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Religious news and views with Clive Jacobs and Ted Harrison
Researcher ALISON BOGLE Producers DAVID COOMES and BEVERLEY MCAINSH VHF/FM joins at 8.0 am including at 8.0 News

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Ted Harrison
Unknown:
Researcher Alison Bogle
Producers:
David Coomes
Producers:
Beverley McAinsh

from the Orsborn Memorial Halls, Boscombe
Conducted by Maj Norman Howe with the Boscombe Corps of the Salvation Army
Bandmaster GEOFF OTTER
Hymns (Salvation Army Song Book): Thine is the glory; 0 joyful sound, 0 glorious hour; My life must be Christ's broken bread
Songs: Prayer gently lifts me; If crosses come; Take my life
Reading: Colossians 1, vv 13-20 BBCBristol

Contributors

Conducted By:
Maj Norman Howe

by J.R.R. TOLKIEN, adapted in 13 episodes by BRIAN SIBLEY
8: The Voice of Saruman
'So King Theoden rode from
Helm's Gate and clove his path to the great Dike. There the company halted. The land had changed. Where before the green dale had lain, its grassy slopes lapping the ever-mounting hills, there now a forest loomed.'
Narrator Gerard Murphy
With SEAN ARNOLD. JOHN CHURCH
JOHN LIVESEY. GORDON REID and JOHN WEBB
Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN OLIVER Episode adapted by MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Directed by PENNY LEICESTER Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Narrator:
Gerard Murphy
Unknown:
With Sean Arnold.
Unknown:
John Church
Unknown:
John Livesey.
Unknown:
Gordon Reid
Unknown:
John Webb
Conducted By:
Stephen Oliver
Adapted By:
Michael Bakewell
Directed By:
Penny Leicester
Frodo:
Starring Ian Holm
Gandalf:
Michael Hordern
Aragorn:
Robert Stephens
as Gollum and:
Peter Woodthorpe
Sam:
With William Nighy
Merry:
Richard O'Callaghan
Pippin:
John McAndrew
Legolas:
David Collings
Gimli:
Douglas Livingstone
Theoden:
Jack May
Treebeard:
Stephen Thorne
Saruman:
And Peter Howell
Faramir:
Andrew Seear
Eomer:
Anthony Hyde
Grima Wormtongue:
Paul Brooke
Halbarad:
Martyn Read

A series of five programmes in which John Morgan introduces reports and viewpoints from those correspondents whose voices and words created colour pictures on radio long before television
1: James Cameron
ANNE HOWELLS

Contributors

Introduces:
John Morgan
Unknown:
James Cameron
Unknown:
Anne Howells

In 1864 Richard Watt sailed for Brisbane. In the second of four programmes Joan Leach introduces extracts from his diary of the 14-week voyage. With Pearce Quigley as Watt Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Watt
Introduces:
Joan Leach
Unknown:
Pearce Quigley
Unknown:
Watt Producer Gillian

3: Yiddish
A language without a country (Israel chose Hebrew), Yiddish is spoken by 16-year-old Tamara Held and her parents in London. Ray Gosling also met
Chris Hutton , who is doing research in Yiddish at Oxford and Columbia, New York - but who is not Jewish. Producer JENNY LO (R)
For free information leaflet send a large sae to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Tamara Held
Unknown:
Chris Hutton
Producer:
Jenny Lo

A biblical adventure story by LLOYD c. DOUGLAS , adapted in six episodes by DAVID BUCK
3: The Way to Athens in which Marcellus Gallio discovers the true power of Christ's robe and Demetrius is under threat of death.
Narrator EDWARD DE SOUZA
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS. Stereo (Re-broadcast on Friday at 3.0pm) (Cyril Shaps is a National Theatre Player)

