls-Neck westwardly, I seem where I was before my birth, and after death may be.
(THOMAS HARDY )
Desmond Hawkins concludes his journey through the partly-real, partly-dream country Hardy portrayed with such intensity in his poems and novels and which appears to us now with many of its associations still unchanged and undimmed. and DOUGLAS LEACH
Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol
Stereo IBinaural
The full binaural effect can only be heard through stereo headphones

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
Desmond Hawkins
Unknown:
Douglas Leach
Producer:
John Knight
Thomas Hardy:
Nigel Stock
Readers:
Pauline Wynn

A handsome, self-indulgent man (he may be a clergyman or anthropologist) is an object of interest to 'excellent women' and dry-witted female realism is tempered by female romanticism, in the pursuit of 'something to love.' This is the fictional world of Barbara Pym, who died in 1980. Her real world, connecting and contrasting, is revealed in her letters and diaries.
She herself is remembered by friends and Hilary, her sister. Her written words are read by Brenda Bruce
Presented and produced by PAMELA HOWE
BBC Bristol (Extended repeat)

Contributors

Read By:
Brenda Bruce
Produced By:
Pamela Howe

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