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with reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton
It's the Way They Tell 'Em Donald Scott is a star in Carlisle, but almost unknown in the rest of Britain. Is he a victim of regional variations in humour?

Contributors

Reporters:
Neil Walker
Reporters:
David Clayton
Unknown:
Donald Scott

Religious news and views from home and abroad with Clive Jacobs and Ted Harrison
Producer NORMAN WINTER Editor BEVERLEY MCAINSH including at 8.00 News
8.10 Sunday Papers

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Ted Harrison
Editor:
Beverley McAinsh

speaks, for the Week's Good Cause, about the need to redevelop St Mary's House in Brighton, founded by Mother Mary Garson in 1954 as the first of 23 homes for the old and frail run by the House of Hospitality. Donations to:
[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Mother Mary Garson

from the Chapel of St Cross, Winchester
During Lent the Morning
Service will be following the national Lent course entitled Who on Earth Are You?
Canon Paul Bates , editor of the workbook, will be preaching on the first in the series.
Lord, save the world (HHT 64); We find thee, Lord (HHT 97); Be thou my vision (HHT 10);
Drop, drop slow tears (Bullock); God of grace and God of glory (HHT 34)
Readings: Luke 18, w 9-14 (rsv); A Crabbit Old Woman
('Who on Earth Are You?') Conducted by Canon Colin Deedes
Musical Director DEREK BECK Organist ANDREW WALTER BBCBristoL Stereo
0 INFO: page 94

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon Paul Bates
Conducted By:
Canon Colin
Organist:
Derek Beck
Organist:
Andrew Walter
Organist:
Bbcbristol Stereo

A 13-part series
5: The Last of Britain The voyage out in the 19th century: the leave-taking of the Mother Country, the tribulations and entertainments of the voyage - that could take up to six months - and the first impressions of Australia. Narrator NICK ENRIGHT
With PROFESSORS
GEOFFREY BLAINEY. MANNING CLARK. HUMPHREY MCQUEEN and DR CLEM SEMMLER Music by ELIZABETH PARKER
(BBC Radiophonic Workshop) Script by MIKE WALKER Technical presentation by ANDREW LAWRENCE. IAIN HUNTER and HELEN THOMAS
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Narrator:
Nick Enright
Unknown:
Geoffrey Blainey.
Unknown:
Manning Clark.
Unknown:
Humphrey McQueen
Unknown:
Dr Clem Semmler
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker
Script By:
Mike Walker
Presentation By:
Andrew Lawrence.
Presentation By:
Iain Hunter
Presentation By:
Helen Thomas
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Sarah Midgeley:
Elizabeth Proud
Fanny Davis:
Susan Penhaligon
Skilbeck:
Graham Blockey
Loveless:
Cornelius Garrett
Bird:
William Eedle
Lightoller:
David Learner
Ensign Best:
Bill Wallis
John Mitchel:
Denys Hawthorne
LORD Wakefield:
Stephen Rashbrook
Broxup Mereweather:
Christian Rodska
Vaux/Shanty singer:
Jonathan Nibbs
Caroline Chisholm/:
Tessa Worsley
Mary Ann Hall:
Tessa Worsley
Officials:
Richard Durden
Officials:
Alan Thompson

The Great Cathedrals of Britain The Glorious Inheritance
The last of six programmes in which Malcolm Billings and Tim Tatton-Brown tell the story of the development of British cathedrals from the time of St Augustine in 597 until the Reformation.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday 9. 15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Billings
Unknown:
Tim Tatton-Brown

My grandfather,
Vallyvon Blumenthal , could entertain a hundred guests to a dinner served from first to last on silver (hot food cannot have stayed hot for long) with wines drunk entirely from silver, savefor himself. He used gold.
The first of six autobiographical talks by the barrister and historian Charles Arnold-Baker , now 70 years old, who was bom a Prussian aristocrat.

Contributors

Unknown:
Vallyvon Blumenthal
Unknown:
Charles Arnold-Baker

Jeremy Siepmann takes an occasionally jaundiced look at the history of conducting.
6: From Martinet to Matinée
Idol; After Wagner, Wagnerians Readers JOHN WESTBROOK and HUGH DICKSON
Producer RAY ABBOTT Stereo (R) revised

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann
Readers:
John Westbrook
Readers:
Hugh Dickson
Producer:
Ray Abbott

It is 1919 - Bob and Mary are starting school at
Haslingden in the Lancashire cotton valleys....
Jenni Mills rolls back the years, reliving schooldays at
Haslingden High with them and other past pupils - including former Minister Sir Rhodes Boyson.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS BBC Pebble Mill
● HEAR THIS! page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Mills
Unknown:
Sir Rhodes Boyson.
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

From the earliest days of Christianity, disciples of Jesus Christ have described themselves as 'followers of the Way'. Often that 'way' has been costly. In this series of six talks for Lent, introduced by John Newbury , influential Christians from around the world reflect on their own experience. 1: Dr Jean Vanier
'Blessed are the pure in heart.' Producer STEPHEN OLIVER

Contributors

Unknown:
Jesus Christ
Introduced By:
John Newbury
Unknown:
Dr Jean Vanier
Producer:
Stephen Oliver

A six-part review of 1968 5: Ireland - The Spark that Lit the Bonfire
The protest marches, confrontations and riots which broke out in the streets of Northern Ireland in 1968 provided the genesis of the Provisional IRA and led to the deaths of over 2,000 people in Britain and Ireland.
Presented by Mary Holland

Contributors

Presented By:
Mary Holland

Words and music for Sunday night
During Lent Canon Frank Wright explores the theme of Goodness.
1: The Attraction of Goodness
An examination of the magnetic power of goodness - as seen in secular literature, religious works and in those around us. Readers ANN RYE and ALAN SYKES Producer JUUA BROSNAN BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon Frank Wright
Unknown:
Alan Sykes

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