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talks, for the Week's Good
Cause, about successful work being undertaken to provide a range of accommodation helping young people move on from their first crisis of homelessness to secure long-term accommodation; and about the developments of associated work concerning homeless young people.
Donations to: Centrepoint Soho, [address removed]

from Highfield URC, Birkenhead
The service is led by the minister, THE REV COUN RICHARDS with the Highfield Worship Group. The preacher is the Moderator of the Mersey Province of the United Reformed Church,
THE REV JOHN WILLIAMSON
Readings (GNB): Zephania 3, w 14-20; James 5, vv 14-16a; Mark 1, w 32-34 and 2, vv 1-12
Hymns: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Congregational
Praise 45); Through the night of doubt and sorrow (cp 504); We give God thanks (HFTC 318); There's a spirit in the air (NCP 98)
Organist PAT WOOD BBC Manchester

Arthur's Angel by KEN BLAKESON with Patricia Hayes Brian Glover and Jon Strickland
In all his years in psychiatric care, Arthur has spoken to no one. Now another patient, Nelly Fothergill , arrives on the scene. Soon she is reviving his interest in life, announcing their engagement and telling the authorities she wants to set up home with him.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Blakeson
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Brian Glover
Unknown:
Jon Strickland
Unknown:
Nelly Fothergill
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Bill Peacock:
Jon Strickland
Geoff Mannaway:
Brett Usher
Alison Whitely:
Maggie McCarthy
Jim Blackmore:
Brian Glover
Nelly Fothergill:
Patricia Hayes
Arthur Watson:
Brian Haines
Ann Owram:
Helena Breck
Raschid:
Colin Starkey
Landlady/Elsie ,:
Carole Boyd

The last of six programmes in which Kenneth Hudson looks at the way history is viewed. Dr Jenner of Berkeley
Until the end of the 18th century people were more terrified of smallpox than any other disease. Those who contracted it suffered dreadfully before they died. Those who survived bore its marks for the rest of their lives. Wealth and privilege were no protection against hideous disfigurement.
This is the story of a country doctor who began the slow process of its eradication. Readers SEAN BARRETT
ALAN DUDLEY and MARTIN FRIEND Producer JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Hudson
Readers:
Sean Barrett
Readers:
Alan Dudley
Producer:
John Knight.

Brian Johnston visits Mansfield. The town, surrounded by the North
Nottinghamshire Coalfield, was once the centre of Sherwood Forest and still enjoys its association with the legend of Robin Hood.
Producer JILL MARSHALL BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11.0am LW)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Robin Hood.
Producer:
Jill Marshall

One Baptism
Last month's launch of a 'movement for the reform of infant baptism' drew attention to a growing dilemma in Britain's churches. Should the Church baptise infants on demand or is baptism a sacrament to be reserved for adult converts?
Trevor Bames reports.
Researcher AMANDA HANCOX Producer and series editor BEVERLEYMCAINSH

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Bames
Unknown:
Amanda Hancox

by CHARLES DICKENS. dramatised in ten episodes by BETTY DAVIES
and Narrator Simon Cadell 4: Hail Columbia
'I am going to America, dear Mary, with great prospects of doing well, and of returning home myself very soon to claim you for my wife: which after such trials, I should do so with no fear of your still thinking it a duty to cleave to him who will not suffer me to live, if he can help it, in my own land.'
With ELAINE CLAXTON
STUART ORGAN. JENNIFER PIERCEY and MAJOR WILEY
Directed by JANE MORGAN. Stereo (Re-broadcast on Friday at 3. 0pm) (Patricia Hayes is in 'The House of Bemarda Alba at the Globe Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles McKens.
Unknown:
Betty Davies
Narrator:
Simon Cadell
Unknown:
Elaine Claxton
Unknown:
Jennifer Piercey
Directed By:
Jane Morgan.
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
as Mrs Gamp with:
Patricia Hayes
as Mr Pecksniff:
Christopher Benjamin
Charity:
Angela Pleasence
Mercy:
Susie Brann
as Anthony Chuzzlewit:
Jack May
Jonas:
Struan Rodger
as Martin Chuzzlewit:
Valentine Pelka
Mark Tapley:
Jonathan Tafler
Colonel Diver:
Edward de Souza
Jefferson Brick:
Kim Wall
Major Pawkins:
Stephen Hattersley
Mr Bevan:
Stephen Thorne
Mrs Norris:
Thelma Whiteley
Mr Norris:
Paul Gregory
General Fladdock:
Steven Harrold
Old Chuffey:
Norman Jones
DrJobling:
Bernard Brown
Mr Mould:
Tim Reynolds

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