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talks, for the Week's 's Good Cause, about the need for clear and impartial advice to enable people to help themselves reduce the risks of heart disease.
Donations to: Jonathan Dimbleby , The Coronary Prevention Group,
[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby

from St Michael's Parish Church, Linlithgow Led by the Minister, THE REV IAN PATERSON
Readings: Isaiah 61, w 1.4,8.11; Mark 7, w 31-37;
Hymns (ch3): Immortal, invisible (32); Come, let us to the Lord (69); Lord of the light (510); All my hope on God is founded (405)
Organist ANDREW SUTHERLAND Conductor TOM innes BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Paterson
Organist:
Andrew Sutherland

Old-Tyme Disco by BRUCE STEWART with Faraday edits a communist weekly in a small office over a disco, where favourites from the 50s are played on an electric organ. Within the same 24 hours, figures from his past reappear to haunt him: Father Culper with whom he once conducted public debates, and his ex-wife Laura.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Stewart
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Tom Faraday:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Fr Culper, sj:
Maurice Denham
Laura:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt

by Agatha Christie
The last of six parts dramatised by Michael Bakewell
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'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' is an adage Derek Kettering isn't likely to forget since his snubbed mistress, the tempestuous Mirelle, has denounced him to the police as his wife's murderer! But somehow Hercule Poirot just can't get that mysterious figure 'the Marquis' out of his mind.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast Wednesday 12.27pm)
(Starting next Sunday: 'Lord of Misrule by Gareth Jones)

Contributors

Author:
Agatha Christie
Dramatised by:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
David Johnston
Hercule Poirot:
Maurice Denham
Katherine Grey:
Janet Maw
Rufus Van Aldin:
Robert Beatty
Major Knighton:
Michael Deacon
Lenox:
Moir Leslie
Zia:
Jane Leonard
Papopolous:
Ronald Herdman
Monsieur Carrege:
Gordon Reid

Hunter Da vies casts a line into the lake of fishing literature, and Czech-bom writer
Edith Templeton talks about three of her novels, written in English and recently republished, which share the underlying theme of self-deception.

Contributors

Talks:
Edith Templeton

Witness!
'I was only a youngster at the time and it was just a great big holiday really, a great big skylark. I thought it was like any bomb - bang, and you were all right. They didn't tell us about radiation....'
'When people see an atom bomb on television they haven't got a clue. These bombs literally filled everywhere. Everywhere.'
'It's a terrific sight, beautiful: you wonder that something so beautiful could be so destructive. It's as simple as that.'
Between 1952 and 1958 20,000 servicemen witnessed 21 British atmospheric nuclear tests in Australia and the South Pacific.
Derek Robinson presents their testimony - of the bomb and of the deadly legacy it has bequeathed to many of them. Producer SIMON ELMES (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Robinson
Producer:
Simon Elmes

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