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In the final programme of the series reporters
David Clayton and Neil Walker link up with BBC Local Radio stations around the country to find out....
Watts Around the Coast? The future of Britain's lighthouses is under threat from modern technology.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Clayton
Unknown:
Neil Walker

Religious news and views from home and abroad with Clive Jacobs and Ted Harrison
Producer ANDREW GREEN Editor BEVERLEY MCAINSH FM joins at 8.00 including at 8.00 News

Contributors

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

On the third Sunday in Lent from St John the Baptist Church, Dronfield near Sheffield led by THE REV DEREK PALMER
Readings (GNB): Ruth 2, vv 1-13; Luke 19, vv 1-10
Hymns (HHFT): Christ is the King (12); In Christ there is no east or west (43); For the healing of the nations (28); All my hope on God is founded (3)
Anthem: Be strong and of good courage (Campbell)
Organist MARGARET MARSHALL Conductor KEN ELLIS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
St John
Unknown:
Derek Palmer
Organist:
Margaret Marshall
Conductor:
Ken Ellis

A 13-part series
7:The Luck of the Land
Rough homesteads and far, unfamiliar places; the sheepshearers, cattle-drovers and gold-seekers; the rough independent men - and occasionally women - who settled the outback; the gold rush of the 1850s that led to the phenomenal growth of boom town Melbourne; the story of the battle between diggers and soldiers at Eureka Stockade. Narrator NICK ENRIGHT
With PROFS GEOFFREY BLAINEY
HUMPHREY MCQUEEN and OLD HUGHIE of Sovereign Hill Park , Ballarat Folk songs by WARREN FAHEY with members of SKEWIFF and MAGGIE BLINCO
Music by ELIZABETH PARKER
(BBC Radiophonic Workshop) Script by MIKE WALKER Technical presentation by ANDREW LAWRENCE. IAIN HUNTER and HELEN THOMAS
Researchers FRANCES BYRNES and JENNIFER LITTLEWOOD
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Narrator:
Nick Enright
Unknown:
Geoffrey Blainey
Unknown:
Humphrey McQueen
Unknown:
Hill Park
Songs By:
Warren Fahey
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker
Script By:
Mike Walker
Presentation By:
Andrew Lawrence.
Presentation By:
Iain Hunter
Presentation By:
Helen Thomas
Unknown:
Researchers Frances Byrnes
Unknown:
Jennifer Littlewood
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Hargraves:
Gordon Reid
Edward Curr:
David Learner
Mrs Aeneas Gunn:
Pene Hackforth-Jones
Henry Lawson:
Roger Leach
Reporter:
John Warnock
Girl:
Rosemary Spittle
Tent woman:
May Howlett
Squatters:
Sheila Grant
Squatters:
Ric Hutton
Squatters:
Stuart McCreery
Diggers/Readers:
Nigel Graham
Diggers/Readers:
James Laurenson
Diggers/Readers:
Brian Hewlett

Laurie Taylor presents 30 minutes of essential listening for the radio addict; plus a new competition for listeners. Researcher ANDREA GRAHAME Producer KEITH JONES
(Re-broadcast on Tuesday at 8.00pm) Address for entries: The Radio
Programme. BBC. London W1A 4WW (Closing date: 11 March)

Contributors

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

The final programme of a six-part series in which John Timpson takes a wry look at this green and pleasant land. Nature 's Jokes
Ninety-nine yew trees in a churchyard, an island that moves, stones in funny formations and countless oaks with a past they may be strange and wondrous works of nature, but man has embellished them with tales of fascination.
Producer MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Marjorie Lofthouse

Half the field yelled one thing, half another. Somebody with a bat was running hither and thither, and someone else, at the place where there was only one stump, was jumping up and down. I decided to throw the missile at him, as he seemed to wantit.
The third of six autobiographical talks by barrister and historian, Charles Arnold-Baker , now 70 years old, who was born a Prussian aristocrat.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Arnold-Baker

Jeremy Siepmann takes a look at the history of conducting. 8: Evangelists
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

3: It is 1966 the girls at
Haslingden Grammar and Secondary Modern schools are shortening their skirts while the boys are looking forward to the World Cup.
Jenni Mills takes former pupils back to the classroom to relive the 1960s at school.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Mills
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

From the earliest days of Christianity, disciples of Jesus have described themselves as 'followers of the Way'. In this series of six talks for Lent introduced by John Newbury , influential Christians reflect on their own experience.
3: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Newbury

Words and music for
Sunday night. During Lent
Canon Frank Wright explores the theme of goodness.
3: Spontaneous Goodness
It's one thing to be good in a carefully planned and premeditated way but how many of us are good spontaneously? In some cases. doing the right thing on the spur of the moment can be vitally important - and achieving that can take years of hard work.
Readers ANN RYE and ALAN SYKES Producer JULIA BROSNAN BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon Frank Wright
Unknown:
Alan Sykes
Producer:
Julia Brosnan

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