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7.10LWSunday Papers
7.15 L WApna Hi Ghar Samajhiye : for Asians BBC Birmingham
7.45 Bells
7.50 Turning Over New Leaves George Target selects a handful of books for recommended holiday reading.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ghar Samajhiye
Unknown:
George Target

Heathrow is the busiest airport in the world and is used by many holiday-makers at this time of year. In the Chapel of St George at Heathrow, Mass is celebrated by the Roman Catholic Bishop in West
London, THE RT REV GERALD MAHON. The service is introduced by BERNARD JACKSON.
Readings (Jerusalem Bible): n Kings 4, vv 42-44; Ephesians 4, vv 1-6; John 6, w 1-15
Hymns (from WORSHIP THE KING):
From the rising of the sun; Jesus we enthrone you; We are a chosen people; My Lord, he is the fairest of the fair
Director of Music MARK HENDY

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Mahon.
Introduced By:
Bernard Jackson.

The glossy Sunday magazine presented by Margo MacDonald Today's edition includes:
The Morning After: Nigel Farrell reports on how one group of people spent Saturday night.
International Exchange: A link-up with other countries around the world.
A Year of My Own: Danny Blanchflower recalls a year that was special for him: 1958, the year in which the Ml was opened, de Gaulle took over in France and the Northern
Ireland football team played in the World Cup finals.
High Noon: Guests in the studio talk over one of the week's topics.
Plus Stephen Frye reaches the parts other colour supplements don't reach.
And Derek Jameson takes a personal look at the day's offerings from Fleet Street. Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
SIMON SHAW. VANESSA HARRISON MARK FIELDER

Contributors

Presented By:
Margo MacDonald
Unknown:
Nigel Farrell
Unknown:
Stephen Frye
Unknown:
Derek Jameson
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Unknown:
Simon Shaw.
Unknown:
Vanessa Harrison
Unknown:
Mark Fielder

3: Simpsons of Piccadilly The Simpsons have been catering for the outfitting needs of the smart man about town for nearly a hundred years, and their elegant sales literature is positively littered with royal warrants. Today the family line is continued by Georgina Simpson , who has widened the company's scope to include the top end of the women's market. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Georgina Simpson
Producer:
Jock Gallagher

Ascension Ritual by EDGAR WHITE with Norman Beaton as Barzey
In London's cold climate Barzey dreams of home - Antigua, 'land of Vivian Richards and cricket and green, green gladness'. But dreams are seldom accurate and he knows that his island memories are as idealised as his childhood picture of England. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar White
Unknown:
Norman Beaton
Unknown:
Vivian Richards

8: Jamaica - Bitter Sweet
In the last of his talks on the Caribbean islands, novelist Joseph Hone visits
Noel Coward 's old home and the bungalow where James Bond was born, before moving into a real romance among the Maroons, a tribe of runaway slaves.
Producer JOY HATWOOD (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Hone
Unknown:
Noel Coward
Unknown:
James Bond

Second of two programmes Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien has spent much of his life writing about Ireland and has been actively involved in Irish politics. Presently he is a Fellow at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he is lecturing on ' The Age of Enlightenment'.
Martin Dillon visited him there and talked to him about his academic life and how his views on Ireland have been shaped by his family background, Roman Catholicism and his Irishness. Producer MARTIN DILLON
(First broadcast on Radio Ulster)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien
Unknown:
Martin Dillon
Producer:
Martin Dillon

In 1901 Dr Edward Wilson sailed for the Antarctic on Discovery as ship's doctor. During the three-year voyage he kept a diary.
'Monday 21 October: We saw our first penguins. We are well down south now, nearly 45'S lat and we are carefully on the lookout for icebergs in this mist....
Stowing medical things again in the afternoon. Found a case of 16 bottles of chloroform and ether knocking about on the mess deck, unlocked.'
Last winter Dr Pete Rowan sailed for the Antarctic on Discovery as ship's doctor. He recorded his own diary and contrasts his experiences with those of Wilson 83 years before. Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Edward Wilson
Unknown:
Dr Pete Rowan
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

0 let us love our occupations Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations
And always know our proper stations.
A reflection of rural life in Victorian England by Neil Philip with music by GEORGE DEACON ISOBEL DEACON
3: White Slaves of England Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol (R) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Philip
Music By:
George Deacon
Music By:
Isobel Deacon
Producer:
John Knight

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