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A service of Confirmation from the Church of St Peter and St
Paul, Gosberton, Lincolnshire 2: Relationships in the Family from the national Lent course entitled Who on Earth Are You? Introduced by The Rev Tom Williamson conducted by THE RT REV
WILLIAM IND. BISHOP OF GRANTHAM Hymns: Brothers joining hand to hand (AMR 294); There is singing in the desert (Come and Praise 26); Christ is the King (HHFT 12)
Readings: Acts 16. w 25-34 (NEB); Matthew 10, w 34-39 (JB) Organist LUCY BURTON BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Williamson

A 13-part series
6: Did Ever Man See Such Country... ?
The Explorers 1828-62
For Europeans the unknown has traditionally lain beyond the seas, but for Australians it has lain in the interior of their vast continent. Was there an eldorado or an inland sea - or just a 'dead heart', an endless desert? Many explorers risked their lives to find out. Narrator NICK ENRIGHT
With PROFESSORS GEOFFREY BLAINEY. MANNING CLARK and HUMPHREY MCQUEEN
Script by MIKE WALKER
Music by ELIZABETH PARKER
(BBC Radiophonic Workshop) Technical presentation
ANDREW LAWRENCE. IAIN HUNTER and HELEN THOMAS
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Blainey.
Unknown:
Manning Clark
Unknown:
Humphrey McQueen
Script By:
Mike Walker
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker
Unknown:
Andrew Lawrence.
Unknown:
Iain Hunter
Unknown:
Helen Thomas
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughun
Sturt EDWARD:
De Souza
Eyre:
Andrew Branch
Burke:
Sean Barrett
Wills:
Eric Allan
King:
Stephen Brennan
Reader:
Nigel Graham
Chairman:
William Eedle
Squatter:
George Parsons

Laurie Taylor presents 30 minutes of essential listening for the radio addict; reviews of recent programmes, and news and comment from the changing world of radio.
Plus a new competition for listeners to write and record a piece of comedy.
Researcher ANDREA GRAHAME Producer KEITH JONES
(Re-broadcast on Tuesday at 8.00pm) Address for entries:
The Radio Programme
BBC, London WIA 4WW (Closing date: 11 March)

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurie Taylor
Unknown:
Andrea Grahame
Producer:
Keith Jones

It had been reported to the police that four men wearing rings had been seen walking in an easterly direction. These, of course, were the Prussian signet rings, which were not especially conspicuous, but yet enough to give the escaping prisoners away. The second of six autobiographical talks by the barrister and historian Charles Arnold-Baker , now 70 years old, who was born a Prussian aristocrat.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Arnold-Baker

Jeremy Siepmann takes an occasionally jaundiced look at the history of conducting. 7: King of Kings ... or The Romantics Rebuk'd
In which Toscanini advocates a passionate objectivity and raises the tantrum to the level of an art form.
Readers JOHN WESTBROOK
HUGH DICKSON and JILL BALCON Producer RAY ABBOTT Stereo (R) revised

Contributors

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

with Nigel Forde
This week Radio 4's good books programme includes Elgar the Man by Michael de la Noy and The Catcacomb, sports columnist Brian Glanville 's latest novel.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Michael de la Noy
Unknown:
Brian Glanville

2: It is 1944 - a new Education
Act. and a new intake of pupils at Haslingden Grammar and Secondary Modern.
Jenni Mills takes some of them back to their old school to reawaken past memories. Producer SARAH ROWLANDS BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Mills
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. 2: Jim Wallis
Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit Producer STEPHEN OLIVER

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Newbury.
Unknown:
Jim Wallis
Producer:
Stephen Oliver

The final programme in a six-part review of 1968 Innocence and Experience "The young have grasped a Dionysian tradition of violence and irrationality and popularised it with all the electronic and chemical means at their disposal. They are forcing the species into orgy and excess....'
Jeff Nuttall , once described as 'the Dr Johnson of the Underground Movement', fulminates and ruminates on the turbulence caused in Britain when the ideas of William Blake and William Burroughs collided with the polished toe-cap of PC George Dixon ...

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeff Nuttall
Unknown:
William Blake
Unknown:
William Burroughs
Unknown:
George Dixon

Words and music for Sunday night
During Lent Canon Frank Wright explores the theme of goodness.
2: The Vision of Goodness
There are people who carry with them a perception of something beyond the ordinary and mundane. This vision has the power to inspire, to direct and to take them beyond the usual bounds of experience.
Readers ANN RYE and ALAN SYKES Producer JULA BROSNAN BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Sykes

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