Contributors

Story By:
Lloyd C. Douglas
Unknown:
David Buck
Unknown:
Marcellus Gallio
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins.
as Marcellus Gallio with:
Anton Lesser
as Senator Gallio:
Bernard Hepton
Demetrius:
Stuart Organ
Tiberius:
Edward de Souza
Diana:
And Helena Breck
Paulus:
David Buck
Sextus:
Henry Stamper
Tertia:
Deborah Makepeace
Marcipor:
Manning Wilson
Lucia:
Susie Brann
Cornelia:
Pauline Letts
Dion/Centurion:
Brian Hewlett
Theodosia:
Sue Broomfield
Chamberlain:
Alan Dudley
Benjamin:
Cyril Shaps
Prince Gaius:
Keith Drinkel
Captain Manius:
Sean Arnold
Quintus:
Christian Rodska

How the English Church passed through times of trial, growth, corruption, decline, persecution and reformation to its threshold of triumph in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Dramatised from Foxe's Book of Martyrs in three episodes by COLIN MCLAREN
1: The Morning Star
'When the world was in a lamentable state, Wycliffe stepped forth like a radiant champion.'
Voices from the book played by KAREN ASCOE. SUSIE BRANN
JOHN BULL , AVRIL CLARK
RICHARD DURDEN. DAVID GARTH
DAVID GOODLAND. PAUL GREGORY and BRIAN HEWLETT
Radiophonic music by ELIZABETH PARKER Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Directed by JUDITH BUMPUS and PIERS PLOWRIGHT. Stereo
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Contributors

Unknown:
Colin McLaren
Played By:
Karen Ascoe.
Played By:
Susie Brann
Played By:
John Bull
Unknown:
Avril Clark
Unknown:
Richard Durden.
Unknown:
Paul Gregory
Unknown:
Brian Hewlett
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker
Directed By:
Judith Bumpus
Directed By:
Piers Plowright.
John Foxe:
With Paul Rogers
and as Thomas Grigsby:
Bernard Hepton

by NESTA PAIN
Narrator Michael Hordern 'After mating, the biting fly must have a drink of blood. This need once satisfied, she proceeds to perform the last task of her brief life. She flies to a pond or stream. She balances her front legs on a floating straw, and she crosses her back legs.... an egg drops down. It's resting in the angle of her crossed legs.... and another.... and another.... a whole stream of them. The eggs are cemented together to form ... yes, it's launched. It's a boat! Off it goes, bobbing on the water.'
Music composed and conducted by ANTONY HOPKINS performed by members of the THAMES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS Stereo (R)

Contributors

Narrator:
Michael Hordern
Directed By:
John Theocharis

A series of five programmes presented by Anthony Smith 4: A Bite from the Jungle
The Brazilians punching holes in the forests of the Amazon
Basin find that holes are being punched in them. The insects that bite them often carry diseases, such as the dreadfully disfiguring leishmaniasis. Anthony Smith follows the medical pioneers of the Amazon and takes a few bites from the extraordinary produce that makes the forest a little healthier than it might have been. Producer GEORGE MONBIOT BBCBristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Anthony Smith
Unknown:
Anthony Smith
Producer:
George Monbiot

Imitations by MICHAEL BUTT with Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Allan McClelland
Kathleen, Lady Kennet - successful sculptor and widow of Scott of the Antarctic - records in her Journals that, in 1937, Bernard Shaw had a number of sittings for his portrait head. One of their favourite topics of conversation was the question of how an artist 'imitates' life - by what means a legend is brought to life. Michael Butt has written his version of what took place during those sittings, with the help of extracts from Lady Kennet's Journals.
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Unknown:
Allan McClelland
Unknown:
Bernard Shaw
Unknown:
Michael Butt
Directed By:
John Theocharis

Today Jews throughout the world commemorate victims of the Holocaust. Rabbi Martin
Van den Berg, of the Withington Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Manchester, leads a meditation to mark the occasion.
MANCHESTER JEWISH MALE VOICE
CHOIR choirmaster ADRIAN ISAACS Producer NOEL VINCENT BBC Manchester Stereo

Contributors

Choirmaster:
Adrian Isaacs
Producer:
Noel Vincent

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