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Les Cottington has a cup of coffee for breakfast at Southend airport, where he talks to
Noel Kinvig, a New Zealander who runs an aerial crop spraying company, a business that keeps him busy in areas as far apart as East Anglia and Ethiopia.
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Producer:
Allan Wright

Religious news and views from home and abroad with Libby Purves and Andrew Green Producer JUUA WILLS
Editor BEVERLEY MCAINSH FM joins at 8.00 including at 8.00 News

Contributors

Unknown:
Libby Purves
Unknown:
Andrew Green
Editor:
Beverley McAinsh

from Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia
Twenty years ago,
Martin Luther King was assassinated after a lifetime of worship and witness at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where he served and preached as Associate Pastor. The church was his spiritual home and provided a focus for the developing civil rights movement.
Today's service, held in his memory, is led by the Senior Pastor, The Rev Dr Joseph L. Roberts Jr

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Luther King

A 13-part series
12: The New Wave -
Prime Minister Menzies and the Boom Years
After the Second World War, Australians still enjoyed a British style of life, eating roast beef and Christmas pudding under a tropical sun. But with mass immigration, protest over the Vietnam War, and a minerals boom, Australia began to take on a new character.
Narrator NICK ENRIGHT
With PROFS GEOFFREY BLAINEY MANNING CLARK and HUMPHREY MCQUEEN. and STAN ARNELL. MEREDITH CAMPBELL
HELEN ESTHER. DOROTHY GREEN
KEN JOHNSON. TERRY LOFTUS
PETER LUCK , TED MACK. DAVID MALOUF
LES MURRAY. PETER NEMES
PETER PONITON , GORDON ROSE
ENID WALKERDEN, MAXINE WOODS Music by ELIZABETH PARKER
(BBC Radiophonic Workshop) Script by MIKE WALKER With MICHELLE ROWLAND Technical presentation by ANDREW LAWRENCE , IAIN HUNTER and JOHN DEVINE
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Blainey
Unknown:
Manning Clark
Unknown:
Humphrey McQueen.
Unknown:
Stan Arnell.
Unknown:
Meredith Campbell
Unknown:
Helen Esther.
Unknown:
Dorothy Green
Unknown:
Ken Johnson.
Unknown:
Terry Loftus
Unknown:
Peter Luck
Unknown:
Ted MacK.
Unknown:
David Malouf
Unknown:
Peter Nemes
Unknown:
Peter Poniton
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker
Script By:
Mike Walker
Unknown:
Michelle Rowland
Presentation By:
Andrew Lawrence
Presentation By:
Iain Hunter
Presentation By:
John Devine
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughun

Presented by Laurie Taylor Plus Printz Holman , of the Children's Radio Workshop, who talks about what children want from radio.
Researcher ANDREA GRAHAME Producer KEITH JONES

Contributors

Presented By:
Laurie Taylor
Presented By:
Plus Printz Holman
Unknown:
Andrea Grahame
Producer:
Keith Jones

A true love story, with music, by ELIZABETH FORBES
Giovanni Mario and Giulia Grisi met when they sang in the first London performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at Her Majesty's Theatre in June
1839. Soon after, they fell in love. They became the best-loved singers of the day, thrilling audiences for more than 20 years in such popular operas as Don Giovanni , Les Huguenots, II trovatore, Norma and L'elisir d'amore.
Narrator John Rowe
With CAROLE BOYD , JOHN CHURCH
WILLIAM EEDLE. RONALD
HERDMAN JOHN RYE and PATIENCE TOMUNSON Producer ALAN HAYDOCK. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Music By:
Elizabeth Forbes
Music By:
Giovanni Mario
Music By:
Giulia Grisi
Unknown:
Lucrezia Borgia
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Narrator:
John Rowe
Narrator:
With Carole Boyd
Narrator:
John Church
Narrator:
William Eedle.
Unknown:
Herdman John Rye
Producer:
Alan Haydock.

Stanley Ellis discovers the wealth of local languages.
2: Over the Bank - Birmingham to the Black Country
'I don't think there are any particular noises in Birmingham which are aesthetically unpleasant. It's just people using the language as a tool and not worrying too much about the niceties of grammar....'
Researcher CUVE UPTON
Producer WILL CANTOPHER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Ellis

The fact that she is totally deaf does not make 24-year-old
Jessica Rees any different from the rest of us - as far as she is concerned. What makes her outstanding is her achievements and views about the way deaf people live in a hearing world.
Producer CAROLINE SARLL BBC Wales (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Rees
Producer:
Caroline Sarll

Words and music for the close of the Sunday after Easter Eight Days Later.... In the second of two programmes, The Rev Nicholas Frayling , Rector of Liverpool, argues that faith may be strengthened by doubt. Readers ALAN SYKES and ANN RYE
Producer NORMAN WINTER BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Frayling
Readers:
Alan Sykes

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